WARNING to lurkers who work at Dell Computers, Walmart, Wendy's, Outback Steak House, Dominos, etc.

A WARNING to those lurkers without DU accounts who work at

Dell Computers, Walmart, Wendy's, Outback Steak House, Dominos
Pizza, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Eckerd, CVS and Walgreens, Rite Aid,
Curves for women health clubs, General Electric, Exxon/Mobil,
Aetna Insurance Co. and Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance Co.

Also if you work for AARP we will not join your organization nor
do business with your companies that partner with you.



I SUGGEST YOU PASS THIS MESSAGE UP YOUR COMPANY'S MANAGEMENT CHAIN.

A good many here at DU will not buy your products because
your company gives money to the Republican party.

We will not buy your products until your company stops giving
money to the Republican party and until the following agenda below gets
passed with the cooperation of your CEO and the Republican party
who your CEO supports.





Send this letter to the Republican Party today!

Copy and paste the letter below and email it directly to info@gop.com the Republican Party and get many others to send this letter. Thank you. Drop me a message to info@dmocrats.org with the subject Done after you have sent the email.


Hello

Get your Republican party to end the war in Iraq, with Bush and Cheney resigning, and until you do we stop buying televisions, refrigerators, stoves, ovens, dishwashers, dvd players, stereo equipment, light bulbs from one of your party's major contributors and War contractors General Electric Corporation ( 203 373 2211 ) who cannot afford to lose a large sector of the publics business and money.

Get your Republican party to remove the FICA taxable income limit for Social Security so that everyone pays FICA tax on all their income
for Social Security and enact HR 676 Single payer universal health care into law and repeal Medicare Part D and place the prescription
drug benefit in Medicare Part B covering 80 percent of all medication with no extra premiums, no extra deductibles,
no means tests, no coverage gaps, and remove the means test for Medicare Part B and until you do, we will not buy consumer products and
prescription drugs from the biggest pharmacy chains and GOP contributors in the country Eckerd, CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens and we
will not buy health insurance from Blue Cross Blue Shield and Aetna, the 2 biggest health insurance companies that give money to the GOP
as well, who cannot afford to lose a large sector of the publics business and money.


Get your Republican party to enact a $10 an hour minimum wage, and until you do, we will not go to the following restaurants and GOP contributors Wendy's, Outback Steakhouse, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and Dominos Pizza who cannot afford to lose a large sector of the publics business and money.

Get your Republican party to enact into law Universal vote by mail with paper ballots counted by civil servants with civil servants registering voters and keeping track of registrations, and until you do, we will not buy any GOP contributor Dell computers or monitors or go to the following restaurants and GOP contributors Wendy's, Outback Steakhouse, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and Dominos Pizza who cannot afford to lose a large sector of the publics business and money.

Get your Republican party to get congress to pass and enact a law legalizing abortions from conception to six months, and to nine months when the life of the mother appears threatened, and until you do we stop doing business with two of your biggest contributors Dominos Pizza and Curves for Women Health Clubs.



YOU NOW HAVE GOTTEN WARNED, LURKERS.

WE'RE MAD AS HELL AND WE WILL NOT TAKE IT ANY MORE.

WE WILL NO LONGER SUPPORT MEAN SPIRITED, DEATH BRINGING CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN ECONOMIC POLICIES WITH OUR DOLLARS.

...of its entire senior membership when it sold out to Bush's medicare changes and almost turned social security over the financial looters on Wall Street. AARP is still pushing for privatized Social Security. I had been a contributing member since I was 50 years old but when they did what they did on medicare I tore my AARP card and throw every piece of private insurance junk mail they send me. Americans need to be free in their senior years not beholden to Social Security robber barons.

What planet do YOU live on? Makes me question the other names on the list.

They endorsed the flawed Prescription drug plan which lets private insurance companies to sell policies for the new Part D of Medicare, a terrible precedent in my opinion. But we can't overlook the fact that the bill also provides 100% free prescription drugs to millions of people living at or below the poverty line and discounts for millions more. They are currently fighting to allow govt to negotiate the prices and amend other parts. Does that sound Rethuglican to you? Get your facts straight!

and in fact the Republicans gave them copays to pay, when in Medicaid they had full coverage. Typical Republican chicanery. Sell medicare part D as a benefit for low income people. Don't tell the public the low income people already had full coverage which would hide the fact that middle class people get a crummy benefit that does not help them.

