[lbo-talk] Re: anti-war boycott

[loupaulsen at attbi.com]

LF:
> How all this applies to the anti-war boycotts...it's kind of tough to say,
> since this isn't a labor boycott and no one working on it has any
> connections to these companies' workers, or any idea that they'd be
> sympathetic. 

It works better abroad than here.  "Boycott the United States" has a lot of 
resonance everywhere else in the world and is to some degree doable.  It's 
harder to boycott the United States if you are in the United States.  (I 
suppose you could live off imported foods from the deli section.)

On the other hand, organizers in the US could promote the boycott-the-US 
message outside the US, issue calls for it, support it, collect information 
and so on.  

If someone asked me to boycott company X to oppose the war I would be 
skeptical, but if someone asked me for ten dollars to support an international 
boycott organizing drive I would give it and I might go out with a fund 
raising bucket for it.

LP