For Mother Earth's Boycott Campaign (International)
http://www.boycottbush.org/
"As consumers we do not want our money to be used to fuel wars,
environmental destruction and human-rights violations."
This is a strong international campaign which offers different boycott
alternatives from a boycott of the US dollar to a targeted boycott of six
US companies:
Altria Group (Philip Morris, Kraft Foods)
ExxonMobil (Esso)
ChevronTexaco
PepsiCo Inc
Coca-Cola Company
McDonalds
Be the Cause (U.S.)
www.bethecause.org
Be the Cause has an anti-war boycott focused upon five companies. This
is their statement:
"We are beginning a global boycott of companies that have made significant
financial contributions to get the current U.S. administration into power.
We will not purchase products or services from:
Exxon-Mobil-Esso - Contributed US$1,226,331 or 89% of their total
contributions.
Kraft (Subsidiary of Phillip Morris) - Phillip Morris (Altria)
contributed US$3,094,237 or 82% of their total contributions.
Pepsico Inc - Contributed US$749,494 or 84% of their total contributions.
United Parcel Service - Contributed US$2,072,468 or 71% of their
total contributions.
Wal-Mart Stores - Contributed US$610,748 or 88% of their total
contributions."
The International group for Direct Economic Action against
the war in Iraq -IDEA (Currently inactive website)
IDEA is a global network of boycott activists. They proposes that consumers
choose either between a total boycott of U.S. and British products or the
"pyramid list". The pyramid list looks like this:
For those who want to focus on one or two companies to boycott IDEA is
primarily targetting:
General Electric
Phillip Morris
For those people who have the energy and desire to boycott even more
there is a larger list of ten:
Dell Computer
Chevron-Texaco
Exxon-Esso-Mobil
Coca Cola
McDonald's
Limited Brands
Pfizer
General Motors
MBNA
UPS
Followed by an even larger list of twenty:
All other U.S. and U.K. tobacco companies
Bristol Myers Squibb
PepsiCo
Ford
Wal-Mart
Gap
Motorola
Time Warner/AOL
Disney
IBM
Shell
BP Amoco
Amway
FedEx
Anheuser Busch
Revlon
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Consumers Against War (Germany)
www.consumers-against-war.de
In Germany the targets are quite a few and they seem to have had a good
deal of success. Here is their entire boycott list as it appears on their
website:
Company Brands & Products
Coca Cola Coca Cola, Coca Cola Light, Fanta, Sprite Mezzo-Mix,
Lift,Bonaqua, Burn, Powerade, Cappy
Microsoft Windows, Office, X-Box, Computergames
General-Electrics GE
Intel Intel Pentium
Disney Films, Comics, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and others
McDonalds McDonalds
Phillip Morris Marlboro, Philip Morris, BASIC, L&M, Chesterfield,
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General Motors Chevrolet, Pontiac, Saab, Opel,
Ford Ford, Mazda, Volvo, Jaguar and others
Citibank CitiBest Girokonto and others
Hewlett-Packard Hewlett-Packard, Compaq
American Express Creditcards: Blue, Classic G
Gilette Gilette, Braun, Oral-B, Durazell (Batteries)
Budweiser Budweiser (the American Brand)
Pfizer Viagra
Kodak Kodak
Dell Dell
Nike Nike
Levi Levi´s, Jeans
Heinz Heinz-Ketchup, Blastin' Green Funky Purple, Orlando, Funky
Fries
Kelloggs Cornflakes, Crunchy-Nuts, Smacks, and others
Pepsi Pepsi, 7- Up, Lipton, Mirinda,KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell
amazon Amazon
Esso Esso
Texaco Texaco
Proctor & Gamble Pampers, Hugo-Boss, Pantene pro V, Oil of
Olaz, Ellen Betrix, Antikal, Dash, Fairy, Ariel, Febreze, Meister Proper,
Swiffer, Lenor, Eukanuba, Punica, Pringles, Actonel, Blend-a-med, Wick,
Bounty, Charmin, Tempo, Beinggirl, Always
Boycott Bush campaign (U.K.)
www.boycottbush.net
The Top 30 corporate contributors to the Republican Party
2000:
1 MBNA $3.0m
2 Philip Morris $2.9m
3 Microsoft Corp $2.4m
4 Bristol Myers Squibb $2.1m
5 Pfizer $1.9m
6 Enron $1.8m
7 Citigroup $1.8m
8 Time Warner/AOL $1.6m
9 Amway $1.3m
10 Glaxo SmithKline $1.3m
11 Exxon Mobil $1.2m
12 News Corp (Owns Fox TV) $1.2m
13 General Electric $1.1m
14 Limited Inc $950k
15 BP Amoco $950k
16 American Airlines $900k
17 Schering Plough $900k
18 Anheuser Busch $850k
19 Chevron Texaco $800k
20 Revlon Group $760k
21 American Home Products $740k
22 PepsiCo $720k
23 Walt Disney $640k
24 WalMart $630k
25 Texas Utilities $630k
26 Coca Cola $610k
27 United Airlines Corp $570k
28 Archer Daniels Midland $530k
29 Ford Motor Company $510k
30 General Motors $510k
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