Wal-Mart Slogan Contest

We empowered our supporters to send a message of their choice to Wal-Mart -- through a prominent billboard that we reserved less than one mile from Wal-Mart's Bentonville, Ark., World Headquarters. We received thousands of excellent slogan submissions, and narrowed the field to ten finalists. Tens of thousands of our supporters voted on the finalists and a clear winner emerged, "Wal-Mart: Killing Local Businesses One Main Street at a Time."

After selecting the winning billboard slogan, supporters contributed enough money to publish it for one month. We designed the billboard artwork and submitted it to the billboard leasing company -- the Fort Smith, Ark., division of Clear Channel.

Unfortunately the division president, Bob Sadler, decided unilaterally -- and based on what we believe are partisan political grounds -- to censor and deny the posting of our slogan.

Nearly 12,000 Campaign for America's Future emailed Bob Sadler to demand that he not censor the truth about Wal-Mart, and publish our billboard. He has yet to deliver an official response, and we're currently exploring legal options to pressure him and Clear Channel to overturn the censor.

Since Clear Channel wouldn't publish our one billboard in Bentonville, Ark, we published 10,000! In January 2006, we produced 10,000 bumper stickers with the same message and design of the original billboard, and distributed them, free of charge, to the communities where the billboard's message most needs to be seen.

The 10,000 bumper stickers were distributed to community groups working to stop Wal-Mart from coming to town and closing small businesses. You can still get your own bumper sticker, download a flyer and take action to protect small businesses at fixwalmart.com