When 99% of people agree to not buy any product or service from companies on some list ...

[Boojatta]

the 99% can be very effective, and only the targets of the boycott are inconvenienced.

[boston bean]

1. When 99% stop voting for the traitors in Washington who help the 1%

while screwing the 99%, the corps and corrupt politicians will be inconvenienced.

[StarsInHerHair]

3. BUT not voting them in requires that SOMEONE ELSE be voted in, & THERE

is 1 of our problems

[WhiteTara]

9. Dollars are votes. The SCOTUS says so.

edit to add:

So let's reverse engineer the problem and help take them down that way as well. Cesar Chavez gave farm workers a living wage because of the grape boycott.

[bainz]

2. Sounds good.

Do you have a list handy?

[malaise]

4. The longest journey begins with a single step

First they gather.

[Zen Democrat]

5. Top of my list are Georgia-Pacific products - owned by Koch Brothers.

These brands are:

Bathroom tissue:
Angel Soft
Quilted Northern
Soft n' Gentle

Dixie brand paper plates and cups

Napkins:
Vanity Fair
Mardi Gras
Dixie

Paper Towels:
Brawny
Mardi Gras
Sparkle

Home and Office Papers:
Advantage
Image Plus
Spectrum


I buy Viva paper towels and Charmin bathroom tissue, and don't buy paper plates. This is just one of the Koch's many divisions, but I boycott them where ever I find them.

I wouldn't wipe my ass on a piece of Koch Bros. toilet paper.

[Exilednight]

6. WTH? It looks like they cornered the market on toilet paper. At least I can

pretend that it's one of their faces when I wipe my ass.

[femrap]

8. There is Cottonelle

toilet paper as well....Kimberly Clark. Aldi's has good paper towels, too. Viva are great....good for cleaning.

I've been trying to use cloth napkins.

[louslobbs]

10. +1 n/t

Lou

[lbrtbell]

13. I've been boycotting them for a while

I accidentally bought a ream of printing paper which, I found out after opening the package, came from their evil corporation. Needless to say, the quality is shit. I have to hold down all but one sheet of paper, because it sticks to itself, and multiple pieces get dragged into the printer when I don't hold down the pile.

[EFerrari]

7. Boycotts work. I just bought my first jug of Gallo wine to cook with

since the boycott was called in 1975.

[jwirr]

11. LOL I still haven't bought one but then I am diabetic and cannot drink, nt

[EFerrari]

12. I don't think I've yet bought a grape.

lol

:hi:

[Mnemosyne]

14. The grape boycott is finally over?

:woohoo: I have missed grapes something fierce.

:hi:

[EFerrari]

15. What's a grape?

:rofl:

[Mnemosyne]

16. Still not over, huh? Damn.

:rofl:

Pisses me off to no end, poisoning workers all these years... :cry:

My Nana made an awesome Waldorf salad, I miss it and her so much. :cry:

[EFerrari]

22. I'm so sorry. Mine used to peel them for me.

They never lasted long enough to go into a salad.

You better go on ahead, I think it's too late for me!

lol

[Mnemosyne]

25. She peeled them? That is sweet.

We were forbidden to touch those grapes by Granddad, he loved his salad, but only on Thanksgiving! The rest of the year it was a grape eating free for all! :rofl: Glad I ate so many before I became socially conscious and understood the boycott. :)

I need to do some research and find out what is up with the grapes now. I know the UFW were marching recently. Sounds like even if the poisons are less, the conditions still are horrendous.

:hi:

[readmoreoften]

18. Targeted boycotts of particular items for particular struggles can be effective.

General boycotts on vague anti-corporate grounds don't work. When you get to "buy from Costco not Walmart" territory, by from Nabisco and not Johnson & Johnson, you're already on ridiculous ground.

We're workers who don't control the means of production. Of course the means of dissemination are also unjust.

[dana_b]

19. there was a boycott against them? was it the grape

boycott and farm workers' rights issues? Sorry - I don't know a lot about that one but I remember Danny Glover, of all people, talking to me about the grape boycott in the 80s.

I always look at the back of paper products now and if it says "Georgia Pacific", it goes back on the shelf.

[EFerrari]

23. Yes and I think it was re-upped in 2005 but I didn't pay attention

because I never stopped in the first place.

As for GP, I once camped out on the north coast of CA with my kids for a couple of weeks and everything was stamped "GP" everywhere. It was amazing.

[readmoreoften]

17. Yawn. Untargeted boycotts are lazy bullshit invented by upper middle class guilt-mongers

who can avoid certain products. Boycotting Sabra and Ahava in support of the Palestinian people is a doable act. Boycotting massive amounts of cheap products by a long list of corporations is an impossible drudge that only rich people who can shop at Whole Foods have the luxury of supporting.

UPRISINGS, STRIKES, AND REVOLUTIONS ARE INCONVENIENT. DEAL WITH IT.

[Boojatta]

20. Are Buddhist monks all a bunch of rich people who shop at Whole Foods?

[dana_b]

21. so which is it - lazy bullshit or an impossible drudge?

btw - we can buy store brands cheaper than products like those from Georgia Pacific and it doesn't take too much hard work or even thought to do. Oh - and we can also participate in uprisings, strikes, etc. at the same time. We're multi talented like that!!

[handmade34]

24. just as the suggestion goes

when in the process of losing extra weight... don't call it a diet, call it a lifestyle change

If we want to help the people... we don't boycott, we develop a lifestyle change... buy local, buy Union, buy organic, buy less processed, less packaged and support your neighbors and community...

as for TP, only buy recycled...

http://www.nrdc.org/land/forests/tissue.asp

or reusable....

[erinlough]

26. Or.....buy used

My husband and I have been buying used for a few years now. Furniture, clothes, appliances, people bought a lot of new shit before this crisis and it's all there at thrift shops, in your local paper. We found that on you tube there are hundreds of videos that show you step by step how to fix washers, dryers, and refrigerators. We took a front loading washing machine, followed the video and for the cost of a spring and a mount, around 12 bucks we have a great machine that keeps going! The lady who had it was just going to throw it away!

We have built a greenhouse out of some windows someone was throwing away, built a cabin from a barn someone wanted torn down, made shutters from pallet lumber. It isn't like we did these things before, we just followed instructions and used a few tools.

Why support this corrupt system anymore, Buy used!

Here is our cabin with reused doors, windows, flooring, siding, beams, ........