Supporting Blue, boycotting red

[MsFlorida]

Have been talking to a lot of people lately. This is a good idea, besides if we cant vote them out, we can starve them out!

[jdj]

1. also boycott fundies.

http://www.shepherdsguide.com

anyone who would make it an issue by putting it in here is not someone I would want to support.

[eleny]

18. It's very easy to look up locations by zip code

Thanks for that url. This is a terrific resource for who to avoid.

[Lost Creek]

29. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Look here

This info can be found at fundrace dot org.

I did my Zip Code and posted in the Colorado state Forum.

Do your zip and post it.

Ms. Mary Chenney lives in my Zip. Last year I moved for Houston. I lived about a mile from Papa Bush then. Can't get away for the monsters.

I'm off to do more ZIP CODES. Have some fun!!!

INFORMATION FROM - fundrace.org




80433 ZIP CODE BUY (Conifer, CO)

Attorney - Vance Andrus - $2000 Kerry $2000 Edwards
Physician - Paul Radford - $1000 Kerry
Parkins & Blankenship - Suzanne Blankenship - $575 Clark
Acupuncturist - Linda Radford (Mountain Valley Integrative Medical) - $500 Kerry
Neuropsychologist - Robert Kooken - $250 DNC
Physician - Rachel Gaffney - $250 Kerry
Denver Scores - Jack Sparks - $250 DNC $250 Kerry
Page 1 Solutions - Dan Goldstein - $200 Kerry



80433 ZIP CODE BOYCOTT (Conifer, CO)

Ms. Mary Cheney - $1000 Bush
Contractor - Rolling Plains Construction - Kathleen M Taraba - $400 RNC
Professor Metro ST. - Kelly Weist - $250 Bush

[trogdor]

2. Ok, but what do the red states produce?

Haven't they farmed out all their production to China?

[Say_What]

10. TOURISM!!

Many National Parks are in Red States: UTAH, ARIZONA, COLORADO in the West for example.

[MarianJack]

20. Come to Vacationland!

MAINE! We have Acadia Nat'l Park and lots of other fun places to take a family on vacation.

BTW, men, if you go to old orchard beach, make sure you're book isn't upside down when your wife catches you looking at the bikini girls!

As for the boycott, a pizza place in Old orchard has it's counters covered with adoring pictures of *. Last summer I cancelled my order as soon as I saw them and told the owner exactly why I did it!

[fudge stripe cookays]

21. MJ--

Let us know the name and address if you can. All info is going into our clearing house of local info!

Thanks!
Laini

[MarianJack]

28. If You Mean the local pizza place...

...I won't be able to do that until the summer. After Labor Day Old Orchard is as dead as a ** brainscan.

I WILL let you know ASAP, however!

BTW, There is a place on Rte. 1 in OOB called "Cascades". It's a restaurant/motel/campground that is very proud of it's rethuglican ties. Many prominent opictures of bush sr.

[fudge stripe cookays]

31. Cool.

OOB? Old Orchard Beach?

Just checking. I've never been to Maine. Except in my head when I read Stephen King!

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[Say_What]

32. Even in the winter Maine is BEAUTIFUL!

Lived in MASS for more than 20 years (North Shore) and Maine is a must-see for anyone who hasn't been there. In the very snowy winter of 1995-1996 I was on the coast of Maine photographing lighthouses. Had to dig out three times, but it was well worth it!!

Peace!!
SW

[LiberalAndProud]

24. food, largely

[Mika]

3. You'll starve out the defrauded majority too

Keep that in mind, will you?


Thanks

Mika
Defrauded Dem voter in Fla.

[MsFlorida]

4. not necessairly.

Blue businesses can be identified. Very easy to do. Similar to businesses being identified as "family friendly", etc., etc.

[Bill McBlueState]

5. I think the OP means people & businesses, not states

You know, boycott the business with the Bush sticker in the window, and support the progressive bookstore. Something like that.

[maxrandb]

22. Sorry, but just like childbirth

Some things can't be done without pain!

[maxrandb]

23. Sorry, but just like childbirth

Some things can't be done without pain!

[truhavoc]

6. I live in OH, but work for a company based in GA and NC

A really RED company, I believe I am the only one at my level who is even remotely liberal.

What is a guy like me to do? My company is partnered with Lowe's too, a not so liberal company as well.

[still_one]

9. boycott the ones that won't affect your job

[still_one]

7. Did American Express support *?

[Suziq]

19. No

I work for American Express. A colleague of mind just brought over a spreadsheet showing who the "big shots" contributed to.

Amex's CEO, Ken Chenault, gave bucks to Obama, Daschle and Erskine Bowles.

I have been with the company for a little over 30 years. Now I know why.

[annabanana]

8. Well, I'M have a "blue" Christmas this year..

I buy a lot on line, and over the phone... This year I'm checking out the location of the executive offices.

I'm sorry red staters... The blue districts have to go with their strength, which is numbers and $.

