Boycott China and the Olympics!

China is the first on my list for a boycott for a lot of reasons. China has suppressed its own citizens, most notably in the Tianamen Square massacre of hundreds of students.

Currently China supports the Military Junta running Burma (Myanmar). That junta is currently murdering peace loving Buddhist monks and citizens who are protesting against the Burmese gov't.

China also has done irreparable harm to Tibet and Tibetan culture, nearly erasing their Buddhist heritage, causing the Dali Lama to flee for his life. Thousands of monks have been de-frocked, monasteries closed, natural resources raped, and so much harm done to the Tibetan people.

China is also allowing substandard food and products to be exported to the US and around the world, sometimes resulting in consumer deaths. This is especially notable in the US where millions of toys containing dangerous lead paint have been recalled.

China is also planning on taking back Taiwan as soon as it feels it can do so without too much hindrance.

The Chinese Olympics are coming next year. We need to urge everyone to Boycott the Olympics. In addition it's a good idea for Americans and the rest of the world to boycott Chinese goods, contaminated or not.

China OWNS so much US debt and has such a huge amount of $US on hand, it can do great harm to the US should it choose.

If we start a China boycott, it will get LESS of a cash flow from the US and elsewhere, giving it LESS power to hurt the US should it come to that.

So let's make China the first Official Boycott from the Hip Forums.

Anyone with me?

Check EVERYTHING you buy to see if it's made in China. By not buying Chinese goods, you will at least be protecting yourself and your family from inferior, slave wage produced goods.

Those also profit BIG US corporations and allow China to continue its repressive policies against its own people and those of other countries like Tibet and Burma!

BOYCOTT CHINESE GOODS AND THE OLYMPICS!

 

I also negelected to mention that China also CENSORS this website, blocking access to millions of Chinese. The block isn't nationwide, just some areas that are highly monitored. But it doesn't block Chinese spammers from CONSTANTLY coming here posting up ads for everything, esp. Nike Shoes (I guess we should boycott Nike too!)

Don't worry I've already taken that problem into my own hands by blocking huge chucks of China's Internet from reaching this site (to stop spam). Tit for fucking Tat!

But the fact that China is so slow to regulate its industries and is so corrupt most illegal activity is ignored for profit.

Yes, China is quickly becoming a MODEL CAPITALIST COUNTRY, but one where democracy doesn't exist. And as our democratic freedoms disappear one by one, what you see happening in China, is happening here too. China has learned the lessons of Capitalism all too well.

Now they are corrupt, profit driven, competitive, aggressive, rich, powerful and very, very dangerous...

Just like America....

Ah for the ol' days of Mao...

I recently went to Chinese knick-knack store in San Francisco. Saw Mao's little red book (it is very small, fits in the palm of your hand). The paper was so cheap you could read the otherside right thru it.

Probably cost 10 cents to print...and they wanted US$22 for it....

Mao must be rolling over in his grave.

 

Yes, globalization is a great THEORY, but when put in practice in a world where new wars break out every year, being dependent upon a country that could tomorrow be your enemy is extremely unwise!

Any country that is still self-sufficient will survive far better than one that imports everything like this country.

We've exported most of our manufacturing industries, so we make so little here any more. We've also lost skilled labor jobs to other countries, so we don't even have the skill to make things that we used to make.

Without the capacity and skills to make things for ourselves, we could become a third world country almost overnight, should China decide NOT to export to the US, as would be the case if hostilities increase.

So by Boycotting China now, we prepare ourselves for a worse-case scenario down the road when we can no longer get Chinese made goods. So that's another good reason to boycott China.

 

What the fuck is Macha? Machu Picchu?

It's a GOOD thing most clothes aren't just from China.

Chinese using formaldehyde in cotton products.

I bought a pack of underwear from China when I was in Australia.

The stuff smelled so awfully chemical I had to throw it away. It didn't even dissapate slightly after repeated washings!

It was only a couple of years later that we were warned about this problem!

But far worse than what we get exposed to is what Chinese workers are exposed to!

They live in some of the worst polluted cities in the world. They work long hours for low wages (sometimes as slave labor), in horrible conditions that we would never subject Americans to.

They are abused by their employers, exposed to all sorts of toxic chemicals daily at work. Then they get to go home (if they're lucky), and purchase all these products for themselves and eat sometimes toxic foods, drink toxic water and breathe toxic air.

One day the Chinese people will have ANOTHER REVOLUTION, this time against their own CAPITALISTIC gov't. Then perhaps Americans will finally figure out that they too need to have a new revolution!

 

No, if you don't want Chinese to have your debt, STOP buying things from China. No US$ inflow, No debt purchasing. The only reason they buy it is cause they have to do something with the TRILLION US$ they have, don't they?

Buying US debt HELPS the US finance buying MORE SHIT, and MORE WARS.

This is NOT what the US needs right now.

We need to keep our DOLLARS here, pay off our debt (as we did under Clinton), strenghtening the US dollar.

The Euro right now buys 1.423 dollars, a record. The dollar is LOSING VALUE every day, which Corporate America just loves, but raising the cost of living for every American.

 

Yes, it won't be easy to boycott all things Chinese, esp. in smaller countries where few products are made, and so many things come from China.

But if you examine each purchase you are considering, see if it's made in China. Then look if there is an alternative. If not, then think, do I really need this item? Lots of times its just something you want, not something you NEED!

As we've seen clothes are made all over the world, so there's no reason to buy Chinese clothes.

Most small, cheap plastic items are made in China. But guess what? Many of those same things are made in Taiwan!

Perhaps it might be worth a few minutes of our time to inform the MERCHANTS who sell goods originating in the PRC, to try buying from Taiwan or other Asian countries instead! They might not have a choice, but they can ask their DISTRIBUTORS/IMPORTERS to source their products from other countries too.

To have a successful boycott we'd need to INFORM Merchants, Distributors and Importers that we're NOT GOING TO BE BUYING anything made in the PRC! That's advance warning to them to cut out those purchases, otherwise they will be STUCK WITH THEM!

It's really too bad we can't rely on Corporate America to police China's sweatshops. We've just recently realized what a POOR JOB they do in China because all they care about is PROFIT!

So by hitting them where it hurts in their PROFITS, a boycott can be VERY successful.

Remember the GOAL of the boycott is NOT to paralyze China's imports, but to CHANGE the way China does business with the world and especially its own people!

The lack of true freedoms and democracy must be addressed.

Tibet MUST ONCE AGAIN be a FREE Country!

Burma MUST stop the violence against pro-democracy protesters!

China must CLEAN UP ITS ACT AND ENVIRONMENT!

As a CONSUMER WE ALL HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WAY THE WORLD DOES BUSINESS!!!

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!