Via The Stop Shopping Monitor (blog of the city's most Reverend Billy), "How Wal-Mart Came To Haslett," an inspired contra-big-box-store alternative investigative video by the New York-based Meerkat Media collective.

Melding reporting on environment, economic justice, and democratic represenation or lack thereof, along with the bracing fresh air of citizen vlogging (online video logging), and artful editing that evokes the rhythm of tv journalism, but adds an edge, the Meerkats document how a Wal*Mart sued to set down in a mid-Michigan town, right on top of a marshy riverine area where high school biology classes used to have field trips.

Image: Meerkat Elliot Liu reports from in front of critical drainage land near the Wal*Mart site.