Pro-Choice Boycott! -- CORRECTED

December 10, 2010. I fucked up. As Anonymous in the comments points out, I misread the LieShite article. Some of the companies listed are mentioned as being ADDED to or STILL on the fetus fetishists' boycott list and thus are our kind of people -- at least as far as reproductive choice goes.

To be clear, here are the companies that should be on a PRO-CHOICE boycott list:

Enterprise car rentals
Forbes magazine
Ing financial services
Toys R Us
Cisco Systems
Red Lion Hotels
Franchise Services
Rolex watch
Kenneth Cole
Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare

I feel like a horse's ass and apologize to the companies I maligned. And I thank Anonymous for showing me my mistake.

By the way, the fetus fetishists who complile this list make people pay to receive it. Why?

LDI once offered The Boycott List without requesting a donation, but the policy changed when:
1) pro-Planned Parenthood people were urged to send for The Boycott List in an effort to bankrupt us--which they nearly did; and
2) we began to realize the enormous expense involved in obtaining the information needed to prepare The Boycott List.

Jeeze, people using economic tactics to express their displeasure? My, my.

Anyway, I'm letting the original post stand as a mea culpa and a reminder to self to READ.

ORIGINAL POST



You deal with any of these companies?

Enterprise car rentals

Forbes magazine

Ing

Toys “R” Us

Cisco Systems

Red Lion Hotels

Franchise Services

Rolex watch company

Kenneth Cole

Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare.

AOL

Darden Restaurants, including Bahama Breeze, The Capital Grille, LongHorn Steakhouse, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and Season 52.

Ignite Restaurants, including Brickhouse Tavern+Tap and Joe’s Crab Shack.

Hilton Worldwide, including Doubletree, Embassy Suites, Hampton Inns/Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Hilton Hotels, and Homewood Suites.

Kohl’s department stores

Mrs. Fields cookies

Staples office supply stores

The Gap clothing stores

Freddie Mac (????)

AlphaGraphics

Wells Fargo (including Wachovia)

Nike

Time Warner

Bank of America

Walt Disney

Johnson & Johnson

Lost Arrow (Patagonia, etc.)

Chevron

Nationwide Insurance

A fetus fetishist outfit named Life Decisions International has taken them off their boycott list because they've promised not to donate to Planned Parenthood.

This is USian, of course, so some of those companies don't do business in Canada, but many do. Some, of course, have been on progressive people's boycott lists for years: Nike and Walt Disney come to mind.

Some, like Rolex and Kenneth Cole, I'll have no trouble avoiding.

And Red Lobster almost killed me once. Never been back.

I probably have bought J&J stuff, but now I won't.

But Staples???? I love Staples. I go into a trance in Staples.

Fuck. It's back to Grand and Toy, then.

One wonders of course how many of those companies have or would donate to Planned Parenthood. Or if it's just canny business not to piss off the fetus fetishists.

Oh. Wait. The campaign has had a MASSIVE effect on PP.

LDI estimates that the boycott has cost Planned Parenthood more than $40 million since the Corporate Funding Project (CFP) began nearly 18 years ago.

First, how the hell do they 'estimate' that?

Next, $40 mill over 18 years? That's $2.2 million a year. Spread over umpty-many PP clinics and projects? Not quite so MASSIVE that it can't be countered by a bunch of sane people.

As Tweeter LadyD224 says:

Antis conveniently posted list of companies that stopped donating to Planned Parenthood. Read it & boycott them!

When I get a few minutes, I'm going to write to Staples and J&J Canada to tell them why I won't be spending my dough with them.

ADDED: Here is Staples Canada email contact.

ADDED2: Here is Johnson & Johnson Canada's email contact. Didja know that J&J makes K-Y Jelly? Do the fetus fetishists know they are supporting the homosexual agenda?

I'm going to say something nice about Wal-Mart

Color of Change, the folks who ran an online petition condemning Tim Horton's for its local sponsorship of an anti-gay event has announced that more companies are pulling their advertising from certifiable nincompoop Glenn Beck's show.

Eight more Glenn Beck advertisers, including Wal-Mart – the world’s largest retailer – have confirmed to ColorOfChange.org that they pulled their ads from the controversial Fox News Channel broadcaster’s eponymous show. Allergan (maker of Restasis), Ally Bank (a unit of GMAC Financial Services), Best Buy, Broadview Security, CVS, Re-Bath, Travelocity and Wal-Mart join the dozen other companies who previously distanced themselves from Beck.

