Boycott Republicans

[Ramsey]

I would like to propose that we at DU develop a resource for people who want to boycott companies that support Bush and the Republicans and their agenda. I have found some helpful web resources. But I haven’t yet found a really good source listing US companies that support Bush. There are also lots of resources about socially responsible investing, a broader topic that overlaps the Boycott Republicans issue though.

Can anyone with additional ideas or information please post it here.

Boycott Republicans Resources:

http://www.boycott-republicans.com/
This is really a petition generating site, it does not seem to list companies to avoid

www.ethicalconsumer.org
http://www.boycottbush.net/

These are both UK sites. Boycott Bush lists the top 25 corporate donors to Bush and their UK products, many of which are sold in the US. Does anyone know of a comparable resource for US products and a more comprehensive list?


Socially Responsible Investing:
There are a lot of resources on this. I’ve listed a few that seem really good. It would be really helpful if any DUers with experience or professional knowledge in this area would post their ideas and advice.

http://www.goodmoney.com/
http://www.socialinvest.org/
http://www.socialinvest.org/
http://www.greenmoneyjournal.com/

[Cobalt Violet]

1. The repukes can keep their Tuck's!

They're the hemorrhoids!


Thanks for all the info.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. http://www.followyourmoney.com

[bettyellen]

3. trying to tie all these threads together. i need a list soon, somebody pls

help!!

starve the beast:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph ...

progressive pages, there's one in every state forum:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph ...

both dem and repug alternatives + resources.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph ...


pls vivit all and kick en up there, while you're at it.

pass around the list for xmas!!!

[bettyellen]

4. HERE'S A LIST I HAVE COPIED FROM FEOLLOW DUER JEN + OTHERS

 Check out fundrace.org, or tray.com. You can search by zip ...

WWW.VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLAR.COM

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2600099
GOOD

DISH NETWORK



BAD :
Paperless electronic voting machines, Wal-Mart, General Electric, Dell Computers, PepsiCo. , General Mills, Pfizer, ExxonMobile, Amway, Fox News,DIRECT TV (MURDOCH) , Circuit City, Pizza Hut, Coors Brewing, Safeway, Home Depot, Wendy’s restaurants, Valero Energy, mc donalds wendys ,HOME DEPOT ,Outback Steakhouse, Marathon Oil, Pilot Corporation, Diamond-Shamrock, NBC, ChevronTexaco, The Bush administration’s reasons for the war in Iraq, Sam’s Club, Phillip Morris, Sinclair Broadcasting Group, Shamrock Foods, R.J. Reynolds, Lorrilard, CNN, Charles Schwab, Merrill Lynch, PriceWatherhouseCoopers, Wachovia Corp., MBNA corp, AFLAC INC., Ernst & Young, American Bankers Association, Deloitte & Touche, KPMG LLP, UBS Americas, Credit Union National Assn, Clear Channel Communications, Salem Communications, Pappas Telecasting Companies, Cocola Broadcasting Companies, Maxwell House, Budweiser, Hotpoint, AOL Time Warner, Mircrosoft, UPS, Fed-Ex, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline, Citigroup, Anheuser Busch, Archer Daniel Midland, Schering Plough, American Airlines, Disney, Ford Motors, Alticor Inc., Wyeth, Amoco, Esso, Kraft Foods, GENERAL MILLS (+CASCADIAN FARM),Monsanto, IBM, Taco Bell, KFC, Cable television, DirectTV, Diebold, Sears, Roebuck and Co. JCPENNEY’S
Cracker Barrel restaurant chain (was this really a surprise?)
Bacardi USA
Westar Energy

GOOD: Voluntary Simplicty, Costco, Barnes & Noble, Hard Rock Cafe, Bashas, Hyatt Corporation, Brown and Cole food stores, Chronicle Books, E&J Gallo Winery, Bed, Bath and Beyond, working with Co-Ops, Random House, Citgo, Shell oil, Ligget Vector Group, Dreamworks SKG, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Holiday Shopping Boycotts, Apple Computers, Pixar, Working Assets, Toyota Prius, Honda Civic Hybrid, Farmer’s Markets, Used and Antiquarian books, Secondhand Shops, DishNetwork, Netflix, Verifiable Voting BURGER KING BEN + JERRY'S


