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| How About A New Old Idea? "Dropping out," sixties style, may have been the answer we abandoned too soon. |
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| The United States today is a plutocracy, not a democracy. Billionaire businessmen underwrite the costs of the election campaigns of their faithful servants, the neocon/fascist wing of the Republican Party, who then repay the favor by reducing the taxes those billionaires and their corporations pay while simultaneously dismantling the social safety net. Because it's a fascist enterprise, intoxicated with the cult of militarism and the romance of combat, this fascist pseudo-government is committed to the exercise of perpetual warfare. They haven't quite figured out how they'll pay for that yet, but it will probably have to be through taxes on the working class. People of good conscience need to drop out of this political system and the society it has shaped. We need to boycott it. One successful American revolution -- the civil rights movement of the fifties and sixties -- began with a boycott. When Martin Luther King called for a boycott of the municipal bus system in Montgomery, Alabama in 1957, he was starting something bigger than even he realized. What I propose is a boycott of America's 100 larest corporations. They're the bankrollers of the political system we live under, and the authors of the current intolerable state of affairs. They provide us with about 70 percent of the goods and services we buy, and about 70 percent of the tv commercials we watch. This proposed boycott may never become a mass movement, but if it did it would cut the ground out from under both the plutocracy and the parliament of whores it has deputized to carry out its wishes. And if the proposed boycott never becomes a mass movement, which is probably the case, at least people participating in it will have the personal satisfaction of knowing they're part of the solution, not part of the problem. |
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| Boycotting the 100 biggest companies will not be as easy as it sounds, but I plan to spend the next 100 days learning what I need to know to accomplish it, to the extent that it's possible. | ||||||||||||
| The starting point is easy. Wal-Mart, the number one corporation on the Fortune 500 list is one of the most predatory, evil, aggressive, and destructive mega-organizations in the world. A supporter of foreign slave and child labor, Wal-Mart is driving Americans out of work, destroying American communities, and, by forcing its suppliers to produce their goods for ever-lower prices, causing American companies to outsource work overseas when it is not outright cannibalizing them To find out more about how Wal-Mart works, go here The solution: Don't ever buy anything at Wal-Mart Home Next Page |
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