Forum Post: Let's organize boycotts
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 12, 2011, 8:41 p.m. EST by rainmud
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With so many people connected and sharing a common purpose it would be easy to hit the 1% were it hurts most - their wallets. We should all agree to boycott a certain product or service (such as Wal-mart or Tyson or pharmaceutical for at least one week and have a new one every week.
Sounds good.
Boycott is a very powerful way of sending a message. I think the place to start is at the root and that is the politicians that sold us out. I say boycott anyone running for office that takes any donation of more than say $500.00. It's the "information age" so they can spread their word in a number of ways. Every time they take a large donation they are selling something. It's a main cause of the situation. Cut off their money by boycotting with a vote. It's simple and simple always works.
Hate to say it, but we do not have the numbers to make this stick. If someone throws a party and nobody attends...the organizer looks like a schmuck.
Point being, we need to build numbers and lay groundwork before we try to use brute force methods like this.
Vote at the cash register for only USA made items and boycott all that is not. Try to live without if you have to for the time it will take to turn this economy around where it is consumer and worker driven, not corporate and government driven. There is nothing that gets companies more worried than boycotts. It plunges their stocks almost immediately if done in an organized manner. Remember we brought France to its knees in 3 weeks by only boycotting campaign, wine and cheese. And that was done by just one radio talk show personality that got pissed off over something they had said about us. We can do soooo muuuch mooore.