Global Summary of anti-war boycott actions

The European Social Forum, which encompasses a multiplicity of organizations from many countries, has called for a boycott of all US oil companies.

In Austria Global Mothers - Women in Action for the Environment and Peace, have been holding boycott demonstrations in front of US companies, including Starbucks.
[14/4/2003]

In Belgium For Mother Earth and two other NGO's have taken the step to call for a boycott which was warmly embraced by the many thousands of demonstrators who marched through the streets of Brussels on Saturday 15th March. The campaign is not directed at all products made in the USA, but it urges consumers not to buy products of companies that have come outin support of the administration of President George W. Bush.

The headmaster of a secondary highschool, l'Athénée Royal D'Ouffet (Huy) has decided to boycott Coca Cola and Pepsi to protest against the warin Iraq. "At the moment, the Coca Cola and Pepsi machines have been emptied and unplugged, and this until the end of the war. Then we will put them into service only to sell the stock. We are looking for another company, more "clean", beforeto denounce our contract with Coca Cola and Pepsi", said Philippe Caes, Prefect of Studies of the Royal Atheneum of Ouffet, who signed the pledge to boycott US products launched by the NGO For Mother Earth, in protest against the war in Iraq. For Mother Earth call the other institutions to follow the example of the Royal Atheneum of Ouffet.
Esso, Texaco and McDonalds have been the target of several anti-war boycott actions organised by For Mother Earth, in cooperation with Attac Flanders, Pink & Green, and many other NGOs.[ More News ]

[ More News from the campaign in Belgium ]

In Britain, the ExxonMobil Corp., known as Esso in Europe, has indicated that anactivist boycott is hurting its sales. The Stop Esso campaign is organised by Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and People and Planet, and is supported by several organisations including the Green Party and the Stop the War Coalition.
[ More News | Stop Esso website ]
Peace groups distributed 36,000 bottles of Mecca Cola at Hyde Park in London.
[ More News ]
Qibla Cola has been launched as an alternative to Coca Cola.
[ Qibla Cola website ]

In Croatia Women's Action of Rijeka distributed leaflets urging consumers to boycott US products.
(15/4/2003)

In Finland Friends of the Earth (Finland) are supporting the boycott called by For Mother Earth. They have produced a translation of the Boycott Action Kit to Finnish
[ Action Kif In Finnish ]

In France, an enterprising Muslim has come up with the brand name "Mecca Cola" to replace Coca-cola.
[ Mecca Cola website ]
Three members of a Basque antiwar group staged a die-in next to Coca-Cola bottles in a supermarket of Anglet, southwestern France, in a show of anger againstUS-led war against Iraq. The group calls for a boycott of American goods.
[ More News ]
In Paris, demonstrators smashed a McDonald's window.
[ More News ]

In Hamburg, Germany, a group of French chefs have taken US products off the menu toprotest against war on Iraq. Whiskey, Coca-Cola and other US soft drinks are out at one restaurant while others have axed US rice and ketchup. Louis Bouillon, who organised the protest, says about ten chefs are taking partin the boycott.
[ More news | Consumers Against War website ]

German bicycle manufacturer, Rise and Mueller, have cancelled deals with American suppliers worth $300,000.
[ More News ]
Women for Peace and many church groups are also calling for a boycott of US products.
RENDSBURG, Germany, March 28 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - I do not treat Americans, British, or their sympathizers, is a sign on the wall of a German doctor’s clinic in Rendsburg, Germany. The German physician, by so doing, is expressing his protest at the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. [ More Info ]

In Greece, the Ecologist Greens are calling for a boycott of US products.
Greek cinema directors have called for a boycott against US films to protest against war in Iraq. The Greek trade union of cinema directors declares that the boycott "is not against American people nor against America art", but a gesture against the military conflict. Amongst those who signed a pledge was Theo Angelopoulos, winner of the Cannes Festival Palme d'Or in 1998 for his film Eternity and a Day.
[ More News ]
In Greece the Ecologists Greens have supported the goals of the Internationalday of boycott by circulating the information in mass media, by e-mails,thousand of brochures in Athens, Thessaloniki and other smaller cities and 3happenings in central streets.
[More News]

In Hungary Women for Environment organizing committe and Green Women have joined a boycott against Shell, Esso, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, KFC, Pepsi and Coca Cola.
(8th April, 2003)

In Italy the boycott call has had positive responses.

