Boycott Everything

Ta ta bye, cunt-fill-a

"Fellowship of Christian Athletes" get ta fuck

Big drop got well reviewed in a to b magazine

Without wanting to spoil everyone's party, I consider it unlikely that they'll withdraw from the UK. While I'm not an expert on the restaurant fast food shitflinger business, I'd guess that this was a pilot, which they'll evaluate, and then the next launch will be of quite a few shops dotted all over the UK. It's apparently a chain with 2,400 places in the US, so I can't imagine they'll give up a chance of a piece of the UK chicken corpse market so easily.

It is a pilot, but if it's clear that they'll be picketed and boycotted by a lively alphabet community, they may leave it to the heathens of Morley's. And the UK's corpse-lovers do prefer a place which opens on Sundays.

Yes, but once there are multiple outlets, they'll be quite hard to 'picket'. It's easy when there's one point of focus. I predict that the protesters would soon no longer have the resources/move on to other worthy causes.

A lot of the protesters were local though, Reading Pride, (some) local councillors etc

No reason to believe other areas won't have similarly protests

Sure, but unless they manage to organise protests at every outlet, and co-ordinate, they'll inevitably feel more of a sense of futility, especially if the company moves fast about opening new branches. Oh well, I hope it doesn't happen. Too many struggles.

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please boycott everything that comes from Chile. The state is committing human rights violations.
Chile is an exporter country, so it is important to exert international pressure on their products.

Give us a hint.

It's hard to name brands, because they're for the foreign market. Most of the exports are wines, blueberries, avocado (these have a great impact on water consumption, leaving localities to die. ex: Petorca). If you are going to buy fresh vegetables and fruits, check their origin.

Big metal / metal ore exporters too - much harder to avoid.

Not sure which thread this is most relevant but worth sharing seeing how much most of us use google in one way or another
https://medium.com/@rossformaine/i-was-googles-head-of-international-relations-here-s-why-i-left-49313d23065

A benevolent alternative (for search at least): https://www.ecosia.org/

I didn't realise it's a browser app as well as a search engine (just installed and using it now)

Boycott the Beach Boys - even Brian's down with that:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/04/brian-wilson-boycotts-beach-boys-hunting-convention-concert

Mike Love is just the absolute worst.

Maybe a decent time to update with firms who are either taking advantage of or treating staff shittily in the days of Corona. Starting with a few of the usual suspects:

Amazon - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/amazon-donations-sick-leave/
Wetherspoon’s
Sports Direct

Massive spreadsheet with a rolling crowd-sourced list of who's currently being a cunt and who's not: http://whencovidisover.co.uk/

In a Google doc.

You should add Google to it. It's open to everyone!

where's the form for returns?

I'm adding BrewDog because

Great idea, BlueCoat won't let me view it though. Must find another way to view...

I dug up the direct google sheets link, if that makes any difference: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fEedCEuymNYlzkHdcEhymNkBO451FgVx84k5Fwpv9P8/edit

219 rows so far! (not all bastards, thankfully)

From @branwen in another thread - just in case anyone is still using Amazon, srsly, have a word with yourself:

Whole Foods has fired a California employee who created a running count of COVID-19 cases in company’s US supermarkets because neither Amazon nor Whole Foods would make the information publicly available.

Katie Doan, who worked at the Tustin Whole Foods in Orange County for three years, says she was fired on Wednesday for “time theft” when she took a 45 minute break to recover from a panic attack. For many Whole Foods employees and other grocery store workers around the country, working at the company has been stressful and anxiety-inducing, in part because of the ever-present risk of catching COVID-19. Motherboard viewed a copy of the terms of her separation from the company.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3zd9­g/whole-foods-just-fired-an-employee-who­-kept-track-of-coronavirus-cases

Earlier this week, 11 local broadcasters were caught airing “news” segments that were actually advertisements praising Amazon’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis. Experts say the ads—which featured an Amazon PR rep pretending to be a reporter—not only violated the law, but are a shining example of how media consolidation is slowly destroying quality local journalism.

The ads were part of an Amazon press release lauding the company for its “innovation” during the COVID-19 crisis. And while some ethical reporters correctly balked at the idea of running marketing fluff as news, some stations ran the prepared segment as hard news without informing viewers they were watching an Amazon infomercial.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7kpvm­9/tv-stations-broke-law-by-airing-amazon­-propaganda-as-news-experts-say

Just in case there was any doubt about Amazon being evil