AARP remains on my list of companies not to do business with. I don't care if they opposed privatization of SS. Millions of people opposed that and not just AARP. To me AARP and William Novelli, the CEO and conservative Republican does not exist when I do business.

The ARA does not appear much better. They also want to play nice with these Republicans. I won't join the ARA either for different reasons as they appear a paper tiger.

:eyes:

of Sicko, I take it.

And health insurance is NOT inherently evil. Some companies may, in practice, be scum of the earth, but that's their corporate culture.

Life insurance is a wonderful thing. Car insurance, homeowners insurance--they are great for peace of mind.

They don't seem like Republicans to me.

K & R!

a lurker?

Just because these companies suck, I'm sure many good people work for them. One's employment choices are limited in Bush America. And I would be surprised if there aren't quite a few DU members are among them.

I don't assume what you have said. I just want to address those people looking in but do not have an account here who work for those companies.

Forget about our business and pass the message up their company's management chain.

:evilgrin:

except Rite Aid. I'll change that one. I hope Longs is okay.

Well, I'm really boycotting the UK counterparts.

Who could have known that such horrid, greedy corporations would donate to the GOP?

edited for rather rude spelling mistake. :blush:

It also appears that many lurkers have read this message. Heed my warnings lurkers. Pass this message up the management chain to your CEO. Your company will lose money because we will not do business with you until we get what we demand.

store within 40 miles (and it's still 9 miles away). I can't justify an 80 mile round trip for regular groceries but now and then I will make the trip to stock up on canned or frozen items.

(and i haven't shopped there for years and i tend to give shit to people who do) but i certainly won't say anything to you about it--except this: wow! look at all the gas you must be saving by avoiding a horribly long round trip of 80 miles. you're helping the environment! (by shopping at walmart!) --never thought i'd be able to say that to anyone.
;-)

it must be beautiful where you live--lots of open space to breathe. (so, i'm just a little jealous...)

We've had our disagreements, but I certainly don't want you to starve! :hi:

:(

And I'm a college student without a car most of the year, so boycotting those is out of the question.

Wal-Mart... eh let's say that if everyone who shops at Wal-Mart spent as I do per year at Wal-Mart, they wouldn't exist.

but I mainly lurk because I don't have time to post much and it seems like people with low post counts are not always treated respectfully, but I find this post to be very offensive and mean-spirited. It's certainly your choice whether to spend money at these places, but there are probably a lot of good hard-working people that work for these companies and maybe they are like-minded, so they like to come and see what's going on every now and then. Maybe they want to check it out for a while before they open an account.

Maybe instead of "warning" people, you could express your sympathy for them that they're working for crappy republican companies and wish them luck in looking for a new job.

....is that certain folks have very little sympathy for other people's work circumstances when they themselves are set in theirs. I've seen folks on here berated for working at Wal-Mart, even when they explain it was the only job they could get with benefits.

For all the talk everyday on this site about the working poor, you'd think some people would have better persepective on it.

"One thing you're going to find very surprising about DU" has been posting here longer than you have. sometimes it's a good idea to look at their profile--low post counts don't always mean they are newbies)

and on topic: i somewhat agree.

The average employee isn't the one making corporate decisions. The average employee isn't the one who makes advertising decisions either. A lot of people would love the economic luxury of being able to work for a liberal-led company but you know what? For some people being able to have a job that will put food on their tables comes first. Don't hate the employees, hate the employers.

but I'm boycotting them by default- I don't have any money to spend on them, and I suspect that will be a condition that will spread to most of the people in America.

just because it's BCBS? Some of these are very unrealistic to expect everyone to boycott. You've named every major drugstore chain.

I never shop or eat at any of these: Walmart, Wendy's, Outback Steak House, Dominos
Pizza, Red Lobster, Olive Garden

or go to Curves for women health clubs, and I stopped buying Exxon/Mobil a long time ago.

Let's face it. Most of these companies have a vested interest in the Republican party and their mean spirited economic policies that oppress many other people not even as fortunate as you. Although the movie sicko focuses on middle class people getting shafted by medical insurers.

People should use their economic power to bring down the Republican party and I will not stop until the last plank of my set of demands gets enacted.

But our insurance at work is through BCBS of Michigan. I used to have an HMO, but they switched us this year to a consumer-driven plan through Blue Cross.