In Iceland "Atak gegn stridi" (Campaign against the war) is also calling for a boycott. Elias Davidsson declared that "As Iceland has a very small population (280,000 people), the effects of such a boycott serve to unite the people here against the war."

In the Netherlands a website calling for boycott of US products was opened some hours before the bombing started.
[ Boycot Amerika website]
The Autonoomcentrum, Amsterdam, organised an hour long blockade of an Esso petrol station, to protest against the war in Iraq.
[ Autonoomcentrum website | "The tiger in the tanks" (Greenpeace) ]

In Poland activists in Lublin broke the windows and painted a Kentucky Fried Chicken, as part of a day of action on 6th April against the war in Iraq.

In Portugal, the boycott began officially on Apr 12. "Human chain" of peoplelinking hands to protest the war, stretched five kilometres through Lisbon, fromthe U.S. embassy to the United Nations offices, on Saturday. The boycott is intended to coincide with the international campaign to showopposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq by refusing to buy any products marked"Made in USA". Some of the companies targeted for the boycott are Esso, Shell, BP, Coca-colaand McDonald's. The campaign also urges consumption of products made in Portugal and abstainingfrom tourism in the United States, Britain and Spain. The three countries, alongwith Australia, form the so-called "coalition forces" against Iraq.
(IPS News Agency - 12/4/2003)

Russia Attac-South and Ecodefense-Voronezh support the boycott organised by For Mother Earth. They plan to make picket againstlocal Mcdonalds.
[ Resist.ru website | Images from "Stop Mcdonalds!" campaign ]
The leader of the Communist Party's Moscow branch, Alexander Kuvayev, called on the Russian parliament to "boycott contacts" with their U.S., British and Spanish counterparts, referring to the three countries whose leaders met in the Azores last Sunday to declare war.
Also in Russia, the Muslim community has ordered a Boycott on Israeli Goods. [ More Info ]

In Sweden

Jerre Skog, a writer, musician, idealist, and independent observer is calling for a boycott as the U.S.A and United Kingdom will attack Iraq, violating international law! Support Peace and Justice!! Boycot US and UK products and currency!!
[ Jerre Skog website ]
Two pubs in Gothenburg have stopped serving US products, and a group of famous Swedish people have published an opinion piece in the Aftonbladet newspaper calling for the boycott to spread.
[ Opinion Piece (Swedish) | Opinion Piece (English) ]
Many Swedes both on the street and in organized labour have been discussing a boycott in opposition to the war on Iraq. Pamphlets appeared on the tables of McDonalds, and in the aisles of Konsum (the largest grocery chain, and a consumer cooperative) focussing on the fact that many "Swedish" prodcuts are in fact now manufactured by large US multinationals. Marabou chocolate, for example, is now made by none other than Philip Morris through its Kraft imprint.
Under pressure from workers and customers, Åke Nattochdag spoke for Coop-Konsum's head of office, "..we do not take sides, unless the Swedish government, the EU or the UN has taken a decision. What we do is label everything we sell."
A list of US companies and their products is being circulated to customers by one worker at Konsum. Friends of Earth Sweden are thinking of posting the list ontheir website. Alt Stad, another environment organization is distributing leaflets through its members around Stockholm. At peace marches all overSweden, other Swedes have taken up the boycott into their own hands as well by distributing their own lists of products to avoid.
(16/4/2003)
Mot Krig, the biggest of the anti-war campaigns in Sweden - is now officially supporting and promoting a boycott. (5/5/2003)
[ Mot Krig website ]