SOMETHING NEW/ IN WORK: basic framework set up but it's a work in progress.

http://trueblue.hyperboards.com/index.cgi


 Here are 2 Eco Friendly Internet Service Providers (ISP's)

The first one also has DSL service and long distance service. They are:

http://www.redjellyfish.com /

http://www.ecoisp.com/


http://www.givesomethingback.com/office_supplies.html

[sherilocks]

18. We also need people who can effectively research

the information. I was surprised to see IBM on the bad list. Unless they've radically changed I would move them to not so bad. Here is a list of IBM employees who donated money, most to Dems.

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?txtName=&txtState=&txtZip=&txtEmploy=IBM&txtCand=&txt2004=Y&txt2002=&txt2000=&txt1998=&txt1996=&txt1994=&txt1992=&txt1990=&txtSoft=N&Order=N&Cycles=1&Cycle1=2004&Cycle2=&Cycle3=&Page=5

Also, the unions are boycotting Dish, so that should be noted when recommending them.

[claude raines]

5. http://www.opensecrets.org/

http://www.opensecrets.org/ is an excellent place to get info on how much companies contribute to political parties. Lots of other good info there too!

[yurbud]

6. professors can hurt right wing media with retirement fund retirement fund

I just sent this to my college instructor friends. Check who your retirement fund invests in too.

A surprising victory in the 2004 campaign came when Sinclair Broadcasting backed down from showing an anti-Kerry screed after people threatened to boycott their sponsors, and probably more importantly, institutional investors like the New York state retirement fund, questioned their actions. We need to do that on an even larger scale.

In addition to contacting our retirement fund, we need to find sponsors of Fox, Clear Channel, and Sinclair Broadcasting and let them know we intend to boycott their products (probably more potent than the boycott itself).


Contact our retirement fund, Calstrs at this link:

https://www.calstrs.com/contact/contactpso.aspx


I'm going to contact other unions and the state tomorrow.

Please forward this to any of your friends that might be interested.

See my note to them below.



I would like to know if our retirement is invested in any of the following corporations:

News corp (parent of Fox News)

Sinclair Broadcasting

Clear Channel

Time Warner (CNN)

GE (parent of NBC and MSNBC)

Disney (parent of ABC)

Viacom (parent of CBS)

These companies have actively worked against my personal economic interests by not seriously discussing President Bush's record, how his policies affect working people, and what serious scholars and experts think of his foreign and domestic policy.

I don't want my money supporting businesses that undermine democracy.

Some of these business even support partisan politics over profit as MSNBC did when it canceled Phil Donahue even though it was the highest rated show on their network.

Sinclair Broadcasting and Fox are the worst offenders, and if we have any money invested in them, I want it out NOW.

You will be hearing from other people on this, and I expect to see appropriate action.

[yurbud]

7. CONTACT ADVERTISERS ABOUT BOYCOTT

Let them know what you think will be at least as effective as actually not buying their products.

I don't buy enough Mercedes in one year to hurt them if I stop.

[sarahlee]

8. See also . . .

http://www.stopwelfare.com/

[StephanieMarie]

9. Financial Services Supporting Bush

This is from CBS Marketwatch website 9Nov04, in an article discussing what companies stand to benefit most from *'s second term (that is, unless we can make it Kerry's first term) :

Social Security would be the perfect swan song for Bush. It presents an opportunity to put into action his own particular brand of political philosophy and at the same time contribute to the coffers of his biggest supporters. (Morgan Stanley (MWD: news, chart, profile), Merrill Lynch (MER: news, chart, profile), PricewaterhouseCoopers, UBS, Goldman Sachs (GS: news, chart, profile), MBNA Corp, Credit Suisse First Boston, Lehman Brothers (LEH: news, chart, profile), Citigroup (C: news, chart, profile) and Bear Stearns, in descending order, were Bush's 10 biggest campaign contributors.)

