My Results In Boycotting GOP Businesses has been great...

[Erika]

I've done it quietly and with respect. I've just let them know if they are a contributor to the GOP that I am not interested in their services or products. I had an insurance agent tell me proudly that he voted for the W as if it was a selling point. When I told him we had no need to listen to his spiel any longer he looked shocked and outraged. This is heavy GOP land. I smiled to myself as he walked away. I encourage all to use our buying power as a campaign tool.

[fudge stripe cookays]

1. Erika

Please PM me with your experiences with various individuals/firms.

See this thread. We're trying to put a clearing house together for this.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2587076&mesg_id=2587076&page=

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[Nicholas_J]

3. Please let us know when this is done.

I would like to begin taking part of boycotts of Republican businesses and want to get the local democratic party to do this. I made many freinds with people on the executive comitte of the county party, and they would all be very willing to start a campaign to contact as many democratic voters here to begin lboycotting national companies and local companies at this level.

I will try to start figuring ways to create a "Liberal Yellow Pages" at this local level with the democratic party people I know. You know Christians do that in localities, and tere is no reason we could not create a yellow pages of businesses that backed Kerry and those that backed Bush so people know who to avoid, and how to contact them to tell them why.

[fudge stripe cookays]

7. Great Nicholas!

This is exactly what we had in mind. Local and national levels.

I'll try to come up with a form letter or something to send to Dem HQs all over the country to get them to brainstorm with their members on experiences that they've had with local businesses.

Sapphocrat is going to help as well, and has DB space and bandwidth for this. So if you get your local stuff compiled, let us know.

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[Nicholas_J]

10. I just emailed my friend from the Duval County DemocraticParty

Executive Comittee. He is an ex Marine, is well connected among Duval Democratic Lawyers and political figures. I floated the local yellow pages idea in my email.

This guy is rather down right now and I think he needs some fighting therapy as well. He was riding around all night, every night of the last months, replacing Kerry/Edwards signs all over the eastern districts of this countty, amoong other things.

We can try to get together a list of busineses, plus the ones ou guys will put togetther for national businesses, and create a Democrats Yellow pages like I suggested. This will include businesses to boycott, as well as alternative businesse to switch to or buy from that supported Kerry.

It is amazing how few people it takes to effect even a large business. Tebn thousand at the national level could be extremely detrimental. It took very little to effect Sinclairs decision. I was listening to some right wing radio creep referring to a bunch of radical democrats on an internet web site who pushed Sinclair into not doing its thing, and I beleive he was referring to DU. He was furious, representing us as trying to prevent free speech and all that conservative B.S. I treid calling his telephone as he is one of the few who will not screen calls form liberals, and one of the few who does not get abusive if you do not get abusive. I think the guy is named Mike Gallagher. I have heard some libeals make there point with him and he doent get nuts attacking them after you get on the line, But anytime a dem gets abusive he does use it to try to show how nuts demos are. I was laughing my ass off when I head him referring to what I really beleived was a reference to DU.

[fudge stripe cookays]

11. Cool.

with enough help from folks all over the country, we should e able to put together a nice comprehensive list.

And thank your buddy for his hard work. I figure...I've got 4 more years to sit and think of something to do . Might as well be this!

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[fudge stripe cookays]

12. Which Duval County, Nick?

What state are you in?

Because I'm thinking of mailing Dem heads in every county of every state for more info on what they've found. Don't want to duplicate the work if I don't have to! :-)

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[Nicholas_J]

13. Florida

During the campaign, about several months ago, when I was at the public library. saw a meeting letting out and A couple of people standing around putting Kerry signs in the back of a truck. I went up and introduced myself and it turned out that one of them was a member of the county's executive comittee,and they liked the fact that I was very up on every poll. I told them about DU and othe sites and they asked if I could do some help in phone banking, as well as emailing them any info that I thought was relevant to them getting out the vote. They have me their email and home phone and called my house to see what I thought after the results of virtually every poll. One of the ex-com members asked if I wanted to get togetther alfter the election to form a political consulting firm, and we are thinking about how to get together on that right now. I emailed them last night after I saw this post and asked about the idea of getting together on this boycott idea. All we have to do is get around ten percent of all people who did not want Bush elected to boycott these companies and we can have serious effects on the economy that will make it difficult for the president to cliam he is doing wonders form the economy.

