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"Wal-Mart drains funds from communities by challenging the valuation put on its properties by public officials," said Philip Mattera, research director of Good Jobs First and principal author of the report. "When it succeeds, it diminishes the revenue available to pay for education, police, and other services."
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Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche has called for an international boycott of Wal-Mart. He told a cadre school of the LaRouche Youth Movement on Nov. 10: "Wal-Mart is probably one of the major foreign enemies of the United States! And, it's based in the United States. Where Wal-Mart strides, whole communities collapse! It runs in like a vampire: It flies in by night, and sucks the blood of the citizens, and the cows, and so forth. In the morning, there's not much left!
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Citizens in Nashua, New Hampshire, led by the community group Citizen’s Action of Southern New Hampshire, won a victory last night when the town planning board voted to reject the building of a new Wal-Mart. Nashua, New Hampshire is just one town among many continuing to say no to Wal-Mart expansion until it becomes a responsible and moral employer.
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