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Keep Wal-Mart out of Duluth

A Wal-Mart in Duluth means more traffic, more crime, and more low wage jobs that don't offer health benefits. That’s not the sort of company Duluth wants, or the sort of jobs that Duluth needs. Wri...(more)

Daily Newspapers

Write to the editors of local and national newspapers

Philadelphia's Gross Clinic

Keep "The Gross Clinic" in the city of Philadelphia -- and out of the hands of Alice Walton. Write to the editors of local and national newspapers about the painting today!

Support the Frank-Gillmor Bill

Urge your representative to co-sponsor the Frank-Gillmor Bill -- a bipartisan measure that would prevent Wal-Mart, Home Depot and several other commercial firms from chartering or acquiring an ILC ban...(more)

Wiretapping

Write to the editors of local and national newspapers to warn them about Wal-Mart's wiretapping!

Where's the Beef?

Wal-Mart doesn't want its customers to know where its meat comes from. Listen to our radio ad below, and then write a letter to your local newspaper, demanding that Wal-Mart tells its customers where...(more)

It's time for full disclosure

Wal-Mart loves to brag about its health care benefits for its employees – it even created a TV ad campaign just to convince the public that health care is one of the company’s core values. But did yo...(more)

Country of Original Labels

Wal-Mart doesn't want its customers to know where its meat comes from. Listen to our radio ad below, and then write a letter to your local newspaper, demanding that Wal-Mart put country of origin labe...(more)

Wal-Mart Tax

Fewer than 50% of employees opt-in to Wal-Mart’s healthcare program because it is too expensive and inaccessible. As a result, individuals and families are forced to enroll in Medicaid. This "Wal-Ma...(more)

Dukes v. Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart is currently the target of the largest class-action discrimination case in U.S. history. The case alleges that Wal-Mart has systematically discriminated against women, all across the country...(more)

Wal-Mart Employees Need Health Care

Fewer than 50% of employees opt-in to Wal-Mart’s health care program because it is too expensive and inaccessible. Demand that Wal-Mart live up to its responsibility to provide health benefits to i...(more)

The Real Cost of Wal-Mart's Low Prices

Wal-Mart's "low prices" come at a high cost for their employees and for taxpayers like you. Wal-Mart loves to brag about its health care benefits for its employees – it even created a TV ad campaign...(more)

How much does Wal-Mart cost your state?

Your state representatives work for you, not big business. It’s your state legislators job to find out how much companies like Wal-Mart cost your state’s taxpayers by forcing their own employees to us...(more)

What does Wal-Mart cost your community?

When Wal-Mart moves into a community it brings more than just “low-prices.” Big box retailers like Wal-Mart push out small-community owned businesses, drive down wages, cause environmental destruction...(more)

Who gets the tax break – You or Wal-Mart?

Last year, Wal-Mart made over billion in profits. So why should your hard-earned tax dollars foot the bill for their employees’ health care costs while Wal-Mart gets yet another tax break? Few...(more)

Price hikes on health care at Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart loves to brag about its health care benefits for its employees – in fact they even created a commercial to convince the public that health care is one of their core values. But did you know...(more)

Wal-Mart Employees Deserve Better. So Do You.

Wal-Mart loves to brag about its health care benefits for its employees – in fact they even created a commercial to convince the public that health care is one of their core values. But did you know...(more)

Welcome Wal-Mart: Write a Letter to the Editor

Wal-Mart is opening up a new store in your community. You can help welcome Wal-Mart to the neighborhood by writing a letter to the editor of your local paper to let your neighbors know that Wal-Mart'...(more)

Wal-Mart Rejects its Shareholders' Concerns

During the shareholders' meeting, Wal-Mart devoted just three minutes to each of the 11 shareholder proposals – many of them common sense reforms that would have made Wal-Mart a better corporate citiz...(more)

Alaska - Bigger Isn't Better

Wal-Mart has revised its plans for two locations in Muldoon, expanding the size of the proposed stores and abandoning some environmental considerations. Write to your local newspapers to call atten...(more)

Wal-Mart out of Mary Esther

Wal-Mart was denied the permits and zoning changes it needs to build a store in Mary Esther, a small community along the Florida panhandle. Now it's threatening legal action to bully its way into the...(more)

Florence Doesn’t Need Another Wal-Mart

The Greater Cincinnati area doesn’t need another Wal-Mart. There are already 15 supercenters in the area – and three more are being built. But that’s not stopping Wal-Mart from trying to build a secon...(more)

Atascadero site fight

A Wal-Mart in Atascadero means more traffic, more crime, and more low wage jobs that don't offer health benefits. That’s not the sort of company Atascadero wants, or the sort of jobs that Atascadero n...(more)

Lihu'e's Wal-Mart is Big Enough

Wal-Mart is attempting to bully its way around the law to expand the Wal-Mart in Lihu'e. A bigger Wal-Mart means more low-paying jobs, lack of affordable health care for its employees and more lo...(more)