[fudge stripe cookays]

14. Great.

Let's keep in touch on this. You guys can be very valuable in the effort. Have everyone you know brainstorm.

Cheers!
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[Nicholas_J]

15. Yes

Out of all of the people who were on the comittee, the one I am incontact with most often has taken the election loss vert hard. This guy is an ex marine, and has had considerable experience in local government here. He is rather down, but give him a means to fight and he will grasp it with both hands. I didnt see any democrat who so heaviily invested himself in this campaign. I will let you know. If you are here in Flororida as well \, maybe we can all put this together. It is going to be hard to find a lot of democratic businesses in the hell-hole of northern florida, but you dont know if you dont try. When I think of the effect that DU had on Sinclair, and even it's stock, I think we might be able to punch out the lights on Wall Street if we try a little harder.

[fudge stripe cookays]

16. I'm actually

in Texas, but e-mail works wonders nowadays.

There's also the matter of asking progressive businesses if they WANT to be included. Some people don't want to lose their anonymity and could get angry if we out them.

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[CAcyclist]

22. I want my business included

I 'll subscribe, even though my business is local client based.Please email me if you decide to create a national progressive yellow pages - my business is based in Ca. [e-mail]

[Sugarbleus]

19. Wow!! that idea is FANTASTIC...

I will try to hook up with local peace and freedom groups or Dem groups and see how they like this idea. This is nearly brilliant. :D

[Erika]

6. done

more will follow.

[Lefta Dissenter]

2. I'm moving

our investment accounts. They're tiny, but I don't want a republican asshole managing my kids' college money. I knew he was a republican, and we've even argued about politics... but he made a fatal mistake when he sent me a 'list of life's lessons' or some such bullshit, a few days before the election. One of the rules was something like, "You aren't entitled to anything, you have to make your own way." I'm going to send the thing back to him, with a note that he should send it to his president, who has had a sense of entitlement all of his life.

And the 6 accounts head out the door.

[jrthin]

4. Good for you.

I intend to starve as many of them as possible.

[fudge stripe cookays]

5. Vote Clark...

Check the magazine Utne Reader for some info on other funds (I found a copy at Whole Foods) if you can. I checked into 2. I know Domini is one, and the other is something like PaxWorld.

They try to invest in socially environmentally responsible companies to make us feel better about where our money is going.

And send me the asshole's name and company! ;-)
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[zeemike]

8. I would have paid

to see the look on his face when you told him that.

[Erika]

9. Refusing to Patronize GOP Businesses has been very therapeutic...

to me.It gives me a sense that Bush and his minions could not take away my power to govern my choices in political power. Let it shock who it may shock.

[mongo]

17. National Federation of Independent Businesses

NFIB is *supposed* to be a small business lobbying organization.

They sent out so much free campaign literature for Bush that we will never renew our membership with them.

They only stand for the biggest of "small" business.

[fudge stripe cookays]

18. Interesting, and worth

checking into membership.
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[Shallah Kali]

20. I would love to have a dem/progressive buying guide!

Animal rights orgs put out lists of companies that don't do animal testing so why not a listing of dem friendly companies? I know there are socially responsible investing funds but as I don't have the $ I can't help that way. I would like to do what I can with my little bit of buying power. If enough of us do it our collective tiny bites will make one big chunk!

[claude raines]

21. Information from opensecrets.org companies to consider boycotting

This is the tip of the iceberg. There are many more companies listed at opensecrets.org This might be the place to start compiling a list of companies to boycott..

