In 2004, WalMart announced its intentions to build a massive new superstore in Inglewood. The proposed developed was to be a supersized store that would be the size of 17 football fields, threatening to displace local small businesses and other grocery and retail stores in the area, many of which maintained union contracts with the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). Working with religious leaders, including Rev. Jarvis Johnson and Rev. Altagracia Perez of CLUE (Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice), and community organizations in Inglewood, UFCW organized a campaign in opposition to the new WalMart development and successfully convinced the Inglewood City Council to oppose it. But WalMart used its considerable resources to put an initiative on the ballot that would override the City Council and, by doing so, undermine the city’s legal, environmental, and planning powers. UFCW and their coalition partners again mobilized an opposition campaign to reject the ballot measure and the Walmart Superstore. Their campaign was successful: by a 60 percent to 40 percent margin, Inglewood voters rejected Walmart’s plans.

This documentary, produced by Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) and narrated by a local minister, describes the unprecedented labor-community coalition that defeated the world’s largest corporation.