What Other Communties Have Done

No Walmart in Ranchos!
This site contains news and information about a local citizens' group against the proposed location for a Walmart Supercenter or similar megastore in Ranchos de Taos, a tiny community on the outskirts of Taos, New Mexico. Ranchos is home to the historic St. Francis de Asis Church, the most photographed church in the United States.

Saving San Marcos!
We are a grass-roots group, consisting of hundreds of ordinary, homeowning citizens, who have joined a fight to keep a proposed Wal-Mart out of our community. We have managed to force the issue to a vote on March 2, 2004 in the City of San Marcos.

Big Box TV
Bigger Boxes is a half hour public television documentary that focuses on the rising controversy over ?big box3Ž4 retail.

What Tijeras Did!

Not in My Neighborhood

Not So Mom-and-pop

A Small town in Maryland fights to save itself

They paved Paradise and put up a Wal-Mart

How Gig Harbor Won the Battle Against Wal-Mart

International Bulldozer Brigade
An action guide for keeping unwanted developments out of our community.

Social Responsibility, Profits AND Social Accountability

Sprawl-Busters

Stopping the Big Box Stores from locating in our town.