Latest Headlines
Wal-Mart Tells Employees It Will Cut 11,200 Jobs -01.26.10 | New York Times
Wal-Mart Struggles to Expand in Chicago -01.22.10 | New York Times
At least 600,000 cribs recalled after child death -01.20.10 | Associated Press
Fact Sheets
The Employee Free Choice Act Legislation that will truly make a difference for Wal-Mart workers
Wage & Hour Issues Read how Wal-Mart continually fails to pay every worker for every hour worked
Health Care Wal-Mart's still insures barely over half its employees on the company plan
Always Low Wages Poverty-level wages make life extremely difficult for Wal-Mart's 1.4 million workers
The Environment How Wal-Mart's business model is detrimental for our planet
In this site, you'll find the resources to draw a line in the sand and defend your community:
- A database of reports and other documentation
- Best practices and strategies based on real-world examples
- Informed analysis from Al Norman
- Experts who can help
- The latest news from battlelines across the country.
Don't know where to start?
Try the Battle-Plan.
Whether you want to stop a Wal-Mart from being built in your community, prevent an existing Wal-Mart from expanding, or hold a Wal-Mart accountable for its actions in your hometown, Battle-Mart is here for you.
This year grassroots powered citizen groups will successfully thwart Wal-Mart's advance. Those victories are all of ours -- and we can learn from them to take the fight to many more fronts.
But Battle-Mart is only as good as you make it:
Resources
 | Wal-Mart's Land Use | |
 | Save Money, Live Better: Wal-Mart's State Tax Avoidance Schemes | |
 | Ourtown Maine | |
 |  | Rolling Back Property Tax Payments (PDF)
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FROM THE BATTLEMART BLOG
- Wilderness Battlefield In Court
The court heard the first arguments in a lawsuit that the National Trust for Historic Preservation and others filed back in September alleging that the local government failed to comply with the county’s comprehensive plan - Manchester, NJ. Wal-Mart Trying To Keep Out The Snakes
For five years, Wal-Mart has been battling local residents in Toms River and Manchester, New Jersey. Not only are they fighting with people in these two Ocean County, New Jersey townships---but they’ve got reptiles against them too. - Lockport and Riverhead, NY. Legal Detail Ties Two Anti-Wal-Mart Battles Together
Two communities on the opposite ends of New York state have been linked together by a legal detail that could topple the largest retailer in the world. - Austin, TX. Wal-Mart Finally Ready to Build Smaller Superstore
Wal-Mart already has six supercenters in Austin, Texas, a city with more than 758,000 people. But when the giant retailer proposed to build a 7th supercenter in Austin, the neighbors thought is was too weird—even for the ‘keep Austin weird’ crowd. But Wal-Mart had to completely revamp its project. - Angola, NY. Wal-Mart Abruptly Cancels Superstore Project
Suddenly, without any advance notice, Wal-Mart has pulled out of a planned superstore project in the town of Evans, New York, which is located in southern Erie County, bordering on Lake Erie. The town includes the Village of Angola with a combined population of approximately 20,000 people. Wal-Mart’s overnight departure has left Evans officials embarrassed and disappointed. But for area residents opposed to the superstore, Wal-Mart’s farewell is a happy ending to a very bad movie.
SEARCH BATTLE-MART
- In the two sections below, you can find specific examples, original documents and links to other websites organized by the type of tactic or issue.
Tactics
ISSUES
- Battle-Mart is a joint project of Wal-Mart Watch and Al Norman and Steve Alves.
