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panader0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-04-11 04:29 PM Original message |
Do boycotts really work? Who do they hurt the most? |
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SheilaT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-04-11 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
1. I don't know if they work, |
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TheCowsCameHome (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-04-11 04:52 PM Response to Original message |
2. I really don't know.... |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-04-11 04:56 PM Response to Original message |
3. When you boycott one company's products, another company has to take up the slack |
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elfin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-04-11 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
4. They work for me |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-04-11 05:28 PM Response to Original message |
5. I don't think the point is to hurt someone. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-04-11 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
6. Not really. I haven't seen any real effect. If there were |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-04-11 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
7. I don't believe they are. And I don't shop at walmart either but it's primarily because |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-04-11 05:40 PM Response to Original message |
8. Yes, they do. I participated in a boycott |
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iamtechus (868 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-04-11 06:13 PM Response to Original message |
9. A successful boycott: The Coors beer boycott started in the 60s |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-04-11 06:37 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. hubby stopped drinking in 90's cause of sexism. yea hubby. nt |
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Curmudgeoness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-04-11 06:15 PM Response to Original message |
10. Some do, and some don't, but that isn't the point. |
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Fire1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-04-11 06:20 PM Response to Original message |
11. Successful boycott: Montgomery bus boycott of 1955. |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-04-11 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
12. Mainly symbolic and a matter of conscience/choice for me. |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-04-11 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
13. no northern. repeat, NO northern, i tell hubby. cheapest damn toilet paper |
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otohara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-04-11 07:11 PM Response to Original message |
15. Arizona Has Suffered |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-04-11 07:22 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. son getting college recruitment from 3 universities in AZ. hubby says, nope, not going to school in |
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panader0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-04-11 07:38 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Very true |
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certainot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-04-11 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
18. IMO they can be big fighting RW radio, if done right |
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