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BOYCOTT WAR Of the 100 largest economies in the world 49 are countries and 51 are corporations. Countries are designed to be accountable to what people need. Corporations are designed to be accountable to what is profitable.
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America's top 100 CorporationsSource: Boycott America.org and THE 2002 FORTUNE 500 | |||
| Rank | Company (Link to Fortune 500 page) | Further information, campaigns | Revenues (US $ millions) |
| 1 | Wal-Mart Stores | Has been heavily criticised by workers rights groups for using 'Maquila' sweatshops to manufacture it's products. www.walmartwatch.com Major Bush-Republican financer. |
219,812.0 |
| 2 | Exxon Mobil | Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth & People & Planet launched a boycott of Exxon (Esso in the UK) in 2001 - despite legal threats from Exxon, the boycott is still going strong. www.stopesso.com Major Bush-Republican financer. Major US military contractor. |
191,581.0 |
| 3 | General Motors | Michael Moore's first feature film, 'Roger & Me' depicts the extreme poverty inflicted on his hometown: Flint, Michigan, when General Motors relocated their headquarters. www.michaelmoore.com Major Bush-Republican financer. Major US military contractor. |
177,260.0 |
| 4 | Ford Motor | The Ford 'Explorer', a gas-guzzling Sports-Utility Vehicle won Ford the Sierra Clubs 'Exxon-Valdez Award for the Environment'. They are pressuring Ford to produce a popular low-emissions car Major Bush-Republican financer. |
162,412.0 |
| 5 | Enron | There are very few politicians in Washington that hadn't been on the receiving end of campaign donations from Enron, before it's spectacular collapse last year. Open Secrets Enron Major Bush-Republican financer. |
138,718.0 |
| 6 | General Electric | General Electric is responsible for dumping highly toxic PCBs into the Hudson River and has resisted a long-running campaign to clean the river up. www.hudsonwatch.org Major Bush-Republican financer. Major US military contractor. |
125,913.0 |
| 7 | Citigroup | According to Rainforest Action Network: The number one funder of fossil-fuel destruction around the world, The top funder of logging projects in the world's endangered ecosystems, The top contributor to both political parties in the last US election www.thisiscitigroup.or Major Bush-Republican financer. |
112,022.0 |
| 8 | ChevronTexaco | The company is involved in a variety of environmental and human rights problems associated with the exploration for oil and natural gas in 23 countries. Major Bush-Republican financer. |
99,699.0 |
| 9 | Intl. Business Machines | Major US military contractor. | 85,866.0 |
| 10 | Philip Morris | Philip Morris are leading the tobacco industry's campaign against public health. That's why Infact are campaigning to give the Marlboro Man the boot.www.infact.org Major Bush-Republican financer (Second largest). |
72,944.0 |
| 11 | Verizon Communications | Do Verizon treat their workers fairly? Jobs with Justice don't think so! Major Bush-Republican financer. |
67,190.0 |
| 12 | American Intl. Group | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 62,402.0 |
| 13 | American Electric Power | The biggest polluters of Sulphur Dioxide emissions in the USA | 61,257.0 |
| 14 | Duke Energy | Currently under investigation for accounting irregularities | 59,503.0 |
| 15 | AT&T | Major Bush-Republican financer. Major US military contractor. |
59,142.0 |
| 16 | Boeing | Bush/Republican campaign financer. The second largest US weapons manufacturer. |
58,198.0 |
| 17 | El Paso | Major Bush-Republican financer. Currently under investigation for accounting irregularities |
57,475.0 |
| 18 | Home Depot | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 53,553.0 |
| 19 | Bank of America Corp. | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 52,641.0 |
| 20 | Fannie Mae | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 50,803.0 |
| 21 | J.P. Morgan Chase | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 50,429.0 |
| 22 | Kroger | 50,098.0 | |
| 23 | Cardinal Health | 47,947.6 | |
| 24 | Merck | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 47,715.7 |
| 25 | State Farm Insurance | 46,705.2 | |
| 26 | Reliant Energy | Major Bush-Republican financer. Currently under investigation for accounting irregularities |
46,225.8 |
| 27 | SBC Communications | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 45,908.0 |
| 28 | Hewlett-Packard | Major US military contractor. | 45,226.0 |
| 29 | Morgan Stanley | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 43,727.0 |
| 30 | Dynegy | Currently under investigation for accounting irregularities | 42,242.0 |
| 31 | McKesson | 42,010.0 | |
| 32 | Sears Roebuck | 41,078.0 | |
| 33 | Aquila | 40,376.8 | |
| 34 | Target | 39,888.0 | |
| 35 | Procter &Gamble | Refused to support the International Coffee Organisation's scheme to save the livelihoods of 25 million impoverished coffee farmers by boosting the price of coffee, which has fallen by 50% in the last 3 years to a 50-year low www.multinationalmonitor.org Major US military contractor. |