THE CENTER FOR RESPONSIVE POLITICS

Retail Sales
PAC Contributions to Federal Candidates,
VIEW FULL SECTOR: Misc Business

Total Amount: $3,593,462
Total to Democrats: $766,390 -21%
Total to Republicans: $2,821,572 -79%
Number of PACs Making Contributions: 41

PAC Name Dems Repubs Total % to Rep % to Dem
7-Eleven $0 $750 $750 100% 0%
American Fur Merchants Assn $0 $1,000 $1,000 100% 0%
Amway/Alticor Inc $0 $9,500 $9,500 100% 0%
Federated Department Stores $0 $5,000 $5,000 100% 0%
Footwear Distribs & Retailers of America $0 $1,500 $1,500 100% 0%
Jewelers of America $0 $4,500 $4,500 100% 0%
Kerr Drug $0 ($2,250) ($2,250) 100% 0%
Lowe's Companies $0 $2,000 $2,000 100% 0%
National Automatic Merchandising Assn $0 $2,500 $2,500 100% 0%
National Pawnbrokers Assn $0 $8,000 $8,000 100% 0%
Payless Shoesource $0 $3,000 $3,000 100% 0%
Schottenstein Stores $0 $1,000 $1,000 100% 0%
Beall's Inc $500 $6,000 $6,500 92% 8%
Saks Inc $2,150 $23,100 $25,250 91% 9%
National Retail Federation $13,000 $126,500 $139,500 91% 9%
Circuit City Stores $2,500 $21,000 $23,500 89% 11%
Tom James Co $2,000 $14,500 $16,500 88% 12%
May Department Stores $10,000 $65,000 $75,000 87% 13%
JC Penney Co $11,000 $70,000 $81,000 86% 14%
National Assn of Convenience Stores $73,500 $409,472 $482,972 85% 15%
International Mass Retail Assn $4,250 $22,500 $26,750 84% 16%
Home Depot $52,000 $228,000 $280,000 81% 19%
National Assn of Chain Drug Stores $29,000 $110,100 $139,100 79% 21%
Wal-Mart Stores $350,000 $1,250,500 $1,606,000 78% 22%
Limited Brands $26,000 $85,500 $111,500 77% 23%
Target Corp $36,940 $121,300 $158,240 77% 23%
Radioshack $4,900 $15,100 $20,000 76% 25%
Office Furniture Dealers Alliance $4,000 $12,250 $16,250 75% 25%
Eckerd Corp $3,500 $10,500 $14,000 75% 25%
Staples Inc $3,000 $7,000 $10,000 70% 30%
Washington Independence Day Assn $1,750 $4,000 $5,750 70% 30%
Sears, Roebuck & Co $47,500 $93,500 $141,000 66% 34%
Walgreen Co $28,000 $47,500 $75,500 63% 37%
Rite Aid Corp $13,000 $13,500 $26,500 51% 49%
Electronic Retailing Assn $4,000 $4,000 $8,000 50% 50%
CVS Corp $13,550 $13,000 $26,550 49% 51%
Direct Selling Assn $6,850 $4,500 $11,350 40% 60%
Gap Inc $15,000 $6,000 $21,000 29% 71%
Bear Creek Corp $7,000 $750 $7,750 10% 90%
Family Express Corp $1,000 $0 $1,000 0% 100%
National Assn of Recording Merchandisers $500 $0 $500 0% 100%

[bettyellen]

23. some threads on this, lets get info out for xmas shopping season!

bettyellen (341 posts)
Sun Nov-07-04 06:16 PM
Response to Original message

4. here are three good threads, look in + kick 'em good!






Subject: threads on wher to shop/ not shop
Message:
starve the beast:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph ...

progressive pages, there's one in every state forum:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph ...

both dem and repug alternatives + resources.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph ...


pls vivit all and kick en up there, while you're at it.

pass around the list for xmas!!!

[Baja Margie]

24. kick