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Wal-Mart To Lay Off 300 At Bentonville Headquarters -02.17.10 | Arkansas Business

Walmart, others make money on Oregon’s energy tax credits -02.17.10 | The Oregonian

Former Avon Wal-Mart employees claim discrimination -02.17.10 | Associated Press

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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

Exeter, PA. Wal-Mart Superstore Suffers Setback By Silence -03.04.10

Ventura, CA. Wal-Mart Returns With A 98,000 S.F. Superstore -03.01.10

Poway, CA. Candidates For Public Office Told Not To Discuss Wal-Mart Deal -02.28.10

St. Albans, VT. More Legal Papers Fly in Longest Wal-Mart Battle -02.26.10

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?
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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:

Have questions? Ask away.
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Resources


		Wal-Mart's Land Use They don't call it "Sprawl-Mart" for nothing. Wal-Mart has over 4,000 stores in the United States alone, and each store takes up several acres. View this interactive map of Wal-Mart's U.S. stores and the companion report "Perpetuating Sprawl" (PDF)

		Save Money, Live Better: Wal-Mart's State Tax Avoidance Schemes Wal-Mart, using tax avoidance schemes provided to it by the accounting firm Ernst & Young, has short-changed many states out of millions of dollars of state tax money. Read our reports on how Wal-Mart avoids its fair share of state taxes.

		Ourtown Maine In the fall of 2005 Wal-Mart announced plans to build a SuperCenter in a small coastal Maine town. The range of citizen responses soon created a fissure that divided the community. "Ourtown" follows the struggles of this community, challenged by the largest corporation in the world. To order a copy of the documentary film or to organize a screening in your community, visit www.ourtownmaine.com

		Rolling Back Property Tax Payments (PDF) How Wal-Mart Short-Changes Schools and Other Public Services by Challenging its Property Tax Assessments. A report by Good Jobs First.

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A Walmart in Your Backyard
Even wanted to know what it is like to live near a new Walmart store as it’s being developed?
Exeter, PA. Wal-Mart Superstore Suffers Setback By Silence
It appears that Wal-Mart is down for the count in a small Pennsylvania community, after local officials dealt them a silent blow to the head.
Ventura, CA. Wal-Mart Returns With A 98,000 S.F. Superstore
After passing zoning regulations to limit the size of big box stores, Walmart is looking to build a store just under the size limit.
Poway, CA. Candidates For Public Office Told Not To Discuss Wal-Mart Deal
A gag order has been put into effect in the community of Poway, California. Candidates running for public office have been warned by the city not to tell voters how they feel about a proposed Wal-Mart expansion, at the risk of a lawsuit by Wal-Mart over due process issues.
St. Albans, VT. More Legal Papers Fly in Longest Wal-Mart Battle
In what has been billed as the longest continuing big box battle over one piece of land, the Wal-Mart fight in St. Albans, Vermont---which began in 1994---was back in the headlines this week.

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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.