It will be great to share information. 

Spooky

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Boycotting is one of the best ways we can get businesses of all types to comply with the popular demands of the citizens!!!  YAAAAY!!!  Boycotting should be practiced on a regular basis, and effectively enough to get the businesses to notice it in their bank accounts.

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Hi Donna!!  Thans so much for the invite!

Peace,

Joey

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Great idea ya'll.  I lived in an intentional community that voted to officially boycott wal-mart, we issued a press release to the local paper and got a lot of positive feedback from folks in the area.  I won't even step into one anymore.  I think I'm pretty much boycotting everything these days.

I think a good boycott for a group of people to make some noise about would be GMO foods.  There's a new article about GMO crops contaminating non-gmo crops and organically grown crops.  You'd basically have to boycott ALL processed foods, but that would be healthier for you anyway.

thank you Donna for the invite

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Hi fellow boycotters!!

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Hi Donna

Thanks for the invite it is a great idea

Love and Light

Steph

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Hi Donna,

You've done it again! Great Group! 

BTW, I went through all the Threads and didn't see a Boycott for PETCO ( and/or any of the other Large Pet Store Chains that mistreat Animals or sell Exotic Pets, etc. ). . . .  Do we not have one yet?

Also, should we go ahead and start a Thread for the various big Department Stores that still insist on selling Fur:  Macy's, Sax, Bloomingdales, Sears, etc.?  ( Should they all go in the one, same Thread?  What do you guys think . . . any suggestions? )

Cosmic Rhino ] :< )

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Those sound like excellent Boycotts to me.

So far I only see a Boycott here against Hartz cuz their poisons are killing pets.

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The fur issue has been around for so long, I think it's developed a life of its own! If anything, I think this should be considered as one of the top causes/boycotts, simply because it HAS been around for so long.

On the other hand, I have to wonder: Why is it that protests of the past have not had the desired effect, which is to permanently stop the harvesting of animals for their pelts, and to prevent stores from carrying those types of garments?

for the invite and I agree with you about the GMO.  It is more crucial then most people realize.  I work for a company that won't even use plants that are grown in America and one of the reasons is GMO.  It spreads and soon it will be impossible to get any food that is pure. We have no idea what it is doing. 

Ok I will get off my food box, you can tell I am a Healthy Cooking Host.

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You may find this interesting.  (It's very short!!) 

Click on this link  http://www.krafty.org/flash/

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solrey, thank you for the invite. I believe that oycotting is the one strong enough weapon we have left in the so called civilized world.

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Good to hear that you have already taken some action on Kraft!

I don't know of any organized boycott on Kraft, does anyone else?

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I'm a FRIM believer in 'standing together'...after all ~ that's what brought this country together, 'eh???  Let's work to make it "FAIR" 

Note to Solrey ~ WalMarts fired my 22 year old daughter for filing a sexual harrassment case against a co-worker...I'm still FURIOUS at them...it took her forever to get the courage to file it (along with my threat that if she didn't I was going to take care of it)...they fired him and her too!  She said she would NEVER file another sexual abuse due to how WalMart treated her!  I wonder how many other females have been scared off from defending themselves?  (To beat it all ~ it was a FEMALE supervisor who fired her, the male supervisor encouraged her to speak to his female (head) supervisor, who in turn fired her and the sexual abuser ~ Go figure???).

My family/friends gave them tons of business over the years ~ but NO MORE!!!

Thanks so much for creating this board!

Smiles & Blessings!

Cindy 

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In the attempt to broaden my view......I'd like information on boycotts in the past, the issues that began the boycott in the beginning.....and the final resolve of that issue.  (the only thing that I can think of is the whole Boston Tea party incident!)

I want to make sure that boycotts produce effective results for the amount of energy one expends.

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My oldest daughter just started boycotting a couple of  bars  near by, through her college.  Seems that a few of her gay friends went out to go have fun dancing  with her,   and they refused to serve them, making up that they hit there limits... She said by the time she was done ranting  the waitress didn't have anything to clean at closing.  Now, she said that the group is growing by the numbers in school!!  I am so proud of her!  My first of three to stand up to this world and be heard. A joyous moment for a Mother.

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Thanks for the invite.I live in Alaska and honestly I don't know what you have to do to influence people not to buy fur,or care about "blood diamonds".

 I like that this site will help us keep each other informed.I am not an average consumer not a big shopper. And I should be more responsible!

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I had forgotten about blood diamonds- and I have been boycotting buying diamonds for a while now.

Mostly, because at the place I can afford to shop no one can tell me where the diamonds come from originally.