39,244.0 |
| 36 | Merrill Lynch | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 38,793.0 |
| 37 | AOL Time Warner | Currently under investigation for accounting irregularities. Major Bush-Republican financer. |
38,234.0 |
| 38 | Albertson's | 37,931.0 | |
| 39 | Berkshire Hathaway | 37,668.0 | |
| 40 | Kmart | Currently under investigation for accounting irregularities. Major Bush-Republican financer. |
36,910.0 |
| 41 | Freddie Mac | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 35,523.0 |
| 42 | WorldCom | Major Bush-Republican financer. Major US military contractor. |
35,179.0 |
| 43 | Marathon Oil | 35,041.0 | |
| 44 | Costco Wholesale | 34,797.0 | |
| 45 | Safeway | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 34,301.0 |
| 46 | Compaq Computer | 33,554.0 | |
| 47 | Johnson &Johnson | 33,004.0 | |
| 48 | Conoco | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 32,795.0 |
| 49 | Pfizer | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 32,259.0 |
| 50 | J.C. Penney | 32,004.0 | |
| 51 | MetLife | 31,928.0 | |
| 52 | Mirant | Currently under investigation for accounting irregularities | 31,502.0 |
| 53 | Dell Computer | Grass Roots Recycling Network and the Computer TakeBack Campaign are targeting Dell Computer Corporation to lead its industry to a sustainable solution for e-waste. Dell is the leading seller of personal computers, with dominant market shares in important sectors like public agencies and educational institutions. Dell's unique phone and internet sales model means the company knows every one of its customers by name, e-mail and mailing address, what equipment they own, and when they bought it - putting the company is a unique position to develop an effective national producer take back system. Major US military contractor. |
31,168.0 |
| 54 | Goldman Sachs Group | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 31,138.0 |
| 55 | United Parcel Service | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 30,646.0 |
| 56 | Motorola | Major US military contractor. | 30,004.0 |
| 57 | Allstate | 28,865.0 | |
| 58 | TXU | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 27,927.0 |
| 59 | United Technologies | Major US military contractor. | 27,897.0 |
| 60 | Dow Chemical | Dow manufactures and distributes chemicals - DTT, Agent Orange, Dursban (pesticide) and asbestos - which are highly restricted or banned in the USA. It is the world's largest producer of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), the worst of toxic chemicals and their main by-product Dioxin, one of the most poisonous. Dow now owns Union-Carbide, responsible for the worst chemical disaster in history, killing 8,000 people in Bhopal, India. | 27,805.0 |
| 61 | ConAgra | 27,194.2 | |
| 62 | Prudential Financial | 27,177.0 | |
| 63 | PepsiCo | $749,494 , 84% of their total contributions went to fund Bush's 99-00 election campaign. | 26,935.0 |
| 64 | Wells Fargo | 26,891.0 | |
| 65 | Intel | 26,539.0 | |
| 66 | International Paper | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 26,363.0 |
| 67 | Delphi | 26,088.0 | |
| 68 | Sprint | 26,071.0 | |
| 69 | New York Life Insurance | 25,678.2 | |
| 70 | DuPont de Nemours (E.I.) | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 25,370.0 |
| 71 | Georgia-Pacific | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 25,309.0 |
| 72 | Microsoft | Major Bush/Republican campaign financer. | 25,296.0 |
| 73 | Walt Disney | Major Bush/Republican campaign financer. | 25,269.0 |
| 74 | Aetna | 25,190.8 | |
| 75 | Ingram Micro | 25,186.9 | |
| 76 | Lucent Technologies | Currently under investigation for accounting irregularities | 25,132.0 |
| 77 | Lockheed Martin | Major Bush/Republican campaign financer. The #1 US weapons manufacturer. |
24,793.0 |
| 78 | Walgreen | 24,623.0 | |
| 79 | Bank One Corp. | 24,527.0 | |
| 80 | TIAA-CREF | 24,230.6 | |
| 81 | Phillips Petroleum | 24,189.0 | |
| 82 | BellSouth | 24,130.0 | |
| 83 | Honeywell Intl. | Major Bush/Republican campaign financer. Major US military contractor. |
23,652.0 |
| 84 | UnitedHealth Group | 23,454.0 | |
| 85 | Viacom | 23,222.8 | |
| 86 | Supervalu | 23,194.3 | |
| 87 | PG&E Corp. | 22,959.0 | |
| 88 | Alcoa | Major Bush/Republican campaign financer. | 22,859.0 |
| 89 | American Express | 22,582.0 | |
| 90 | Wachovia Corp. | 22,396.0 | |
| 91 | Lehman Brothers Hldgs. | 22,392.0 | |
| 92 | Cisco Systems | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 22,293.0 |
| 93 | CVS | 22,241.4 | |
| 94 | Lowe's | 22,111.1 | |
| 95 | Sysco | 21,784.5 | |
| 96 | Bristol-Myers Squibb | Currently under investigation for accounting irregularities. Major Bush-Republican financer. |
21,717.0 |
| 97 | Electronic Data Systems | Major US military contractor. | 21,543.0 |
| 98 | Caterpillar | Sells equipment to Israel which is used to destroy Palestinian homes. | 20,450.0 |
| 99 | Coca-Cola | Major Bush-Republican financer. | 20,092.0 |
| 100 | Archer Daniels Midland | Purveyors of genetically-modified grain Major Bush-Republican financer. |
20,051.4 |