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Boycott Target and Best Buy and Click Here for Petition Against Corporate Destruction of Democracy and More
SEN thanks Care2 friend John for alerting us to this wonderful video of citizens in action against corporate corruption of democracy and government. His effort and theirs inspired this idea:
Next time you’re near a Target (or Best Buy) store, walk up to the Customer Service counter and hand an employee a note something like this:
“Dear Target (or Best Buy) Employees: I know you had no part in the decision of your CEO to spend corporate money on his personal political interests rather than use it to increase your pay or benefits.
Perhaps you didn’t know that the Supreme Court recently ruled that corporations can do this and that Congress has done nothing to regulate it. I’m sorry that I can no longer shop here, but if we let these corporate elites get away with this, they will destroy what little is left of our democracy and what little chance we have to defend ourselves against their merciless greed. Many of my friends on Care2 feel the same, and millions of others also. — A Citizen Just Like You”
This page will be redone later in 2010. In the meantime, below are a few of SEN’s earlier Campaigns, most in concert with others…
Join us in the Condemnation Boycott of any or all of the Corporations below, which SEN will submit en masse on behalf of all who sign them:
Click Here to Condemn and Boycott The Learning Channel of Discovery Communications and its advertisers for picking Sarah Palin to host TV about Alaska’s wildlife and environment.
Palin champions aerial killing of wolves, opposes protection of whales and polar bears, and snears that global warming is “snake oil science”. CLICK HERE FOR PALIN’S ALASKA BOYCOTT CENTRAL!
Click here to condemn Fox News and multi-billionaire owner Rupert Murdoch and boycott Fox News advertisers for Glenn Beck’s ridiculing of Climate Change science (video above), and for his attack on sustainability champion Annie Leonard (at left), whose “Story of Stuff” he called un-American.
(Click here for Annie Leonard’s Story of Stuff)
Click here to condemn the Enviromental Defense Fund for partnering with WalMart and falsely claiming Walmart has committed to significantly reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and thus its destruction of global resources.
To summarize, EDF’s officers have enriched themselves with $100 million in yearly donations failing to defend the environment, and now spin lying praise of WalMart’s paltry committment. Walmart’s multi-billionaire Walton founders have annual sales of over $430 Billion, most of it importing products made in China and selling them in the USA under the American brand names of international corporations. China is building 2 coal-fired power plants per week. WalMart itself devours oil and annually emits OVER 21 MILLION TONS of light-as-air greenhouse gases.
WalMart pledged to reduce them only 1.5% per year for 5 years. EDF used its donation funds to give WalMart millions of dollars worth of free publicity falsely claiming WalMart’s pledge was hugely significant! The deception was cunning. WalMart forecast its emissions would grow by some 13 million tons in the next 5 years, which it would offset by 20 million tons by the end of that period, “150% of its growth in emmissions”. The net actual reduction of 7 million tons amortized over 5 years totaling over 100 million tons is a pittance!
A paltry1.5% per year is not the basis for Environmental Defense Fund to proclaim WalMart is a world leader of sustainability, not when WalMart is now the world’s largest world’s largest international corporate destroyer of earth’s resources and still will be 5 years from now! EDF refused to correct the deception when SEN’s Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert insisted on it, seconded by Co-Founder Suzanne Sparling in her capacity as USA Executive Director of Greenhouse Neutral Foundation.
If you click here for details of the EDF and Walmart story you will also find a link to a Nation cover story article that exposes the sell-out to corporate donors of EDF and many other major environmental non-profits condoning “too little too late” and failing to tell the truth as to the catastrophe ahead if we fail to do more. As we see it they are serving themselves. Soft-peddling generates happier website users and more donations, and lets EDF “non-profit” corporate executives and others like them live a good materialistic life promoting themselves, just like the for-profit international corporations that increasingly fund them to green-wash what they do.
I was outraged to find that the Environmental Defense Fund, an organization that I have been associated with for quite some time, was involved with Walmart and Sarah Palin’s jump onto the national cable system via the Discovery Channel. Sarah Palin? This is the woman who ordered wolves be shot from a helicopter when she was governor of Alaska. She most certainly is no friend of wildlife and has no interest in anything but making herself rich and famous. I have resigned my membership with the Environmental Defense Fund and I am boycotting sponsors that are supporting this travesty of a show. I certainly hope they will reconsider.
It feels healthy that we the People have stood for what is accountable in the Palin Boycot. Time will succeed in the making of a new country without the mentality of ones as Sarah Palin to actually think she has over thrown the Presidency.
Well if it will stop the insane epidimic that is running amuck I am all for it.Money Mongers need to be stopped in their tracks because the bottom line is they care for nothing or no one, only how much money they have at the end of the day and everything is for sale to these kind. God Help Us One and All : (
Most of the the sites wouldn’t click that above.
I find it is getting confusing anymore to know what organizations we can trust or not. The EDF involved with WalMart?! Just out to get rich, maybe they (EDF) don’t really care about the environment, they are just using that front to make money. Thanks for posting both sides of the story here so we can learn what is really going on.
I gave my name as San Diego because a lot of people here would like to put Palin in our zoo and release deserving animals to the Alaskan wild!
In light of the BP oil disaster, all should be done to bring accountability to the forfront as well as targeting and boycotting all who are directly and indirectly responsible for the ailments of the Earth and the destruction of wildlife worldwide. Thanks for the tools to do so.
I signed on, and I’d go hungry for days if it would help get Palin and Beck off TV completely.
I will NO longer support the Environmental Defense Fund! The rest of these fools can rot in hell! Palin is an evil, cunning bitch!
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I HATE SARAH PALIN.
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How did I miss this video on here. I thought I had seen all the pages. Sorry dear Gregory. But is good the video is getting around one way or another. These citizens should be very proud of themselves for what they did, I applaud them.
This is what we need to do as a force to reckon with, if we stick together.
…> agrees 100% with Michelle Soule! And someone need to tell the Discovery Channel to PLEASE PLEASE correct their grave error in contracting that woman!
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..Rita
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