Another gemstone to boycott is Tanzanite. The same thing is happening in Tanzanite mines that is happening in diamond mines.

Of course, I read this in a magazine, or saw it on tv somewhere. I will have to go back and research it again, but am pretty sure it is safe to say that if it's expensive and comes from a third world country, chance are that a big corporation owns it and is cheating the poor out of what is rightfully theirs.

Seems like nowadays I am boycotting everything.....

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Yes Jenny you're so right.  I recall watching a documentary called "Eyes On The Prize" a few years ago. It was about the plights that the African Americans suffered throughout the years in which they were fighting for their independence, One tool they used quite a bit, and it DID work, was BOYCOTTING! 

There were several businesses that noticed that the black folks money was just as spendable as the white folks money. The white business owners wanted a piece of that pie, and slowly began to release their grip of bigotry, and in return, the black folks would become patrons of the business, spending quite a sum of money in the business, even as poor as they were. And vica-versa. They would withold patronizing the business who was outwardly predjudice and hateful. 

Boycotting does work! If it's done properly, as it was back in those days of black liberation.  Now, that's not to say that boycotting won civil rights for the African American people, but it WAS another tool that was used in their favor.

Money swings lots of pendulums. 

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Thanks also from me for the invitation Donna.  Please everyone boycott IAMS.  I read on the PETA website that they test on animals.  Of course I'm not talking about putting down bowls of food and letting the cats and dogs enjoy... you know what I mean! 

I sent them an e-mail and received a B.S. reply saying the NO, THEY don't test on animals.  Please send them an e-mail- you can find the info on the PETA website.  Thanks!

Colleen

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Hello   I think that having a group like this is a wonderful idea.  It's good to be able to share information and make a stand for our beliefs. 

Rosie

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Boycotts R Us - One of my favorite groups!

This is definitely the VERY BEST boycotting group on Care2!!!!! Most of the members here are very knowledgable about boycotting and the many facets of how it can work, as well as the various industries that boycotting would be most effective!

I LOVE THIS GROUP!!!!!!!

 Boycotts R Us

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About this group? Our hearts are pure. We all formed this group with nothing else on the agenda except bringing to the public eye various abuses by different companies in order to gain support and hopefully make the world a better place! 

Boycotts R Us Rocks...!

Go Boycotts R Us Go Boycotts R Us

Spookster

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Here I am...

just a click away from the keyboard....not too far away, even though I am up in the Northern part of North America...Canada!

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The rule of 500 relies on network communication. Basically, it it the law of multiplication that businesses rely on to promote more revenue. It is essentially free advertising and promotion of company products and services as well as the overall image of the business itself.

 It can make as well as break a company, irregardless of the size of that business. So with the combination of boycotting and spreading the word is enough to drive a corporate executive to plead for mercy.

Just the thought of how powerful the rule of 500 is could be enough to drive President Bush to resign from office.After all, it was basically a marketing tool that campaign managers used to get him in office and it is the same marketing tool that grass-root groups could use to get Bush out of office if he doesn't change his way of thinking. 

One does not need to be in an influential position and nor do they need to be expressive. But being truthful and creditable are assets that one relies on when spreading the word about a company that appears to be in good standing within the community, yet are secretly doing things that are damaging to our environment and/or humanity.

The rule of 500 should be used as leverage (kinda like twisting ones' arm until ultimate submission) on a company that stubbornly refuses to change their negative behavior. If ineffective, perhaps the final blow of driving a company out of business is the only ultimatum, unfortunate that it has to come to that.

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Thanks Benjo for challenging me on the definition of the rule of 500...i do believe you got me in check and possibly checkmate!!

That term was given to me by one of my marketing instructors back in the early 1980s long before the internet.  She either got it from the textbook (most likely outdated by now!) the class was using or who knows? Now the term is being used in over thousands of marketing and legal jargon that doesn't necessarily apply in the content that I was using it. I am sure it is out there buried amidst all those references on the world wide web, but that would be like looking for a gold ring in a salvage yard!

Should I retract just because my piece was not backed up by official references and case studies? Not necessarily so because what I wrote can be considered a blog rather than an essay. But I will give you a green star for challenging me!

As for the content that I was using it in would apply (hand and glove) to boycotting. Simply put, if you know at least 100 people that you tell them a certain company is polluting a nearby river, and those 100 people each tell a 100 people they know, you have reached 10,000 so it based on the law of multiplication. If you use 500, you would reach 250,000. The percentage of those reached who would be convinced enough whether they participate in a boycott is questionable.

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great site for all boycotts and I am happy that I fell into this group. Dreama Runyon here and hi to all of my familiar friends, Let's rock and roll!!!

Dreama R.