In Spain, the Barcelona Boycott group have done three actions successfully shutting down McDonlds, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Starbucks. They have also printed leaflets which focuses on the engagement of US, Spainsih and English companies and their financial relation to the war. Other actions have also involved blockading shops and stores involved with the war.
[ Barcelona Boycott website ]

In Switzerland, the Martin Luther King Center, have launched a international boycott campaign of the US & UK oil companies. They say "no to war against Irak" and maintain they don't want to be an accomplice.
[ Martin Luther King Center website ]
In Geneva there was an occupation of a McDonald's restaurant on 18th March.
The city council of Geneva has also voted to boycott US, British and Spanish products until the occupation of Iraq is ended.
(La Tribune de Genève 9/4/2003)

In the United Kingdom - Scotland, 14-year old Faith Mackie produced her own boycott leaflets. Her father Dr. Bill Mackie said: "I am proud of the fact she is strong-willed on these moral issues. She does not know how many people will follow her lead, but she feels she had to do something".

Middle East

US foreign policy towards Israel (which posseses its own weapons of mass destruction), Palestine and Iraq has angered many Muslims. The boycott of US products has hit such American giants as McDonald's, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Starbucks, Coke and Pepsi where some company sales have dropped by as much as 65 percent.

In Bahrain, the College of Health Sciences (CHS) expressed its solidarity with the Iraqi people yesterday with a call to boycott American and British products.
[ More News ]

Members of EFS, their families and friends stopped buying any American products on the 15th April, even the little children stopped buying the Coca-cola. 500 mobile text messages were sent from the society to different people. (18/4/2003)

Also in Bahrain:

The owner of Al Muntaza Supermarket chain stopped selling US products. As Al Muntaza's sales increased, other supermarkets adopted the same policy.

Sales of the local McDonalds chain went down by 40%.

Dealers of American cars and computers lost business.

Zamzam-Cola" Hits Shelves as Coke Fizzles Out in Bahrain [ More Info ]

In Egypt, the Cairo Conference, which established the International Campaign Against US Aggression on Iraq, called for a boycott of US and Israeli products.
[ Conference declaration ]

The American Chamber of Commerce is taking the threat of boycott action against US products seriously, and has provided a summery of the ongoing actions in the country.
[ AmCham website ]

A second boycott conference was held in Cairo, where delegates from NGOs heard that Coca Cola is thinking of leaving the Egyptian market or changing the names of its products after loosing more than half of its capital due to Egyptian boycott, and that Macdonalds Egypt has closed many of its branches. In contrast Egyptian fast food restraunts have grown more popular especially after the war on Iraq. (21st July, 2003)

On August 8th 2003, the first ever boycott coca cola day was held in Alexandria. This day came as a result of the efforts made by several Egyptian NGO's including the syndicates of physicians, lawyers and engineers. Several methods were used to spread the idea of boycott, including using t-shirts and posters with the boycott coca cola logo on it. News sources said that the festival was extremely successful and the participants agreed to make it an annual event.

Taking Place in Egypt:

The Association of Egyptian Pharmacists called for boycotting all products made in US as a means of protest against the US support to Israeli occupation.

With the help of economic experts, Ahmed Bahaa Edeen, Head of the Egyptian Society for Boycotting Zionist and American Products, prepared a boycott list that included Isreli, US and European products. The Society believes that boycotting Western products will be in the benefit of locally-made products.

Howard Schneider of the Washington Post observed: "Between a global recession and a well organized Arab boycott of US products, however, trade between the United States and Arab countries is down about 25 percent since last year (2001)."

Journalists, artists, pharmacists and engineers have led a campaign to boycott Israeli products.

Branch managers of McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken admitted that their sales have fallen by 20-50% since the Intifada.

