The Plutocracy: Billionaire Koch Brothers/ Koch Industries BOYCOTT!

Anything That Georgia-Pacific Produces
First are Georgia-Pacific consumer products: Angel Soft, Quilted Northern, and Soft n Gentle toilet paper; Brawny paper towels; any of the Dixie plates, bowls and napkins; Sparkle, Vanity Fair and Zee napkins; Georgia-Pacific's paper products.

Frankly, many dedicated TreeHugger readers caring about buying post-consumer recycled paper products or (better) using reusable alternatives are probably already avoiding these brands. But if you're not, start.

Second are Georgia-Pacific building products. The list is quite extensive so I'll just refer you to Shoq Value's rundown of them.

Invista's Fabrics, Fibers and Polymers
Third are a whole bunch of products under the Invista banner: Coolmax, Cordura, Solarmax, Supplex, and Thermolite fabrics, as well as those containing Lycra; Comforel fiberfill; Dacron fibers; Somerelle bedding products; Stainmaster carpets and Tactesse carpet fiber. There are also a number of resins on the list.

Oil Refining, Fertilizers, Chemical Production, Cattle Ranching
In addition to those three big areas, Koch Industries is involved in huge range of activities: Pollution control equipment, oil refining, fertilizers--as well as the Matador Cattle Company.

Now, in terms of impact it's important to remember that the Koch Industries is a humungous empire--one of the two largest privately held companies in the United States--so in practical terms a boycott would have to grow by leaps and bounds before having a big impact. But it does have to start somewhere, and even if it doesn't symbolic action is important.

If all of the background on this has passed you by, Think Progress is a good place to start to get back up to speed.

More on the Koch Brothers:
Koch Industries' Carbon Footprint is 300,000,000 Tons a Year
More Evidence That Two Coal & Oil Billionaires Mobilized the Tea Party (Video)
Justices Scalia And Thomas's Attendance At Koch Event Sparks ...
Oct 20, 2010 ... Daily Kos: Memo LEAKED! Beck, Koch bros, Chamber coordinated with ... Scalia Is Still the Funniest Justice (and Thomas, the Least) - Law . ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/20/scalia-thomas-koch-industries_n_7698...

Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine ...
Explore Koch's Web of Dirty Money and Influence. ... Greenpeace has released the report "Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial ... The Koch brothers, their family members, and their employees direct a web of financing ...
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluter...

Oil Billionaire Koch Brothers exposed in The New Yorker ...
Aug 24, 2010 ... The Tea Party movement is creating mass hysteria in this ...
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/news-and-blogs/campaign-blog/oil-billionaire...

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[endo1ver]

Thanks for the info I will try to buy all of their products.

[Ralphdraw3]

@endo1ver LOL you don't have the money. play with your steam engine.

[UtwoBed]

We live in a corporate world. To avoid every company that is causing damage to us one way or another is impossible, you would have to boycott everything. We all know these guys are screwing up the environment but unless you are living under a rock it is well established that any climate change that is occurring is not man made. The whole "Global Warming" thing is a total hoax brought to you by the same assholes that own all the corporations.

[Ralphdraw3]

@UtwoBed If the corporations want the public to believe the Global Warming theory, why are the Koch Brothers spending millions of dollars, paying people to speak against the Global Warming theory?

[bulbheadmyass]

Excellent video, ralph, you got some great pictures. I'm in for the boycott.

[Ralphdraw3]

@bulbheadmyass Thanks! I didn't know that Koch Industries made so many darn things!!

[Ralphdraw3]

@swiftmachine1515 What?? The national debt ballooned under trickle-down Bush43 and Reagan. Wages have been stagnant or falling. And then, of course, we have had the worst recession since the great depression; cities and states going bankrupt; 20 million to 30 million unemployed etc.. ; millions in foreclosures. All during this time CEO pay and bonuses sky-rocket. You think that is good??!@@##$??? or fair?????

[gferguson003]

I keep a list of their products with me at all times and I do boycott anything Koch related. Their goal is to take over our government and privitize everything for profits for themselves and wealthy corporate owners and their puppet polticans. They funded many extreme rightwing propaganda groups and buy the airwaves to distort the truth about President Obama achievements despite their obstructionism.

[gagaplex]

I don't recognize any of those products, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had their hands in products sold around here as well.

[UtwoBed]

@arklat I disagree. I think it's the failure of government not so much the corporations. They are run by people and such is their nature. It is the responsibility of government under the rule of law, to keep them, us, in check. I think it's our Constitution that is a miserable failure. Not enough checks and balances to maintain the rule of law from being perverted by the evil nature of men. Government is a natural magnet for those seeking money and power, and it failed to stop them.

[arklat]

@UtwoBed > I'm sorry. If history teaches any lessons,the lesson history has taught us is that left to police themselves, corporations have failed. Miserably! They cannot be entrusted to regulate themselves. They just don't have the motivation do "Do the right thing." applying the existing laws IS leaving it to the government regulatory agencies. They are far from perfect, but, they are a deterrent to wholesale recklessness on the part of companies that engage in the type of business the Koch's.

[UtwoBed]

@arklat I don't deny it I'm just saying it's insignificant compared to natural causes like changes in the Sun. Warming is one thing, toxic emission another. From a purely libertarian view, nobody can "own" the water or the air. Therefore everyone should be required to return it to the environment in at as good a condition as they got it before they used it. This could be done by properly applying existing laws. leaving it to government can only be a disaster like everything else they do.

[arklat]

@UtwoBed To deny that a contributing factor in the phenomena known as Global Warming is human generated, is to deny the truth. Seriously, Utwo. Just follow a diesel truck around for a couple of hours, and watch all the emissions that come out of the truck. Then, multiply that by a billion or so. Everyday. And that's just trucks. Cars, smaller trucks, trains, ships, buses, factories, mining, logging, and more. Come on, you can't deny that all that going into the atmosphere has no effect, Can you?