Against the Wal

Against The Wal is a collective of NW Arkansas residents who oppose the many egregious acts of our neighbor Walmart.We believe that Walmart wields its power to the detriment of the world’s economy, people, and the environment. We stand in solidarity with struggles against the Walmarts of this Earth, from coalitions opposing a new Walmart in Inglewood, California to a persecuted union organizer at a Bangladeshi sweatshop making Fruit of the Looms for Walmart’s shelves.We see the connections between workers organizing at a Supercenter in Texas and the death of Main Street and small businesses in the same town. We see Walmarts opening every day, supposedly to the benefit of those communities, yet more and more working people don’t have healthcare and need social services.We each have our own personal reasons for opposing Walmart, from disgruntled previous employees to people who have seen their families livelihood sucked dry by the beast from Bentonville. Rather than rejoice in the so-called wealth that Walmart has brought to our region, we hear the voices that go unheard by local corporate media and Walmart executives. We have been in the food stamp lines and jails of Arkansas. We have slaved for years for minimum wage and no respect. We have watched the beautiful hills of NW Arkansas get paved in favor of concrete and subdivisions while downtown Bentonville, Rogers, and Springdale are abandoned. We have seen our region grow without sustainable infrastructure.We are the seeds of local resistance to the largest corporation ever and we will grow. To H. Lee Scott and all other Walmart bigwigs, we are not going anywhere. To our many supporters, thank you and we’ll see you in the streets!