Twenty companies have pulled their ads from Beck’s show in just the last two weeks. The moves come after the Fox News host called President Obama a “racist” who “has a deep-seated hatred for white people” during an appearance on Fox & Friends. Previous companies who pulled their ads include ConAgra, GEICO, Lawyers.com, Men’s Wearhouse, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, RadioShack, Roche, SC Johnson, Sanofi-Aventis, Sargento, and State Farm Insurance.

“We are heartened to see so many corporate citizens step up in support of our campaign against Glenn Beck,” said James Rucker, executive director of ColorOfChange.org. “Their action sends a clear a message to Glenn Beck: Broadcasters shouldn’t abuse the privilege they enjoy by spewing dangerous and racially charged hate language over the air. No matter their political affiliation, hate language doesn’t belong in our national dialogue.”

That's some heavy corporate hitters. Good to see even evul Wal-Mart showing sense over this.

You can sign the petition here.

via Media Matters

Boycotts and Grrrlcotts

Do boycotts work? You betcha!

Last year around this time, we feminazis staged a Grrrlcott against the Canadian Blog Awards because the administrators cravenly caved to objections 'from some' to a feminist category.

So, this year, there is a feminist category. (But, oy, look who/what has been nominated. Feminazis are waiting to see what the wise administrators decide about these nominations before declaring another grrrrlcott.)

Here, from RH Reality Check, is another 'success' story about a combined boycott/protest campaign by fetus fetishists against a couple of hotels in New Jersey.

It happened quietly and quickly. And now, no one's allowed to talk about it.

The story comes out of New Jersey. There, the Cherry Hill Women's Center provides reproductive and gynecological health services, including abortions. It was established in the 1970s, and is a member of the National Abortion Federation and the National Coalition of Abortion Providers.

As part of the center's support services, it developed a partnership with a local hotel, the Clarion Hotel & Conference Center, to offer out-of-town abortion patients a discounted rate on a room.

On October 20, LifeNews, an online anti-abortion publication, published an article that reported on this partnership, drawing on information it received from New Jersey Right to Life.

"The Clarion Hotel in Cherry Hill offers a reduced rate of $59 for a room originally priced at $109 to women staying there from out of town to get an abortion. Women need only show a receipt from the abortion business saying an overnight stay is necessary," according to the article.

It also indicated that the Quality Inn in Maple Shade, NJ, had a similar arrangement with the same women's center.

LifeNews described how anti-abortion groups were beginning to boycott the hotels, and urged its readership to further protest a policy that it said was aiding those who want to skirt parental notification laws in other states (New Jersey itself doesn't have a parental notification law; attempts to ban interstate travel of teens seeking abortion have never become law). LifeNews offered contact information for the hotels so readers could address them directly, and, presumably, articulate their distress at the policy.

Within just a couple days, other anti-abortion groups picked up the story, and passed it to their own email lists and membership bases. The Family Research Council, in an email blast, wrote alarmingly of how the hotels are "profiting" off of abortion by offering the discounted rates. It is unclear why the FRC believes that renting rooms at less than cost to certain guests brings the hotel a profit.

. . .

Their members did just that. By October 24, Family Research Council passed on another e-newsletter to its base, this time celebrating that the email/telephone protest against the policy that spread across the larger anti-abortion community worked. The Clarion Hotel had decided to cease offering discounted rates to patients of the Cherry Hill Women's Center.

Not content with throwing up legislative and regulatory barriers (parental notification, mandatory ultra-sounds, mandatory waiting periods, etc.), fetus fetishists use the power of the boycott to further restrict abortion access with economic barriers.

(Read the whole article. It ends on a positive note about compassionate volunteers stepping up, like the National Network of Abortion Funds, which raises $3 million a year to help 20,000 women with abortion costs.)

Well, you know, sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander and all that. . .

In California, where the loathsome Proposition 8 stripped gays and lesbians of the right to marry, the power of the boycott and grrrlcott is being conjured again.

The Huffington Post's Fred Karger reports on a number of boycotts justice-minded people can participate in.

Californians Against Hate has a list of them.

As the recent US election (and, marginally, the Canadian election) demonstrated, there are more of us than there are of them.

Go forth. And boy/grrrl-cott.