You're more less stuck with Blue Cross Blue Shield.

By the way if someone has to buy from one of the pharmacies I mentioned then get your medications there but don't buy any consumer items there.

through Medco (I know -- probably another company to avoid, but it's part of our insurance plan), but I do buy a lot of other stuff at Walgreens -- mostly stuff I can't find at Costco or that I need in between trips to Costco. I try to buy my vitamins and other things at Costco when I can.

Just curious.

I don't work at any of those companies, but if I did I might
tend to view the op as a potential threat to my livelihood.

boots, because a couple of dozen computer users aren't going to buy their products and services anymore.

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How many people left off unemployment or not making a livable wage does a consoivative or moderate Democrat accept?

How many more dead innocent Iraqis does a consoivative or moderate Democrat accept?

How many people not able to afford health insurance does a consoivative or moderate Democrat accept?

a liberal says NONE appears acceptable.

In my experience moderates calculate their positions as to not go too far to the left or to the right.

So where do you draw the line on dead innocent Iraqis, people left off unemployment insurance, a livable wage, or health insurance?

These companies accept the status quo in my view.

Just like "Not One Damn Dime Day."

Remember that?

It brought the economy to a screeching halt, right?

Don't snap to judge everyone as a conservative who might simply think you're being a tad too Don Quixote here.

It involved not spending money on one day, it does not demand a comprehensive agenda and noone contacts the Republican party in their effort.. So you use an extreme case to compare that with my effort.

My effort involves people contacting the Republican party by email with the above letter in the Original post and also not buying from the companies that give money to the Republican party every day.

Nice attempt, but the two efforts appear very much different.

Even if you get 1000 people to COMPLETELY stop doing business with these companies, these corporations won't feel a thing.

Excuse me if I don't accept more innocent Iraqis dying, more people not attaining health care, a livable wage, and a better voting system here in the United States.

The Republican party appears weak and vulnerable at the cash registers of those companies that give money to them.

If you consider my effort futile then you can ignore my posts and for those who have recommended my post to get it on the greatest page they can help spread the word.

I would not want you to suffer the frustration of following a movement that in your narrow view will never amount to a hill of beans.

Did you get the SUV fueled up for another trip to get those low, low prices???

But if it makes people think they're doing something constructive, well, have at it.

I wonder how many of these companies really give a shit? I wonder how much of their customer base DU membership comprises?

If you don't like a company's policies, don't patronize that company. No need to grandstand about it, nor tacitly threaten those people who are in no position to influence the decisions made in the executive suites. All that does is just add to the divisiveness. We don't need more of that.

I won't rest until I've slapped the Brooklyn-Style pizza slices from each and every one of their conformist republican hands!

Those loony christianist assholes. I was going to join because it's close to campus and I had no idea about thier political/religious affiliations...So I show them my student ID and ask for the student rate which they refused to give me because I am older than most college students. The lady actually said "Most women your age have a husband to help them pay the normal rates, you shouldn't be taking advantage of student discounts"....:grr:

Oh that's just NASTY. But - what else can you expect from a bunch of twisted fundies.

Goooooooood Grief! What a pissy, narrow-minded, self-righteous thing to say.

Tell her you're a widow, you desperately miss your husband, and it was terribly insensitive of her to be so mean and hateful. Then burst into tears.

pass a progressive agenda in congress.

There is nobody working for us. They all have a corporate agenda. That's who they work for. The illusion is over.

We need to press for the progressive agenda. We need to function like a large buyers union, not for price but for legislative action.

Wendy's is a hometown company for me, so I know that they also do some great things for central Ohio. The company's foundation gives tremendous amounts of money to children's charities, especially to promote adoption rights. Wendy's was one of the first companies in the country to offer full maternity/paternity leave for adoptive parents.

Also, the Equality Project has commended the company for the GLBT employee policy. This is especially impressive considering Ohio put an anti-gay amendment into law a few years ago.

Yes, Wendy's give money to the GOP, but I just don't think that they rise to a Curves or Walmart.

It's like a KKK member who says that he won't shop at Wal Mart because they hire blacks. Thats the impression I get off of this,

Welcome to DU John Kerry VonErich. :hi:

It's not only about megagifts to the GOP. It's also about doing business unethically, and ufair and unsafe labor practices at these firms.

