What are you boycotting?And what should we be boycotting?

[corporatewhore]

me
1Coca Cola
2Lowes
3Wal mart
4Nike
5clothes made in sweat shops (i mostly buy from thrift stores occasionly get an outfit from localstore or clothes that my grandma makes me)

[lcordero]

1. anything that requires a "loan" and most

"financial services".

[brainshrub]

2. Wal-Mart

and Coca-Cola

With the exception of shoes, underwear & socks I do not buy new clothes. Everything I wear is pre-owned & purchased & GoodWill or garage sales.

[lovedems]

3. Me

Wal-mart
Sara Lee
Credit cards (got rid of all but one, don't use it, 3 years ago and life is grand! Not creating more debt than we can manage)
Levi's (just recently)

[La_Serpiente]

4. Is Costco on there?

? I don't buy my clothes from there anyway.

[T Roosevelt]

20. Why Costco?

Saw a thread here recently on how the CEO of Costco was very employee- and shopper-friendly, at the expense of the shareholder.

On edit: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=26734

[aQuArius]

5. Alcohol ..... for a while at least

;)

[NoPasaran]

6. Why are people boycotting Coke?

No looking for trouble, just some information.

I am boycotting:
Wal Mart
Coors (since the 1970s)
Albertsons (until the strike in California is settled)
Beef

[veganwitch]

10. multiple reasons

they create plants in extremely poor areas (india, africa, latin america), pollute the water and/or privitise it. Also, they have - directly or indirectly - supported the killings of union organisers in latin america.

That and just general globalised bullshit.

[NoPasaran]

11. Thanks for the info n/t

[veganwitch]

7. All animal products

Thats the only thing I actively boycott.

All other places like Wal-mart, Target (except when I went there with my roommates for house crap because i had a gift card) etc. arent within city limits of dc where i can get there because i am sans car.

I try to avoid all national chains and stick with local stores and companies which is very easy in the city.

I buy from my local retail bookstore and the many used bookstores in dc.

I go to my local, gay-owned pet store and get solid gold pet food (not tested on animals and i can pronounce everything in it) rather than purina or iams from petco.

And i'm way big on thrift shopping (got a great pair of jeans for 3 dollars that had a dollar in the pocket), freecycling, classifieds etc.

[Deja Q]

8. Pepsico (Pepsi + Frito Lay), Hewlett Packard, Wal-Mart, Nike, Microsoft*,

I use Windows XP and Office 2000, but I refuse to buy any of their new products. They seem to cost more, which coincides with MS taking US jobs and moving them offshore...

I'm about to fully boycott the TV/DVD industry as well. I'll have to by 2006 (HDTV), but an early start won't be bad.

[lovedems]

9. Oops! I forgot my biggest and proudest boycott...Cable TV

we only get 4-5 stations and with 4 kids it is hard. We are all better off in the long run.

[philosophie_en_rose]

12. CBS

[elfin]

13. Wal Mart

until they allow unions.

[F-5]

14. I'm boycott Hollywood...

and that's about it.

Even though a lot of places are evil, I still shop there. I'm a poor person. I need low prices. And the places I do shop at have low prices. I don't shop at Wal-Mart, though. I find their clothes to be too "rednecky" and they'e pretty shitty to their employees.

I like Coke products and Kraft Mac & Cheese. They're a major part of my diet. No need for me to boycott them.

I do boycott Hollywood. I don't go to movie theaters. I don't buy DVDs. I don't buy CDs. I don't waste my money on any of that crap. All movie stars do is whine and complain that they need more money. That turns me off completely from watching any movie or show a star does.

[Odessey]

34. I have to agree

I'm sick of the hollywood types. Whine, whine, whine. WAAAAhh! WAAAAHH!! WAHHHH!! They are full of political opinions, then they retreat to their fancy homes in Malibu (or wherever) where they can be nice and comfortable. Worst bunch of hypocrites I ever saw! My boycott list of hollywood elites is too long to name. I went to the Hollywood Christmas parade with my son's marching band several years ago. I couldn't believe how these weirdos on the 'red carpet' sucked up all the adulation. And, believe me, they were nothing special! If people stop adoring them, they need counseling! They live in a world of pretend. I don't listen to any of their ilk! (Sorry for the rant!)

[pscot]

15. Stuff made in China

Have been for years. That just about precludes shopping at Walmart. I understan 10% of total Chinese export goods are sold through Walmart.

