Do you? Buy Blue?

[Carolab]

http://www.buyblue.org/Default.aspx

[LibertyorDeath]

1. Cool...Thanx!

[TaleWgnDg]

2. Ooops. Another reason NOT to buy Wal-Mart?

(They're principla place of business is located in Arkansas, I believe.)




edited to add: is "principla" a hybridization of "principle" and "principal" or merely a typo? hehe

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[kayell]

3. This idea is growing and spreading

For more (a lot more) check the DU Economic Activism and Progressive Living Group
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=255

and The Progressive Pages
http://www.globalblogs.com/progressivepages/index.html

and http://www.boycottbush.net/

[devinsgram]

4. Thanks, I just subscribed to their newsletter.

I have started asking around my area to find business' that donated to Kerry, but not having a lot of success, so I will travel to Harrisburg where there is a Costco and Target and a few others.

[kayell]

5. To find out how a company donates:

http://www.opensecrets.org/

And The Progressive Pages is building a database of companies, donations, other practices, addresses etc.
http://www.globalblogs.com/progressivepages/index.html
Check back often as the database is growing daily.

[kayell]

6. The Role of Boycotts in the Fight for Peace

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1118-24.htm

After the election of George Bush, it took less than a week for peace activists to reach a consensus: "Stand and fight."

The U.S. election is simply unacceptable. No president, no matter how large the vote, has any authority to commit war crimes, to destroy cities from the air, to create inhuman prison systems beyond the rule of law, to violate the sovereignty of states. No franchise anywhere entitles any leader to subjugate foreign peoples, or to violate international law. Far from being a democratic "mandate" for Bush, the election is a mandate for world-wide resistance. As James Madison wrote: "Elective despotism is not the government we fought for."

Notwithstanding the consensus of defiance, questions of strategy remain to be addressed. How and where and by what means do we carry on the fight for peace? Do we continue to work within deformed, money-drenched elections? Or do we move into a new phase of direct, economic actions?

At the turn of the 20th century, when imperialism was in its ascendancy, British economist J.A. Hobson, wrote: "Consumption alone vitalises capital and makes it capable of yielding profits...It is idle to attack Imperialism or Militarism as political expedients or policies unless the axe is laid at the economic root of the tree."

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