Mon Nov 12, 2012, 02:17 AM
Ichingcarpenter (36,988 posts)
Boycotts work.... They helped to end slavery in Britian..
I'm tired of these half ass attempts to apologize for them.
Oh, lets not boycott Rush's sponsors it will only hurt the working man.... Lets give Papa John 14 cents with a note . Applebeas is a franchise that sends money to their corporate headquarters so just don't order appetizers or drinks.. What a bunch of crap. WTF is wrong with you people? One of the earliest examples was the boycott in England of sugar produced by slaves. In 1791, after Parliament refused to abolish slavery, thousands of pamphlets were printed encouraging the boycott. Sales of sugar dropped by between a third and a half. By contrast sales of Indian sugar, untainted by slavery, rose tenfold in two years. In an early example of fair trade, shops began selling sugar guaranteed to be have been produced by 'free men'. Successful boycotts of the last 20 years http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/linkclick.aspx?fileticket=cOrT55txMvI%3d&tabid=123
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sibelian | Nov 2012 | #5 |
Response to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 02:30 AM
Ichingcarpenter (36,988 posts)
1. Here's a partial list.
1986 Eight leading sports shoe companies capitulated to threat of boycott if they used kangaroo skin – some later renege
1986 Barclays Bank pulls out of South Africa 1988 Ford signs McBride principles on employment in Northern Ireland 1988 Benetton stops animal testing 1988 Leading UK retailers stop using CFCs in packaging, as well as eight leading aerosol companies 1989 Scott paper pulls out of Indonesian plantation over threat to tribal peoples 1989 Bird’s Eye and Tesco stop selling Icelandic fish due to whaling 1989 Avon stop animal testing 1990 Ratners divests from South Africa before boycott is officially launched 1991 Philip Morris diverts cash to redress balance of its financial support for homophobic senator 1993 South African apartheid regime ends and boycott of South African produce ceases 1993 British Midland ceases transporting live monkeys, some other airlines follow 1993 Jack Daniels and Grolsch-Ruddles amongst others stopped sponsoring angling competitions 1993 General Motors stops using animals for crash tests. 1994 Big Six DIY Sheds agree to stop selling mahogany 1994 Selfridges stops selling fur 1994 Some major supermarkets stopped selling Faroese fish due to whaling, other supermarkets agreed to label the produce 1994 Scott Paper cancelled clear-cutting at Clayoquot Sound 1995 Shell disposes of Brent Spar oil platform on land 1996 BHS leaves Burma 1996 French nuclear testing halted 1997 Holiday Inn leaves Tibet 1997 P&O stops live animal transport 1997 Pepsi and Apple leave Burma 1997 Gillette announces moratorium on animal testing 1998 Texaco leaves Burma 1999 Burger King closes West Bank outlet 2000 Mitsubishi makes concessions to rainforest campaigners 2000 Mitsubishi pulls out of industrial salt project in Mexico 2000 Five baby elephants released from South African zoo 2001 Body Shop joins Esso boycott 2001 John Lewis ends employees’ shooting trips 2002 Premier Oil pulls out of Burma 2002 Triumph pulls out of Burma 2003 John Hewitt Bar bans Coca-Cola 2003 Halfords ends use of chimpanzees 2003 Focus DIY ceases sale of all pets 2003 Kuoni stops selling tours to Burma 2003 Kookai Clothing pulls out of Burma 2003 Staples Office Supplies concedes to recycled paper campaign 2004 Royal Caribbean Cruises installs Advanced Waste water Purification technology on all its ships 2004 Harvey Nichols introduces no fur policy 2004 Office Depot concedes to recycled paper policy 2004 PricewaterhouseCoopers leaves Burma 2005 Inditex Group, which owned fashion chain Zara, withdraws fur from all the group’s 2,064 stores in 52 countries 2005 Aon Corporation intended to terminate all business in Burma 2005 Snow+Rock announce it would no longer be selling real fur garments 2005 Automobile Association (AA) ban captive animals from their adverts 2005 Abercrombie & Fitch join boycott of Australian wool 2006 Libby’s fruit juices end their involvement with Nestlé 2006 Austrian Airlines, Eastravel and FromersGuides withdraw from Burma 2007 Harvey Nichols withdraws from selling foie-gras 2007 Wyevale withdraws patio heaters from it’s sales 2008 Several airlines stop transporting primates for the research industry 2008 Cotton Traders withdraws from Burma 2008 Insurers XL and Chubb withdraw from Burma Donna Karan and DKNY come to an agreement over claims US workers were 2008 discriminated and under paid 2008 Auchan, Carrefour, Co-op & ICA supermarkets withdraw the sale of bluefin tuna 2008 Wildlife Photographer of the year award ends its sponsorship deal with Shell 2008 Book Trust ends sponsorship deal with Nestlé 2009 Kangaroo meat dropped from final major UK stockist |
Response to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 02:37 AM
rtassi (629 posts)
2. I agree completely ...
I suspect that whether organized or not though ... Papa Johns and Applebees, and whom ever else wants to threaten workers because they didn't get their way on election day, will feel the loss of an aware electorate ...
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Response to rtassi (Reply #2)
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 02:40 AM
Ichingcarpenter (36,988 posts)
3. Martin Luther King jr... had many successful boycotts
which changed civil rights forever.
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Response to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 03:06 AM
Notafraidtoo (402 posts)
4. I agree
Boycott papa johns they are a nasty company..
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Response to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 03:14 AM
sibelian (7,804 posts)
5. Good thread.
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