A October 2 article from the Patriot News reported on Wal-Mart workers organizing an alliance to give the workers a voice.

A July 17 article from the NY Times shows how Costco is the anti-Wal-Mart.

An excellent article appeared in a June 2005 Soapbox site.  Click here!

BBC News has just released (June 2005) a news article urging Wal-Mart to 'clean up its act'.

Thanks to all who turned out to vote!  Ralph Heister captured the vote for North Cornwall Twp. Supervisor.  His website is www.heisterforsupervisor.com 

April 8 Meeting:  A bombshell was dropped when attorneys for the opposition to Wal-Mart revealed that Township supervisors had met with Wal-Mart prior to the public hearings.  Attorney Dwight Yoder requested that Tony Fitzgibbons and Charles Brooks, Jr. remove themselves from the proceedings.  Click here for the Patriot News article.  Click here to see the WGAL-8 video.

In the Saturday April 2nd edition of the Patriot news, a national coalition is being formed by the Sierra Club, the AFL-CIO and former Wal-Mart managers to challenge Wal-Mart's business practices.  Carl Pope of the Sierra Club is quoted as saying, 'This is an assault on a business model.  We're not trying to shut Wal-Mart down.  We're trying to change their business model.'

Every time I hit the news on the Internet, I find another story on Wal-Mart.  Wal-Mart director resigns after internal probe.  Click here to see how Wal-Mart is dodging the law in Maryland!  In the March 19 Headlines, Wal-Mart agreed to pay $11 million for using illegal workers.  Want to see world wide feedback?  Click here!

Just visit the MSNBC website and follow the business news!

We are urging all Lebanon County citizens, particularly North Cornwall Township residents to write to the North Cornwall Township Supervisors to voice their opposition to the proposed Wal-Mart.  Click on the links on the left to get a copy of the petition and the information for North Cornwall Township.

While Wal-Mart is spending millions on a public relations campaign with a CEO in a three piece suit, all we have as concerned citizens are facts.  Here they are:

• Past traffic studies indicate problems with the construction of a Wal-Mart on Cornwall Road.
  
  
• Wal-Mart considers a full time work week as 28 hours.  Based upon minimum wage, that works out to less than $12,000 a year.  Can you support a family on $12,000 a year?  Don't even ask about health insurance!  In the Feb. 2 CBS-21 news, Wal-Mart was accused of violating Pennsylvania's medical assistance plan by having health care so expensive that employees are pushed onto the state health plan. Studies have shown that this is true in other states, causing a huge drain on resources. PA lawmakers stated that Wal-Mart charges such high rates that employees are forced to go to the state. Reps Mike Veon and Jake Wheatley spoke on the problem, dismayed that a company making record profits is saying that you should get your benefits from the taxpayers, not from the company. CBS attempted to contact Wal-Mart and there was no reply.
  
  
• Wal-Mart is at the center of lawsuits in which companies are using third world country sweat shops to produce their products.
  
  
• Wal-Mart has been associated with an increase in crime.  This January in Texas, a woman was kidnapped and murdered after leaving her shift near midnight.
  
  
• Wal-Mart is in the middle of a sex discrimination case in which women are paid less than men.
  
  
• When Wal-Mart moves in, local businesses soon find themselves out of business.
  
  
• Find the True Cost of buying at Wal-Mart.  Click here for AFL-CIO report.
  
  
• Wal-Mart told to stop harassing workers in Quebec.  Click here.
  
  
• Wal-Mart has a history of knowingly hiring illegal aliens.  Click here. 
  

Ask yourselves why we need another Wal-Mart when two already exist in Lebanon and Palmyra.

At the Feb 3 North Cornwall Township meeting, a Wal-Mart rep stated that there is a need for a super center in North Cornwall Township.  This comment was met with laughing that interrupted the meeting.  Hey, NCT residents:  How many of you were contacted by Wal-Mart?  I expect the answer is A BIG ZERO!  We also learned that Wal-Mart would make traffic improvements that would 'mediate' traffic problems on Route 72 and Cornwall Road.  However, when you get to the bottom line, the so called improvements just return the roads to the same broken condition.  In other words, the improvements just need to make the situation worse than it already is, which is crowded!  What a gift!  Plus, there was no consideration given to school traffic.  Just as long as Wal-Mart complied with the MINIMUM requirements, all would be fine.  Is that what you want?  So what DID we learn at the Feb 3 meeting?

• Wal-Mart claims they need another store, but 1700 plus signatures from residents oppose Wal-Mart
  
  
• Wal-Mart would make traffic improvements - to restore conditions to the worse level of congestion and traffic problems
  
  
• Residents of NCT and adjacent areas do NOT want Wal-Mart to build a third SS in Lebanon County
  
  
• Media coverage of the meeting showed that residents were opposed to the new Wal-Mart.  Local media reported on the event,  click here to see the Feb 11 Lebanon Daily News editorial.
  

So, since the residents and neighboring areas have said 'NO' to Wal-Mart, will Wal-Mart honor its pledge to NOT to  come to a community where 'there has been a fuss'?

Want to see how your money spent at Wal-Mart goes to China and you are NOT buying American?
How Wal-Mart put the American company Rubbermaid out of business?  Click here!

Want to see what a former Wal-Mart manager has to say? Click here for the inside scoop.

Then visit the Wal-Mart and Capitalism site to get the facts on how Wal-Mart is detrimental to our community.  Pay particular attention to the Facts vs. Myths link.  You will soon see why Wal-Mart is spending millions on a PR campaign.

How about the costs of having a Wal-Mart in your community?  Ever wonder about the social costs?
Click here for the Costs of WalMartization of America.

Click here to find out what United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) have to say.

Just do a Google search with the words No Walmart and you will find these sites (click to view:)

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/walmart/workers_locked_in.html

http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/nowalmartonwestroad/

http://www.ufcw.org/worker_political_agenda/worker_issues/walmart/walmart_banking.cfm

http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=4429

and this from CBS News on how Wal-Mart is shifting their labor costs onto the public:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/07/eveningnews/main634599.shtml

and from the PBS website, where you can watch the video segment:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/

There are just some of the links!