Populist Reform of the Democratic Party
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I think we need one place to keep an up-to-date listing of companies to avoid and support. I will start the list and please chime in via responses. If I list something you have data on, one way or another, please let me know.
Avoid These Corporations (as best you can):
The Five Corps That Own Almost Everything (http://www.businesspundit.com/5-corporations-that-own-almost-everything/)
General Electric, Barclays, Moody's Investor Services, News Corp., and Monsanto.
The Big Five banks - Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs.
The Big Media Conglomerates - (http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6) (http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart)
News Corp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, and Comcast
Dropbox. They decided to place Condy Rice on their board. (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024805059)
Whole Foods and Papa John Pizza.
Toyota moved to Anti-LBGT Texas (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024905050)
Staples anti-union (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025047543)
Home Depot (reason?)
Applebees (reason?)
Amazon - Kills small businesses and treats employees badly.
Chick-Fil-A - Homophobia
Nike and other Chinese made shoes
Support the Following:
Local Credit Unions and Banks
DuckDuckGo for a search engine. They don't record your visits.
Credo, America's only progressive phone company.
Firefox (Mozilla) for a web browser.
Bob's Red Mill Products - Lots of organics, Made in USA company, employee-owned.
Powell Books
New Balance Shoes
Please help me update and add to the lists.