As you celebrate the 89th year of the Academy Awards surrounded by glamour and old-Hollywood tradition, toasting yourselves and to another year of successful cinematic storytelling…

May we remind you that a corporation will use this gala to market a "company story" that does not reflect the full reality. A company story that lacks the candor that your craft strives for.

And some of you are being paid for this artistic misdirect, even using your greatest night to promote this company.

Which company? Walmart.

Award-winning filmmakers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Antoine Fuqua, and Marc Forster have chosen to tell Walmart's "story."

But here is the real story in case you didn't know.

Walmart pays many of its workers poverty-level wages, and thousands of its own employees have to rely on food stamps to make ends meet.

You only have to google to read the stories of good people, for example, who suffered from past wage theft by Walmart, lost manufacturing jobs due to Walmart being the largest importer of goods, or worked for foreign clothing suppliers to Walmart under-exploitative conditions.

You all need to know that the very Walmart employees who work hours in order to buy tickets to your movies must now endure the insult of hearing Hollywood stars celebrate a company that keeps many of them in poverty by paying low wages.

In the past, your voices have helped make change happen on a host of issues.

You rightfully speak out for animal rights, disability rights, LGBTQ rights, the environment, and so many other just causes.

But too many of you are silent, or have chosen to ignore Walmart's behavior.

Silence is no longer an option - not in the America we are living in today.

It is said that evil persists, when good people do and say nothing.

Poverty is an evil, and we all have a responsibility to speak out.

So the question is, if Mr. Rogen, Goldberg, Fuqua, and Forster fail to tell the full Walmart story- - will you speak out?

Because, America is listening and watching.

Now is the time to call on Walmart to change.