We need a list of good and bad businesses

[NJmaverick]

This way we will know who to support and who to boycott.

[LisaLynne]

1. I found this site yesterday ...

http://www.boycottbush.net/consumers.htm

It's a start, I guess.

[NJmaverick]

4. It's a start

It doesn't offer much in the way of alternatives though. We need a list of the best of the best and a list of the worst of the worst.

[el_gato]

2. FSC started on that project yesterday for texas anyway

[Buzz Clik]

3. this is insane!

Are you trying to suggest that people and businesses no longer have the right to express their opinions about political candidates? Why should they have to pay a price for having an opinion?

This ranks right down there with the knuckledraggers boycotting The Dixie Chicks and similar artists who happen to express their Constitutional rights.

I'm sorry, but I despise the Republicans for this crap, and I cannot support anyone else in these vindictive endeavors.

[NJmaverick]

5. The business of business is business

Not politics

[Union Thug]

6. I disagree.

These business support attacking the middle and working class of this country, so I say put the bastards out of business.

The business of the working class is self preservation. Make no mistake, the bottom line of the bush administration has EVERYTHING to do with economy and class war.

[oscar111]

10. "opensecrets.org" scholarly exhaustive site

huge site. Hard to find the data, but it is all there. Party donation nicely listed. business and individuals both.

might be a .com or .org.

Rush sponsors used to be at takebackthemedia.org but seems gone now. Confusing new website too. terrible design, just terrible.

top100corporatecriminals.org or somesuch rearrangement of the words, is a fine site. Uses the book of the same name as the site name. try amazon for exact name.
fine thumbnail description of crimes, tho no party affiliation.

Sinclair sponsors listed well, see Search function at DU if you have it.. many recent posts linked to the site with list.

[ncgrits]

11. I agree! I've boycotted Walmart for years!

Not only do they KILL small towns and the Mom-and-Pop's that do business there, but they fill the pockets of the Repugs at the same time. They treat their employees AND suppliers like crap. They get us coming and going, and I'm not giving them any of MY money!


This is a summary from AAR homepage:

Wal-Mart's Role in the Presidential Campaign
The infamous Wal-Mart. Whether being commended by Dick Cheney, or attacked for worker abuse, it always seems to find its way into the news. This time it's for large money donations to Republicans. "More than two-thirds of its stores are in states that voted for Bush in 2000 and the "Wal-Mart" effect clearly leans in favor of the Republicans." Its Political Action Committee collected "nearly 1.5 billion dollars in contributions, about 80 percent of which went to Republicans, according to the independent group Political Money Line." The company reported sales of 256 billion dollars last year.

[LisaLynne]

7. This isn't vindictive at all.

They are contributing money to a party I feel is based on immoral stances. I am not going to help them funnel money to such a political party. Just as I do my best not to shop at businesses who have destructive environmental impact, anti-labor stances, or other practices I do not want my money to support.

[Adams Wulff]

8. They are entitled to their opinion...

But I have a choice as to whether or not I help subsidize that opinion. They are entitled to think and say whatever they like. But I am entitled to decide whether my money goes to those who would then turn around and give my money to a party I so vehemently disagree with.
If Altria was bombarded with 50 million emails disagreeing with their decision to back Republicans to the tune of $6.5million dollars, it might raise some eyebrows at corporate HQ, and they might get annoyed for a day or two, but it won't change their minds. But if 50 million people decided to stop buying A-1 Steak sauce, or Milk Bone dog biscuits, that would be a language they understand.
Will it stop them from contributing to the Republicans? Probably not. But they might be inclined to contribute less, and send some of the remainder to the Democrats, recognizing that we too, are an economic force to be dealt with.

[fudge stripe cookays]

9. We are offering alternatives to shopping at these businesses

by recommending progressive alternatives.

Many recently created progressives do NOT know (believe it or not) that shopping at Wal-Mart is a bad thing.

And when you support Repub businesses, that money gets donated eventually to the Repug war machine.

You don't have to participate if you don't want. But plenty of us are pissed off enough.

If you ARE interested, see the thread in your respective state forum entitled "Progressive Pages- Need Your Input".

Give us any information you have there.
FSC

[oscar111]

12. boycott is fine

very nonviolent

[oscar111]

13. Union Label used to be a big deal

in early last century.

Make it so again. Lookk for the union label. Knights of Labor made it a big deal, created the BLS, and won the secret ballot. bls is bureau of labor statistics. They were so popular they had to limit new memberships. even farmers joined. died off after elitist {afl??} chunk broke off. Correct me if i am wrong on demise cause.