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The Company (or thing) Being Boycotted
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The Organization Leading the Boycott
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The Reason
for the Boycott
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Adidas - shoes
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International Wildlife
Coalition
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They use skins of threatened
Australian kangaroos for shoe leather.
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American Home Products
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Action for Corporate
Responsibility
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They use unethical marketing
practices to sell infant formula in developing countries - resulting in the
suffering and death of millions of women.
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Amoco - gasoline
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San Juan Citizens Alliance
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Amoco's drilling in
Southwest Colorado tainted the groundwater.
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Atlantic Richfield Company
(ARCO) - gasoline
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Project Maje
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ARCO does business in Burma,
and thus supports the brutal repression of the Burmese people.
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Bovine Growth Hormone (synthetic
rBGH) - American Home Products, Bordens, Danon, Haagen Dazs, Kraft, Land
O'Lakes, McDonald's, National Dairy Board, Nestlé’s, Carnation
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The Pure Food Campaign and
Food & Water
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Milk and dairy products
produced from cows injected with rBGH are potentially hazardous to human
and animal health and to the future of small dairies.
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China - any product made in China
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International Campaign for
Tibet and Tibetan Rights Campaign
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Boycotting all products from
China is a way to protest the ongoing human rights abuses being committed
by the Chinese government.
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Wal-Mart
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Save A County - Boycott
Wal-Mart
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They engage in proprietary
practices including unfair labor practices, exploitation of third-world
labor, environmental destruction, and the destruction of local economies.
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Grapes - California table grapes
only
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United Farm Workers
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Pesticides sprayed on the
grapes are hazardous to farm workers, their children, and consumers.
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Hormel - Dinty Moore (foods)
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Austin United Support Group
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The Company conducts unfair
labor practices.
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Levi
Strauss - jeans, Dockers, Brittania
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Fuerza Unida
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Workers were not adequately
compensated for job loss when the San Antonio factory relocated to Costa
Rica (Thank you NAFTA).
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Monsanto
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Pure Food Campaign; Pure
Dairy Commission; The National Family Farm Coalition;
Mission Possible; The National Farmers' Union
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Monsanto genetically
engineers foods that may be unhealthy and conducts business in a manner not
encouraging family farms; NutraSweet causes a wide range of medical
problems and has not been adequately tested; Monsanto has launched a campaign of intimidation against
dairy farmers and processors that label their products as being from cows
free of synthetic rBGH.
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Texaco - gasoline, Havoline Oil
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Rainforest Action Network
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Texaco left environmental
destruction after ending its operations in Ecuador.
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Georgia-Pacific - wood
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Rainforest Action Network
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They are involved in
rainforest destruction.
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Nike
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Justice! Do it Nike!
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Nike produces many of its
products using subcontractors in countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam
which use exploitative labor
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Norway -products made in Norway
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Earth Island Institute
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Norway has broken the
international ban on killing whales and seals
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Perdue - chicken
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Animal Rights International
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They're charged with animal
cruelty, worker exploitation, consumer fraud, and unethical business
practices
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Phillip Morris
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INFACT
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Through their ad campaigns,
they encourage underage smoking
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RJR Nabisco
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INFACT
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Through their ad campaigns,
they encourage underage smoking
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Proctor & Gamble
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In Defense of Animals
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The company conducts
unnecessary animal testing
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PVC Plastic - #3 plastic bottles
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Recycling Advocates
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#3 Plastic bottles cause
problems for recycling efforts, and they are made with toxic components
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Shell Oil Company
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Friends of the Earth and
Rainforest Action Network
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Shell's involvement in
Nigeria contributes to the repressive political situation there; they also cause
environmental destruction
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