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Boikot, atau Pemulauan, adalah kaedah yang amat berkesan yang mampu memberikan kesan kepada sasaran.  Dalam membantu saudara Islam kita yang tertindas di Palestin dan Aceh, sebagaimana kita perlu menentang secara langsung Israel dan Amerika, kita juga perlu mengambil tindakan secara memboikot pihak-pihak komersil termasuklah syarikat-syarikat gergasi Multinational Corporations yang dimiliki oleh rejim Israel dan sekutunya Amerika, dan memboikot aliran modal kewangan daripada sumber Wall Street.  Kita juga wajiblah memboikot syarikat-syarikat Multinationals yang terbukti mengeksploitasi, menjajah dan menjarah serta menindas kaum buruh dan petani dan menjahanamkan alam semulajadi.


Boycott is a very effective Direct Action by ordinary people which can inflict damages to targeted parties, be it a company which sells dangerous products all over the world, or the mighty tyrants Israel and United States of America. As far as workers and small businesses are concerned, a Boycott is a strong message from the People that if they care about more than their wages and profits, they have to clean up their acts.

Take for instance Shell, a petroleum Multinational, which is campaigning on behalf of the environment, would you think that Shell is giving reparation for damages it has inflicted upon the environment and Indigenous peoples? Shell is even denying to have anything to do with the allegations while evidences are plenty. If Shell is honest, it should have run full-page advertisement detailing its roles in the destruction of pristine Nature and the murder of Ken Saro Wiwa in Nigeria and its condoning Human Rights Abuse by tyrannical regimes including what is happening in Aceh. So for me, Shell’s advertisement of campaigning itself as a responsible and Nature-friendly corporation is a Big Bullshit and waste of money. That money should have been given to compensate the damages to the Indigenous Peoples and environment.

In fact, hiring Public-Relations specialist and expensive advertisement have became standard response of many big corporations being incriminated in environmental destruction and Human Rights Abuse. The latest is McDonald's television campaign to raise money for children. In the wake of global boycott by many countries against McDonald's, its television advertisement is even showing Palestinian people carrying their murdered brothers covered with their national flag. Where do you think percentage of McDonald's profit goes? Right, another bullet for Israel, another dead Palestinian.


One of the worst enemies of any struggle for Justice and Reparation is the ATTITUDE of each person. As a CONSUMER in this materialistic industrial society, one is more concerned for his or her cup of Latte than the poor farmers far away in Colombia toiling in the coffee fields who might die of poverty, or of diseases from toxic pesticides. Either because of SNOBBERY, IGNORANCE, or just plain APATHY, some people especially belonging to the comfort class, can hardly see the benefit of such simple action as a boycott.

BOYCOTT LIST

• Exxon, Shell, Mobil
  Bersekongkol dengan rejim tentera melanggar Hak Asasi manusia rakyat tempatan seperti di Aceh, Nigeria
  - Collaborating with miliatry regimes in violating Human Rights of local peoples
  
  
• DOW CHEMICALS
  Tragedi Bhopal - Kebocoran gas toksik yang membunuh penduduk tempatan; pihak Dow tidak mahu bertanggungjawab atau membayar pampasan
  - Denying responsibility in the Bhopal tragedy and refusing compensations for victims
  
  
• MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS INVOLVED IN PETROLEUM, MINING, FOREST CUTTING (TIMBER), DESTRUCTIVE AGRICULTURE, NUCLEAR, CHEMICALS – RESPONSIBLE FOR EXPLOITATION AND DESTRUCTION OF ENVIRONMENT AND INDIGENOUS CULTURES
  
  
  
• MONSANTO
  Mengeluarkan Kimia Berbahaya sebagai produk pertanian - baja dan racun serangga, memaksa petani dan memeras, MAKANAN GENETIK TERUBAH
  - Producer of Toxic Chemicals for Pestiicides - Agent Orange, Aldicarb, Dieldrine, and thousands other concoctions. Predatory tactics in monopolizing supplies of agricultural inputs to farmers. GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD potentially harmful to human, animals, and environment
  
  
• CARGILL Specializing in Grains
  Monopoli pasaran bijirin, menjahanamkan industri pertanian tempatan, menindas petani-petani kecil
  - Monopoly in grain market, ruining loccal agriculture, unfair treatment of small farmers
  
  
• Syarikat Farmasi Multinasional menghasilkan ubat-ubatan Dadah (Drugs) dan memaksa Hospital, Klinik, dan Panel Doktor menggalakkan penggunaan ubat-ubatan yang berbahaya, tidak berkesan, boleh membawa maut atau kesan buruk. Menjalankan kempen memburuk-burukkan Kaedah Rawatan Tradisional dan Alternatif (Akupunktur, Homeopati, Vitamin, Herba).
  Eli Lily, Pfizer, Bayer, Ciba-Geigy, Rhone-Poulenc, dan banyak lagi
  Multinational Pharmaceutical companies - synthetic drugs potentially dangerous to human and fetus, shady marketing schemes for Medical Institutions, Clinics, and Doctors to prescribe drugs which are not thoroughly tested, potentially dangerous, or do not possess medical benefits whatsoever. Campaigning against traditional and alternative medicines.
  