[WWW]

29. I don''t understand not buying from the chinese

They have to make a living too...

[blondeatlast]

16. Wal-Mart; I 've boycotted them for years. Why Lowe's? I'm curious

because I'm in the market for some serious remodeling.

Is Home Depot preferable?

[GOPisEvil]

21. Lowe's is trying to build over our aquifer here in Austin.

So they, along with Wal-Mart, who is trying to do the same thing, are on most Austin-ite's shit list. Home Depot shills for Shrub, so they aren't much better. You might be without an option if there isn't a good local, independent lumber yard/hardware store in your area.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

31. Yes, but have you seen the prices at those independent lumber yards?

Yowsa. From what my BF's parents have told me, Lowe's is pretty charitable. I don't know though. His parents are odd sort of democrats. They take up for congress and while they hate Bush, they kinda take up for some of the things he's done. I don't know. People are weird.
Duckie

[elfwitch]

67. The Edwards Aquifer

When I lived in San Antonio people were always trying to build shit over the recharge zone. They never seemed to understand that you can't out stuff over the places where you ONLY source of drinking water comes from.

[populistmom]

17. Nestle

and all their subsidiaries.
They market formula in countries to those in poverty without adequate clean water to mix it with or finances to make it properly. Mothers often start to be "more like western women" (that's how it's marketed) with good intentions, but it affects their milk supply and gradually have to add more formula to make up for it. Formula is often over-diluted with water that may or may not be sanitary. It's a viscous cycle and ultimately a public health nightmare. The greatest killer world wide of infants is dehydration related to diarrhea. This is a common cause. Breastmilk is always best unless the mother is HIV+ or has Hepatitis. It is sanitary and contains natural disease fighting elements. Nestle profits fromt he deaths of babies.

[Pithlet]

19. On a related note

Have you noticed that commercials have stopped saying "breast milk is best"?

We boycott The Gap/Baby Gap because of child labor. Nike for the same reason. Wal-Mart, unless it's something we really need late at night (usually kid related) and they're the only ones open nearby that carry it. Now that we have a new Kroger nearby, that happens less often.

[Whitacre D_WI]

18. TYSON FOODS!

http://www.tysonfamiliesstandup.org

[HuckleB]

22. Yup, Tyson, Kraft, Pizza Hut, Dominoes, Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, McDonald's...

Pay TV (Cable and satellite), Anheuser-Busch, Shilo Inns, automobiles that get less than 25 mpg, dairy products from companies using GBH...

I suppose the list could get quite long if I don't stop.

[LincolnMcGrath]

38. Kraft Foods?

Anheuser-Busch? Dominoes? Haven`t heard much neg info about these companies.

Fill a brother in, are these all labor issues? :dem:

[LynneSin]

39. Dominos??? Big Time Anti-Choice contributers

Dominos does not contribute to Pro-Life causes. But the money that Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino's Pizza, has made off of pizza have gone big time to anti-choice groups including Operation Rescue.

http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/domino.asp

This is a great summary from Snopes - the Urban Legend folks.

And they basically say that Domino's the company does not give money to anti-choice causes. But the folks who have profitted off of Dominos, including Tom Monaghan do - and lots of money goes there.

I will not buy anything that will ultimately profit an anti-choice group.

So say "No" to Dominos

[LincolnMcGrath]

40. Angelo's: Perna's: Al + Leda's:

We are blessed with GREAT local pizza. When I moved to Florida, the pizza from back home was missed terribly. Thanks for the info, never heard it before.

[LynneSin]

41. I still won't eat Pizza Hut because of having OxyRush as a spokesperson...

...and that was from 10 years ago. I haven't touched the pizza since then.

Then again, I try not to eat Pizza - not good for my waistline.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

74. I've never eaten Pizza Hut

because like Lincoln, we have great local pizza.

And I can't eat in anymore anyway! Too many carbs! :cry:

[HuckleB]

43. Kraft uses Tyson pepperoni on a number of products and is owned

by Philip Morris, the tobacco giant. Dominoes also uses Tyson pepperoni, though it has lied about it repeatedly. A-B is a massive contributor to the GOP, and it donated the maximum money to Bush's inaugural proceedings. Further, A-B refused to allow the original Budweiser from Czechoslavakia to use the name Budweiser in the states. Sure, A-B went to the copyright office first, but everyone knows that the Czech beer came first, and tastes a whole lot better. And, of course, those who love real beer, including the Real Beer Movement, would never purchase an A-B product.

