REVOLT AGAINST THE EMPIRE:
WELCOME TO THE GREAT BOYCOTT
This is a boycott against the eight biggest pesticide companies in the world-Dow, Du Pont , Monsanto, Imperial Chemical Industries, CIBA-Geigy, Rhone Poulenc, Bayer, Hoechst--but it is much more than that. It's a boycott against THE POWER and against a way of life represented by all the gigantic multinational corporations, which every day extend their destructive control over the planet. That's why these simple, stark things need to be done:
1. Stop buying these corporations' products.
2. Don't buy their stock on whatever exchanges they're traded.
3. Demand that others, including institutions, sell their stock in these companies.
4. Don't work for these corporations.
5. Find a way to personally pass on the word.
Each of these eight corporations is at least four things: a pesticide company, a pharmaceutical company, a genetic food seed company, and a producer of industrial chemicals.
They are all forwarding genetic projects to engineer food seeds so that our food supply in the fields will accept much higher doses of herbicides without curling up and dying. This will drench both the soil and our bodies with corporate toxic chemicals and improve their profit statements. Of course, these mega-companies are up to their eyeballs in poisons. Poisons, you might say, are their life.
These corporations and others like them stand for control of the planet, as around us the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Huge multinationals, of course, blur with governments, thereby availing themselves of important political connections, intelligence agencies, military links.
Shall we passively go along with the redefinition of global life as 'units produced' and 'number of android employees hypnotized into loving the cubicle, the factory line, the lab, the computer station'?
Shall we accept a planet seeping with chemical poisons?
Shall we pretend that electing people from one party or another to national office will unseat these corporate rulers?
Shall we imagine that growing a little organic garden in the backyard will completely stop the annual use in the U.S. of six trillion pounds of industrial chemicals?
We are dealing with monopolies. A monopoly will say or do anything to dominate its chosen sphere. You throw out a monopoly by doing two things:
1. Boycotting the hell out of it as described above.
2. And then developing real alternatives for their toxic products.
So, yes, the worldwide revolution in organic growing of food is a tremendous alternative to pesticide mongers, but not without a powerful, loud and ongoing boycott. These companies, if forced into lower production of pesticides, will try ANYTHING to win. Hell, they'll sell the idea that tons of their organophosphates should be released into outer space to kill floating viruses! And you know what? Millions of brain-dead TV-watchers would buy in.
If you think I'm exaggerating in estimating how far multinationals will go in trying to peddle their toxins, meditate on the fact that the completely discredited and horrible drug, Thalidomide, a sedative that caused massive deformation in babies, is now being tested on people with AIDS.
Dow and Monsanto would still be selling their stocks of Agent Orange left over from the Vietnam War if enough people hadn't kept up a thunder of protest about dioxin, the molecule this defoliant contained which causes cancer, birth defects and immune suppression, and is called by scientists the most poisonous small molecule on the planet.
So the answer to a monopoly is: boycott it and lay down real alternatives to the needs it pretends to fill. If this boycott succeeds, it will be run by small groups of people all over the world using the Internet, faxes, homegrown articles, videos, audio tapes, self-published booklets, papers, info sheets, flyers. Unless we launch a major effort, our human societies in the 21st Century are going to disappear up their own anuses. If that's too graphic for you, take a look sometime at Rocky Flats, Colorado, world center for poisonous leaking chemicals; or look at a baby deformed by these chemicals. That's what graphic really is. Don't knuckle under. Don't believe liars. Don't march off the cliff. Boycott!
For the full text of the Boycott, go to http://home.earthlink.net/~alto/boycott.html#intro.