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I hope that at least some of you wrote a "love" letter to our dearest Mr.Bu$h, since I didn't get any feedback on my last entry.
I believe it is time for me to publish a new BOYCOTT list. Most of it is taken from ethicalconsumer.org (you can find the link in my link collection on the left side of your screen as well).
The angry banana indicates those boycotts I personally support wholeheartedly.
If you are aware of any more corporate criminal$ then please don't hesitate to share them with us. Spread the word!
~peace~
The boycotts are called by the campaign groups listed as contacts and reported by Ethical Consumer. Where possible this site contains direct links to the companies in question to make registering your disapproval even easier.
Take a look at the Boycott Bush site.
Adidas 
for using kangaroo skin to make some types of football boots.
Contact Viva tel 0117 944 1000
Airlines
for transporting monkeys for research. Although a number of airlines have made concessions, some still transport primates, including Air France, Air India, Continental, Delta, Lufthansa, Sabena, El Al.
Contact: British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, 16a Crane Grove, London, 0207 700 4888
American Home Products
for its cruel use of horses in producing the HRT drug Premarin and Prempak-C. Brands include Anadin, Tramil, Bisodol, Anne French, Chapstick, and Wyeth and SMA babymilks and animal testing.
Contact: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Europe, PO Box 3169, London SW18 4WJ, 0208 870 3966
AquaBabies
to protest at the miserable existence and untimely death that is inevitable for the baby fish contained in them. Web page.
Contact: Animal Aid The Old Chapel, Bradford Street, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 1AW, 01732 364546
Bacardi
for continuing to use its Cuban origins in its marketing despite being active in anti-Cuba lobby groups in the US.
Contact: Rock around the Blockade on 0207 837 1688
Barclays - see Burma
British Heart Foundation
as a leading medical charity which tests on animals. (Started in February 2000)
Contact: PETA on 0208 870 3966
Budweiser
because its producers, Anheuser Busch, own Seaworld operations which involve captive performing orcas (killer whales).
Contact: Cetaecea Defence on 01403 240170
Burma
is ruled by one of the world's most brutal regimes and has used forced labour to prepare the country for tourism. The boycott is an avoidance of tourism and of companies with investments in Burma, such as TotalFinaElf and Unocal. Premier Oil recently announced their decision to pull out of Burma after major shareholders Amerada Hess and Petronas withdrew from Premier.
Contact: Burma Campaign UK, 3rd floor Bickerton House, 25-27 Bickerton Rd, London N19 5JT, tel. 0207 281 7377
China
for its continued human rights abuses:
Contact: Third World Movement on 0208 208 2853 or rhino@dial.pipex.com
and for its occupation of Tibet
Website: Boycottmadeinchina, contact: usa@boycottmadeinchina.org
Coca-Cola
for polluting the environment whereever they build their bottling plants, especially rivers in India. And for hiring headhunters to murder union leaders and for following anti-union policies, especially in Columbia.
Website: KillerCoke.com
Colgate-Palmolive
as part of a boycott of the products of companies which still test on animals. The focus of the boycott is the testing of household goods and their ingredients.
Website: BUAV on 0207 700 4888
DaimlerChrysler
for its continued failure to pay adequate compensation for its use of slave labour in Germany during World War II.
Website: Boycott DaimlerChrysler
(or for manufacturing tanks, gun ships and so on, using MTU as their subisdiary company!).
Dior
for its advertising campaign which features models who "look dead, drugged, greasy and are in or near cars", thereby glamorising drunk driving whilst eroticising the victimisation of women.
Media Watch, PO Box 618, Santa Cruz, CA, USA. Tel: 001 831 423 6355 Website: www.mediawatch.com
Donna Karan
to hold the clothing company accountable for sweatshop conditions in its suppliers' factories. Called by National Mobilisation Against Sweatshops. 
Contact: nmass@yahoo.com
Website: www.nmass.org/nmass/aiw/aiw.html
Esso
for doing more than any other company to sabotage international action on climate change.