[LincolnMcGrath]

50. Budweiser from Czechoslovakia?

Tyson foods blows goats. They reach out allot further than Kraft. Would the Czechs have given us this?

[HuckleB]

56. You can get that anywhere.

Good beer is far more difficult. The Czechs are number one in beer consumption for a reason.

[kodi]

23. foreign produced drugs, no coke or foreign weed, only crank & hydro

do your part as a patriot, keep the $ in the states. it employs americans

[LincolnMcGrath]

37. BUY AMERICAN DAMMIT!

:smoke: :toast: :smoke:

[Beaker]

55. where can I get a good american-made Glass bong?

now that Chong Glass has been Ashcrofted.

[LincolnMcGrath]

59. Ever see a glass blower at the Mall

or Fair grounds/Expo?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

24. Big Beer, Marriott Corp,

WalMart, silk, Chinese stuff where possible...

Generally, the bigger the conglomerate/business, the more I try to avoid it. I also try to avoid giving money to heavy republican supporters. Here's an interesting site: http://www.opensecrets.org/softmoney/softtop.asp?txtCycle=2002&txtSort=amnt

[Jack Rabbit]

25. Kill your television

Image from www.TurnOffYourTV.com

[HuckleB]

27. I boycott those "Kill Your Television" bumper stickers.

A local writer made up some stickers to go over the "ll" in the "Kill," the stickers turned these sanctimonious screams into "Kiss Your Television."

Beautiful.

[blondeatlast]

52. I hate them too--don't like it, don't watch it. That's how I deal with it.

[LWolf]

26. ok:

all grocery stores involved in the current strike
the mall--the whole thing
All tv news
All radio stations except npr (and TGS)
Most network tv series
costco
sams club
fitness centers
goosebumps, babysitter's club, and other trashy and/or shallow juvenile and adult fiction
all video games
all kids' television programming
movies for kids
music with lyrics that promote incivility, violence, racism, sexism, etc.;


Things not totally boycotted, but avoided most of the time:

GMO foods
nonorganic foods
Walmart
Homedepot/lowes
most movies produced every year
competition

What do I think you should boycott?

Educate yourself, and let your conscience be your guide.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

33. Children's programing? What's wrong with Sesame Street?

I grew up with it...and still occasionally turn it over because I love Big Bird and Snuffy(When there's nothing else on.)
Duckie

[LWolf]

54. I liked sesame street.

My boys grew up on it. It was what they watched while I fixed dinner. But that's all; we didn't watch any more. We read, played outside, played board games, built things with blocks, talked....sesame street was a small part of a day. Grover and Oscar were my favorites.

I don't have kids anymore. I have one grandson who lives with his mother; she's had 3 babies by 3 different men in the last 4 years. They live in front of the tv.

Therefore, when I'm able to see my grandson, we don't turn the tube on. We boycott it, and he learns that there is life out there beyond the screen.

That...and being an elementary school teacher who deals daily with the results of kids raised by screens instead of human interaction, leaves me boycotting the whole thing.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

58. People who use the tube as a babysitter hack me off.

I really wish people would interact with their kids. That's why the kids are raising themselves today. Someone has to. But if I get on that soap box, it'll take the Secret Service to tackle me off it.
Duckie

[LWolf]

60. Me, too.

To correct one statement I made...I don't have kids anymore. I have 2 grown men.

[Malikshah]

28. McDonalds

This "family corporation" who fired a worker of 10+ years who was HIV+ and was sued...they are keeping it in litigation after having stripped him of health benefits...just killing the clock.

Go to any of the sites i.e. Advocate, etc. to get the details.

It is Disgusting...

Cirque du Soleil as well for their same sort of assbackwards thinking.

