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BOYCOTT TURKEY
Rally to encourage Against Armenian Grocery Stores that sell Turkish Products!
Date: Saturday, April 19, 2008
Time: 9:00am - 6:00pm
Location: Good Food Market
Street: 1864 E Washington Blvd
City/Town: Pasadena, CA
BOYCOTT TURKEY RALLY
Organized by the BOYCOTT TURKEY Campaign
Co sponsored by Americans for Human Rights
"Rally to raise awareness about boycotting Turkish products"
Meet in front of Good Food Market at 9:00AM
Rally will take place in front of:
Good Food Market
1864 E Washington Blvd # 106
Pasadena, CA 91104
Garo's Basturma
1088 N Allen Ave
Pasadena, CA 91104
Altadena Food Fair Market
1873 N Allen Ave
Pasadena, CA 91104
Vartans Family Groceries
1515 E Washington Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91104
ABOUT THE BOYCOTT TURKEY CAMPAIGN
The BOYCOTT TURKEY Campaign is a Non-Profit Public Benefit Corporation organized and operated exclusively for educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3), Internal Revenue Code.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to educate the public on why and how to boycott Turkish made products and tourism to Turkey, and how to identify products made in Turkey.
You can join the campaign in your personal capacity, as a group, or within an existing organization. To join the BOYCOTT TURKEY Campaign just send an email to [email protected].
Why Boycott?
The prevailing argument that Turkey’s democratization would encourage Turkey to acknowledge its human rights record by now been completely discredited.
The only remaining way for concerned people to exert some positive influence on Turkey to acknowledge its past seems to be through the power of the individual consumer. In short, a boycott of Turkish made goods and a boycott of tourism to Turkey.
Consumer Power and Moral Responsibility
Probably one of the most powerful weapons individuals have to effect political change is their consumer purchasing power. One of the most famous examples of successful boycotts is during the Civil Rights movement in the United States. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was successful in forcing unwilling white Americans to comply in giving in to basic human rights of the African Americans to sit wherever they please on buses. Other successful boycotts include Gandhi's Swadeshi campaign to rid India of British colonial rule and the boycott of South Africa which forced its government to give equal rights to blacks.
But why should the world consumer participate in a boycott to force Turkey to clean up its human rights record? Don’t we as human beings have a moral responsibility towards the Kurdish, Assyrian, Armenian, Greek, and Turkish people?
Even a partial review of Turkey's crimes against humanity provides sufficient reason for any morally conscious person to boycott
Turkish made products. Turkey being a democratic country has a worse human rights record than most dictatorships in the world today. The fact that there are more journalists in prison in Turkey than there are in China is no small feat, since China has a population of 1.3 billion. For example, for each purchase that you make, you are funding, promoting or endorsing:
* The denial of the Armenian Genocide
* The denial of the Assyrian Genocide
* The denial of the Greek Genocide
* The occupation of Cyprus
* The illegal blockade of Armenia
* The suppression of the Kurds
* The imprisonment of journalists
* The suppression of freedom of speech
* The destruction of Christian monuments
* The torture of prisoners
. It's not just about the genocide I look at it this way: If they're damaging my country's economy with the blocked border, why should I support theirs? Pretty simple. I don't understand why some Armenian grocery stores still carry products made in Turkey. It is unacceptable.
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