"Buycott" App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers & Monsanto

[Katashi_itto]

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YOU CAN GET THE APP HERE: http://buycott.com/

[SmittynMo]

1. Awesome idea

I think I'll wait a week, let them get the bugs out, and use it daily.

[NYC_SKP]

15. It's been out for a while.

I think I downloaded it late last year.

[KurtNYC]

2. Technically, wouldn't a boycott ask for some action from the boycotted parties?

Eg. "we won't ride the buses until they are integrated" or "we won't buy lettuce until farm workers are paid a living wage"

How does the boycotted entity know they ARE boycotted and how do they know what you want them to do, or not do?

[Katashi_itto]

3. What this is is going after sales. Damage their sales, reduce their profits.

It's an Occupy-Style boycott. A grassroots effort.

[KurtNYC]

6. IMHO it would be more effective if it asked for changes like the successful boycotts did.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_boycotts

[Katashi_itto]

7. I think it allows people to align "their purchases with their principles"

Boycotts are organized, this swells from the base.

[proverbialwisdom]

19. According to Forbes, it does.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2013/05/14/new-app-lets-you-boycott-koch-brothers-monsanto-and-more-by-scanning-your-shopping-cart/

5/14/2013 @ 8:57AM 1,146,821 views
New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More By Scanning Your Shopping Cart
by Clare O'Connor

...“I don’t want to push any single point of view with the app,” said Pardo. “For me, it was critical to allow users to create campaigns because I don’t think it’s Buycott’s role to tell people what to buy. We simply want to provide a platform that empowers consumers to make well-informed purchasing decisions.”

[DeSwiss]

18. In these cases, corporate death is too good. n/t

[Duppers]

23. It'd be a forever "not buying Koch" products

and would deprive them of the very thing that gives them their power: $$$$$$$$$$ .

[ellenfl]

4. does the app have a name? i musta missed it in the video. eom

[Katashi_itto]

5. http://buycott.com/

[Omaha Steve]

8. Great idea

When I drove a gas/diesel delivery truck 20 years ago, Koch was 1 of our three main suppliers.

Just remember we hurt a large number of union jobs (families) in many of their different holdings.

OS

http://www.redstate.com/diary/laborunionreport/2011/03/31/support-for-the-koch-brothers-from-an-unlikely-source-the-united-steelworkers/

Support For The Koch Brothers From An Unlikely Source: The United Steelworkers

With 50,000 employees in the U.S., many of them unionized, the Koch brothers are hardly "anti-union."

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 31st, 2011 at 07:00 AM

If you’ve been following the Wisconsin fracas over these past few weeks, you’ve probably noticed that the Left’s enemy du jour has become the American businessmen Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries. As an American company, Koch Industries employs over 50,000 Americans. In total, the number of American jobs that indirectly supported Koch Industries is over 200,000. In Wisconsin, Koch Industries provides nearly 3,000 jobs directly and 11,000 jobs indirectly. More importantly, many of those jobs are good-paying union jobs. So, why all the hate?



The Koch brothers have recently come under fire from the institutional Left due, primarily, to a more than 40-year commitment to economic freedom. In part, the Koch brothers’ advocacy for freedom may stem from their father, Fred C. Koch, who developed a hatred of Communism when he saw the effects of it first-hand, working in Russia during the 1930s.

“Virtually every engineer he worked with [there] was purged,” Charles Koch once explained of his father.

FULL story at link.

[n2doc]

9. Fine. Great. Whatever.

Good to be able from sending any money their way. But they already have gotten things set up so they no longer have to rely on us. They can just pay their CONgress a few tens of millions and reap billions in subsidies, direct payments, reductions in regulations, and other taxpayer money. That's where the real money is for them.

[Katashi_itto]

10. Lol! Your right, why bother

[n2doc]

11. Well, as I said, the personal satisfaction of not sending your spending money to them

Just don't expect them to even notice.

[Katashi_itto]

12. Naw your right.

Like voting. Equally pointless.

[kmlisle]

13. Already using it - toured my kitchen labels - Amazing!

[Katashi_itto]

14. It does open your eyes to what products are their pocket

Imagine several million people using this....

[proverbialwisdom]

16. +1

[Iggo]

17. I'll try it.

Should be interesting.

[DeSwiss]

20. I hope the app, once it discovers a Koch Bros., or a Monsanto product......

...screams out in an extremely high volume:

[font size=5]PUT IT BACK!!! PUT IT BACK!!! PUT IT BACK!!![/font]

- I'd love to passed down the street in front of the grocery store and here nothing but that refrain.......

K&R

[jimlup]

21. Great idea... down loading it now /nt

[Delphinus]

22. So glad I saw this -

just downloaded.

[Katashi_itto]

24. :)