The idea and practice of boycotting RW companies is spreading!

[Zorra]

This op-ed posted below is very encouraging. Please email and talk to as many folks as you can about this movement. We can use our money to foster a saner nation and world instead of supporting the traitors that have compromised our economy and our democracy.

Help Stop Bush: Boycott GOP Companies
By Bob Schober and Jackson Thoreau

Since the 2004 election, many of us have been grasping for something to do. "What's next?" seems to be the question of the day for us liberals, now faced with a presumptive right-wing majority salivating to remake America.

So, while Bob was recently painting, Rosa Parks and the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott came to mind, and it all fell in place - we liberals CAN fight back in terms well understood by the right wing. We can boycott those companies that contributed heavily to the Republican cause. Their money helped the GOP to denigrate liberals; we can use our dollars to hit back where it really hurts - on the bottom line. The time has come to show them that their politics has an economic consequence.
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We're salivating over the prospect of millions of frustrated liberals, progressives and others who oppose the Bush administration, tired of being slimed by the right-wing media and politicians, individually sending letters to the corporate offices of companies who lend major support to those causes. Imagine the Republican CEOs getting thousands of letters saying, "You have lost me as a customer until you show a balanced contribution to all political parties."

The GOP message during the campaign was that liberals are unpatriotic and anti-American - well, we'll give these companies their wish and, Galt-style, check out. These companies won't have to suffer our tainted dollars anymore. You can get donor information on such Web sites as Center for Responsive Politics (http://www.opensecrets.org) and Political MoneyLine (http://www.fecinfo.com), which compile the information from Federal Election Commission databases.

http://www.opednews.com/thoreau_120704_boycott.htm
:-)

[K8-EEE]

1. Yeah!

Wonderful!! Although I don't expect the MSM to pick up on it, I think there is a reason besides $$ that WalMart didn't meet their post Thanksgiving target and Costco's went up. I know a LOT of people here in L.A. who are buying Blue for the holidays!

Spread the word everyone!

[JaneDoughnut]

2. I've run into two just today

I posted about almost getting run over on another forum. The guy that almost ran me over stopped to apologize and recognized me from a local Dem group. We got to talking about voting with dollars, and it seems to be a pretty agreeable idea to everyone. Even the guy at the tobacco shop knew where I was coming from and helped me choose a friendlier brand than my Philip Morris basics. It is a quiet but growing movement, and spreading one person at a time.

Perhaps most importantly, the RW boycott has helped me (and others) feel like I have some sort of political power again.

[NMDemDist2]

3. we need to get our boycott and buy blue lists on demopedia

since skinner was kind enough to set up a spot to do so :)

[Zorra]

4. Costco Profit Rises 21 Percent on Higher Sales, Fees

ISSAQUAH, Wash. (Dow Jones/AP) - Costco Wholesale Corp. said its fiscal first-quarter net income jumped 21 percent due to higher sales and membership fees at its warehouse clubs.

The Issaquah-based company Thursday reported net income of $193.2 million, or 40 cents a share, for the quarter ended Nov. 21, compared with $160.2 million, or 34 cents a share, in the same quarter a year earlier.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBXWJN3J2E.html

Good news for a blue company.