It's about not wanting to spend my hard won money at places that don't treat their employees fairly, want to swallow up local competition by any means necessary, and selling inferior products.

In short, to the exent I am able, I want to make sure the money that I do spend is spent on things that I view as fair trade all down the production--->consumption chain.

But most acolytes of W simply don't think such long term thoughts. All they know is the W is their personal savior.

yet to me it never made sense that just because they give to the GOP that no one should shop there. Just as long as me and my family gets our goods and services to our satisfaction, we are fine by it. All the other reasons you described makes perfect sense. Maybe its the politicing that got me. :silly:

in power.The more people contact the Republican party with the letter on the original post, the more pressure we can put on the Republican party and the companies named in the letter to get a progressive legislative agenda enacted.

city council.

:-) MKJ

Isn't that kinda bigoted because they donate to the opposition party? Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't shop at a store which is owned by a KKK member et al.

THis is a stupid fucking idea. We don't set policy, doofus. We don't have the power to set our wages. And if you remove the customer's dollars from the economic chain, then our businesses will collapse and we will be earning 0 (ZER0) dollars instead of $9.75 an hour.

It's this kind of boycott that I find pointless and counter-productive.

to get improved wages and health benefits?

Are their jobs safe, or will the lurkers who work there only lose their jobs if the companies fold?

Did I miss it?

just who is the we he's referring to?

actually target a company or product - something to narrow the effect - and you need to get buy in from a lot of people to commit to said boycott.

You've got your orders, now get out there and boycott!

Although I prefer to buy blue when there's a choice, I don't buy from any of those companies to begin with because they make crap.

Now that I think about it, just about every Red company I can think of makes crap, with the exception of Sargento cheese products which I rather like.

Because even if the were owned buy HALLIBURTON I ain't given up my Harleys. Ride for the cure, man.

whose founder and president, Nancy Brinker, is a Bush Pioneer and neo-con who has also served on the board of GE (big profits in mammography machines).

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?key=6DAWY&txtName=brinker&txtState=FL&txtAll=Y&Order=N

and who was recently appointed to a position in the State Department of the Bush administration where they are launching some bizarre breast cancer initiative in third world countries, including the Middle East. (Nothing wrong with trying to help third world countries w/ health care problems, but do you REALLY trust the Bush administration to be up to anything good?)

State Department To Ignite Breast Cancer Awareness And Research In Latin America

http://www.emaxhealth.com/98/13819.html

Susan G. Komen for the Cure is part of the Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research of the Americas.

This initiative that will bring together experts across the United States of America and Latin America to help in the fight to end breast cancer forever.

This partnership, today announced by Mrs. Bush during the White House Conference on the Americas, will help organizations in Brazil, Costa Rica and Mexico to address the need for additional research, training and specific community outreach efforts. This initiative represents an expansion of the U.S.-Middle East Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research.

For fuck's sake...

They work behind the scenes to lobby against health care reform.

They also lobby against funding for research into how environmental toxins might cause breast cancer, patients bill of rights, etc.

Most of the money they raise is spent on overhead costs and multi milllion dollar marketing campaigns. Some is spent on providing free mammograms, but most of the money that is spent on research, screening and treatment is paid by you - the taxpayer.

They also discriminate against African American breast cancer organizations and have been criticized for trying to run them out of business.

made by local panels. So not even every chapter is the same.

And I know that the Puget Sound Affiliate spends plenty on programs for outreach and education, as well as mammograms, for low income women, particularly targeting racial disparities.

I don't think you know what you're talking about at all.

compared to what they bring in and especially compared to what you are already providing as a taxpayer.

They do a small amount of good, and cause a great deal of problems. We would have a Patients Bill of Rights today if it were not for their work. They have very influential connections with the for profit health insurance industry, big pharma and chemical companies who don't want research done on environment and breast cancer.

They also allow the GOP and the Bush administration to use their organization to lure women voters.

I do know what I'm talking about because I'm a breast cancer survivor who does advocacy and who has to raise money to pay for all the things Komen doesn't pay for - like any kind of services or assistance to women after they're diagnosed with breast cancer. I've also had to lobby for Medicaid coverage for uninsured breast cancer patients while Komen was lobbying against it.

