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So I went the the Co-op America website and checked it out the other day and found lots of things to get involved in and some to get enraged about. I hope all of you go to the site and sign up for the “low carb challenge”, carbon emissions, that is. Anyway, I was checking out that tomorrow, sorry I was too late to organize my own, there is a quarantine Wal-Mart demonstration where thousands will descend on their local Wal-Marts in Haz-Mat suits and yellow caution tape. There are already 27 planned demonstrations and I’m sure lots of last minute ones as well. Let’s hope it gets through to some of them. Wal-Mart epitomizes almost everything that has gone wrong with this country and it’s really hitting home now for me since the newly elected Mayor of Wimberley, a place people want to move to because there are no big box stores, stated, during his campaign, in a News 8 interview, that he wanted to invite a big HEB, and a large apparel retailer to Wimberley. And, I recently learned that Wal Mart had purchased land on the bypass loop. I’m sure at first the average person thinks, oh, cool, now I don’t have to drive to Austin or San Marcos for stuff, I can just get it right here in Wimberely… HELLOOOOOOOO? If you shop at Wal-Mart you are getting your “stuff” from some sweat shop in China, not from a local. If you shop at any big box store you are voting to keep the pave the earth society going strong and manifesting it in your own backyard. Not only does Wal-Mart take local businesses down, it doesn’t take care of it’s own employees, creates horrilble evironmental impact, and takes no responsibility for it’s products. There is nothing fair-trade about them. I have said it before, use your dollars as a vote, boycott big box stores including Wal-Mart and show how you feel about the future of our planet and our people. As I checked out how to organize my own demostration in a day, I plugged in my zip code to see where the closest Wal-Marts were, since, thank GOD there are none in Wimberley, and I was horrifed that there were 25 stores within 75 miles of me. AGHHHHHH! We are surrounded. There are 9 in San Antonio alone and that is just Wal-Mart. There are Targets, Home Depots, Dollar General, Kohls, Baby’s R US, oh there are too many to list them all…. I have to ask you, How many big box stores do we need? They are multiplying like a bad virus and believe me mother earth is definitely feeling sick from it.