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Not One Damn Dime Day - Jan 20, 2005
Since our religious leaders will not speak out against the war in Iraq, since our political leaders don't have the moral courage to oppose it, since Bush is wasting 40 MILLION dollars on his inauguration party...while the soldiers have inadequate armor and too few of them to create or maintain peace in Iraq... Inauguration Day, Thursday, January 20th, 2005 is "Not One Damn Dime Day" in America. On "Not One Damn Dime Day" those who oppose what is happening in our name in Iraq can speak up with a 24-hour national boycott of all forms of consumer spending. During "Not One! Damn Dime Day" please don't spend money. Not one damn dime for gasoline. Not one damn dime for necessities or for impulse purchases. Not one damn dime for nothing for 24 hours. On "Not One Damn Dime Day," please boycott Wal-Mart, Kmart, Target...
Please don't go to the mall or the local convenience store. Please don't buy any fast food (or any groceries at all for that matter). For 24 hours, please do what you can to shut the retail economy down.
The object is simple. Remind the people in power that the war in Iraq is immoral and illegal; that they are responsible for starting it and that it is their responsibility to stop it. "Not One Damn Dime Day" is to remind them, too, that they work for the people of the United States of America, not for the international corporations and K Street lobbyists who represent the corporations and funnel cash into American politics. "Not One Damn Dime Day" is about supporting the troops. The politicians put the troops in harm's way. Now 1,200 brave young Americans and (some estimate) 100,000 Iraqis have died. The politicians owe our troops a plan - a way to come home.
There's no rally to attend. No marching to do. No left or right wing agenda to rant about. On "Not One Damn Dime Day" you take action by doing nothing. You open your mouth by keeping your wallet closed. For 24 hours, nothing gets spent, not one damn dime, to remind our religious leaders and our politicians of their moral responsibility to end the war in Iraq and give America back to the people.
Please share this email with as many people as possible.
On a separate-but-related note, I recently saw a list of companies who had contributed to the Bush campaign, but I lost it. I was planning to boycott those companies this year. Can anyone direct me to it?
sabrinagb. Pass it on!Not One Damn Dime Day - Jan 20, 2005
Since our religious leaders will not speak out against the war in Iraq, since our political leaders don't have the moral courage to oppose it, since Bush is wasting 40 MILLION dollars on his inauguration party...while the soldiers have inadequate armor and too few of them to create or maintain peace in Iraq... Inauguration Day, Thursday, January 20th, 2005 is "Not One Damn Dime Day" in America. On "Not One Damn Dime Day" those who oppose what is happening in our name in Iraq can speak up with a 24-hour national boycott of all forms of consumer spending. During "Not One! Damn Dime Day" please don't spend money. Not one damn dime for gasoline. Not one damn dime for necessities or for impulse purchases. Not one damn dime for nothing for 24 hours. On "Not One Damn Dime Day," please boycott Wal-Mart, Kmart, Target...
Please don't go to the mall or the local convenience store. Please don't buy any fast food (or any groceries at all for that matter). For 24 hours, please do what you can to shut the retail economy down.
The object is simple. Remind the people in power that the war in Iraq is immoral and illegal; that they are responsible for starting it and that it is their responsibility to stop it. "Not One Damn Dime Day" is to remind them, too, that they work for the people of the United States of America, not for the international corporations and K Street lobbyists who represent the corporations and funnel cash into American politics. "Not One Damn Dime Day" is about supporting the troops. The politicians put the troops in harm's way. Now 1,200 brave young Americans and (some estimate) 100,000 Iraqis have died. The politicians owe our troops a plan - a way to come home.
There's no rally to attend. No marching to do. No left or right wing agenda to rant about. On "Not One Damn Dime Day" you take action by doing nothing. You open your mouth by keeping your wallet closed. For 24 hours, nothing gets spent, not one damn dime, to remind our religious leaders and our politicians of their moral responsibility to end the war in Iraq and give America back to the people.
Please share this email with as many people as possible.
On a separate-but-related note, I recently saw a list of companies who had contributed to the Bush campaign, but I lost it. I was planning to boycott those companies this year. Can anyone direct me to it?
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Date: 2005-01-10 07:56 pm (UTC)Then there's grocery stores -- if I were boycotting the grocery stores that donated more to Bush than to Kerry, I honestly don't know where I would buy food. Seriously, the only blue-or-black listings on the grocery stores page in my area is Costco, which is an hour's drive away from where I live... and I don't drive, so it's probably two hours away by bus. Four hours round trip to get groceries... at a place I have to buy in bulk... and need to pay yearly membership fees for... all by bus. By contrast, there is a grocery store literally 100 feet from my doorstep... but it went red.
What if the companies had gone red but you had no choice about using their products? If your office supplied only WinXP machines but MS had gone red, would you insist on a new OS for your computers?
What's the threshhold? Is 50/50 OK, but 51% Republican/49% Democrat not?
What if the company donated product to the Republican, but money to the Democrat? And therefore, the listed donation amount would be retail for the product (but maybe worth half that or less -- retail for Office is what, $400+, but "at cost" is $50), but they actually did donate more in cash to the other candidate?
Boycotting is just such a fascinating economic tactic that I'm curious where the mental lines are drawn, especially if it's really important to you. :)
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Date: 2005-01-10 10:16 pm (UTC)So no, I'm not going to be uber-picky about this. In most cases, it will be a matter of choosing one company over another when both are equally convenient and have similar products or services. I'll go to Lowes instead of Home Depot, and I'll stop eating at McDonalds (which I should do for health reasons anyway) and I'll avoid shopping at Target (*sniffs*) and K-Mart (won't be difficult). And so on.
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Date: 2005-01-10 10:22 pm (UTC)Big thumbs-up! :) Consumer choice does drive the marketplace, and a lot of times you really do find good substitutes even for the places you don't want to give up easily (I would so cling to Target...). I'm all for rewarding companies that make choices we agree with, whether those choices are the selection they carry, their prices, who they support politically, or any other number of things, like all the reasons you mentioned.
The thing that fascinated me was seeing all those restaurants in the red pile. Admittedly, it does seem sometimes like Democrats want to ban things that they consider unhealthy, so I can see why restaurants would consider Republicans the "safer" party... but wow! On the other hand, if you end up avoiding chain restaurants, you may find yourself at much, much better individual places... one of the best Italian restaurants out here is a little hole-in-the-wall place in a strip mall, go figure.