It would be almost impossible for activists to make a difference with such a wide ranging proposal. Firstly the vast majority of the public would not take it seriously and secondly it would require individual consumers to pay far too much attention to where their products were made.

A much more practical solution would be to target individual brand names where the specific company has a poor human rights/environmental record itself and where the said company is large enough to have an influence over American foreign/environmental policy.

Is there anything other than weapons of mass destruction/distraction?

Belive me,there are alot of citizens in the USA that are sick of the evil ways in which the transnationals operate and facilitate war, global warming, and human suffering.I try and support local businesses whenever I can.Our economy really stinks over here right now,people are still afraid to spend money since sept.11th,so the downward spiral of the US economic system might achieve what you desire on it's own.This will be what causes the collapse of the industrial system,no boycott or protest can substitute for a systemic implosion of wall street.When this eventually happens,there will be a great depression much worse than in the US in the 1930's and great human suffering.But this scenario is likely coming.Please remember,alot of people in the US want to see the current order fall.














u

Here in my English flat, I look around the room, ok I find it hard to be a consumer but all the same I live in the modern world. I can't see a single (signifigant) item made in the USA - after all, America buys most of its goods cheeply from other contries. The only 'goods' I can think of seep out our televisions and stereos. I would love to be part of a mass boycott that would hit the greediest economy in the world, but I can't see the practicalies.

and now we all boycott the us and then? shall we just start buying all that sweatshop stuff again, cause morally we cant buy from the us? bummer

A trade boycott of the USA is a good idea. I don't think that a crash on Wall Street will cause it to implode because the stock market is completely divorced from reality. A collapse of consumer confidence in the high streets would have some impact in reality. Corruption stuff like Enron are good, but all this credit (??!?) - that has to have a bad effect, wages not going up, house prices and mortgages rising and this credit stuff which is the only things that seems to keep the cycle of consumption turning. People can't keep on borrowing money like that for ever.

Focus on the credit card debts and mortgages.