  
  
• Citibank, Bank of America, Goldman-Sachs, International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, Banks from Industrial Countries including Japan and Hong Kong
  - Institusi Kewangan Riba' dan menjana pembiayaan Zionis dan Israel.Termasuk juga syarikat-syarikat FRANCAIS atau PEMILIKAN ASING daripada Amerika Syarikat dan Israel atau penyokong Zionis. Bank-bank asing dari Jepun dan Hong Kong juga mengamalkan Riba' dengan membiayai projek-projek industri membazir dengan Syarat-syarat yang merugikan negara peminjam
  - Usurious bankers and monetary instituutions which are owned and controlled by Jewish circles and providing funds for Israel and the Zionist regimes
  - Loans for development projects which only benefit the ruling class and ruining nation's economies and the working people by committing the entire nation into growing debts (they are the Loan Sharks in suits). Examples are Indonesia and Argentina, which recently turned into chaos with millions being jobless and penniless.
  
  The roles of giant banks, IMF, and the World Bank are more complex and invisible to the public scrutiny, though it has been studied and proven that the boom and bust cycles in the world economic order are according to the whims and fancies of these institutions
  
  
  
• McDonald, A&W, KFC
  - Menggalakkan makanan JUNK FOOD tiada khasiat, menjejaskan kesihatan terutama kanak-kanak, bahan makanan daging ayam dan lembu yang bercampur-baur dengan bahan buangan, menindas pekerja
  - JUNK FOOD CULTURE, Fast food with litttle nutrition and sugar-laden soft drinks contributing to Obesity of children and adults; bad treatment of workers, anti-Union
  
  
• Nestle
  - menggalakkan mee segera MAGGI MEE menngandungi Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) yang boleh menjejaskan buah pinggang dan rambut gugur (menggunakan Pakar Pemakanan untuk mempromosikan mee segera!)
  - Kempen menyusukan bayi menggunakan suusu tepung formula, maklumat negatif mengenai manfaat susu ibu dan makanan tradisional
  - Kempen makanan bijirin segera dalam kkotak yang mengandungi banyak gula tetapi kurang khasiat
  - Promoting PACKAGED FOODS with low nuttritious value, but high sugar content (breakfast cereals), high Monosodium Glutamate (instant noodles), spending millions in ADVERTISEMENT of these junk food
  - Promoting BABY FOODS made from cow's milk and dubious ingredients as opposed to breastfeeding and natural food (home-prepared)
  
  
• Coca Cola, Pepsi, F&N
  jenama minuman ringan - minuman menjejaskan kesihatan
  
  
• Starbucks, francais cafe lain-lain
  - MENINDAS PETANI PENANAM KOPI
  
  
• Walt Disney, Buena Vista, Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, HOLLYWOOD
  - BUDAYA KUNING & LUCAH
  
  
• BOLLYWOOD
  - BUDAYA KUNING & LUCAH, Menggalakkan Murtad
  
  
• Rancangan Kartun
  Ren & Stimpy, Beavis & Butthead – KOTOR
  
  
• Wrestling WWE
  Budaya GANAS dan kotor, VIOLENCE and disgusting sportsmaniacs
  
  
• ACARA SUKAN DAN RATU CANTIK
  SPORTS EVENTS AND TOURNAMENTS, BEAUTY PAGEANTS
  Ditaja oleh Syarikat-syarikat Arak, Judi, Rokok
  - Sponsored by Companies peddling Alcohol, Gambling, Lottery, Cigarettes
  CARLSBERG, TIGER BEER, MAGNUM CORPORATIONS
  
  
• Nike, Adidas, Levi's, Reebok
  - MENINDAS PEKERJA, Pembayaran berjuta--juta kepada atlit sukan seperti Tiger Woods dan Michael Jordan, tetapi pekerja kontrak di Indonesia, Vietnam, China menerima gaji tidak setimpal dan dilayan begitu buruk
  
  
  