Here's a good article you can read on the topic. Its an older article, but is still accurate...

http://www.alternet.org/story/14014/

The Marketing of Breast Cancer

Judy Brady has little use for the limelight. Yet, as someone with a lot on her mind, she has much to say about what she terms "the marketing of breast cancer." One of the worst examples, she says, is the Dallas-based Susan G. Komen Foundation and its annual fundraiser, the 5K Race for the Cure.

Now held year-round in 110 U.S. cities and abroad, the festivities offend Brady and the group Toxic Links Coalition. The races, they say, merely focus women on finding a medical cure for breast cancer, and away from environmental conditions causing it, the problems of the uninsured, and political influence of corporations over the average patient.

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"What's missing is the truth," wrote Brady in a Spring 2001 newsletter article for the Women's Cancer Resource Center, a support services center located in Berkeley, Calif. "There's no talk about prevention, except, in terms of lifestyle, your diet for instance. No talk about ways to grow food more safely. No talk about how to curb industrial carcinogens. No talk about contaminated water or global warming."

"I really don't think environmental causes of cancer are acknowledged enough," said Dr. C.W. Jameson of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. "It warrants attention so people can make better, more informed choices, as to where they live or what professions they work in," said Jameson, the director of a biennial report on cancer-causing agents published by the Institute of Environmental Sciences.

...

Brinker relies on the blockbuster PR value of the 5K Race for the Cure. The year-round calendar of cancer walks that draw grief-stricken yet hopeful patients and their loved ones, along with a fawning media, preserve Brinker and her group's image as being on the side of the average American woman tragically afflicted with breast cancer.

So most people would be shocked to find that the Komen Foundation helped block a meaningful Patients Bill of Rights for the women it has purported to serve since the group began in 1982.

...

It's no accident the Komen side favors the Republicans. A July 12, 2001 agreement between the President and five companies to run a Medicare prescription discount card program for Medicare patients, included a company called Caremark Rx where Nancy Brinker was on the board of directors, according to financial records. Another vendor, Merck-Medco, is one of the many drug companies found in the Komen investment portfolio. (Nancy Brinker resigned all board seats, including Komen, when she was appointed). If approved, the discount cards would provide up to a 10 percent discount on brand-name drugs.

Meanwhile, Democrats called the whole discount card idea "laughable, utterly superficial," according to press reports, since the cards are already widely available and do little to resolve soaring prescription costs, and even costlier medical treatments.

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Also on board for Komen's Patient Bill of Rights efforts is Akin-Gump, the fourth largest lobbying firm in the country, whose roster reads like a who's who of anti-health care reformers. Akin-Gump has direct links to the Health Benefits Coalition, industry's leading PAC in the fight to stop a Patients Bill of Rights that would boost patients' rights over their health plans.

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At 1998 Food and Drug Administration hearings the Komen Foundation was the only national breast cancer group to endorse the cancer treatment drug tamoxifen as a prevention device for healthy but high-risk women, despite vehement opposition by most other breast cancer groups. Its maker, AstraZeneca, has long been a Komen booster, making educational grants to Komen and having a visible presence at the Race For the Cure. And in 2000, the parent company Zeneca Inc., employed Multinational Business Services, the lobbyist for the anti-PBR group Health Benefits Coalition.



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Only slightly less surprising is the half-million dollars' worth of stock Nancy Brinker owns in U.S. Oncology, a chain of for-profit treatment centers (on whose board she sat at least from 1999 through 2001, according to company records). U.S. Oncology's lobbying firm of Rose & Hefling is a lobbyist for the Philip Morris tobacco company, according to FEC records. Another lobbyist for U.S. Oncology in 2000, Alison McSlarrow of McSlarrow Consulting, is former Deputy Chief of Staff to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) -- a chief architect of the pro-HMO version of the Patients Bill of Rights.

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Batt finds Brinker "eerily reminiscent" of an earlier so-called cancer activist, Mary Lasker. "Her husband, the advertising executive Albert Lasker, created the famous cigarette ad, 'Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet.' In the 1940s through the 1960s, Lasker used her business and social connections to transform the American Cancer Society from a small, local charity into the world's richest, most powerful health charity. The ACS became a voice for policies that have made cancer research and early detection into lucrative business ventures with little connection to the welfare of patients or to breast cancer prevention. The Komen Foundation is a reincarnation of the ACS, but specific to breast cancer."...."The problem with those (awareness) programs," said Batt, "is that, unless you also fund treatment for those same women, you don't help them by detecting their cancers earlier; and you perpetuate the emphasis on mammography screening, rather than prevention, better treatment and equitable care."

