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Incipient Boycott of American Companies Because of the Iraq Occupation
excerpt from a good article by Jim Lobe, confirming what Sy Hersh experienced in Europe recently, as dependence upon establishing the corporate identity through the brand, as described by Naomi Klein years ago in No Logo, backfires
[Poll: War Bad for Business
by Jim Lobe
The Bush administration's foreign policy may be costing U.S. corporations business overseas, according to a new survey of 8,000 international consumers released this week by the Seattle-based Global Market Insite (GMI) Inc.
Brands closely identified with the U.S., such as Marlboro cigarettes, America Online (AOL), McDonald's, American Airlines, and Exxon-Mobil, are particularly at risk. GMI, an independent market research company, conducted the survey in eight countries Dec. 10-12 with consumers over the Internet.
One-third of all consumers in Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, and the United Kingdom said that U.S. foreign policy, particularly the "war on terror" and the occupation of Iraq, constituted their strongest impression of the United States.
Twenty percent of respondents in Europe and Canada said they consciously avoided buying U.S. products as a protest against those policies. That finding was consistent with a similar poll carried out by GMI three weeks after Bush's November election victory.
"Unfortunately, current American foreign policy is viewed by international consumers as a significant negative, when it used to be a positive," according to Dr. Mitchell Eggers, GMI's chief operating officer and chief pollster.
"Some American brands become closely connected to their country of origin and are quintessentially American," he added. "They represent the American lifestyle, innovation, power, leadership, and foreign policy."
by Jim Lobe
The Bush administration's foreign policy may be costing U.S. corporations business overseas, according to a new survey of 8,000 international consumers released this week by the Seattle-based Global Market Insite (GMI) Inc.
Brands closely identified with the U.S., such as Marlboro cigarettes, America Online (AOL), McDonald's, American Airlines, and Exxon-Mobil, are particularly at risk. GMI, an independent market research company, conducted the survey in eight countries Dec. 10-12 with consumers over the Internet.
One-third of all consumers in Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, and the United Kingdom said that U.S. foreign policy, particularly the "war on terror" and the occupation of Iraq, constituted their strongest impression of the United States.
Twenty percent of respondents in Europe and Canada said they consciously avoided buying U.S. products as a protest against those policies. That finding was consistent with a similar poll carried out by GMI three weeks after Bush's November election victory.
"Unfortunately, current American foreign policy is viewed by international consumers as a significant negative, when it used to be a positive," according to Dr. Mitchell Eggers, GMI's chief operating officer and chief pollster.
"Some American brands become closely connected to their country of origin and are quintessentially American," he added. "They represent the American lifestyle, innovation, power, leadership, and foreign policy."
For more information:
http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=4235
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We need to organize this, worldwide. People here in the U.S. need to appeal to people around the world to boycott and girlcott U.S. goods and services and companies. Here in the U.S., we can coordinate communications for a worldwide boycott and girlcott of U.S. goods and services, just like the world boycotted goods from Nazi Germany in an earlier era. We can also selectively target, here within the U.S., symbolic targets like Coca Cola, McDonalds, Starbucks, etc., as well as goods from the zionist/nazi entity currently occupying Palestine.
There are also foreign banks here in the U.S. Move your checking and savings accounts to them, and demand that they not use those assets to make loans in the U.S. Buy as many imports as you can. Help bring DOWN the economy of the Bush Fourth Reich!
No JUSTICE NO PEACE! U.S. Out of the Middle East and OFF of Humanity's Planet!
There are also foreign banks here in the U.S. Move your checking and savings accounts to them, and demand that they not use those assets to make loans in the U.S. Buy as many imports as you can. Help bring DOWN the economy of the Bush Fourth Reich!
No JUSTICE NO PEACE! U.S. Out of the Middle East and OFF of Humanity's Planet!
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