• Gucci, Armani, Calvin Klein, Versace, dan lain-lain `Haute Couture'
  - PEMBAZIRAN DAN BUDAYA BOROS MATERIALISTIK HEDONISTIK
  -WASTEFUL EXTRAVAGANT CONSUMERISM
  
  
• CARREFOUR, WALMART, K-MART, PASARAYA GUDANG
  Menjahanamkan perniagaan kecil tempatan, Harga manipulasi
  - Predatory pricing, low quality produccts, anti-competitive, destroying small local businesses, effecting small local suppliers
  
  
• Microsoft
  - Monopoli, Anti-Persaingan (Anti Competitive), Kos tinggi, kualiti rendah

Termasuk juga Syarikat-syarikat Asing Anti-Persaingan (Anti-Competitive) dan menjalankan Strategi memonopoli Industri dan menghalang Pembangunan dan Pemasaran oleh Negara Dunia Ketiga dan Syarikat-syarikat kecil.

- Corporations practising Market Monopoly, Cartels, and obstructing Local Industries from developing products and marketing and achieving economic independence, whether in agriculture, food, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, or computer software

Contoh: (1) CARGILL - memonopoli pasaran benih bijirin, dan memonopoli pemasaran hasil tuaian bijirin daripada petani-petani tempatan

(2)Syarikat Farmaseutikal asing cuba mempatenkan bahan kimia yang diperolehi daripada tumbuhan tempatan, menghalang rakyat tempatan daripada menggunakan bahan tersebut atau mengkomersilkannya di pasaran tempatan. Contoh: ubat HIV daripada pokok tempatan, tumbuhan Neem (sejenis herba), beras Basmati, dan sebagainya.

(3) MICROSOFT - Memonopoli Perisian Komputer dan menghalang perkembangan industri Perisian Terbuka (Open Source Software) dan menjalankan strategi menyekat perkembangan persaingan terdekat iaitu Linux; harga produk yang mahal tetapi kualiti rendah tanpa sokongan selepas jualan yang cekap dan telus
-Defective products, predatory prices, bad practices of after-sales service



BAGAIMANA ANDA BOLEH MENGADAKAN KEMPEN BOIKOT
- Memahami Fakta mengenai Syarikat-syarrikat, Korporat yang terlibat, produk-produknya
- Memahami mesej disebalik Iklan atau ssebarang kempen yang dijalankan oleh syarikat tersebut
- Memulaukan, enggan membeli, memutuskaan hubungan komersil
- Menyingkirkan Iklan, Logo, sebarang bbentuk promosi
- Mengedarkan risalah mengenai syarikatt dan produk yang hendak diboikot
- Menulis surat kepada Lembaga Pengaarah Korporat syarikat yang diboikot, contoh Nestle Malaysia - memberi tekanan kepada syarikat untuk menarik balik produk atau iklan
- Mendidik keluarga dan rakan mengenai peri pentingnya tindakan boikot kerana ia amat berkesan
- Mengubah citarasa dan budaya membeli - mendidik diri dan keluarga untuk berjimat-cermat
- Prihatin kepada petani, nelayan, ppenjaja, peniaga kecil, pekerja kilang, tukang mahir menjahit pakaian dan pembuat peralatan
- Menyokong perniagaan kecil dan industtri tempatan, memilih jenama tempatan
- Anda juga boleh melaksanakan Inisiatiif Perdagangan Adil (Fair Trade) dengan membeli dan mengedarkan barangan seperti produk tani organik yang dibeli secara pos daripada petani dan pengeluar Negara Dunia Ketiga

HOW TO BOYCOTT
- Understanding facts about the corporaations and their products
- Exposing lies and cover-ups and hiddeen agendas especially behind every advertisement and campaigns by targeted corporations
- Refusing to purchase any product or sservice, or making commercial ties
- Eliminate advertisement, logo, any prromotional item
- Write letter to the Boards of Direectors of the targeted companies - such as Nestle Malaysia, asking them to do something about products or advertisement or campaign which you object
- Distribute photocopied leaflets or leetters about targeted companies and products
- Change your own taste and consumer liifestyle, you can do without expensive brand
- Raise awareness about the welfare of small producers, artisans and craftsman, farmers, fishermen, local tailors, barbers, local grocery shops, factory workers; whether in your neighborhood or the farmers far away in Colombia, your initiatives will surely contribute to improving their livelihood
- Support small and local businesses annd industries, choose local products and services
- You can also choose to buy and distriibute products by `Fair Trade Initiatives', which can be assessed by mail order, to buy organic farm produce from small farmers and producers in Third World countries

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