[MsFlorida]

11. Same here - Blue Christmas

I may have to live in a red state, but I dont have to buy my stuff here

[wiggs]

12. Long term and short term boycotts

Sorry for posting this in more than one place but I feel it is extremely important to keep talking about boycotts.

I really hope someone organizes a national, targeted, extensive boycott of companies that gets real attention.

I bet millions and millions of people would be willing to, say, not watch NBC for two months. Not go to WalMart for two months. I know that boycotting all of the above products indefinitely is great and I encourage it, but a recognized, quantifiable, targeted boycot would be scary for CEO's and their shareholders and would make a much stronger statement. I fear a diffused, undefined, soft boycott would not be effective. Sinclair worked because it was focused.

The WH and RNC need every one of us to be good consumers in this society. 55 million of us being bad consumers would get SERIOUS attention. If half the country could get on board by stating that NBC is tuned out for months due to their new role as propagandist for its militarist parent company, that would be a serious threat.

Witholding our money from corporations is now one of the few powers we have left. It is an untapped power. We don't have any branch of government. We don't have the media. We don't have the election process either, frighteningly enough. This is it, I believe. And it may be the most powerful tool out there if our side learns to use it well.

It is akin to taking the ball from the game and going home. No game.

[Jerseygirltoo]

14. What's with the 2 months?

I will happily boycott WalMart for the rest of my life, unless they change their policies. And so should everyone else, unless you live in a really isolated part of the country and have no choice where to shop.
They exploit labor, here and overseas, they censor free speech, they destroy communities and small businesses, and they'll sell guns and ammo, but refuse to sell the morning after pill. I think now some of their pharmacists even refuse to fill birth control prescriptions.
We should boycott them and oppose construction of new stores.

[wiggs]

17. 2 months, 4 months, indefinitely.

There are some, like you probably, who can boycott forever. But since I want 10's of millions or more to participate and make a quantifiable statement I want to maximize feasibility and success.

A statement needs to be made not only to WalMart but to other vulnerable companies that supported Bush. The statement needs to be earthshaking. A statement that we may not have any legislative, judicial, executive, electorl, or media power but we do have an even more potent weapon.

I don't know what length of time millions of people from all over the world can hold a focused boycott...2 months seemed reasonable and 2 months would really screw up a quarterly report.

[alittlelark]

27. It's been over 2 years for me

Even driving past that place makes me cringe.

[China_cat]

33. In the Charleston (SC) area

Our -8th- WalMart is being constructed right next to the new Sam's.

EIGHT WalMarts. FIVE of them Superstores. It would be 9 but the people in Mt. Pleasant told them to get lost. And the new 1/2 cent sales tax will be used to improve the roads in and out of these purveyors of pure evil.

[Search Party]

13. this is one step I am taking, I will simply ask

who is the owner? may I speak with them? who did you vote for? "bush" well, to your detriment, I can no longer support your business along with 48% of Americans, consider yourself notified.

Plain and Simple.

We are business owners. I noticed this morning that a nursing home we service had a B/C 04 sign out front. I am calling them this afternoon.
If the families of their residents call with questions, I will reply with same.

Plain and Simple.

[fudge stripe cookays]

15. ATTENTION EVERYBODY!

A group of us are working on this already! See the threads in each state forum entitled "Progressive PAges-- Need your input"!

DancingBear, Sapphocrat, and myself are in the formative stages of organizing a giant directory of companies to boycott and progressive companies to support in their place!

Wherever you are, give us your experiences! We need as much info as possible from family member, friends, acquaintances, whatever you have.

We have the biggies covered already many times over. Everyone knows about Costco being good, Wal-Mart being bad etc. We're including those. BUT we want to know about LOCAL companies that are supporting Repugs!

Give us what you got!
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PS- Here is the original thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2587076&mesg_id=2587076&page=

[sampsonblk]

16. It can be done, but we have to be smart

We should start talking about which companies to boycott and maybe some criteria for red-listing companies. Everyone in the south isn't to blame. CNN is in Atlanta, but Faux is in New York. No boycott happening there, at least for me.

If we plan this out and do it wisely, it can be done, and it can work.

[maxrandb]

25. Don't Watch Faux and don't buy what is advertised on Faux n/t

[whosinpower]

26. In order for this to be effective.....

I would suggest that we all agree and target ONE company for a period of say - six months. Do it loudly. Do it blatently. Do it in plain sight and tell that company the reason why their services are no longer welcome.

[July]

30. What about mini-boycotts?

Since for reasons of geography, limited market, or simple need (to buy gasoline, for example), not everyone can boycott for long periods.

Taking your idea of one company in a slightly different direction, why couldn't we target an industry or specific company for a day or a weekend? Say, two days of not buying gasoline. It wouldn't take away much revenue overall, because we'd still need the gasoline and buy it either before or after, but it would show what we can do.

And with goods and services that are less necessary than gasoline, we could have a pocketbook effect.