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Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. (mstdn.social)

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

In 1995 we boycotted Shell for environmental reasons and it worked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Spar

Towing of the platform to its final position began on 11 June. By this time, the call for a boycott of Shell products was being heeded across much of continental northern Europe, damaging Shell's profitability as well as brand image. [...]

On 20 June, Shell had decided that their position was no longer tenable, and withdrew their plan to sink the Brent Spar [...]

So it needed more than a week of concerted boycott action to bring big business into trouble, but not unlimited boycott.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That boycott had a demand attached, to prevent the sinking of the Brent Spar buoy. Effectively "unlimited" boycott until Shell gave into the demand.

This and the last no shop Friday thing seem mostly pointless. I mean fuck Amazon for sure but shouldn't there be some goal? "Boycott Amazon until X, Y, and Z" not "No buy from Amazon for a week but then we'll be back so no worries!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The implicit demand is to stop supporting fascists.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

for a week

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Implicit demands are for mob bosses and boat owners. If you're threatening a corporation you need to be clear and direct.

Less

We are boycotting Amazon products until they stop be bad

We are boycotting Amazon products until they make another season of The Expanse

Or whatever. Clear, concrete, demands.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

We are boycotting Amazon products until they make another season of The Expanse

With the time skip, that's going to be a long boycott.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Boycott action, and a smidge of arson.