Useful links:

Chamber of Commerce Calls Arab Exporters to Trigger Boycott [ More Info ]

Economic Boycott Forces McDonalds to Change Name [ More Info ]

Drink "Muslim Up" and "Arab Cola" [ More Info ]

After Mecca-Cola, Hallal Fried Chicken to Hit Markets: Report [ More Info ]

The boycott has not merely had adverse results; there is also a consequent effort to produce and consume locally-produced goods instead. The biggest success-story has been Iran's Zam Zam Cola, whose sales have skyrocketed. The manufacturers cannot keep pace with demand from customers in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Gulf states. In the United Arab Emirates Star Cola is doing brisk business. The fact that Muslims are beginning to make products to replace American ones is welcomed by both Muslims and others around the globe. The Iranian government banned all commercials that advertise for US products.Two of the six McDonald's franchises in Jordan have closed for lack of business, and a committee representing 14 opposition parties and 14 trade unions has called for citizens to boycott US goods and to purchase French and German goods instead. Also in Jordan, the Committee for Defending the Nation and Countering Normalization called for a reversed boycott, asking Jordanians to refuse to provide goods and services to US troops stationed in Jordan. In Jordan, Lebanon and Syria some private hospitals stopped buying products from Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) and other US companies. Also in Lebanon. Protest the Made in America 2003 exhibition, Sept. 1-3, at Beirut Port. Peaceful demonstration Sept. 1, at entrance to Charles Helo Station, 5:30 pm in response to US Ambassador Vincent Battle’s Aug. 26 announcement of a Made in America 2003 For the Earth exhibition, showing American products (with a focus on environmental technology), and taking place in the Center for Exports of Beirut’s Port, in conjunction with the American-Lebanese Chamber of Commerce, the Lebanese Manufacturers’ Association, and the Lebanese Ministry of Economy & Trade. Various youth groups and the Lebanese-based Campaign to Boycott Supporters of Israel issue the following statement of vehement protest:

It would have been worthy of the Lebanese Manufacturers’ Association and Lebanese Ministry of Economy &Trade to seek ways to develop Lebanese industry and markets for its products, especially given the dire conditions this industry faces and the deteriorating economic situation which has led to increased unemployment and emigration of the Lebanese youth population. The introduction of these American products as imports will certainly lead to increased dependency upon and subordination to globalized capitalism.

Indeed, the holding of this exhibition in the Export Center of Beirut’s Port, and its subsequent transformation to an import exhibition is an odious step, offensive to the Lebanese people and particularly to our Lebanese manufacturers. We must strive to build a society that is productive not merely consumerist.

The state and people of Lebanon, having succeeded in expelling the Zionist occupation from their land, cannot possibly accept that companies and products that support the Zionist entity enter and mount an exhibition of their goods on Lebanese territory. In specific, at the press conference for this exhibition, Amb. Battle announced the participation of several American companies which support the Zionist entity, the occupation of Iraq, the annihilation of the Palestinian popular uprising and the killing of its international supporters, including even Americans themselves – for the blood of Rachel Corrie was indeed shed by a Caterpillar bulldozer.

These specific companies use their economic prowess to support war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and NOT for the sake of the Earth as claimed. We note in particular:

1. General Electric, which produces the engines for the Apache combat helicopter and the F-16 fighter plane, used consistently to kill peoples seeking their freedom and independence (Palestine, Iraq, Somalia, Yugoslavia)
2. Burger King, which has opened a branch in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, in contravention of international law
3. McDonald’s, which donates through its Chicago corporate headquarters to the Jewish United Fund, a main funder of illegal Israeli settlement and the Zionist lobby
4. Coca-Cola, which donates through its Atlanta headquarters to the Jewish Agency for Israel, and which invests in the occupied Golan through the Golan Heights Wineries
5. Microsoft, which declared From the depth of our heart thanks to the IDF, during the massacre of Jenin in April 2002, and which regularly gives assistance to the Israeli army with the goal of improving the lives of its soldiers
6. PepsiCo, which owns two major Israel companies, Strauss, and Elite
7. IBM, which employs 1700 Israelis in Haifa and whose Senior Vice-President declared in the Jerusalem Post, that this piece of land [Israel] and the huge ideals its represents are very important to our company

