Of course it's easier Max. Why is that? Perhaps the US capitalist state is hardly resisting the campaign for such foreign boycotts as they can be be used as a bargaining chip in game of US imperialist politics now that the MFA has to be phased out and the rampant abuse of anti dumping laws has come under scrutiny?
And who's talking about lobbying? Why not turn out the protest to revise US labor laws like it was turned out to reform the WTO? Because the US capitalist state won't listen to the former as opposed to the latter or will respond with even greater repression to the former than it would to the latter? After all, the foreign boycott can be manipulated to win even more concessions, simply used unfairly as a device of the new protectionism, or kept on the books as a symbolic, toothless victory that justifies the AFL leadership's salaries. However, a secondary boycott against domestic producers...well then it's not a game anymore. That could be real class struggle!
And why campaign for the right of social protection against third world when they are being forced to liberalize and expose themselves fully to free trade? What kind of fair trade is that?
Yours, Rakesh