Wal-Mart Toys With Our Children's Health

Wal-Mart must be held accountable for selling millions of tainted toys and putting our children at risk. Write a letter to your local newspaper, and let your neighbors know that Wal-Mart would rath...(more)

Keep Wal-Mart out of Neptune Beach

The city of Neptune Beach and its residents didn’t want a Wal-Mart and all of its traffic in the first place. Every step of the way, the people of Neptune Beach have voiced their opposition to yet ano...(more)

Ontario Doesn't Want a Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart wants to build a supercenter in Ontario -- whether residents like it or not. Every step of the way, the people of Ontario have voiced their opposition to a 190,803 square foot Wal-Mart in...(more)

David vs. Goliath in Lebanon

Wal-Mart is building a new supercenter just outside Lebanon -- and just a few feet away from David McCarty's house. For more than four months David and his family have put up with the dust, the debris...(more)

Johnson City doesn't want a Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart wants to build a supercenter in Johnson City -- whether residents like it or not. Every step of the way, the people of Johnson City have voiced their opposition to a 132,000 square foot Wa...(more)

Wal-Mart: Pay Your Taxes

Wal-Mart is using a complicated strategy devised by accountants, lawyers and investment bankers to exploit loopholes, bend legal limits and cheat state governments out of hundreds of millions of tax d...(more)

North Tonawanda Doesn't Need a Wal-Mart

North Tonawanda doesn't need a Wal-Mart; there are already 5 store locations within 10 miles of city. What's more, Wal-Mart brings a whole lot more than cheap merchandise to a community. It brings...(more)

Isle of Wight Doesn't Need a Wal-Mart

Isle of Wight doesn't need a Wal-Mart at Benn's Grant; there are already several stores just a few minutes away in Suffolk and Chesapeake. What's more, the supposed economic benefits touted by Wal-Mar...(more)

Atascadero Says No to Wal-Mart

Last week, the Atascadero City Council voted 4-1 in favor of shelving Wal-Mart's application for a 195,000 square-foot store at Del Rio and El Camino Real. From the very beginning, Wal-Mart was unw...(more)

Wal-Mart overcharged thousands in Wisconsin

Wal-Mart is famous for its low prices. But in Wisconsin, Wal-Mart has been overcharging thousands of customers -- and violating the law. State inspectors recently found that many Wal-Mart stores...(more)

Farm Bill Filibuster

Wal-Mart doesn’t want you to know where its products come from, and it spent millions of dollars pressuring the Senate to block stricter country of origin labeling (COOL) standards.

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Wal-Mart cheated Illinois out of million

Wal-Mart's outpost in Italy controls much of the company's retail property in the United States. That way, Wal-Mart can claim its operations are foreign and avoid paying millions of dollars in state c...(more)

Speak out for Deborah Shank

Wal-Mart sued a permanently brain-damaged employee out of funds needed for her medical care. What Wal-Mart did to the Deborah Shank and her family -- while technically legal -- is morally reprehens...(more)

We Want Answers

As the United States' biggest importer of Chinese products and the number one seller of toys, Wal-Mart is at the center of the recent scandal involving millions of recalled toys from China. Our n...(more)

No Wal-Mart in Waite Park

The St. Cloud Times reported that the proposed Wal-Mart along MN-23 and 10th Avenue South would require .5 million in road and other improvements -- and Waite Park would be responsible for .2 mil...(more)

Wal-Mart in Washington: The other side of the story

Last week the Seattle Times ran an opinion piece by one of Wal-Mart's vice presidents, J.R. Lee...(more)

A Win for Hastings

Wal-Mart has finally made the right choice. Rather than build a new supercenter on Green St., Wal-Mart instead decided to expand its current store on Highway 43. This decision will spare Hastings t...(more)

No Tax Cut for Wal-Mart in Florida

Governor Crist's plan to cut property taxes statewide should be aimed at Florida's working families. Instead, the greatest savings will go to the huge corporations that own the most land in the state...(more)

Pay the Kids

En español "In economic terms, Wal-Mart does have the capability to pay the minimum wage [of less than a day], and this represents an inj...(more)

No Wal-Mart in Bellevue

Bellevue doesn't need a new Wal-Mart; there is already a store just two miles away on Main Street. What's more, Wal-Mart brings a whole lot more than low prices to a community -- low-paying jobs with...(more)

Páguenle a los Chicos

Wal-Mart explota a miles de cerillos en México, dependiendo de su trabajo pero obligándolos a trabajar solo por las propinas. Aprenda más viendo el video de abajo, y luego haga clic en el botón de...(more)

Wal-Mart Can't Fool Massachusetts

The Boston Herald just ran an article claiming Wal-Mart has changed its ways and is now being welcomed into Massachusetts with open arms. But Wal-Mart hasn't changed its ways -- just its PR tactics...(more)

Wal-Mart contaminates Madison Twp. water

Wal-Mart has shown utter disregard for the health and safety of its neighbors in Madison by contaminating the well water for 13 homes along Meadow Wood Drive. The wells recently tested positive for...(more)

