Putting the corporate powers on notice: how will you let them know

[Lorien]

where you stand?


There are letter writing campaigns, and hard copy always works better than e-mail, but what other methods will you use to tell the corporate powers that you aren’t buying it anymore?

I’ve cancelled my cable service, telling them that I won’t watch their Right Wing propaganda anymore.

I’m putting “return to sender” stickers on the outsides of the catalogs I’m recieving, and stickers on the inside front page that say “No more purchases until the Neocons leave office. If you contribute to the GOP, please remove me from your mailing list.”


Your suggestions, ideas, experiences?

[K8-EEE]

1. Cancel Credit Cards To Repug Stores

I cancelled my Pier One credit card & told them it's because they gave 100% to GOP.

You can also request to be removed from mailing lists, flyers etc and tell them the reason.

[fudge stripe cookays]

2. NOT PIER ONE!!!!!!!! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!

Well now I'm fucking furious.

This place started out as a freaking HEAD SHOP that sold macrame, incense, and crap like that in the early 70s!!!!!!

I worked for them in the late 80s/early 90s and practically furnished my first apartment there. I LOVED working there.

I'm going to be sick....all my favorites are going down fast.
K8 you're a cruel cruel person. Although I'm sure not intentionally.

Please find me a source though. I don't know if I can believe it until I see it for my own eyes.

Wounded Fudge

[Lorien]

3. Maybe Pier One could be a target of an organized

letter writing campaign-ala the Sinclair group actions. Maybe we could select just a few businesses to "reform" every week; bombard them with letters and phone calls. Who knows, it could make a difference!

I heard that Target was a big GOP contributor; I'd love to reform their wicked ways!

[K8-EEE]

5. Target Bummed Me Out Huge...

But then I realized that most everything I get there I can get from other sources...I'm trying to cut back in general anyway, it's so easy to go overboard there.

[K8-EEE]

4. I Know I Was Bummed Too!

I printed out this and sent it to them with a letter, if it is wrong let somebody get back to me but the fact is that importers in general have turned into sort of a let's-support-the-Burma-slave-drivers thing, instead of what they used to be which I think was a help to undeveloped countries...

http://www.followyourmoney.com/cgi-bin/FYM.cgi?p=find_company&company_id=7151

[miss_kitty]

6. I have been out of the consumer loop for ages

I buy very little. I get hand me downs and throw-aways a lot. I receive very little junk mail.

One way to get off the lists, (beside writing to the address I don't know) is to pack their postage paid envelopes with a lot of crap. I put the application with lines drawn through it, and a polite request to remove my name from their list in the envelope. Then I fold up a bunch of stuff (to be separate from the 'acceptance' card-I want them to find that) to make that envelope weigh a lot. I've taped them shut. If there is an ID bar code on the outside of the envelope (on the non-address side) I completely cover it, so it can't be scanned and sorted mechically, it has to be handled by a human.

It's a great way of getting rid of junk mail. I stick alot of suff addressed to 'resident' in those credit card offers.

[Lorien]

7. That's a good strategy

Simply calling them and asking to be removed from a list often doesn't do a thing. I has to become inconvient and/ or costly for them.