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DESCRIPTION:Join forces with community, union, environmental, and senior activists 
 fighting Wal-Mart in Contra Costa County.  Business Week, in their October 
 6th cover story on Wal-Mart wrote, “The most hotly contested battleground 
 at the moment is Contra Costa County.”  Volunteers needed to walk 
 precincts and make phone calls, especially this weekend.  Meet this 
 Saturday at 9 am at the ACORN office:   132 Bailey Road, Bay Point (this is 
 one block west of the Pittsburg/Bay Point BART station)  925-261-0233  
 BACKGROUND on MEASURE L - the anti-big box ordinance  Last year a broad 
 coalition of community, Labor, faith, senior, and environmental groups 
 worked with the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors to pass an 
 anti-Big Box ordinance that limits large-scale retail commercial 
 development in the unincorporated areas of Contra Costa County. This 
 ordinance directly targets “supercenters” -- mammoth stores that take 
 up over five football fields and put tens of thousands of extra cars on the 
 streets of our communities. Our coalition saw this as the first step in an 
 ambitious plan to control unplanned growth, traffic, and congestion in the 
 region.  Within one week, Wal-Mart brought in an out-of-state petitioning 
 firm to gather signatures for a referendum. UFCW Local 1179 and ACORN ran a 
 blocking campaign in response. Although Wal-Mart's deep pockets prevailed, 
 company spokespeople described it as the strongest and most well organized 
 opposition they have encountered anywhere in the country.  Faced with a 
 March ballot,  our coalition is fighting to make sure land use choices are 
 made here and not in Arkansas.  Wal-Mart has already spent $1 million on 
 this campaign and they are not done spending yet.  Come help us win and 
 tell them that it will not be "business as usual" in California.  For more 
 information see our web site:  http://na4lc.org  http://www.acorn.org  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/24/31833.php
SUMMARY:Stop the Wal-Mart Machine!
LOCATION:ACORN office:  132 Bailey Road, Bay Point   (one block from Pittsburg/Bay 
 Point BART station)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/24/31833.php
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