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Corporate Boycott News 6.2008


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Boycott


Fascism should properly be called corporatism because it is the marriage of corporation power with state power - Benito Mussolini.

This year a Harris poll found that 90 percent of people in the United States believe corporations have too much influence in Washington, D.C.

Currently the top 10 percent of income earners in the US own 70 percent of the wealth, and the wealthiest 5 percent own more than the bottom 95 percent, according to a Federal Reserve Study. The ratio of average CEO pay to worker pay in the US shot up from a mere 301-to-1 in 2003 to 431-to-1 in 2004. The average CEO now earns $11.8 million per year, versus $27,460 for the average worker.

Dollars are votes cast on a daily basis. As consumers, we possess the right to boycott those corporations and politicians that power and profit from the U.S. war machine.

We encourage a conscious economic embargo on the petrol-chemical, pharmaceutical, and banking industries as well as the media conglomerates and others that have a strangle hold on Washington by refusing to buy, sell, or trade with those profiting from the U.S. foreign or domestic policy.

Boycotts have been established as a fixture of progress in U.S. and global history. Roberta Wright wrote of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1956 that "It helped to launch a 10-year national struggle for freedom and justice, the Civil Rights Movement, that stimulated others to do the same at home and abroad."

 

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