http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/

There is a few boycott links in the bottom left.

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Is this FOR REAL?!

Tesco Spying on its Customers
CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) has launched a worldwide boycott of Tesco in response to the retailer’s escalating use of RFID spychips on consumer products.
RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification, a controversial technology that permits companies to radio-track products right back to consumers' homes. Tiny computer chips embedded into products or packaging allow monitoring of items that consumers normally consider private, like clothing, purses, backpacks and wallets.
For the past year, Tesco has been running trials that violate an international call for a moratorium on item-level RFID tagging issued by privacy experts from around the world. Item-level tagging means placing RFID tags on products that consumers buy (as opposed to putting a tag on the outside of a crate or box of products in the warehouse).
Tesco’s experiments have already involved thousands of unwitting shoppers at its Sandhurst and Leicester stores. Now Tesco has announced plans to expand the trial from two to ten stores — a move that will involve tens of thousands of people across Great Britain and set a precedent for other retailers to follow.
The RFID industry is hoping to put customers at ease by placing these tags on the plastic wrapping of DVDs and other packaging material that will be thrown away. Ultimately, however, the industry plans to use RFID to replace the bar code, which means putting a spychip on everything.
CASPIAN founder and director Katherine Albrecht vows to maintain the boycott until Tesco complies with the moratorium on item-level RFID tagging of consumer goods, as outlined in a position statement endorsed by CASPIAN and over 40 of the world’s leading privacy and civil liberties organizations. “We believe Tesco’s decision to pursue item-level RFID tagging is irresponsible,” Albrecht says. “We’re calling on consumers to boycott the chain until the practice is stopped. If people must shop at Tesco, we are asking them to reduce their purchases. After all, as Tesco says, ‘every little helps’.”
CASPIAN is asking people to let their local Tesco store manager know that they will be voting against spychips by shopping elsewhere.
People are also asked to complain to Tesco’s Chairman, David Reid, via erica.barclay@uk.tesco.comor via fax: 01992 620 855
Tesco Customer Service: Customer.service@uk.tesco.com,
Switchboard: 01992 6322222 Customer Service: 0800 505555
For more information visit www.boycottTesco.com

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list of boycotts affecting UK consumers:

http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/boycotts/boycotts_list.htm

Europe's most popular boycotts:

http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/boycotts/popularboycotts.htm

1 Nestlé 78%2 McDonalds34%3 Shell26%4 Supermarkets9%5 Procter and Gamble9%6 Meat 9%7 Animal testing9%8 Boots9%9 BP7%10 Multinationals5%

I was surprised to see Shell so high up, as the boycott bush site (apparently owned by ethical consumer) says that ethical consumer recommends shell as an alternative to Exxon/Mobil/Esso.

success stories:

http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/boycotts/successfulboycotts.htm

Mitsubishi has agreed to change it's wood and paper purchasing policies, and backed out of an environmentally damaging salt plant in Mexico. Burger King has 'disenfranchised' a store on the west bank that violated the geneva convention.

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We don't get citgo in Australia, and they mustn't get it in the US either because they aren't on the magazine's comparison of various oil companies:

http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/magazine/buyers/petroldiesel/petrol-diesel.htm

I posted that somewhere else bu can't find where.

I'd be most concerned about whether they extract the oil carefully - without destroying the surrounding environment.

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