I agree with you on a number of points. Primarily I think boycotts are poorly organized, and only effective when they are vastly accepted. I have a suggestion (which is admittedly of limited relevance in this case) on how to make them more efffective.
I currently boycott Nike because of their labor policies. As an active sports enthusiast, I wish I could in good concience buy nike products, as often they have the best or most available products. But I find alternatives. Then I save the receipts, and mail them to nike with a letter explaining why I bought the competitors products.
So my suggestion for an active partial boycott is this: Buy alternatives whenever possible. Send the receipt and notification of why you did this to the company. If they get enough they'll realize their bottom line is being affected far more quickly and immediately than through a normal boycott.
I have to get off my arse and make a web page propounding this idea.
Or anywhere else sufficiently isolated. We had two radiostation: the public radio station KCHU (I wonder if they are still running?) and a private one. The private one had maybe 6 reels of songs that they just cycled all day long, so if you kept your radio there, you reheard the same songs maybe 4 times in the course of a workday... And they didn't make new reals but maybe every two or three months... probably whenever they had a change in an advertisement.
I would have loved web radio back when I lived there... exposure to new types of music. Lovely. A lot of us had shortwave radio, but that was pretty problematic too.
I'm sure people living in some regions of arizona, Nevada, etc feel the same way.
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I currently boycott Nike because of their labor policies. As an active sports enthusiast, I wish I could in good concience buy nike products, as often they have the best or most available products. But I find alternatives. Then I save the receipts, and mail them to nike with a letter explaining why I bought the competitors products.
So my suggestion for an active partial boycott is this: Buy alternatives whenever possible. Send the receipt and notification of why you did this to the company. If they get enough they'll realize their bottom line is being affected far more quickly and immediately than through a normal boycott.
I have to get off my arse and make a web page propounding this idea.
I would have loved web radio back when I lived there... exposure to new types of music. Lovely. A lot of us had shortwave radio, but that was pretty problematic too.
I'm sure people living in some regions of arizona, Nevada, etc feel the same way.