.......

Its a long article, well researched and accurate. In their latest efforts, Komen has been receiving millions of dollars in donations from private health insurance companies, no doubt to lobby against health care reform.

program - only 20% was on admin and fundraising. That's a completely respectable percentage.

I am personally well aware of the very good work funded by my local Komen chapter - which means I know you are full of shit.

in the link below.

In the breast cancer world, marketing campaigns can be written off as "raising awareness" and "education".

http://www.alternet.org/story/14014/?page=1

Komen has benefitted from their push for mammography since they own stock in GE. Since they're now receiving a lot of money from insurance companies, my guess is their next effort will be to lobby for health care reform that involves government subsidies to insurance companies.

Their lobbying is done behind the scenes. Their local affiliates probably aren't even aware of it. They think they're doing good, but they actually are supporting an organization that has a hidden agenda.

For goodness sakes, this is like an O'reilly caricature of liberals.

I'm embarrassed for you.

but you don't have to worry about being diagnosed with breast cancer when you have no health insurance.

You've never been a 23 year old woman diagnosed with breast cancer with no family history who wonders how the hell she got it and why someone can't fund research into what she may have been exposed to in her lifetime that may have caused it.

You've never been a breast cancer patient who loses her job because of treatment and is about to become homeless and can't pay for her prescriptions and calls the local Komen affiliate only to be told they only use their money for "early detection".

I have no doubt your friends who help with the local Komen affiliate are sincere, committed people. I would recommend they take all their energy and passion and use it to raise funds for their own local organization that is in touch with the needs of breast cancer patients in their own community.

My friends involved with Komen aren't fundraising. They sit on the grant review committee, precisely BECAUSE they are physicians who work with homeless women, the uninsured and those facing the most significant health disparities.

They're not naive do-gooders but people with decades of experience working directly with the people you tried to describe. And as someone who has done the same, I have to tell you that the problems are much more immediate and direct than global warming or organic produce.

I know exactly what goes on. Giving money to give poor women mammograms is not enough when you aren't trying to get them treatment when they're diagnosed.

I'd suggest you talk with some other people who aren't sitting on a Komen board. Check the statistics and see how many of the uninsured women in your area who are diagnosed with breast cancer are getting help with treatment and follow up care.

For those of us who are survivors, who check the facts and work directly in the community, not just serving on a board, its a very important issue. The progress being made at the grassroots level is real and, while we don't like having to catch hell for telling the truth to the public, its our disease, its our battle and we fight it the right way.

In my area - and with the support of Komen - there is treatment as well as screening for low-income and uninsured womem.

Furthermore, Komen can't do EVERYTHING - no one can. But they provide for an important link that would otherwise go unfunded.

Additionally, my friends aren't on the Komen board. Did you even read what I wrote? They are physicians with decades of direct service ON THE FRONT LINES. They volunteer on the granting committee because of their expertise. I assure you, I and my friends have far more direct experience with this than you do. And if you had 1/10th that experience, you'd know that organic food doesn't begin to address the disparities.

Organic food? What are you talking about? Breast cancer activists like myself support evidence based medicine and the highest standards for scientific research, not alternative medicine. We do more than race and walk, we serve on boards, help develop public policy and



Try familiarizing yourself with these organizations, the ones who are getting the real work done:

Listen to what President Clinton thinks about breast cancer activists and what they've accomplished

http://www.natlbcc.org/bin/videos/Clinton1.wmv

http://www.natlbcc.org/

http://www.natlbcc.org/bin/index.asp?Strid=24&btnid=&depid=1

Bad enough you don't read what others post - you don't even read what you post.

doesn't mean I haven't read your posts.

You don't appear to wish to discuss this topic rationally without making ad hominem attacks, so I'm ending this discussion with you.

to say things you should know better than to say, if you actually read.

For example, I say my friends are physicians who spent decades working on the front lines in delivery of care to homeless and uninsured people. You then say my friends are naive board members of Komen. Why? Because you DIDN'T READ WHAT WAS POSTED.

You furthermore post trash articles, and you don't even know what's in THEM either.

You say Komen spends only a small portion of funding on direct service - but you have no idea what you're talking about, and you can't back up your claim.