Website: www.stopesso.com
Gap
for the Fisher family's continued clearcutting of old growth forest in Mendocino County, USA. Clothing brands include Banana Republic and Old Navy.
Contact: Save the Redwoods-Boycott the Gap Campaign, 252 Frederick St, San Francisco, tel. 001 415 731 7924
GlaxoSmithKline (began Nov 2000)
One of the biggest customers to the Huntingdon Life Sciences animal testing laboratory. Brands include: Ribena, Lucozade, Aquafresh, Beechams, Macleans, Solphadeine, Nicorette, Nightnurse, Horlicks, Contac and Tums.
Contact: Shac PO Box 381, Cheltenham GL50 1YN tel. 0121 632 6460 info@shac.u-net.com
GM Foods
for their environmental and health impacts.
Contact: Friends of the Earth on 0207 490 1555
Herbalife Protein Shake
by Bruno Heinzer products, because it allegedly contains GM products
Contact: Genetic Food Alert on 01334 477411
Iams (owned by Procter & Gamble)
because of experiments on at least 460 cats and dogs, supported by Iams.
And they still keep experimenting on cats, dogs & rabbits.
Contact: Uncaged St. Matthews House, 45 Carver Street, Sheffield S1 4FT tel: 0114 272 2220
Israel
a boycott of Israeli products and tourism following 'decades of refusal to abide by UN resolutions, International Humanitarian law and the Fourth Geneva Convention.' Click here to see more.
Contact Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Box BM PSA, London WC1N 3XX tel: 020 7700 6192 or see the Boycott Israeli Goods website.
Janet Jackson
because of her duet with dancehall star Beenie Man. Beenie Man's lyrics have advocated killing gay people.
(Wtf is Beenie Man's problem??)
Contact Outrage tel: 0208 240 0222
SC Johnson
as part of a boycott of the products of companies which still test on animals. The focus of the boycott is the testing of household goods and their ingredients.
Contact: BUAV on 0207 700 4888
KFC
for cruelty to chickens. For further infos on why to boycott KFC check out Why I Boycott KFC. 
Contact PETA Europe, view the dedicated website Kentucky Fried Cruelty or telephone 020 7357 9229.
Levi Strauss and Co
for its continued failure to pay adequate compensation to workers who lost their jobs when a factory was relocated to Costa Rica and the use of sweatshops.
Contact: Fuerza Unida, PO Box 830083, San Antonio, Texas, tel. (US) 210 927 2294
Lonely Planet Guides
until the new Lonely Planet guide to Burma is abandoned. Strong evidence exists that tourist facilities, roads and other construction programmes in Burma have used forced labour and involved severe human rights abuses.
Contact: The Burma Campaign UK on 020 7281 7377 or email info@burmacampaign.org.uk
or Tourism Concern on 020 7753 3330 or email info@tourismconcern.org.uk
L'Oreal
because of its continued use of animal testing in cosmetic products. Brands include Maybelline, Vichy, Helena, Rubenstein, Lancome, Lanvin, Cacharel, Guy Larache, Ralph Lauren, Elvive, Studio Line and Kerastase.
Contact: Naturewatch on 01242 252 871 or email info@naturewatch.org
Marks & Spencers
for its historic and continuing support for Israel at a time of escalating conflict between Palestinians and the Israeli state.
Contact: Islamic Human Rights Commission, PO Box 598, Wembley, London. Telephone 020 8902 0888.
McDonalds
PETA Europe has informed us that there is currently a campaign moratorium on this boycott due to improvements in animal welfare that McDonalds has agreed to and while PETA is still in talks with them. For further infos on why to boycott McDonalds check out Why I boycott McDonalds.
Contact: PETA on 020 7357 9229.
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
because of its involvement in the funding of the Three Gorges Dam in China, which has been criticised for its flooding of important habitats and the forced displacement by the Chinese authorities of over 1 million people.
Contact: International Rivers Network on +1 510 848 1155
Morocco
a tourism boycott for Morocco's continued illegal occupation of Western Sahara (since 1978) and human rights abuses of the Saharawi people, including in 1999-2000 those aimed at preventing the successful progress of a UN referendum.
