Thread: NATIONAL BOYCOTT AGAINST ABSOLUT LAUNCHED!!!!

Done! Thank you

We need our online activists taking the following steps.

1. Visiting the boycott site and posting a comment.
2. Posting links and invitations to the site all across the web.
3. Sending copies of our press release to every national and local press contact you can.
4. Calling into talk radio shows and discussing the boycott and site on the air.

Let's roll!

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Zeezil checking in...it will be my exceeding pleasure to work on this issue.

Absolut vodka pulls ad showing California in Mexico

Mon Apr 7, 9:36 PM ET

The distillers of Sweden's Absolut vodka have withdrawn an advertisement run in Mexico that angered many U.S. citizens by idealizing an early 19th century map showing chunks of the United States as Mexican.

The billboard ad has the slogan "In an Absolut World" slapped over a pre-1848 map showing California, Arizona and other U.S. states as Mexican territory. Those states were carved out of what had been Mexican lands until that year.

Although it was not shown in the United States, U.S. media outlets picked up on the ad, and after a barrage of complaints, Absolut's maker said on Sunday the ad campaign would cease.

Defending the campaign last week, Absolut maker Vin & Spirit said the ad was created "with a Mexican sensibility" and was not meant for the U.S. market.

"In no way was this meant to offend or disparage, nor does it advocate an altering of borders, nor does it lend support to any anti-American sentiment, nor does it reflect immigration issues," a spokeswoman wrote on Absolut's Web site.

"Instead, it hearkens to a time which the population of Mexico may feel was more ideal," she wrote.

Absolut's blog cite has received more than a thousand comments since the ad campaign was launched a few weeks ago, with many calling for boycotts of the Swedish company.

"I have poured the remainder of my Absolut bottles down the sink," one blogger wrote.

A war between Mexico and the United States from 1846 to 1848 started with Mexico's refusal to recognize the U.S. annexation of Texas and ended with the occupation of Mexico City by U.S. troops.

At the end, Mexico ceded nearly half of its territory to the United States, forming the states of California, Nevada, Utah and parts of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Wyoming.

Mexicans remain sensitive about the loss and the location of the border. At the same time, the United States is fortifying barriers to keep out undocumented Mexican migrants.

Some Mexicans use the term "Reconquista" (reconquest) to refer to the growing presence in California of Mexican migrants and their descendants.

France's Pernod Ricard is taking over Absolut vodka, one of the world's top-selling spirit brands, after buying Vin & Spirit from the Swedish government at the end of March.

(Reporting by Noel Randewich, editing by Philip Barbara)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080408/us_ ... absolut_dc

Just sent a copy to the Houston Chronicle.

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Friends of ALIPAC:

Americans for Legal Immigration PAC administers the NIIBC (National Illegal Immigration Boycott Coalition) which we built last year to boycott Bank of America for giving credit cards to illegal aliens (www.bankofamericaboycott.com).

ALIPAC is proud to have set the bar with the largest coalition efforts to date in our movement.

After consulting with our friends and allies that represent the approximately 100 organizations in the NIIBC, we have launched a national boycott of Absolut Vodka products.

Please support our efforts today by taking the following simple steps.

1. Please visit www.boycottabsolut.com and join the boycott, make a supportive post on the site, and distribute news of the website to all of your e-mail contacts.

2. Please use the contact information to contact those responsible for this offensive ad and share your anger.

3. Please post links and invitations to the site at www.boycottabsolut.com on other websites and Discussion boards on the Internet.

4. Please read our press release below and send copies of it to all of your favorite national and local media contacts. It will also help if you can mention the site on the air on talk radio shows!

Press Release to Distribute

100 American Organizations Launch Boycott of Absolut Vodka!
http://www.alipac.us/article-3088-thread-1-0.html


5. Please watch and distribute this video, post a supportive comment, vote it 5 stars, and add it to your favorites.

Boycott Absolute Vodka over Mexico Ad on Lou Dobbs CNN Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Oi7JEObPVA


Let's roll!


The ALIPAC Team
www.alipac.us

Added comments. AlbertRoss appears to be having fun with his nonsense.

The site is very nice.

Psalm 91

OK THIS ALIPACER IS ALL OVER IT....COME ON EVERYONE WE NEED TO MAKE SOME LOUD NOISES....LET THE WHOLE COUNTRY HEAR THE VOICE OF AMERICANS AND OUR OUTRAGE!!!! THEY CAN NOT HAVE OUR COUNTRY!!

Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

OK THIS ALIPACER IS ALL OVER IT....COME ON EVERYONE WE NEED TO MAKE SOME LOUD NOISES....LET THE WHOLE COUNTRY HEAR THE VOICE OF AMERICANS AND OUR OUTRAGE!!!! THEY CAN NOT HAVE OUR COUNTRY!!

WAY TO GO SOSAD AND EVERYONE! I AM ON IT TOO!!! LETS KEEP ROARING PATRIOTS!! IT IS UP TO US TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE! TIME TO STAND!!!!

WE CAN DO THIS!!!!