[yellowdawgdem]

30. boycotts

I just use my own judgment, basically. I try to buy stuff from small companies if possible. I am avoiding beef now because of the mad cow contamination. but even for other meats, I am buying organicly grown ones, because I want to put money into companies that are more aware. Foster farms chicken has more than once caused me to be ill, so I avoid that brand. I often shop at trader joes, or a local organic community market that i trust, or a local fresh vegetable market. I sometimes go to small hispanic stores, or businesses that seem to have a good vibe. I have stayed with macintosh computers, mainly because I like them. I use working assets and am considering switching to them for local as well. Although I think att is alot worse than pac bell. It seems to me that these are all lesser of evil choices, and I would love to have some even better options. It's a little like the Kucinich possibility- I think he'd be a wonderful candidate. I wish our country was more receptive to him. It's like the California recall ballot where I voted for Cruz Bustamante but wanted to vote for Arianna Huffington- and then wished I'd gone on and done it.

I've had cable disconnected, but am not sure if that will be permanent. I just need a break from it, and am angry about paying for and having to watch right wing programs. Actually, the main reason I got rid of cable was that it distracted me from my writing. Now if I can limit my time online, I'll definitely get some work done.

in addition to all of the boycotts mentioned above, I would add aol, att, foster farms, mobile gasoline, bush baked beans (just in case), bank of amerika, and anyplace that gives you a funky nauseous feeling in the pit of your stomach.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

32. I hope I won't offend anyone

I avoid purchasing from giant conglomerates whenever I can. If I'm walking down the street and I'm hungry, I'll go into a local snack bar instead of any brand fastfood joint. Local supermarkets instead of big-chain supermarkets. If the only products available are from big brands, I set up priorities like this:

1) Brazilian & small
2) Brazilian & big
3) 3rd World
4) European Union
5) Other Non-USA
6) USA

Some exceptions apply here and there (I was boycotting everything French during the A-bomb thing in the 90s). It's my money, I'll spend it wherever the hell I please.

That said, last time I went to the USA (sent by job to attend a seminar), I decided I wanted to have a true American baseball. Yeah, right. Everything was made in China. Bugger. I bought one anyway, at a dollar store, I wanted to show people how damn HARD those things are.

[LynneSin]

35. Dominos and Pizza Hut

Dominos because they give to pro-life organizations

Pizza Hut because I still haven't forgiven them for using Rush Limbaugh as a spokesperson (and that was about 10 years ago that he did a commericial for Pizza Hut)

[elfwitch]

66. me too on Dominos

for the same reason

[LynneSin]

36. I also won't give another penny to Sierra Club

Sorry, they use MBNA for their credit card and MBNA's CEO has raised millions of dollars for that idiot in the White House. What little money the Sierra Club might make off of their credit card will be well overshadowed by the millions they give to repuke causes.

There are other credit card companies that are more balanced in their donations to republican & democratic causes. Sierra Club can do better.

[HuckleB]

44. Can we afford to be that "pure?"

It seems like it makes more sense to work within Sierra Club to change such a negative practice, which is quite minor compared to the positives the organization presents. We all have our warts. We can't just throw everyone and everything away when they break out.

[LynneSin]

46. There are other environmental groups that I can donate money

http://www.opensecrets.org/bush/100days/bankruptcy.asp

Back in June 1999, Charles Cawley, president of MBNA America Bank, a bank that is to credit cards what Coke is to soft drinks, hosted what he called an intimate dinner at his summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine. But it was no ordinary get-together. More than 200 guests gathered that evening on Cawley’s back porch, sipping cocktails and writing $1,000 checks to underwrite the presidential campaign of George W. Bush, the party’s guest of honor.

Over the next year, Cawley would personally raise at least $100,000 for the Bush campaign, qualifying him for admission into the Pioneers, the campaign’s roster of top supporters. Such fund-raising prowess no doubt helped secure MBNA’s slot as Bush’s single top contributor, with more than $240,000 in contributions from its employees during 1999-2000. And last January, Cawley broke out his checkbook again, writing a $100,000 check to the Bush-Cheney Inaugural Fund

---

Want more??

http://www.mbnasucks.org/ which includes their article: Learn how the Sierra Club helped elect Bush via its MBNA-Sierra Club affinity card.

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You're absolutely right, it's impossible to be pure when it comes to supporting products that are 100% progressive. But MBNA is such a violation to progressive cards that I find it an insult that any progressive company such as Sierra Club would get in bed with Crawley and his cohorts.

[HuckleB]

47. Again, as with everything in life, it's a benefit-risk matter.

Sierra Club pulls too much sway for the good to simply dismiss it. The benefits outweight the negative by a large amount. That's my opinion, and I'm sticking to it.

[ArkDem]

42. boycotts

.

