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“While the global campaign picks up momentum, People’s Health Movement adds more products to their “hit- list”.
Urgent press Release: Bangalore (India) - 24th March
2003
"Boycott US and UK Campaign"
Drop their shops and STOP THE WAR!
"BOYCOTT US AND UK CAMPAIGN" - Drop their shops and STOP THE
WAR! - a global campaign initiated by the People's Health Movement (PHM) on March 20th, is picking up momentum in many countries. The campaign was launched as a tactic to put pressure on the US and UK companies and thus influence their governments to stop the war on Iraq. Today, the campaigners released a second list of three dozen products to their “hit-list”. (On March 20th, while launching the campaign here, they released a list of ten products).
Several consumer and social action groups worldwide have endorsed their unflinching solidarity to this campaign. “Communication from Italy and Egypt are promising, with a group of doctors joining the campaign”, said a PHM spokesperson. Media reports from Greece also show that people have been joining the boycott campaign.
On Saturday (22nd March), an Indian newspaper reported that “Coca-Cola and Pepsi have pulled out their advertisements from all news channels around the world, including India” in news programmes related to the war on Iraq. On 23rd March (Sunday) another news paper, quoting news agencies from Bangkok reported that “Soft drink giant Coca cola has become the first casualty of sorts in Thailand in a boycott against US products, but it was Thai-owned bottler which suffered from the sentiment, a report said here (Bangkok) on Saturday. Coke’s southern Thai bottler Haad Thip PLC, which serves 14 provinces and had sales of $ 37.3 million last year, said it had temporarily shut its plant in Yala province in response to a boycott campaign in response to the war.”
“This shows that the campaign is working and this is people’s power. There is nothing that can stop the will of the ordinary people. We will step up the heat on every US and UK products. We will not spare any,” said a PHM spokesperson.
PHM today released a second list of US and UK products in the Indian market, carefully chosen from fast moving consumer goods that the common people will find easier to boycott. The boycott campaign is expected to target other products in the coming days.
Second list of products released today:
This is mainly for the consumers in India.
More products will be added to this.
First list released on March 20th included:
Coca cola (soft drinks); PepsiCo (soft drinks); Johnson & Johnson (Baby soap and other products); Colgate (tooth paste and other products); Cadbury's (chocolate and other products); Eveready (dry cells -'batteries'); Kellogg's (biscuits, corn flakes and other products); Levi's (jeans); Wrangler (jeans); Reebok (sports items); General Electric (bulbs and other products); Benson & Hedges tobacco products (Health groups are always against any tobacco products);
555 (State Express) tobacco products |
The second list: (released on March 24th)
Cibaca, Old Spice, Palmolive, Pampers, Gillette, Braun, Oral B, Hugo, Pringles, Pantene, Head and Shoulders, Camay, Olay, Thums Up,
Kinley, Shock, Mountain dew, Aqua fina, Frito Lays, Lipton, Dove,
Knorr, Domestos, Ala, Omo, Axe, Rexona, Impulse, Organic, Sunsilk,
Lakme, Clinic, Pespodent, Fair and Lovely, Surf, Rin, Wheel, Lux, Ponds, Vaseline, Signal, Close-up, Calvin Klein,
Liril, Lifebuoy, Vim, Kwality, Brooke Bond, Max, Whisper, Kissan, Toys -- Toys 'R Us, Mattel (Barbie dolls), Chevron-Texaco, Exxon-Mobil. |
For the People’s Health Movement
Dr. Ravi Narayan, Co-ordinator, PHM Secretariat
For media enquiries:
India: Dr. Unnikrishnan PV,
+91 (0) 98450 91319
E-mail: unni@phmovement.org
UK: Andrew Chetley, London
+44 20 7539 1591
E-mail: chetley.a@healthlink.org.uk
Thailand: Satya Sivaraman
E-mail: satyasagar@yahoo.com
Dr. Unnikrishnan PV, India
E-mail: unnikru@vsnl.com
Ph (m): +91 (0) 98450 91319
Read the latest on the campaign to stop the war at:
http://www.indiadisasters.org/iraq
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