Given China's human rights record, particularly with regards to Tibet and the Falun Gong, I plan to boycott as much as is possible any companies that become official sponsors of the Beijing Olympics. Obviously that won't be possible in all cases (Visa), but I will try to find e-mail links at least to voice my disapproval and tell these companies that I hold them jointly responsible for China's human rights atrocities. You'd think at my age I would have learned the lesson about whizzing into the wind, but I can't in good conscience pass up this opportunity to make some kind of personal statement about China's conduct.
I'm already engaged in a "soft" made in China consumer boycott. By soft, I mean that I read labels and whenever there's an option to buy a product that's not made in China, I will. Certainly that's not always possible, but it's surprising how often you can chose to buy a product that wasn't made in China rather than one that was.
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