Ads
and other forms of brainwashing
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...
Corporate
Rule
How I realized who was really running shit...
Failing to Curb Global Poverty
''Millennium Development Goals'' is a
phrase coined by U.N. leaders, meant to
signify the commitment made by the
world's wealthy nations to cut in
half ''extreme poverty'' by 2015.
The Bush administration should be given
credit for having the compassion to
sign onto the U.N. Millennium Project.
But to paraphrase Jesus, President
Bush's favorite political philosopher,
talking the talk is not the same thing
as walking the walk. ''Ye shall know
them by their fruits'' (Matthew 7:16).
The truth is: we ain't walking the
walk.
Polls show that most Americans are
deluded about how giving we really are,
collectively. Consider the insights
offered by the world-renowned
economist, Dr. Jeffery Sachs, director
of the Earth Institute at Columbia
University and special advisor to U.N.
Secretary General Kofi Annan on the
Millennium Project...
Media
Monopoly
Why we all know the words to the songs we hate...
Miscovering Anti-War Protests (Again)
At the end of this week's edition of
ABC's This Week, in a discussion that
felt like the discussion the week
before and the week before that, it was
noted that the Hill seems strangely
silent in protesting the war.
In fact, as an Inter Press Service
report noted, "No leading politician
from the opposition Democratic Party
participated in the anti-war protests,
nor made any speeches at the rallies
The event was organized by a nationwide
coalition representing an array of
grassroots community peace and social
justice groups."
Not surprisingly, the absence of
members of the political elite in the
streets was mirrored by the paucity of
coverage in the elite press which is
not particularly partial to covering
grass roots activism. The NY Times
focused on one small civil disobedience
protest at military recruiting office
in Times Square, just down the street
from the Times office, A protest at the
Times itself may have made real news...
