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Submitted by Margaret Garcia... on April 9, 2008 - 08:56.

Boycotts can work in a different way. We do pick and choose our choices. For example, I boycott Starbucks when I'm in San Francisco. With all the wonderful coffee places there, it's just not necessary to patronize a giant faceless corporation. But when I'm in the sticks and the nearest coffee tastes like old grounds and chalk, I do go to Starbucks.

I grew up in a boycott family that followed the UFW boycotts. I boycott Wal-Mart (or Evil as we call it here). In the 80s I boycotted all the companies supporting apartheid by investing in South Africa. I do the same for Myanmar now.

It's a clean conscious thing. Part of walking lightly on the earth. Was I part of the problem today or part of the solution? That's the way I look at it. It's not about how effective it is monetarily. It's about saving your own soul. 

Margaret Garcia-Couoh

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