[Erika]

10. Bush Loves Redistribution of Our

Money to Corporate coffers. It's enough for him to salivate. Taking money from the poor to the rich really does something for him.

[StephanieMarie]

11. Boycott Fox News Supporters

http://www.spendingliberally.org/index.cgi?companies=1

SpendingLiberally tells us every advertiser on Fox News by category. It will be easy to boycott them all!

[Erika]

14. Done!

It feels so good to stand up for ourselves and use our purchasing power.

[Ramsey]

12. Let's do this project

Anyone who wants to help put all this data together in a reference list, please DU mail me, or email me at [e-mail]

Skinner has agreed to make this available on the site once we have the work done.

Thanks!

[Erika]

13. I Shocked My Co-Worker with my boycott

I told her I would no longer shop at Bon/Macy's even when they ran their sales because of their heavy GOP donations. Just maybe we can wake people up that we are not going to be sheeple Bush followers.

I will not do business with heavy Republican donors.

[Baja Margie]

15. kick

[killbotfactory]

16. Here's a good resource

http://www.greenpages.org/coopamerica.cfm

just found it

[sherilocks]

17. This is a good topic for a separate group

"DU Groups -- These are special member-suggested forums. They are different from regular forums in many ways, but the most important difference is that they will have specific mission statements and off-topic postings will be considered disruptive. "

Instruction are here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=206x11

How to request a group is here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=206x11

A number have people have already suggested a special boycott group if you go through the threads listed above.

[Mike Niendorff]

19. this is an excellent idea for a forum

If anyone has a link to a formal proposal, I'd be very very interested.


MDN

[JudyM]

20. I'm on board, but both links are identical.

Do you know where the thread of DUers wanting to break this topic out is located?

[pnutchuck]

21. If you do that, you need to include companies that use oursourcing

check out http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/ and click on the list of companies currently getting tax breaks for outsourcing. It's overwhelming!!!

[Shallah Kali]

22. Progressive Pages and Responsible Shopper

The Progressive Pages
http://www.globalblogs.com/progressivepages/index.html

Responsible Shopper
http://www.responsibleshopper.org/

[buycottJoe]

23. Some businesses advertise if they are Democrat or Republican.

A few businesses in the Detroit area have a peace sign in their window. I try to patronize them when I can. Other businesses are obvious repug supporters with signs such as "LET'S ROLL", or "SUPPORT OUR TROOPS" as opposed to the more reasonable "SUPPORT OUR TROOPS BY BRINGING THEM HOME". Or the repug businesses may have a sign that says "UNITED WE STAND" as opposed to the more reasonable "UNITED WE STAND AGAINST THE WAR". There is no "united" when most of the world opposes the war and millions of people in the U.S. oppose the war.

A website specific to Ann Arbor, Michigan lists businesses that have a peace sign.

justpeaceinfo.org/stores-that-support-peace.html

If you live in a liberal community, look for signs in business windows or look for (or start up) a local website giving similar info for your community.

[kayell]

24. Kick and some links to make it happen

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=255

http://www.globalblogs.com/progressivepages/index.html
A database being built by DUers and other interested people

http://www.opensecrets.org to find how and to who companies donate.

http://www.boycottbush.net
More companies to target

[be inspired]

25. Don't buy from this list anymore

These companies gave 75% or more of their allowed campaign contributions to the Republicans:

http://www.left-turn.net/no-more.html

[yurbud]

26. Send OUTFOXED to Fox advertisers

That might make a deeper impression: "Do you want your commercial after THIS?"

[akwapez]

27. Help. Does anyone have a list of good companies....

These lists of evil-doers seem very daunting. It is a lot easier to boycott if we have a clear alternative. Any lists yet?