Utah Phillips said, “The Earth is not dying, it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.”

We need to boycott these people, not their corporations.

Boycotting was called “moral Coventry” until Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott (1832-1897) was boycotted.

Land reform agitator Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) told a crowd …

“When a man takes a farm from which another has been evicted, you must show him on the roadside when you meet him, you must show him in the streets of the town, you must show him at the shop-counter, you must show him in the fair and at the marketplace, and even in the house of worship, by leaving him severely alone, by putting him into a sort of moral Coventry, by isolating him from the rest of his kind as if he were a leper of old, you must show him your detestation of the crime he has committed, and you may depend upon it if the population of a county in Ireland carry out this doctrine, that there will be no man so full of avarice, so lost to shame, as to dare the public opinion of all right-thinking men within the county and to transgress your unwritten code of laws.”

Father John O’Malley coined the word “boycott” a few days after the decree of social excommunication was issued against Capt. Boycott.

Voting at the ballot box is next to useless, but voting with your feet and pocketbook puts the pedal to the metal.

If the gods had meant us to vote, they would have given us candidates.

Whoever you vote for, the Government still gets in.

When I can vote Henry Kissinger out of office, I’ll start voting at the ballot box again.
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