The local activists in Saskatoon, including the folks at SHEEP Economics and Peter at Turning the Tide Bookstore managed to spread the word about our event to such an extent that despite very little media attention, we had nearly two hundred people show up at the Broadway Theatre, great numbers all things considered. The SHEEP activists joined us on stage and informed the audience of their upcoming actions against Wal-Mart and informed us about Wal-Mart’s closing of one store in order to open a massive super centre store in another location. It seems that the folks in Saskatoon feel that they don’t need another Wal-Mart, but unsurprisingly, The Beast from Bentonville only listens to the sounds of cash registers, not the wishes and demands of the communities it pushes its way into. Luckily, Saskatoon has a vibrant and committed activist community resisting the mart. Before we left town we stopped by Turning the Tide and picked up some great books for the road including No one Makes you Shop at Wal-Mart: The surprising deceptions of individual choice by Canadian writer Tom Slee, and Wal-Mart: The Face of 21st Century Capitialism, a compilation of essays and articles from the Santa Barbara conference on Wal-Mart in 2004.