Lets drive just one corporate giant out of business; I suggest Exxon Oil

[In Truth We Trust]

for all the obvious reasons. This would come to represent a targeted peoples movement to reclaim our democracy.

[DaveinMD]

1. I would go after Walmart

I hate them with a passion.

[DanCa]

3. I agree with wal mart

As Barney Fife would say let's nip it in the bud.

[skids]

13. Best way to kill them is support costco. n/t

[cascadiance]

17. Yup, go after China-Mart. Here's some ammo for ya!

http://www.cafepress.com/chinamart

[Bill Bored]

2. Diebold? nt

[whistle]

4. I boycotted Exxon over twelve years ago....

....I'm strongly considering boycotting Wal-Mart as well. I rarely shop at Wal-Mart retail stores, but I do shop at Sam's for my bulk grocery shopping. That has been for convenience (closeness) but there is a CostCo that is only abot two miles further away.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. Why stop at one?

[markam]

6. lets see

exxon 107,000 employees

walmart 1.4 million employees

Do you really hate working people so much that you want to see them begging on the street?

Stupid comments like that make us look like total wackos.

[Alcibiades]

9. Um, that's assuming that any action we could possibly take

...could have any impact on Wal-Mart whatsoever. It would be a major victory to get them to, say, stop hiring illegal immigrants and hire Americans and pay them all the pay and benefits to which they are entitled.

Putting Wal-Mart out of business? Ha. Ha Ha. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.

But maybe, just maybe--it's so crazy, it just might work! We COULD put Wal-Mart out of business, but only if we had:

1. An army of indestructible giant robots
2. An army of indestructible tiny robots that was very large in number
3. The power of precognition
4. The help of mighty Cthulhu
5. Orbital mind control lasers

[loudsue]

10. Nice try.

Dems/progressives aren't the ones that "hate working people so much that <they> want to see them begging on the streets."

It's rich repukes that hate working people.

Progressives still try to hold corporations accountable; not give them a free pass to rape, pillage and plunder.

:kick::kick::kick:

[In Truth We Trust]

11. I propose this FOR working people and democracy. Fuck you asshole

for calling a boycott stupid. Was Martin Luther King Jr stupid? Oh, welcome to du enjoy your stay.

[markam]

15. Grow Up

[Alcibiades]

7. Exxon laughs at our puny boycott

Exxon has a power of about five or so, and we have a power of zero, maybe one. There's no way we can attack to destroy!

May I humbly suggest Outback Steakhouses? Big time Republican donors, much more vulnerable to a boycott than a major global multinational such as Exxon. The margin in the restaurant industry is notoriously thin (look at how many decent mom & pop places don't make it). Plus, they seem kinda foreign, un-American, somehow--shouldn't we, in this time of crisis, eat American Beef? Besides, given the number of Outback outlets versus Exxon outlets, it would be a lot more feasible to picket them all at once, all across the nation. Additionally, there are many non-Republican options for your steakhouse dollar.

[Pong]

8. It would be hard to do

considering Exxon or any other oil company for that matter practically makes no profit from selling gas at pump stations, which is pretty much the only thing for us to boycott. They make it by selling gas or oil or propane or what not to companies that use it to make plastics or special fuels etc. etc.

[Redstone]

12. Uh, I hate to burst your bubble, but

it ain't gonna happen. Not a hope in hell.

I'm old enough to remember the stillborn "to hell with Shell" capaign during the last "Energy Crisis."

It went nowhere, accomplished nothing.

I for one am not about to boycott Exxon; I buy my gasoline at the local Exxon station because it's close to the house, and I know the people who own the gas station. They're nice people, and they're not responsible for anything happening that we don't like. So why would I want to put them out of business?

And, most important, if people stop buying gasoline from Exxon, it's not like they won't buy it somewhere else!

Punish Exxon, and all you do is reward all the other oil companies!

Duh.

Regarding Wal-Mart: The people (such as my family) who don't like the place already don't shop there. The people who do like the place? No way in hell are you going to persuade them to not shop there.

I'd advise you to expend your energy and idealism on something that's actually possible, and that might actually make a difference.

Redstone

[phylny]

14. XOM is making their money in exploration and supply, not so much

at the pump. They'll sell crude and gasoline somewhere, whether it's in their Exxon or Mobil stations or to another outlet.

A boycott would hurt station owners, who run on a very slim margin as it is.

[prairierose]

16. I believe in boycotts.....

I grew up in the '60's and in a church that regularly boycotted various corporations for their evil ways. I have been boycotting exxon for many years & will continue to buy my gas either at citgo or the local little mom & pop that is not associated with ANY large oil company.

I have been actively boycotting malwart for some time now & will continue. I boycott most major corporations especially those that outsource jobs & believe in slave labor.

I don't understand people who send their money without thinking about what they are buying or who benefits. I don't understand those who are more concerned for their convenience than whether some poor young girl in the world is locked into a dormitory after her 15 hours of work or unconcerned for the American mother who lost her job because the corporation sent her union textile job to china.

It takes longer to make a decision to buy something when you have to think about who is benefiting from your purchase but after spending most of my life spending my money with a thought to the politics behind the product, it is now second nature to me and I will never live any other way.