know_buddee@hotmail.com (know buddee) wrote in message news:<52d3f97e.0411212013.7111438b@posting.google.com>...
> The Role of Boycotts in the Fight for Peace
> 
> Sporadic and spontaneous boycotts, local in form, have been taking
> place in cities throughout the globe. National Public Radio (U.S.)
> reports that thousands of Europeans, repulsed by the election of Bush,
> are refusing to buy American goods. One placard in a Paris window
> says: "Promote peace. Don't buy American." According to Pulitzer
> Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, Europe is simmering. "You're
> going to see American profits disappear. American corporations are
> going to be in big trouble. It's going to be a mantra not to buy
> American. All our major manufacturers are reporting major slowdowns in
> Europe. You're going to see the dollar disappear."
> 
> The boycott is spreading. Greenpeace is already involved in a boycott
> against Exxon-Esso and Mobil Oil. Fermiamo La Guerre, a coalition of
> peace groups in Italy, called for a boycott of Esso when the U.S.
> invasion commenced. Sales of Pepsi and Coca Cola have plummeted in the
> Mideast during the occupation, and Islamic nations are creating
> alternative cola drinks called Zam Zam and Mecca Cola. Iran banned ads
> for U.S.-manufactured goods. South African protesters in Cape Town
> demanded that Denel, a South African contractor, cancel all its
> contracts to supply military components to the U.S. war machine. The
> people of South Africa are well aware of the power of boycotts. As
> South Africa Indymedia put it: We must "take aim at the only thing
> that can bring Bush to his knees?the American economy."
> 
> In the capital of Pakistan, the bustling Jehangir restaurant has taken
> U.S. soft drinks off the menu. "We only serve Pakistani drinks," one
> waiter said in an interview with Inter Press Service. "We don't serve
> Pepsi or Coca-Cola or any other American soft drinks anymore."
> Fast-food chains?Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken?are under a
> boycott in Pakistan. As one member of the Islamist Party said: "We
> must stop buying anything American or British. We must hurt American
> interests as much as possible."
> 
> Excerpted from:
>  
> The Role of Boycotts in the Fight for Peace
> Notes on Post-Election Strategy
> by Paul Rockwell
>  
> http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1118-24.htm
> 
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> Report: 100,000 Iraqis killed since invasion
> British medical journal says 'airstrikes major factor' in deaths.
> by Tom Regan | csmonitor.com
>  
> The Times of London reports Friday that the survey attributes most of
> the extra deaths, many of whom were women and children, to "airstrikes
> by coalition forces." ....
> 
> http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2004/1029/dailyUpdate.html
> 
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> The USA is  the world's biggest obstacle to world peace. Please
> Boycott USA goods and services! Don't give your money to people who
> endorse a swaggering president who terrorizes and kills innocent women
> and children, while calling it a 'war on terror'. Just say "No" to the
> murderous, warmongering Bush, supporters.
> 
> We are very sorry and we need to be punished, otherwise things will
> never change. Maybe Bush will invade your country next.
> 
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easy enough - buy Chinese!  That is where America buys!