NOTE : SPECIAL THANKS TO WORLD CAN'T WAIT AND LEW BROWN FOR THEIR HELP IN INITIATING AND HELPING SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE STOP SHOPPING AND CORPORATE BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN !!!

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LANIC
Press Contact:  Cres Velluci, Sheila Dean

SheilaDean2@yahoo.co.uk , thottam@bcimpeach.com
(310) 497-7255

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

10-15-07
RE: LOS ANGELES NATIONAL IMPEACHMENT CENTER
(LANIC)

National Strikes And Boycotts for Impeachment and Against U.S. Occupation of Iraq Rise  As Holidays Approach

West Los Angeles, CA-   Building on the collection of over 10,000 signatures gathered by Los Angeles impeachment activists over the last four months, local activists and organizers are planning a series of strikes and progressive boycotts into the Holiday season.  The purpose of the strikes and boycotts are to be considered a force of reckoning for the US executive branches and congress for not heeding voter and taxpayer demands to pull troops out of Iraq and stalling impeachment proceedings.

Activists at the Los Angeles National Impeachment Center (LANIC), along with World Can’t Wait LA, ANSWER and other organized anti-war groups are expected to launch the first of the strikes and boycotts at the beginning of October.  Similar methods of public protest recognized in the international community have lead to expedited action on behalf of the people.

“The boycott applies to a 50% cut of all corporate or mall based shopping until the House of Representatives impeaches Bush and Cheney.  We are boycotting corporate American businesses. {It is} the drive for profits and new markets that led the U.S. into a war with Iraq.  Many people feel helpless in the face of USA foreign policy. What they feel is their government's complicity. A domestic consumer boycott of USA goods, together with an ongoing international boycott by many foreign countries, is a very powerful tool that hits the very economy that helps finance {war} actions in other countries,” says Peter Thottam, a boycott organizer.

The boycotts and strikes follow years of collective protests, vigils, petitions, democratic elections and failed congressional measures to get an end date for the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.  Outrage directed at the White House’s refusal to comply with the US people’s written and constitutional demands for a strategy to end “The War On Terror” will now be manifested in the marketplace.

The duration of the expressed boycott is as indefinite as the current exit strategy for US Soldiers overseas. The intensity and dimensions of the boycott will be determined by the progress of the  exit strategy movement and cessation of plans for new foreign war targets.

The following is a list of developing businesses and corresponding industries are slated to endure the growing national and international boycott against U.S. retail consumption and U.S. corporate goods.

Fox News Wall Street Journal All Corporate properties belonging to Rupert Murdoch General Electric Wal-Mart Mattell

Exxon Citibank Washington Mutual Countrywide Savings & Mortgage Wells Fargo Bank of America

 

 

(1)At its most recent Saturday Sept. 15th volunteer session there was a unanimous decision by the  Los Angeles National Impeachment Center (LANIC) to call for a Nationwide Corporate/Mall Shopping Boycott until the U.S. House of Representatives impeaches.  Americans everywhere are encouraged to cut their shopping purchases by at least 50% until Congress impeaches .  Please help us spread the word.    As part of the nationwide Iraq Moratorium LANIC issues this General Call for a Nationside Boycott of Holiday & Mall Shopping until (1) Congress withdraws US Troops in Iraq and/or (2) Impeachment proceedings are initiated against Bush and Cheney.   Why?  Because the Military Industrial Complex/Corporatism and the need for profits is driving U.S. imperialism and the war machine.  

 

 

The L.A. National Impeachment Center (LANIC) calls for Global Corporate/Mall Shopping BOYCOTT of U.S. Corporations' goods starting Sept. 15, 2007 -- until the U.S. House of Representatives impeaches Bush & Cheney (see Tab #14 for details).  Special Boycott targets:  (1) FOX News/Wall Street Journal/MySpace ( Rupert Murdoch owned properties), (2) General Electric (owns MSNBC & NBC; 3rd largest military contractor in U.S.), (3) WALMART, (4) Mattel (toys poisoned w/ lead from China), (5) Exxon Mobil, (6)  Citibank, Countrywide Savings/Mortgage, Washington Mutual, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and (6) Home Depot.

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Link: http://www.boycottbush.org/demands-iraq_en.php

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A boycott is the act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some other organization as an expression of protest.

A boycott is normally considered a one-time affair designed to correct an outstanding single wrong. When extended for a long period of time, or as part of an overall program of awareness-raising or reforms to laws or regimes, a boycott is part of moral purchasing, and those economic or political terms are to be preferred.

 

Most organized consumer boycotts today are focused on long-term change of buying habits, and so fit into part of a larger political program, with many techniques that require a longer structural commitment, e.g. reform to commodity markets, or government commitment to moral purchasing, e.g. the longstanding boycott of South African businesses to protest apartheid already alluded to. These stretch the meaning of a "boycott."

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Reasons to Boycott Goods / Services From the USA :

 

There are at least four separate reasons to boycott USA goods or services.

 

1. Allows Protest Against USA Foreign Policy

Many people feel helpless in the face of USA foreign policy and what they feel is their government's complicity.

 

In democratic countries like the UK, whichever political party is in power, they seem to do whatever the USA requests regardless of the wishes of its people. In many countries with no elections (like Saudi Arabia), the government either backs USA foreign policy or keeps quiet when its population seethes with anger at what is happening. Even countries that go with their public against USA foreign policy (like France) are demonised and excluded.

Much of USA foreign policy is for economic reasons - the largest and most powerful trans-national companies are from the USA. Their products are on sale in most of the world's countries.

A boycott of USA goods is therefore a very powerful tool that hits the very USA economy that helps finance actions in other countries.

2. Harms USA Transnational Companies

Many USA trans-national companies fund the USA policy makers who formulate foreign policy that affects people around the world.

Others are directly involved in countries with dubious human rights practices (like the use of child or slave labour), oppressed populations, or lax safety rules.

A boycott of these companies and their products can therefore help people around the world.

3. Protects Local Produce

An added bonus to boycotting goods made by large trans-national companies (of any nationality) is that it allows the consumer to buy local produce.

This is beneficial to the local economy. Often, there is a local brand that can be bought instead and this helps a company in the consumers' own country.

Rather than buying goods from a large USA trans-national, it can be better to buy the goods of a poorer country, thus helping their economy. Fair Trade products are more easilly available these days; buying these directly benefits the growers or producers.

Boycotting large trans-national companies can help local economies around the world.

4. Quality of Life

Some products are of dubious quality, safety or morality. One example is food that contains genetically modified material, pesticides or growth hormones. In many cases, international trade bodies will often force countries to sell these products regardless of local laws.

Other products pollute the environment or are ecologically unsound. Many have a built in obsolesence and need replacing regularly.

A final example is the consumer walking around displaying symbols and logos without payment - a form of free advertising for a company that manufactures cheaply in poorer countries and sells at a premium in the richer countries. Of course, celebreties will be paid to endorse the product.

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Boycotting large trans-national companies can help increase quality of life.