No new Wal-Mart in Leavenworth

Wal-Mart is planning to build a new supercenter at 10th Avenue and Eisenhower Road in Leavenworth. But local residents oppose the project, citing the traffic, economic, and environmental problems the...(more)

Protect James Island's wetlands

Wal-Mart is trying to buy three acres of wetlands from the City so it can fill them in and build a bigger store at its current location on James Island. Wal-Mart may be convenient, but wetlands are...(more)

Close the loophole

Despite Virginia's poor economic situation, Wal-Mart has convinced lawmakers to quietly kill legislation to close a loophole in Virginia tax code that would net more than million annually for the s...(more)

Chicago Doesn't Need Another Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart has been trying to move into Chicago for years -- but despite all of its efforts to expand into large metropolitan areas, Wal-Mart only has been allowed to build one store on Chicago’s West S...(more)

Tell Your Delegate: Wal-Mart Should Pay its Fair Share

Despite Virginia's poor economic situation, Wal-Mart has convinced lawmakers to quietly kill legislation to close a loophole in Virginia tax code that would net more than million annually for the s...(more)

Rapid City doesn't want a new Wal-Mart

Rapid City residents have been fighting Wal-Mart since 2006, citing the traffic, economic, and environmental problems the new store would cause. Wal-Mart is working relentlessly to get an area of wood...(more)

Keep Fighting Wal-Mart in Atascadero

A Wal-Mart in Atascadero means more traffic, more crime, and more low wage jobs that don't offer health benefits. That’s not the sort of company Atascadero wants, or the sort of jobs that Atascadero n...(more)

No Wal-Mart for Lehigh

A Wal-Mart in Lehigh means more traffic, more crime, and more low wage jobs that don't offer health benefits. That’s not the sort of company Lehigh wants, or the sort of jobs that Lehigh needs. Wri...(more)

No Wal-Mart in Rocky Point

Developers are trying to build a new Wal-Mart in Rocky Point, but the retail giant brings a whole lot more than low prices to a community -- low-paying jobs with poor health benefits, traffic and envi...(more)

No Wal-Mart in Wellsville

Wal-Mart is trying to build a supercenter in Wellsville. But the retail giant brings a whole lot more than low prices to a community -- low-paying jobs with poor health benefits, traffic and enviro...(more)

Keep the Heat on Wal-Mart

Debbie Shank's tragic story was just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Wal-Mart and health care. It is representative of the retail giant's nickel-and-dime approach to its workers' health covera...(more)

No Wal-Mart in St. Albans

Developers just received the final permits to build a new Wal-Mart supercenter north of downtown. Soon, views of the Green Mountains and Lake Champlain could be spoiled by a 160,000 square-foot big...(more)

TEST of Custom Recipient Types

Despite Virginia's poor economic situation, Wal-Mart has convinced lawmakers to quietly kill legislation to close a loophole in Virginia tax code that would net more than million annually for the s...(more)

Muskego-Waukesha Doesn't Need More Wal-Marts

Wal-Mart wants to build new supercenters in Muskego and Waukesha, even though it already has five stores within 10 miles and 13 stores within 20 miles. This is not the kind of sustainable developme...(more)

No More Wal-Marts in Corpus Christi

Wal-Mart wants to build a new supercenter on the south side of Corpus Christi, even though the city already has two Wal-Mart stores. This is not the kind of sustainable development Corpus Christi n...(more)

No more Wal-Marts in Tucson

Wal-Mart wants to build a new supercenter in Tucson, even though the city already has nine other Wal-Mart stores. This is not the kind of sustainable development Tucson needs. Wal-Mart is bad for t...(more)

No Wal-Mart in Tupper Lake

Wal-Mart wants to build a new supercenter in Tupper Lake, and Mayor Desmarais has signaled his support for its plans. But Wal-Mart is not the kind of sustainable development Tupper Lake needs. It i...(more)

Keep Wal-Mart out of Tupper Lake

The mayor of Tupper Lake, New York has sent a letter to Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott asking the retail giant to build a massive supercenter there. But Wal-Mart is not the kind of sustainable development...(more)

Keep Wal-Mart out of Godfrey

Wal-Mart wants to build a new supercenter in Godfrey, but the local community can't afford the environmental problems that the retail giant would cause. Wal-Mart may try to convince us that it will...(more)

Wal-Mart's product safety testing isn't independent

Wal-Mart cannot be trusted. It was recently revealed that Wal-Mart has a suspiciously close relationship with the company that "independently" tests their products for safety, and that the company, Co...(more)

Keep Wal-Mart out of West Dundee

Wal-Mart wants to build a new supercenter in West Dundee, but this is not the kind of sustainable development the community wants or needs. Write to the Village Board and tell them to stand...(more)

No Wal-Mart Supercenter in Tracy

Wal-Mart wants to turn its current Tracy store into a new supercenter, but this is not the kind of sustainable development the community needs. 82,000 more square feet of Wal-Mart will be bad for t...(more)