The strategy is nationally targeted boycotts. But please stay with me. I know in a certain sense you've heard this all before, but that's totally missing the point. The point is that it ABSOLUTELY WOULD WORK. Corporate fascism (and that's America's present cancer) is limitlessly powerful in certain, public ways, BUT is has a very soft and vulnerable underbelly, and that's targeted boycotts.
It's like finding the Achilles ’ heel in a Tyrannosaurs Rex.
So, we have a puzzling and ironic problem. We know EXACTLY what would bring down the Tyrannosaurs Rex of corporate fascism and we know EXACTLY the location of its Achilles’ heel. And better still, it has nothing to do with the Washington sewer of elected traitors. This strategy is independent of sewer politicians. This strategy is 100% power of the people and grass roots. So, what could be better and if everything's so perfect, why aren't we doing it?
Ah, but that's the problem, isn't it?
The problem is to GET US TO DO IT.
So are we saying the problem is hopeless? Certainly not. And the reason it's not hopeless is because of the internet (and blessings upon it).
Basically the idea is to single out, say, 10, corporations (Halliburton and EXXON come to mind), and then collectively boycott the living s___ out of them. It would be counter productive to go after too many, since we want the laser focus of financial damage to double these corporations over. You just watch how quickly EXXON changes its position about global warming after discovering a financial artery has been cut by thousands (millions?) of enraged Americans who want their children to have a future not polluted by EXXON.
This paper has two finger crossing big ideas:
(1.) nationally targeted boycotts
(2.) finding a "spokesman" to launch this strategy.
The second is probably imperative since even though most of us agree that selected corporate boycotts would almost certainly inflict mortal damage to the Bush/fascist juggernaut, effectively organizing and implementing such boycotts would, realistically, be terribly difficult to do.
BUT NOT IF WE HAD A NATIONAL SPOKESMAN. If Dennis Kucinich, for example, took the lead and suggested to the American people that it would be win/win for America if we boycotted certain blatantly fascist and/or racist and/or anti American companies, that would almost surely launch a national movement, and that's what we need, a “national movement”.
Of course it wouldn't have to be Kucinich, Gore would be nice, Bill Richardson, or WHOMEVER (preferably a Democratic Presidential Candidate), but with such high profile leadership, this thing could actually happen. It would be "safe" for whatever candidate supported this, since in a certain sense boycotts are “politically neutral".
Maybe we could bait the candidates by predicting that whoever did this first would be the next President of the United States (which indeed might be the case if it significantly crippled corporate fascism).
All they would have to do would be to come out with a circulating list of 10 or so corporations which are raping Mother Nature and bleeding away the honor and wealth of America. What could be simpler?
Lastly, if we can't find a high profile spokesman, I guess it’s up to us to work out how to make this happen. Maybe we could start an informal "Boycott Party". I know many of you out there have already looked into boycotts extensively and have numerous great sites on this subject so let's all patriotic Americans brainstorm together about how to get national boycotts pragmatically organized.
