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The Boycott Solution

Boycotts are the only solution to todays global crisis. The reason for this is simple. Where petitions serve to let the petitioned party know they have power over the petitioner, boycotts take away that power. What I’d like to do here is boycott the federal reserve banking cartel. Why do I choose this? Because, unlike the energy industry monopoly where no immediate alternative is available, we can pull money away from the global financiers and use local banks and credit unions.

Join in the boycott of the international financiers and their banking oligarchy.

• Transcend The Failed System
• What Can We Do
• Social Change
• Make a comment and let people know what you’re doing in the way of boycotting the bank

“A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible” ~ Civil disobedience By Henry David Thoreau

I’ll be here….go ahead and add ideas

More Boycotts:

bdsmovement.net

www.endtheoccupation.org

This might be a good place to start. Boycott: Toxic 100 Air Polluters………www.peri.umass.edu/toxic_index

Direct Action for Palestinian Human Rights: The organizations featured on this page share a demonstrated commitment to social justice and peace-building

See www.whoprofits.org, follow the money, find out who to boycott…

Visit ttp://coalitionofwomen.org, for a list of groups working for good causes…

Naomi Klein and the Boycott Movement

Rebecca Vilkomerson, for Jewish Peace News

Naomi Klein’s recently completed visit to Israel had a galvanizing effect on the “boycott from within” movement here (www.boycottisrael.info), which has endorsed the Palestinian call for BDS (www.bdsmovement.net). Klein’s public meetings, in Ramallah, East Jerusalem, Haifa, and Jaffa drew hundreds of people to hear her clear-eyed analysis of why it is time for a full boycott of Israel until the occupation ends….

CORPORATE CRIME REPORTER

Whole Foods, United Natural Foods Muscle Suppliers to Boycott Consumer Group

The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) carries a big public interest stick.

It can mobilize the 850,000 people in its network to pressure corporations and governments.

Their goal – clean, safe, organic foods and products for America.

It’s always a good idea to copy any successful play book. Find out how corporations use boycotts at – corporate crime reporter.com/wholefoods

Find out “How” bad things happen ~ “The Creature With Two Horns”

Major historical boycotts

• In 617, the Meccans boycotted the Hashemites in order to put pressure on the clan to withdraw its protection from Muhammad.
• March 1769, in opposition of “taxation without representation,” merchants in Philadelphia joined the boycott of British trade goods at the time of the American Revolution.
• In 1848, Milanese boycotts of Austrian state monopolies led to a military over-reaction, fomenting revolution in Northern Italy and the declarations of independence of Milan and Venice.
• the boycott of Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott, an English land agent in Ireland who was subject to a boycott organized by the Irish Land League, 1880
• Boycott of Tobacco in Iran in response to colonialist British Tobacco Régie, 1891.
• Boycott of American goods by Chinese in response to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and developments in 1905-06.^[1]
• Boycott of Japanese products in China after the May Fourth Movement.
• Economic Boycott of Germany by The American Jewish Congress – March 1933
• Nazi boycott of Jewish doctors, lawyers, and stores in Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses; it formally lasted only one day (April 1, 1933, ironically on a Saturday-the day of Sabbath when most Jewish Businesses and shops were closed already on that day, but eventually was the beginning of the racial policy of Nazi Germany.
• Boycotts of Jewish businesses in Iraq following the Farhud, between 1941 to 1951.
• The boycott of British goods by Mahatma Gandhi known as the swadeshi policy—the boycott of foreign-made goods, especially British goods. Linked to this was his advocacy that khadi (homespun cloth) be worn by all Indians instead of British-made textiles. Gandhi exhorted Indian men and women, rich or poor, to spend time each day spinning khadi in support of the independence movement.[3] This was a strategy to inculcate discipline and dedication to weed out the unwilling and ambitious, and include women in the movement at a time when many thought that such activities were not ‘respectable’ for women. In addition to boycotting British products, Gandhi urged the people to boycott British educational institutions and law courts, to resign from government employment, and to forsake British titles and honours.
• by African Americans during the U.S. civil rights movement, late 1950s and 1960s (especially the Montgomery bus boycott).
• the United Farm Workers union’s grape and lettuce boycotts.
• the Arab League boycott of Israel and companies trading with Israel.
• the academic boycott of South Africa by a large part of the world’s countries during its apartheid period.
• Boycott of South African produce (e.g., Cape Town Sherry Wine and Outspan lemons) in opposition to apartheid

Sporting boycotts

• the People’s Olympiad was planned for Barcelona as a venue for athletes boycotting the 1936 Summer Olympics being held in Nazi Germany.
• by African states at the 1976 Summer Olympics to protest the participation of New Zealand, a country that had recently resumed sporting contact with apartheid South Africa.
• the United States and Allies boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics to protest the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
• by Warsaw pact states (all but Romania who participated) of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, in retaliation for the 1980 boycott.
• led by North Korea and followed by Cuba, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua of the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea.
• Latin-American countries (Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay) in Soccer Boycott. 1938 FIFA World Cup.
• by most African, Asian and Caribbean at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, due to the Thatcher Government’s attitude towards sporting links with South Africa.

Current boycotts

Political boycotts

• Boycotting of California Proposition 8 Supporters
• Denmark – see Economic and human costs of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
• Economic and political boycotts of Israel

Consumer boycotts

• FireHollywood – against Hollywoodfilm makers who have made statements deemed to be “unpatriotic,” “anti-American” or treasonous.
• The Great American Boycott – to demonstrate the extent to which labor obtained via illegal immigration is needed for the economy of the United States.
• Nestlé boycott – against the promotion of infant formula over breast milk to poor mothers in developing countries.
• Stop Esso campaign – to protest damage to the environment by not investing in renewable energy sources, denying the existence of global warming and undermining the Kyoto Protocol.
• Tax resistance – propagated by some tax resisters as a “boycott” of governments by their subjects
• Nokia boycott – in response to the cellphone maker’s decision in January 2008 to close production sites in Germany and to move production to lower-cost regions in Eastern Europe [3]
• Boycott Cheetos – propagated by concerned parents and teachers protesting the Frito-Lay company’s 2008 advertising campaign which equates vandalism with being “cool”.^{[citation needed]}
• Corporate Funding Project: A boycott of corporations that fund Planned Parenthood. Organized by Life Decisions International.^[2]
• Singapore boycott of the 2010 FIFA World Cup broadcast by domestic pay TV operators – In 2010, FIFA charged what was described as an “exorbitant”^[3] sum for the broadcast rights fees of the 2010 FIFA World Cup for Singapore pay TV operators Starhub and SingTel. In turn, the TV operators passed on the cost to their subscribers by raising the special additional subscription fee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Many angered soccer fans then decided to boycott the service entirely^[4] as they felt it was unfair when compared to countries in the region that will either be broadcasting the matches free of charge, as in the case of Indonesia and Thailand; or at significantly lower viewing fees at US$21 as in Malaysia and US$38 in Hong Kong.^[5] This fee is also almost four times the SGD$25 (USD$18) special fee that Starhub charged its subscribers for viewing the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals matches in Germany.^[6]
• During the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a boycott against BP occurred in many parts of the world (see Reactions to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill#Public reaction)
• Bank Transfer Day – a social uprising encouraging bank customers to transfer their cash out of big banks to smaller banks and credit unions by November 5, 2011.

EthicalConsumer.org-Current Boycotts List