What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

its accurate and the practices of Komen continue today... They've a very dangerous group to go up against, especially since Bush was elected.

Lots of connections to big insurance, big pharma, the National Restaurant Assn. who doesn't want to have to provide health insurance to employees and chemical companies who don't want to scientists to get funding to study links between breast cancer & environment. They're a mega billion dollar corporation that spends a little money on screening and a lot on "awareness" aka marketing.

The Marketing of Breast Cancer


http://www.alternet.org/story/14014/?page=1


Then tell me how insane it sounds. I await your apology.

And I can conclude that Mary Ann Swissler sure doesn't like Nancy G. Brinker. But I see no documentation for her accusations at all. I might even call it a smear job, but I'm too kind.

But to each. I'll continue to support the "Race" and you do what you have to.

Not content with founding the largest breast cancer organization in the world, Brinker accepted President George W. Bush's nomination of Ambassador to Hungary in 2001, and her achievements there are equally impressive. She helped to preserve tax benefits and lower tariffs on U.S. companies doing business in Hungary. Brinker negotiated the hosting and training of the Free Iraqi Forces, an expatriate group who later joined coalition forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom, making Hungary the first European country to contribute to regime change in Iraq. Her groundbreaking efforts to advance the cause of women?s health in Hungary included a symposium and ceremonial walk across the country?s oldest bridge (lit pink for the occasion) to raise breast cancer awareness.

http://www.greatertalent.com/speakers/speakers.php?speakerid=304


http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showConnection.php?id1=4462&id2=4461

http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A3510

MKJ

While I agree with the concept of refusing to patronize RW supporting companies (and do avoid them wherever possible), this email or whatever it is with its ALL CAPS ranting and simplistic demands isn't something I would distribute.

I was in the drug store the other day and the checkout clerk looked at my bottle of Starbucks coffee and said she should never buy that brand. I made the mistake of asking why and was treated to a diatribe, very similar to the letter above, about how Starbucks doesn't "support the troops." No facts to back up her BS, just a foaming rant.

I "listened" to her as much as I "listened" to your letter.

in the links above.

Yes, everyone though Walmart was a great company at first too.

Sorry, but I'm a survivor and I have to deal with cleaning up the mess these people create.

When you've finished reading it, I'd be happy to hear your comments.

With the sole exception of you, I don't know of a single Democrat who would even think of "warning" or intimidating employees of companies that donate to the GOP.

If you have a problem with the companies you listed, then specifically address the companies' executives and board of directors. Since when are the rank-and-file employees the "enemy"?

As seems to have happened with the OP.

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Not really. :eyes:

I'm supposed to be boycotting or that DU'ers have suggested we ban I am finding it harder and harder to aquire food and clothing.

Big daddy must eat.

YOU NOW HAVE GOTTEN WARNED, LURKERS.

WE'RE MAD AS HELL AND WE WILL NOT TAKE IT ANY MORE.

WE WILL NO LONGER SUPPORT MEAN SPIRITED, DEATH BRINGING CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN ECONOMIC POLICIES WITH OUR DOLLARS.


I like this part though. It's all kinda kooky and nuts and loud. It's sort of not really directed at anyone except for "lurkers" who probably don't give a shit anyway. It's sort of like being at a German death metal concert. You really don't know what the hell they're yelling about, but it's insanely loud and everyone is banging their head and you just kinda go with it.

I'm mad as all and rabble rabble rabble!!!!1!

And my insurance is BCBS. Like I'm going to boycott my health insurance because they give money to repukes. I don't care. I want my insurance. I'll boycott BCBS if you'll put me under your insurance plan.

All your Olive Gardens are belong to us!

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"Only themselves to blame", how about if they can ONLY find that job? You prefer they not eat?

Pass them by like a freight train.

Lurking minimum wage employees of corporations who don't give a fuck about you or anyone else, you've been warned!

Risk losing your job by sending this message to your managers, to send to their managers (lol, yeah ok) because some DU'er is pissed off!

it's because they suck. It has nothing to do with who they donate too. Most of those companies also donate to Democrats, they give their money to whoever they think can help them. Boycotts are not what we need, what we need is election finance reform, and lobbying reform. We need to get the corporations out of Government. This is not a partisan issue either, it will benefit both sides of the isle to get the government out of the corporations hands and back into the hands of the people. This is an issue Dems and Republicans should be working on together.