You should be every day voting with your wallet to prevent money flowing into the wrong hands. Boycott these ALEC members who non-stop fund the republican war chests:
- FedEx
- UPS
- Motorola
- Anheuser Busch
- American Express
- Bose
- Chevron
- Marlboro
- Sony
- Texaco
- Boeing (fly on Airbus instead, see how to boycott Boeing)
Quit driving. It’s not just the fuel burn that harms the environment. When you buy fuel, you fund the oil companies who fund republicans. Trump’s 4th biggest cash source came from oil giants. There is nothing worse for the environment than republicans.
Find out which companies funded Trump’s war chest directly, and boycott them.
list of most notable Pro-Trump lobbyists (who funded them? We need to follow the money)
Make America Great Again Inc SuperPAC $331,464,578
America PAC (Texas) SuperPAC $130,300,020
Preserve America PAC SuperPAC $106,088,226
Save America Leadership PAC $91,695,410
Right for America SuperPAC $68,457,574
Turnout for America SuperPAC $25,390,000
Duty to America PAC SuperPAC $20,650,000
Make America Great Again PAC Leadership PAC $16,732,669
SAG PAC SuperPAC $16,412,306
Maha Alliance SuperPAC $4,632,637
Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund SuperPAC $1,848,824
Defend Us PAC SuperPAC $1,544,688
CatholicVote.org SuperPAC $1,432,742
Committee to Defeat the President Carey $536,739
Concerned Americans for America SuperPAC $478,293
Sticker PAC SuperPAC $450,000
American Resolve PAC (Virginia) SuperPAC $442,684
FOUR MORE YEARS PAC SuperPAC $267,216
Greater Georgia Action SuperPAC $242,441
College Republicans of America SuperPAC $85,409
Billboards 47 Swing States SuperPAC $81,694
Asians Making America Great Again SuperPAC $77,064
Win USA PAC SuperPAC $46,807
Great America PAC Carey $34,822
America First Veterans PAC SuperPAC $30,000
New Gen 47 Carey $20,397
Wilberforce PAC SuperPAC $5,000
People & Politics PAC SuperPAC $1,981
Make America Great Again, Again! SuperPAC $200
America First Action SuperPAC $36
There is likely a long list of banks. Banks love republicans in general. We need to get that list and get people off those banks. People should be using cash anyway since banks finance fossil fuels, private prisons, and republicans. In the very least, if you give a shit and you are not a deadbeat then you will avoid using these banks.
(edit) Home Depot, Disney, …, probably others. That’s a long article not an easy list so work required.
grab your wallet is an election cycle out of date, and sadly it’s in Google docs (so use Tor). But it still has a bit of relevance.
Europeans— You can take these actions too. You couldn’t vote for Kamala but you always have the power to vote with your feet. The first ALEC list is international entities.
US folks— In addition to the ALEC list at the top, the following are also ALEC members which (I believe) are US-only:
- CenturyLink
- Charter Communications
- Farmers/Foremost
- Geico
- LMG (Liberty Mutual/Safeco)
- Nationwide Insurance
- PNC bank
- StateFarm
- TimeWarner
(update) Dug up a list of companies that are said to finance AIPAC, a PAC who targets democrats who go against Israel. It blows a huge amount of money on the right-wing candidate which apparently works every time. It’s so effective there is a verb for it: AIPAC-ed. I have not vetted the list but when I look at it it’s all usual suspects of corps I already boycott.
AIPAC feeders to boycott
Intel Corporation
Microsoft Corporation
Google (Alphabet Inc.)
IBM (International Business Machines Corporation)
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
HP Inc. (Hewlett Packard)
Apple Inc.
Motorola Solutions, Inc.
Facebook, Inc.
Oracle Corporation
Qualcomm Incorporated
Pfizer Inc.
Johnson & Johnson
General Electric Company
Coca-Cola Company
Procter & Gamble Co.
Verizon Communications Inc.
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Amazon.com, Inc.
Dell Technologies Inc.
General Motors Company
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Citigroup Inc.
American Express Company
Visa Inc.
Mastercard Incorporated
Walmart Inc.
The Walt Disney Company
Netflix Inc.
Adobe Inc.
Electronic Arts Inc.
Airbnb, Inc.
Uber Technologies Inc.
Lyft, Inc.
Tesla, Inc.
Ford Motor Company
The Coca-Cola Company
PepsiCo, Inc.
Nestlé S.A.
Unilever PLC
The Procter & Gamble Company
Johnson & Johnson
Colgate-Palmolive Company
The Hershey Company
Mars, Incorporated
The Coca-Cola Company
PepsiCo, Inc.
Nestlé S.A.
I didn't say it'd have any practical consequence. It would, however, maybe keep alive the dying ember in my soul that there's a tiny shed of hope for some future generation.
Do they? I've been boycotting Nestlé for about a decade now, and they seem to be utterly indifferent to the fact.
I... look I get your point, but at the risk of nitpicking, how are they supposed to not put gas in their car? Quit their jobs, or get fired because they won't come in to work? Even if you live in a city, most in the US have barely serviceable public transportation systems, and companies are going hard-core rolling back WFH.
Has it stopped Israel's invasion of Gaza yet? Heck, it's even limited in effectiveness when whole countries join a boycott. Russia's under sanctions, which is just a fancy word for country-level boycotts, and while it may have slowed them down, they still seem to be making steady progress. "Blood diamond" boycotts haven't put Debeers out of business yet.
Boycotting is mostly a feel-good gesture, or, I'll grant, "at least I can feel like I'm not contributing" moral superiority - which certainly has value.
You seem to think I'm anti-boycott, when I actually just think they only rarely move needles.
Gerrymandering affects state legislature, which translates directly into local laws that directly affect things that influence general elections - like voter intimidation laws, registration laws, mail-in voting laws, judicial and law enforcement elections, and countless legislation.
Uh huh. Boycotting's going to reinstate Roe v Wade. You go ahead and message me an "I Told You So" when that happens.
I’ve been doing the same. Glad to hear you are not taking your own advice. I have also voted in elections going back decades, and not a single election has been influenced by my vote alone. Should I stop voting?
You may have misunderstood the goal of the boycott. The goal was to stop a piece of the private sector from supporting the IDF. It worked so well that it forced a corporation to buy ~130 or so stores just to end the boycott. The boycotter’s demands were satisfied.
The Israel boycott led to the German grocer Lidl to struggle to sell Israel-sourced produce (which is often grown on Palestinian land). Lidl was losing money so they resorted to fraud and got caught labeling Israel-sourced produce as coming from a different country. Aldi North had the same problem and they resorted to opacity (removing the source tag when it was Israel). Of course it leads to people boycotting the whole store. Less revenue for Israel means less tax and greater dependency on the US, who is under pressure to keep Israel on a leash. Expecting a war to end due to a boycott is unrealistic. But if you do your part you can be part of the pressure in the right direction.
BDS is regarded as such a threat that the US gov has actually banned boycotting Israel. If the only effect is to “give people good feelings”, why ban it?