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City Talk: Richard Lipsky, Neighborhood Retail Alliance, on "Big Box Stores"

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Channel: CUNY TV · 2011 · News & Politics

Richard Lipsky, "superstore killer" and lobbyist for the Neighborhood Retail Alliance, joins Doug to discuss the organization's fight against Wal-Mart and other big box retailers' campaign to open stores in New York City.

The Neighborhood Retail Alliance is a grassroots, coalition-building organization with the goal of "mobilizing neighborhood businesses to "counteract any public policy that threatens the livelihood of New York City's 186,000 Mom and Pop retailers." (Taped: 11/29/2005)

City Talk is CUNY TV 's forum for politics and public affairs. City Talk presents lively discussion of New York City issues, with the people that help make this city function.

City Talk is hosted by Professor Doug Muzzio, co-director of the Center for the Study of Leadership in Government and the founder and former director of the Baruch College Survey Research Unit, both at Baruch College's School of Public Affairs.

Watch more at www.tv.cuny.edu/show/citytalk

City Talk: Richard Lipsky, Neighborhood Retail Alliance, on "Big Box Stores"

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