In closing, the Campaign to Boycott Supporters of Israel and the various youth organizations issue a call to the Lebanese people to express their protest by boycotting the products of pro-Israeli American companies, and to call upon Lebanese manufacturers and merchants and the Lebanese government to play their appropriate role in the development of our industry and the creation of markets for our products, by demonstrating peacefully against the exhibition on Monday, Sept. 1, 2002, in front of Charles Helo Station, starting from 5:30 pm.

It was the dismay of the Saudi women at what was happening to women and children in Palestine that ignited the boycott campaign in Saudi Arabia. The boycott targeted Israeli products and US interests.

With growing awareness of their own economic power as consumers, Saudi women targeted US cosmetic brands such as Estee Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Aveda and perfumes such as Tommy Hilfiger and Kate Spade.

A Yemeni pharmaceutical manufacturer refused to recognize a Letter of Credit for a container of antipyretic ingredients because they were of US origin. Instead, he sought suppliers of Chinese origin.

An employee at a well-known fast food chain said, "Today from morning till afternoon, we had only two customers at our branch."

A manager of a supermarket in Jeddah commented: "Sales of American goods have fallen about 20 percent and this is set to increase over the next few weeks due to the rapid increase in the number of people who are joining the campaign."

Sales manager of bin Dawood supermarket said that Coca Cola sales down by 60%, Pepsi Cola's sales went down by 45% and Proctor and Gamble's sales went down by 30-35%.

Many Saudi consumers shifted to European and Japanese products.

Boycott leaflets are distributed at mosques, schools and shopping malls.

The US embassy in Saudi Arabia got worried at Saudis boycotting US products. "The fact is that the impact of the boycott is very significant... Yes, we are concerned. But exactly how big this impact is very hard to determine without a detailed study," Charley Kestenbaum, the US embassy's commercial officer, said to Reuters in June 20, 2002.

In Turkey, the Turkish Association for Protecting Consumers has called or a boycott of all US and British products, in protest against the war.
[ More News ]

The Turkish Union of Engineers and Architects Chamber (TMMOB) members alsocalled on people to boycott US and British goods.
[ More News ]

In Oman KFC and McDonald's branches in Muscat, the capital city, report that sales have fallen by up to 65 percent. In Qatar, where US General Tommy Franks directs the war in Iraq, locals have used SMS messages to unleash anti-American protests and a boycott of American and British products.
[ More News ]

North America

In the USA the boycott finds support amongst the opponents to the war. Be the Cause is targeting specific brands (such as Kraft and Philip Morris) for a consumer boycott.
The Green Party USA is promoting a boycott of exxonmobil.

The Harvard Business school has published an article which states that the effects of the global anti-US boycott may be having an effect on US companies abroad.
[ More News ]

In Canada the influential Adbusters magazine and website has launched a "Boycott Brand America" campaign, which asks participants to pledge to boycott American corporate brands "from the moment the war begins and to the best of my ability until the empire learns to listen".
[ Adbusters website ]
In Monreal, the "Collège du Vieux-Montréal"has undertaken to boycott the products made in USA toprotest against the war in Iraq since March 27th 2003. A students committee has get organized in this institution to put the boycott into practice. Other insitutions in Montreal have declared themselves against the war in Iraq.

