Support a Worldwide Boycott
WHO HAS THE POWER??
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Our dollars have power! Each time we
buy something we
are casting a vote.
Gandhi brought down
the British Empire
with strategic
boycotts and
although our
electoral system is
faltering we still
maintain power
through our pocket
books.
Let’s get together
to Not Buy, to Not
Support, to finally
stop acting like
victims and fight
back with the only
power we have –
MONEY! Out of a
vast array of
companies that are
guilty of the most
egregious abuses of
the environment, of
human rights and of
our democracy, plus
are major
contributors to
global poverty, we,
at I Want Change,
have narrowed our
field of companies
to boycott to only
four. ExxonMobil,
Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola
and McDonalds.
Why? Let’s look at
their sins:
ExxonMobile -
- According to
Corporate
Accountability
International, this
company “opposes
carbon emission
reductions called
for by the Kyoto
Protocol.
Supports “junk
science” of front
(research) groups
that deny global
climate change” and
despoils oceans
with massive oil
pollution.
Wal-Mart –
We have written
extensively about
Wal-Mart at
Iwantchange.org.
But, a brief
summary of its
sins: Wal-Mart
spends hundreds of
millions of dollars
to undermine and
destroy labor
unions in the
United States,
while working
actively to create
the most horrific
sweatshop
conditions in Third
World Nations (16-
hour days at $.20
cents an hour). It
forces its own
employees, already
at the bottom of
the pay scale, to
work overtime
without pay.
Predatory pricing
destroys other
business and
impoverishes
communities.
Coca-Cola --
Coca-Cola
is “buying up and
drying out sources
of fresh water all
over the world to
turn it into soda
or bottled water.”
In some communities
in India, villagers
must now walk miles
daily to find
water.
Consequently,
infant mortality
and disease have
greatly increased
in these
communities
where “coke” has
set up factories.
Despite short- term
employment
advantages to some
workers, when the
water dries
up, “coke” takes
off, leaving
already
impoverished people
even more
destitute.
McDonalds –
Compared to the
others, McDonalds
is small fry, kind
of like comparing
a gang-banger to a
mass murderer.
However, if you
look at the
epidemic of obesity
in this country,
which is now
rivaling tobacco
for causing
premature deaths,
then McDonalds is a
worthy company to
boycott. Besides,
who can stand
eating their food
anyway?
Send this out to
everyone! Print it
up and pass it out
at campus, work,
the club! The time
is now! Let’s flex
our muscles before
it’s too late.
