Interesting

[dancerjodi]

Tisana and I were talking about this at Diesel last Thursday - the moral implications (or not?) of Curves:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2005/06/19/sweating_with_the_enemy/

And Tisana, the organization I was trying to remember from being super vocal at the March last year was Operation Rescue . . .

Related, I never knew about the Dominos owner and his political leanings. Are there any other large companies in this boat (besides Coors, who the article mentions) that you're aware of?

Comments

[slickgothgurl.livejournal.com]

i found that there's a Curves right next to p's work. like, super convenient for me. but i will not join due to their anti-abortion stance. i tried to tell my sister and grannie about it, but they don't really care much. they go 4 times a week in their town. i guess it's all a matter of what you stand for/behind. just like i will never buy gilette products due to the fact that they continue to test their products on animals.

i knew about the dominoes owner as well as Coors. these two are a non-issue for p and i since we hate their pizza and beer ;) as for other companies, you can check out the buy blue (http://www.buyblue.org/rankedlist.php) site for the breakdown of red/blue companies and what they stand behind/support. curves, dominoes, and (surprisingly) bestbuy are all on the "red" company list.

[lachesis.livejournal.com]

I find it realy amusing that Starbucks is on the "blue" list, because so many people complain about them around here. :)

thanks for the link! interesting.

[slickgothgurl.livejournal.com]

i hate starbucks. what do people complain about?

you're welcome for the link. it's kind of old (came out during election time) but still useful. i'm just sad that Michaels crafts is on the "red" list. i love that crafty goodness!

[dancer.livejournal.com]

"i hate starbucks. what do people complain about?"

Them putting small mom and pop type places out of business. The same reason some complain about Wallmart and Home Depot :)

I'm amazed to see General Motors on the Red list. I think of them as very working class/detroit/hard hit by economic times (i.e. I'd guess them to be mroe blue than Red).

Now they just need to alphabetize that list for easier parusal :)

[slickgothgurl.livejournal.com]

oh yes, i agree. i don't like the fact that SB is taking over. and i also hate wal-mart with a passion. although i DID give in and go there when i visited my mom last month. we were able to stock up on 1.5 months of groceries for a mere $73!

GM doesn't surprise me much. seems like those places that are most hard hit are in the red zones. so it kind of makes sense. i mean, GM is cutting thousands of jobs while advertising "get your car at the employee discount price". so yeah, that doesn't surprise me that GM is in the red column.

[slickgothgurl.livejournal.com]

i should say i hate SB because i don't like their coffee...i don't like the taste :)

[nepenthedreams]

Yeah, Starbucks is great. They buy organic shade-grown fair-trade coffee much of the time (I was at one of the plantations that sells primarily to Starbucks last week), plus locally-made baked goods (I think), and they do a lot of recycling, plus the employees are treated fairly well.

I wonder how good or bad Target is?