South America

In Argentina, where there has not been an organised, ongoing boycott effort,anti-war groups made it clear that they were against what McDonald's symbolises,but not against the restaurant employees or clients. On Apr 8 a group of people attacked a McDonald's with stones and sticks,breaking the windows. That same day, students and leftist groups filled balloonswith red paint -- to simulate blood -- and threw them at the facade of the IBMoffices in Buenos Aires.
(IPS News Agency - 12/4/2003)

In Brazil on 14th March the federal deputy Chico Alencar (worker´s party - PT), in Rio de Janeiro announced a campaign to boycott products made in USA, to be implemented if the attack against Iraq happens. "I hope we won't have to undertake the boycott, but if this unilateral attack from the United States, disregarding the UN, really happens, we will boycott.", says Alencar. Labor unions at Santos, the largest port in Brazil and Latin America, are planning a 24-hour strike for peace by boycotting ships and goods under the U.S. or British banner, a union official said on Monday March 17th. "Labor unions from Santos will meet to vote on proposals on how to voice our desire for peace and our distaste over the coming war in Iraq," said, Marcos Duarte, the president of the Urban Unions of Santos.
Representatives from 70 unions, including the petroleum, chemical, banking, shipping and metallurgical industries, should attend the meeting, set for Tuesday morning, said Duarte, who added that many had expressed firm support for the strike. "We don't know when we will hold the strike but we will vote on proposals tomorrow," he said. "I want to stress that the strike would not be a protest against the United States or Britain but rather against war and for peace. We are proposing that no adherent to the strike drink a Coca-Cola or go into a McDonald's for lunch," said Duarte. He said the idea came from local TV reports showing U.S. and British bar owners pouring French wine onto the streets in protest of France's threat to veto a new U.N. resolution that would give the go-ahead to a U.S.-led war in Iraq.
Anti-war protesters are using the Internet to get their message out,showing a photo of Iraqi women crying over a dead child, alongside the logos ofU.S.-based corporations, accompanied by a text.
"Remember these children and these crying mothers every time you drink a coke,or eat the poison of McDonald's, or fill your car's gas tank at Shell, Esso orTexaco. They paid for the death and destruction of the Iraqi people,"
Some of the lawmakers in the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia publicly promotedthe boycott effort, pouring bottles and cans of Coca-Cola down the drain.
(IPS News Agency - 12/4/2003)

In Chile, activists have called for a boycott of US products
[ More News ]

Colombian labour and human rights activists discuss the upcoming Coca Cola boycott starting on July 22nd, as well as intimidation of labour activists working at Coke and Nestle. The activists met with the progressive British Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn (CND and Stop the War Coalition) at Parliament to make their case. Traprock Peace Center activists joined this important meeting that was arranged by the Colombia Solidarity Campaign.
[ audio report of the meeting ]

In Quito, Ecuador, protesters burned a Ronald McDonald statue.
[ More News ]

In Mexico, peace activists were amongst the first to launch a boycott of US products.
[ No En Nuestro Nombre website ]
Mexican businessman and peace activist Víctor Bonilla simulated his death in a protest in front of the United States Embassy just after Washington began to bombard Iraq. Bonilla, who is in the footwear industry, and several of the other 800 activists who furiously shouted "Murderers! Murderers!" outside the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City late Wednesday, called for President Vicente Fox to boycott trade with the United States - a demand that political and business leaders described as preposterous.
[ More News ]
In Mexico, a group of students and professors from the National PolytechnicInstitute used street theatre to get spread the boycott message at a Wal Martstore in Mexico City on Mar 25. They blocked the cash registers for a half-hourby filling shopping carts with U.S. products but then said they would not pay"because every foreign item we buy is a bullet fired against an Iraqi civilian." Afterwards, they distributed pamphlets explaining the boycott and urgingconsumers not to buy certain products, like beverages sold by Coca-Cola andPepsi-cola, including mineral water and fruit juices, or to eat at restaurantsincluding McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Domino's Pizza. (IPS News Agency - 12/4/2003)
Cuernavaca, Mexico. Multinational COSTCO hit by boycott.The transnational company, COSTCO predicted reduced earnings after being shaken by a permanent boycott called by organizations in three countries. The boycott is permanent, approved by 147 NGOs and broadcast by One World, Ecoportal, Corpwatch, and CCCCH among others. [ More News ]

Pacific

In Australia 1000 people at a peace rally in Brisbane were urged toboycott US-made products to protest against the war in Iraq.
[ More News ]

In New Zealand, the Spend for Peace campaign is calling for consumers to boycott specific US brands (such as Dow and Dupont) and to notify the companies that they are doing so.
In Australia Peace Action calls for a boycott as a positive and powerful alternative to "fighting" for peace. As most people calling for a boycott they declare: "We are not anti-American, or pro-Saddam. We just simply do not believe that war is the answer."

