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lovekendyl

(61 posts)
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 06:53 PM Mar 2012

I don't believe in boycotts

Because they usually dont work. But DAMN this one actually worked also Monday is the biggest day yet to hit his sponsors that he has left. Most sponsors will think its over since he apologized. We need a list of those he still has left...

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I don't believe in boycotts (Original Post) lovekendyl Mar 2012 OP
It worked to get Glen Beck off the air as well. /nt Drale Mar 2012 #1
Beck lovekendyl Mar 2012 #2
This is a perfect example of how working together usually works for the good of everyone. Thinkingabout Mar 2012 #3
Anyone have a list for products made by the Charles and David Koch branch of the government? wandy Mar 2012 #4
If you are on FB, look for Boycott Walker Supporters Lifelong Protester Mar 2012 #7
I sent in the petition HockeyMom Mar 2012 #5
They do work Warpy Mar 2012 #6
Its that very attitude that doesn't make boycotts work. JNathanK Mar 2012 #8
How about girlcotts? HopeHoops Mar 2012 #9
 

lovekendyl

(61 posts)
2. Beck
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 07:00 PM
Mar 2012

I dont know much about Beck, I tended to not pay attention to him. Not that I pay that much attention to Rush either...

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
3. This is a perfect example of how working together usually works for the good of everyone.
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 07:06 PM
Mar 2012

America has the potential to be great and this mean spirited interaction does lots of wrongs. Stupid Limbaugh Useless Talking is usually beyond truth, he says "what if"
followed by some lambrain thought and the only thing his listeners hears is the lamebrain idea and they love it.

Lifelong Protester

(8,421 posts)
7. If you are on FB, look for Boycott Walker Supporters
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 07:59 PM
Mar 2012

they have a list, and it includes all Georgia Pacific paper products, for starters. Vanity Fair, Brawny, Cottonelle.

At our school, our custodians found an alternative paper towel for our automated dispensors. We covered up the GP logo with a sticker that says :Corporations Aren't People, Money is not Speech.
Also, boycotting Sargento Cheese, Johnsonville products, Kwik Trip (all major Walker donors).

Thanks!

 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
5. I sent in the petition
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 07:27 PM
Mar 2012

given to my by my fellow Senior women relatives and friends. I signed my name MRS. and said I was MOTHER of daughters.

Warpy

(111,277 posts)
6. They do work
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 07:58 PM
Mar 2012

They worked in the 70s to get growers to sign contracts with the UFW. They worked in the 80s to get South Africa to abandon apartheid.

And they can work now. You just need to piss enough people off to have them work, something Lamebawl finally did.

JNathanK

(185 posts)
8. Its that very attitude that doesn't make boycotts work.
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 04:03 AM
Mar 2012

I'm glad you've acknowledged a real world example of it working though.

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