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[–] 20 points 2 years ago (9 children)

If you want to learn how to do successful boycott campaigns, you should look for the BDS Movement, that has worked to spread awareness to boycott companies affiliated with the illegal Israeli occupation and genocide against Palestinians.

And no surprise, you will find many US companies in there. Also it should come as no surprise, that the US wants to outlaw even talking about boycotts in many states, as well as corrupt European politicians like in Germany attacking the notion of boycotting companies involved with brutal crimes against humanity.

We need to join efforts in reducing the economic power of Imperialism, whichever shape it takes.

https://bdsmovement.net/

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Awesome. I hadn't heard of this.

    Quick look at their website shows they've actually achieved some pretty great things.

    This is a great example. You can't just stop buying everything. Boycotting specific companies with specific demands is the way.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Sodastream? What did they do?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It is an Israeli company that used to operate a plant in illegally occupied territory in the Westbank as well as mistreating Palestinian workers. It moved to a factory in the Negev desert inside the 1967 borders. The new factory however is part of displacing Palestinian Bedouins that live in the Negev. Also the mistreatment of Palestinian workers continued.

    Ultimately of course all Israeli companies also pay corporate taxes which finance the Israeli executive such as Army, Police forces and Intelligence.

    https://bdsmovement.net/news/%E2%80%9Csodastream-still-subject-boycott%E2%80%9D
    https://www.cjpme.org/fs_244

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Sodastream have a nasty habit of looking for a vulnerable, oppressed population, building a factory on illegally stolen land, hiring a few of the locals for peanuts and then screaming that they are "helping" them.

    Did it to the Palestinians in the West Bank and when that failed relocated it in land confiscated from the Bedouins. It's in an artificial forced resettlement area where Bedouins have been forced to live in an Israeli-constructed town and industrial park.

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