Owners of a small business in Birmingham, Alabama, near the site of a proposed Wal-Mart supercenter, have filed suit against the city for giving the...
Independent retailers in Austin, Texas, are calling on local residents to break the chain store habit by shopping exclusively at locally owned businesses on Saturday,...
An article in the October 2003 issue of Consumer Reports opens with the following recommendation: "If you’re among the 47 percent of Americans who get...
Pennsylvania pharmacists are up in arms over a new health plan for state workers that bars them from filling prescriptions at locally owned drugstores, requiring...
A California Appeals Court has upheld a local ordinance restricting the proliferation of formula retail businesses in Coronado, a city of 24,000 people near San...
Legislation introduced in Congress that would require internet retailers to collect state and local sales taxes stands a fairly good chance of passing in the...
The Irish Pharmaceutical Union (IPU) has asked the government to adopt restrictions on the ownership of pharmacies similar to regulations in place in most European...
Malaysia has placed a five-year ban on the construction of hypermarkets in Klang Valley, which includes Kuala Lumpur, and the states of Johor and Penang....
The Totalitarian Pope by David Morris Originally published on Alternet, October 20, 2003 Last week John Paul II celebrated the 25th anniversary of his pontificate...
Speech on the harm superstores do to communities and local economies, and what citizens can do about it, delivered in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, on...
This report, a collaboration between the Institute of Local Self-Reliance and The Preservation Trust of Vermont, outlines why locally owned businesses matter and provides practical...
Recycling, composting and waste reduction have been a basic precept of sustainability . It is essential for a sustainable industrial economy. … Read More
When we think of great popular movements of the last century, the labor movement, the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement, and the women’s rights...
Corporations Don’t Have the Same Rights as People by David Morris Originally published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 21, 2003 In a remarkable editorial...
Wal-Mart and its ilk are muscling small businesses aside. But mom and pop are mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore....