boycott america

[rahul]

hey,
do you know boycott america campaign?its just to boycott the products of us capitalists who are responsible for the birth of bush as a president.so stop buying all such american goods..so that stop further capitalism in this world.
some of the immediate goods to be boycotted .,with detais from motherearth.org

altria [krait,phillip morris]---------6.530.000$us
pepsico[gatorade,pepsi]---------------1.940.000$us
mcdonalda-----------------------------640.000$us
chevron texaco------------------------2.200.000$us
exxonmobil/esso-----------------------2.470.000$us
coca-cola[cocacola,fanta,sprite-------860.000$us

thats all--just boycott these and stop america to recieve war-fund





sorry for my bad english grammer[if u think so.,]

[Poderosa III]

Good idea, alas i don't think it would work, you'd need millions (and millions) of people to boycott these products to even make a dent in the U$'s income from foreign trade, Kudos for trying though...

[Commie Girl]

I do my small part by already boycotting as many ofthese places as I can....including Walmart

[seen_che]

Some people just dont want their money going to such tings ......and thats good boycott.!!!!!!! :D :D :P :P :P

[freemind]

i boycott wal mart as well, a small thing but its something

[Kurai Tsuki]

I've been doing that when possible for two years now, as I have to live in the country it's not as easy for me as it would be for someone outside the country.

[shyguywannadie]

I stopped buying coca-cola and McDonalds about a year ago.

As for the other stuff on the list, dont have any of their stuff.

[FatFreeMilk]

chevron texaco------------------------2.200.000$us
exxonmobil/esso-----------------------2.470.000$us


Where else are we supposed to buy our gas?

Some old man got car jacked in a wal mart parking lot by my city yesterday. It was all over the news. Another reason not to shop there...

[Monty Cantsin]

im doing my bit!

[rahul]

hey
do u feel what i have typed is correct.
lets push bush out .

[pedro san pedro]

i try my best to not give my hard earned dollars to the worst of the worst, but as was said, a boycott large enough to effect these companies would be extremely hard to organise -particually if you are not offering solutions/alternatives.

please do not think that by shopping morally you are "doing you bit" -these companies dont even know you exist, and you are not hurting them at all. i'm all for voting with my wallet, but theres much much much more to be done

[rahul]

ya
i agree with what u have said.
we have to search for an alternative first.
even myself cant get away from microsoft...but lets do what we can!!!

[Faceless]

coca cola (http://www.che-lives.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=17026)
More good reasons to boycott this lot.

[Pawn Power]

not everyone has the mony to boycott, exspecially walmart where u can get cheap shit, what we really need is a REVOLUTION, you cant argue with that

[Faceless]

not everyone has the mony to boycott, exspecially walmart where u can get cheap shit, what we really need is a REVOLUTION, you cant argue with that
You are absolutely right of course. No one has any expectations and you can only do a certain amount for lack funds. No one should feel compelled to try and take on the full boycott. It's as far as you want to/can go.

[SittingBull47]

Originally posted by [email protected] 29 2004, 02:54 PM
I do my small part by already boycotting as many ofthese places as I can....including Walmart
yea we tried that before but then we found out how to slightly (ever so slightly) go a bit further. Buy things from Wal-mart, open them up, then go back and return them. It costs them time and money to re-stock the item. I employed this theory when i had time and gave it a couple tries, but I don't really know if it is any more effective. Anybody think so?

[pedro san pedro]

the amount of profit these guys are reaping means that they are not even going to notic e this on its own. there have only been a very few examples of effective boycott campaigns, for example shell/brett spar

it is a campaign strat that is very hard to run -as you really need to go national if not international. you also need to be bale to sustain intrerst in the boycott, in a large number of people, over a long period of time. for this to happen, you need to stay in the media limelight. unfortunately, not many people/groups have the ablitiy to do this.

the one really big way to get companies to listen is to follow up your boycott with contacting the company, and encouraging others to do the same.

this way companies cn see that they are losing profits -and they will understand that for every one person whom gets in touch, many others must be feeling the same way.

however, they will not change policies until there is the perception that more money is being lost through the boycott than it would cost to change practice. when you are dealing with the big guys, this can be a lot of $$

[Read_Trotsky]

<_< You can&#39;t boycott capitalism. If you tried to boycott every corporation that has ever committed a crime against humanity (say for instance, EXPLOITING) then we would all have to stop buying EVERYTHING and live off the land. do you think we all can go live in a forrest somewhere? no. isn&#39;t even possible because all the land is private property. It wouldn&#39;t matter anyway because the all the radical liberals in this country can be shipped off to an island somewhere and It wouldn&#39;t really hurt the profits of the capitalists. But can they live without their working class? no. The thing is, all capitalism is bad. irrational. It leads to war. If one corporation falls, another one will rise to take it&#39;s place. Dont blame the individual corporations. dont blame Bush. they cant help what they do. blame the system. AND DONT OVERLOOK THE WORKING CLASS&#33;&#33;&#33; they are the ones with the power to bring capitalism to it&#39;s knees&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; The key is not for us to starve ourselves by not buying commodies but to TAKE THE PRODUCTION OF COMMODIES OUT OF THE CONTROL OF THE CAPITALISTS who produce for profit and PUT THEM IN THE HANDS OF THE WORKERS who will produce for human need. that&#39;s thinking like a Marxist.

[Bolshevist]

Don&#39;t fight the symptoms. Fight the system. In this case capitalism. As Read Trotsky said, its hopeless to boycott something.

[MaD HaTTeR]

well said :D

[redstar2000]

No system was ever overthrown by a boycott and no corporation ever driven out of business...that&#39;s all true.

And yet...

I can&#39;t help but remember reading of the first step in resisting Nazism by people outside of Germany...the refusal to buy German goods.

It had no measurable effect on the Nazi economy, but it was "educational" in a sense...the publicity of the boycott exposed this strange new idea to millions of people as an enemy of "everything decent".

U.S. imperialism certainly fits the description of "an enemy of everything decent".

Therefore, I would highly recommend that people living in other countries boycott American products (even if they&#39;re actually made in your country and sold under a "local" name) whenever possible.

It has no material effect but it "sends a message"...and a good one at that.

American hegemony is unacceptable under any circumstances&#33;

:redstar2000:

The Redstar2000 Papers (http://www.redstar2000papers.fightcapitalism.net)
A site about communist ideas

[Kez]

Who is affected most by boycotts?
The company or government, or the worker who is laid off as demand falls?

I think RedStar raises an important point about sending a message. For example our group responded to a "boycott Coke Cola" group. This group is a genuine group, with good honest members. But what can be acheived? relatively nothing.

However, we then started a campaign on it, with leaflets, meetings etc and explained the disgusting tactics of Coke Cola, especially in Colombia, where they had trade unionists shot for striking.
We did this and tried to involve the labour movement (by labour i mean whole workers movement not Labour party) and youth, and i think this raises consiousness of workers in Britain, and internationally.

I suggest people against walmart get a list of things walmart do which are bad, and have a meeting about it, and link it (as somebody has already suggested) with capitalism as a whole.

what do you think?

[DaCuBaN]

I would highly recommend that people living in other countries boycott American products

Or better yet: don&#39;t boycott a country - there are good and bad companies out there and until we can change the system entirely we are stuck with them. Simply use those who&#39;ve agreed to fair-trade protocols and better. If not, don&#39;t buy. Bear in mind British, German, French - all nations have equally oppressive corporatations.

Picking on america is simply silly. imho.