[Atman]

45. Exxon/Mobile

I haven't so much as bought a cigarette lighter in their convenience stores since the Valdez. I'd push my empty car past an Exxon station to find the next non-Exxon/Mobile.

And Snapple. Best stuff on earth? My ass...they helped Vulgar Pig Boy get where he is.

[jimbo fett]

72. Exxon is the only company I've ever boycotted.

Like you, since the Valdez spill I haven't set foot (or tire) on their property.

Exxon never owned up to their responsibility. So, until they REALLY clean up their spill they can kiss my ass.

[Loonman]

48. Boycotting is a waste of time

You'll never put anyone out of business in today's world with boycotting.

[HuckleB]

49. Let's stop voting, too.

Sorry, boycotting and choosing to be a selective consumer is one of the most democratic impulses one can follow. To dismiss it is to give up.

[name not needed]

51. wal mart

and good morning america. ask me why.

[LincolnMcGrath]

63. Why GMA triple n?

[name not needed]

64. because

i play paintball. which is statistically one of the safest sports. they bullshitted a story saying how dangerous it is and how you should avoid it. in my opinion they used the story to scare people and that was it.

[Beaker]

53. I boycott boycotts...

I don't "boycott" Walmart- I've just NEVER even considered going to one, and likely NEVER will.
besides, I live in Chicago, where there are NO Walmarts.

[HuckleB]

57. Yet.

Wal-Mart is on its way, rest assured.

And, call it what you will, if you don't consider going, it's still a boycott.

[Beaker]

61. IMHO, a boycott means purposely avoiding something-

that you would normally utilize otherwise.

I can't "boycott" walmart, because I've never considered going to one in the first place.

[HuckleB]

62. If you say so.

[elfwitch]

65. Wal-fart, Dominoes, Chickfila

Walmart for MANY reasons.
Dominoes because their CEO is one of the largest contributors to Operation Rescue.
Chickfila because I don't got to places that close on Sunday "For worship and family". I generally avoid Hobby Lobby for the same reason.

[curse10]

70. Dominos and Chik-fil-a are good ones!

Have you seen the propaganda at the chick-fil-a places? crazy Christian propaganda.

[elfwitch]

76. I don't go there at all...

I wouldn't know if they did or not. But if I saw it I would be even more pissed. Another place I will not go is James Avery Jewelry. They are a Texas jewelry firm. They have pithy little Christian sayings on their front doors. I find those places an affront to my Jeweyness.

[curse10]

68. anything tested on animals, walmart, and procter & gamble

:-)

[annonymous]

69. I do not participate in boycotts.

However, I do avoid Wal-Mart whenever possible. I also do not watch any cable news channels.

[HuckleB]

71. Thus, you do participate.

If you are a discriminating consumer, you can't get around it.

[Lindacooks]

73. Ground beef

until the beef industry cleans up its act. Which probably won't happen until they are forced to.

USDA Oversight Recipe for Disaster
http://busycooks.about.com/b/a/057821.htm

Start With ... Ground Meatless Crumbles
http://busycooks.about.com/cs/easyentrees/a/startTVPcrumble.htm

[FDRrocks]

75. Wal Mart

Sam's Club
All Fast Food (McDonalds, Wendys, Subway, Tricon Restaurants etc...)
Nike
FYE
Soda
A myriad of different restaurant chains for different reasons
All animal products
etc...

[Kathy in Cambridge]

77. Any business where there are striking workers

I try to buy local when possible. I shop at small markets but sometimes it's hard to get around chain stores especially when you are watching your pennies.

Many of the companies that people boycott here on the thread I wouldn't have bought in the first place (Tyson, Coke, Coors etc) since I tend to shop in whole foods or local produce and butcher shops.

It is nearly impossible to find clothing that wasn't made by slave labor. I shop in second-hand and vintage stores where I tend to find a lot of American-made products.

[RebelOne]

78. Any company that sells products tested on animals.

[yellowdawgdem]

79. boycotts a step in the right direction

Any conscious effort toward peace, or against corporate greed is helpful. However, the bigger the group that is willing to boycott, the more powerful the effort is. Some of these corporations are so gigantic that they can stay in business with huge losses- so it's not my expectation that a boycott will take a giant down. But putting money into the smaller fish would have to help them, wouldn't it?

[bobthedrummer]

80. WalMart

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