Moon, PA. Supervisors Reject Wal-Mart’s Preliminary Plan
We spent an evening helping residents of Moon township, Pennsylvania, get organized, and form the group Moon First, to do battle against a proposed Wal-Mart supercenter.

Rockford, IL. Wal-Mart’s 4th Superstore In Legal Limbo
Instead of a grand opening, Wal-Mart’s application led to a courtroom. 

Poway, CA. Wal-Mart Promises Double-Wide Aisles
It’s important that every community in America have at least one discount store with double-wide aisles. That’s what Wal-Mart has promised the residents of Poway, California. 

Guelph, Ont. After 10 Year Battle, Wal-Mart Wants To Get Bigger
Wal-Mart is making a major superstore push in Canada, including the community of Guelph, Ontario, where the retailer had to battle for more than ten years to build a discount store.

Wrentham, MA. Cheer Up, Wal-Mart’s Not Coming!
There are no less than 20 Wal-Mart stores within 25 miles of Wrentham, Massachusetts.

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
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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.

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Resources

			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.
			OURTOWN 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

FROM THE BATTLEMART BLOG

• Moon, PA. Supervisors Reject Wal-Mart’s Preliminary Plan
  We spent an evening helping residents of Moon township, Pennsylvania, get organized, and form the group Moon First, to do battle against a proposed Wal-Mart supercenter.
• Rockford, IL. Wal-Mart’s 4th Superstore In Legal Limbo
  Instead of a grand opening, Wal-Mart’s application led to a courtroom. 
• Poway, CA. Wal-Mart Promises Double-Wide Aisles
  It’s important that every community in America have at least one discount store with double-wide aisles. That’s what Wal-Mart has promised the residents of Poway, California. 
• Guelph, Ont. After 10 Year Battle, Wal-Mart Wants To Get Bigger
  Wal-Mart is making a major superstore push in Canada, including the community of Guelph, Ontario, where the retailer had to battle for more than ten years to build a discount store.
• Site Fight Of The Week: Tracy, CA
  The City Council has pushed back the vote on the controversial Wal-Mart expansion until August 5th.