Forthcoming Boycott Events!

Global Summary Boycott Bush Network

March 20th, 2004

Austria
The group Women in Action/Global Mothers for the Environment and Peace has organized info tabling calling for a boycott of US companies and the anti-war rally in next Saturday Vienna.

Contact:
Women in Action/Global Mothers for the Environment and Peace -
Juno Englander, Vienna, Austria
E-mail: global-mothers@chello.at

Belgium
Four actions are planned in Belgium.

1. Brussels
On Friday noon March 19th 'Mouvement Chretien pour la Paix' and 'Rencontres pour la Paix' organize a picket before McDonalds (Bourse/Beurs) in the center of Brussels.

Contacts:
Carla Goffi, Tel: +32-2-734-79-82, E-mail: mcp.belgium@swing.be
Felipe Van Keirsbilck, Mobile: +32-478-295-950, E-mail: u50fvk@acv-csc.be

2. Gent
Also on Friday in Gent 'For Mother Earth' calls for a symbolic closure of a centrally located Texaco gas station at 11 a.m. At noon the activists will move location and stage a die-in and human carpet to commemorate all innocent Iraqi victims in front of the McDonalds in the center of town. Also Bush will be present.

Contact:
Pol D'Huyvetter (For Mother Earth, Boycott Bush International Secretariat)
Mobile: +32-495-28-02-59 E-mail: pol@motherearth.org

3. Hasselt
In Hasselt the 'Americawatchers' plan an action at an Esso (Exxon-Mobil) gas station on Saturdaymorning March 20th

Contact: Luc Daniels E-mail: info@americawatchers.f2s.com

4. Brussels
During the national demonstration on Saturday afternoon we plan a visual boycott action with costumes and coffins during the national demonstration in Brussels.
Contact: +32-495-28-02-59 E-mail: pol@motherearth.org

Canada
With Victoria Peace Coalition we would like to launch our campaign on March 20th. Our campaign is an education campaign including a monthly action outside a selected Esso station.

Contact: Susan Clarke, E-mail: dolcla@islandnet.com

Denmark
On March 17th the "Peace Watch" dressed up in Coke bottle, McDonalds and Marlboro box costumes in the main business street in Copenhagen. We spread information about Boycott Bush Campaign and invite people to join demonstration Saturday the 20th.
The Peace Watch at the Danish governement demonstrates daily since 18th of october 2001 against Danish support for US war in Afghanistan and later in Iraq. The Peace Watch also call for a boycott of Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Marlboro, Kraft, Esso and our own A.P.Møller (who is shipping arms for the US to Iraq).

Contact:
Doris Kruckenberg
E-mail: doriskruckenberg@ofir.dk

Egypt
Also in Egypt actions are being planned. Unfortunately we did not receive details. We hope to receive more information very soon.

Contact: Amr Hussein, E-mail: alzaher2002@hotmail.com

Greece
The Ecologists Greens in Greece will participate in the anti-war demonstrations in Athens and Thessaloniki on March 20th. We will distribute a call for boycott of the war economy during the demonstrations and through the internet.

Contact
Tremopoulos Michalis (Ecologists Greens)
Tel: +30-2310-328791 Fax: +30-2310-421196
E-mails: ecology-trem@nath.gr, tremopoulos@yahoo.gr

India

1. Mumbai
On March 20th we are planning a non violent demonstration in front of McDonalds near VT railway station at 4 pm. We are expecting 100 people. After this we will join common peace demonstration at Hutatma Chowk.