Contact: Western Sahara Group, Oxford Chambers, Oxford Place, Leeds LS1 3AX, 0113 245 4786
Nestlé
for its irresponsible marketing of breastmilk substitutes. For further infos on why to boycott the food giant check out The Ugly Side of Nestlé
Contact: Baby Milk Action, 23 St Andrews St, Cambridge CB2 3AX, 01223 464420
Nike
for its abuses of workers' rights in its factories in East Asia.
Contact: www.saigon.com/nike or Nike@saigon.com
Philip Morris
for its continued production and marketing of tobacco products. Brands include Maxwell House, Jacobs Suchard and Marlboro.
Contact: INFACT, 46 Plympton St, Boston, MA, USA, tel 001 617 695 2525
Procter and Gamble
for its continued use of animal testing. Brands made by P&G include Always, Ariel, Bold, Camay, Clearasil, Crest, Daz, Dreft, Fairy, Flash, Head and Shoulders, Insignia, Milton, Napisan, Oil of Ulay, Old Spice, Pampers, Sinex, Tide, Viakal, Vidal Sassoon, Vortex and Zest.
Contact: Uncaged, 14 Ridgeway Rd, Sheffield, S12 2SS (0114 253 0020), PETA, POBox 3169, London NW1 2JF (0208 870 3966), BUAV, 16a Crane Grove, London N7 8LB (0207 700 4888)
Reckitt Benckiser
as part of a boycott of products of companies which still test on animals. The focus of the boycott is on the testing of household goods and their ingredients.
Contact: BUAV on 0207 700 4888
Royal Caribbean Cruises
for dumping inadequately treated sewage into the oceans.
Contact: Oceana’s website.
Shell
until the peoples of the Ogoni region in Nigeria receive a fair share of profits from oil extraction, and better environmental standards.
Contact: MOSOP-UK (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People), Suite 3-4, Albion Place, Galena Rd, Hammersmith, London W6 0LT, 0208 563 8614
Stagecoach
buses and trains, because the company CEO has donated large sums to the campaign against repeal of Section 28 in Scotland.
Contact: Outrage on 0208 240 0222
Starbucks
for using genetically engineered ingredients and Bovine Growth Hormone and exploiting coffee bean farmers. Demand Fair Trade Coffee!
Contact: Organic Consumers association on 001 415 384 0623
Suzuki
for its involvement in Burma, one of the world's most oppressive regimes.
Contact: Burma Campaign UK on 020 7281 7377 or email bagp@gn.apc.org
Texaco
for having the longest history of oil exploitation on tribal lands in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Contact: Survival International, 11-15 Emerald St, London WC1N 3QL, 0207 242 1441
Tropical Hardwoods
for the destruction of biodiversity and habitats involved in their logging. Covers all hardwoods except for those with Forest Stewardship Council labelling.
Contact: Friends of the Earth on 0207 490 1555
Turkey
a tourism boycott over the country's human rights abuses, also more recently regarding the Ilisu dam project.
Contact: Kurdistan Information Centre, 10 Glasshouse Yard, London EC1A 4JN, 0207 250 1315
UCI cinemas
for involvement in the destruction of community parkland and woodland at Crystal Palace as part of a large development.
Contact: community group on 0208 244 8399 or crystal@crystal.dircon.co.uk
Unilever
as part of a boycott of the products of companies which still test on animals. The focus of the boycott is on the testing of household products and their ingredients.
Contact: BUAV on 0207 700 4888
World Bank bonds
to demand an end to structural adjustment programs and socially destructive world bank policies.
Major institutions with World Bank bonds include Nat West, Barclays Capital, HSBC, Goldman Sachs, MorganStanley and Citibank.
Contact A SEED Europe or visit the website.
Last but not least I want to intoduce this great site on my blog, a collection of Corporate Dirt.
I added the link to my link collection as you can see on the left side of your screen. Every MNC should be presented there in one way or another.
Enjoy~
~GlobalPeace&Solidarity~
