For Democrats and Independents lurking only: Will you call General Electric to get them to end war ?

I consider it the point to take back our country by peacefully showing no confidence in those companies that give aid and comfort to the REPUBLIKLAN party. Take the peaceful fight to them and pressure them with simple loss of our business and make the heavy demand of an end to this war for oil and also demand Bush and Cheney resign.

They criticized Gandhi and they criticized Mandela and both served time in prison. They called for boycotts. Their opponents capitulated. Our opponents will capitulate with your action making a simple phone call. Noone at DU will discourage me from making this peaceful effort to bring down the REPUBLIKLAN party through their donors!! NOONE AT DU!! You can berate me. You can criticize me. I do not care. Save your criticism for those who killed over 500,000 innocent Iraqis.



General Electric makes a lot of money as a war contractor and also gives money to the illegal war party Republican party.

If you will then send email to info@dmocrats.org with the subject YES

and nothing else in the subject or message body. To avoid abuse by Republicanus idiotus I only will read the message subject and my mail program will only bring mail to the proper folder if the subject reads only the word YES

THE MILLION PHONE MARCH TO END THE WAR IN IRAQ

No Free speech Zones. NO arrests. No marginalization by the press.

You call Republican contributor and war contractor General Electric Corporation at 203-373-2211 and ask for the public relations department and give them an ultimatum. http://www.ge.com

GET THE GOP to END THE WAR or WE DON'T BUY YOUR PRODUCTS ANYMORE.

Tell the person that we will not buy GE light bulbs, refrigerators, ovens, stoves, telephones, TVs, radios, and everything with a GE logo on it until your CEO gets the Republican party to end the war and then Bush and Cheney to resign from office.


NO CEO WANTS THEIR TELEPHONE LINES TIED UP AND TO GET CALLS FROM THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE EVERY DAY WHILE THEY LOSE MONEY. NO CEO. NOT ONE.

your continuous assertion that this will do a damned thing is laughable.

They laughed at Gandhi too until the British left India. They laughed at Mandela and Tutu until the National party fell.

I laugh at you for laughing at me.

Your opinion does not matter to me.

that we can call some business executive and get him to end the war, AND get Bush and Cheney to resign, is just nonsensical.

But it would make a nice bumper sticker.

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I was very politically active during that time.

There was a huge international effort to divest from South Africa. Local and state governments, colleges and universities, unions, et. al., all contributed.

Plus, there was no small resistance movement in South Africa itself.

Comparing this silly call to the world-wide effort to end Apartheid is a little self-aggrandizing.

And if you think I'm a fool, I'll wear that as a badge of honor.

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GE is a good target for a boycott (as opposed to the so called gas boycott) because they actually have a fuzzy warm brand name to protect. Also, this boycott has the potential to become global, since GE sells there products around the world, and they compete with a number of other companies who make simular products.

That said, I would like to see a more complete analysis of the goals and demands that would be made in a boycott of GE. For instance, the demand that they make bush and Chaney resign isn't productive, sinse to the best of my knowledge GE doesn't have the ability to do that.

Many people don't understand boycotts, in terms of how they can be an effective tool and also in terms of their limitations.

So I kind of lump those who call for ineffective boycotts and those who reject all boycotts out of hand in the same uneducted boat.

Boycotts can and do achieve important goals, but they are a specific tool useful in specific cases. I wish more people would actually educate themselves as to when boycotts are useful tools and when they aren't.

but I think posting on an internet message board demanding that people get the CEO of GE to make Bush and Cheney resign is just nonsensical.

war profiteering side of their business. A boycott could effect that through their consumer and medical side of their business.

As I said, they are vulnerable to a boycott, and in fact a worldwide boycott. Since they are an arms industry leader, it could be a very useful tool to exert pressure to stop the war, or even beyond.

That said, it would need to be analysed for the right demands, and it would need to be organized to make it effective.

Like i said, many don't understand how to use boycotts as an effective tool of change. The OP points out the successful boycott of S.Africa, yet it was successful because the demand (end aparthied) was appropriate to the target. And it was well organized around the world.

my reply to you was based on your NO, not on your legitamate questioning of the demands, or on your legitimate questioning of the organizational side of a boycott.

Your premise in faulty.

Now if they give a little extra to the employees to donate money and they kick it back into the pac you have a donation from GE to the REPUBLIKLAN party.

If GE didn't want money to go to the GOP they wouldn't set up such a PAC. I hold GE partly responsible for this war.

You too appear part of the DU negativity squad.

GE's PAC gives money to Democrats and Republicans:

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/fec/?commid=C00024869&page=campaigns&order=TOTAL&cycle=2005-2006

Unless you don't consider Barbara Lee, Peter DeFazio, or Mel Watt to be Democrats.

"Democratic" in the adjectival form and is part of the licensed, registered name of the "Democratic Party."

Republican assholes use "democrat" party or "democrat" whatever in order to be deliberately insulting, which is particularly ironic, given their constant whining that they are not being given proper respect and all the while doing their damnedest to insult democrats and their organizations without being nailed to the barn for it.

Perhaps I am being overly sensitive--too bad--I don't think I am and if someone is going to post on a democratic bulletin board, it is not too much to expect that they go out of their way to learn the customs and not be insulting--whether by ignorance ala * or deliberately ala Adam Putnam.

And they lied.

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