Contact: Boycott Bush India, Manish Kumar
Mobile: +91-22-34403948 E-mail: manishtiss@yahoo.com

2. Kolkata
On 20 March at 4P.M. a demonstration in favour of the boycott action will be held at Kachisarak, Metiabruz of Kolkata. In Kolkata there will be a number of rallies on 20 March. Among them some will appeal to the people at large to boycott some US and UK corporate products. We, the little magazines and literary-workers--the poets, writers and artists--of Urdu, Bengali and Hindi speaking Muslim and Hindu communities of Metiabruz-Maheshtala industrial belt of Kolkata have made an appeal to the people of this locality to boycott a list of US-UK corporate products, especially the luxury items, including the 6 products decided world-wide.

Contact:
Jiten Nandi (Manthen Samayiki)
Tel: +91-33-24913666
E-mail: jiten_nandi@vsnl.net

3. Delhi
We here in Delhi plan to distribute leaflets at the outlets of McDonalds, Pepsico, Coca-Cola and Pizza Hut.

Contact:
Dr. Vijay Kataria, Indian Society for Universal Peace
Mobile +91-11-32596125 -951203094436
E-mail "Vijay Kataria" jiten_nandi@vsnl.net

Italy
We are planning to join the March 20th demonstration in Rome with a group of cyclists and spread the information about the boycott campaign

Contact: Marinella Correggia (Bastaguerra), E-mail: mari.cor@libero.it

Japan We are gearing up for this Saturday and we will all be going out in the streets of Tokyo with Bush masks on our heads, with signs on our body showing the brand logos (we decided to include 8 companies; Disney, Microsoft, Phillip Morris, Exxon Mobile, Citibank, Coca Cola, Pepsi, and Aflac) and the amount of contribution made from each company, and we'll stick dollar bills all over our bodies (it will make sense with the Bush mask).

Contact: Peace Choice Campaign
Naoko Okada
E-mailn_okada@hotmail.com

New Zealand
On March 20, 12 noon, Spent for Peace will join a large March and Rally at bottom of Queen St. in Auckland. Event organised by Global Peace and Justice Action. Spend for Peace will have signs and distribute boycott flyers. Join us!

Contact:
Ruth Jackson (Spend for Peace)
E-mails: rajackson60@hotmail.com, boycottUS@Pl.net

Pakistan
The Citizens Peace Committee, Peoples Rights Movement, Joint Action Committee along with a number of NGOs and peace activists is organising a protest demo and call for boycott on the 20 of March at 3pm to 5 pm from Chandi Chowk, near United Bakery to Committee Chowk in Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Contact:
Francisco D'Sa (Citizens Peace Committee/PIPFPD)
Mobile: +92-9562063 Tel: +92-52-5568959
E-mail: francisco_peace@yahoo.com

USA
In Vermont several actions are planned by the Vermont Boycott for Peace at Exxon/Mobil gasstations in Middlebury, Montpelier, South Burlington and Bennington
Middlebury: Meet us at the gazebo on the Middlebury Green at 9:30 am. We will then walk to the Exxon/Mobil Maplefields station on Route 7 just north of the village, and to the Exxon station on Route 7 right in the village. At both locations, we will picket and distribute literature and petitions to sign.
Montpelier: Meet at 1:00 pm at the Exxon station on the Barre-Montpelier Road (between Taylor and Main streets), where we will picket and distribute literature and petitions to sign.
Burlington: In the afternoon, we will picket and distribute literature and petitions to sign at the Exxon station on at 793 Shelburne Road. If you are interested in joining us at this location, please meet us at 3:00 pm at the top of the K-Mart parking lot off Shelburne Road, right below the interchange to the interstate and Queen City Park Road, on the right hand side if you’re traveling south.
The group in Bennington (southern VT) is still determining time and the best location

Contact: Dilys Dana Pierson (Vermont Boycott For Peace), E-mail: dilysp@gmavt.net
We hope to receive more detailed information the upcoming hours.

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