¿Cómo comenzar un boicot? Guía.

Boicots: guía de inicio rápida.


¿Estás harto de escuchar que una empresa se maneja mal? ¿Estás enojado con una empresa por la forma en que lleva a cabo su negocio? ¿Por qué no boicotearlo y alentar a otros a hacer lo mismo?

Aquí hay una guía rápida para comenzar tu propio boicot.

Los boicots son una herramienta para responsabilizar a la empresa por las malas acciones contra trabajadores, consumidores, comunidades, minorías, animales o el medio ambiente. Es la democracia de mercado en acción: consumidores que votan con su dinero para un cambio social y económico.

Los boicots amenazan directamente las ventas para que los dueños o administradores de la empresa los tomen más en serio que usando campañas de cartas o cabildeo.

Cualquier grupo o individuo interesado puede convocar a un boicot. Los grupos han tenido más éxito al convocar y ejecutar boicots que un solo individuo, porque la unión hace la fuerza.


Antes de comenzar un boicot...


Establece algunos objetivos y metas.


"Una campaña exitosa, sin importar cómo la definamos, tiene que comenzar con metas claras, realistas y mensurables", dijo Barbara Beck de Pew Charitable Trusts.

Ten claras las demandas por ejemplo: ¡Dejar de vender tabaco a los niños! Esto facilita la participación de las personas y le da a la empresa una acción que puede ejecutar. Asegúrese de que las demandas sean realistas.

Establezca un marco de tiempo basado en los recursos y el tamaño de la tarea. Pero recuerde que los boicots pueden tomar años antes de lograr el resultado deseado. Quizás primero comience en pequeño o tenga como objetivo un boicot en un área reducida o entre un pequeño grupo de personas.

Decida si desea presionar a la empresa al impactar las ventas de sus productos (económicos y orientados al consumidor) o atacando la imagen de la compañía (reputación y orientada a los medios).


Ármate con buena información.


Obtenga todos los datos de la compañía y la política o acción ofensiva.

Busque en Internet información de la compañía

Pregunte a otros activistas y grupos de campaña si saben algo interesante y relevante, quizás respalden su llamado al boicot.

Pida a ex empleados que "suelten la lengua".

Use los informes anuales de la compañía (a menudo publicados en Internet) para obtener información importante de la compañía, como su informe ambiental o política de derechos de los trabajadores, el nombre del presidente y / o el director general, direcciones y números de teléfono.

Y entonces…


Escriba a la compañía para expresar su queja. Y pida reunirse con ellos.

Indique que si la política o acción no se modifica, tiene la intención de iniciar un boicot. Algunos organizadores intentan negociar primero con la compañía y usan una estrategia de boicot solo si las negociaciones no logran los cambios deseados.

Ocasionalmente, la amenaza de un boicot puede hacer que la empresa ceda a sus demandas.

Difundir la palabra.


Encuentra y utiliza medios de boicot, prensa local y prensa alternativa.

Establezca contactos con otros activistas, organizadores, grupos comunitarios y medios de comunicación para difundir el mensaje del boicot y obtener publicidad.

Use comunicados de prensa y materiales informativos como parte de una estrategia integral de medios.

15 formas de transmitir tu mensaje. 

  1. Desarrolle un mensaje claro, simple y conciso.
  2. Distribuya folletos sobre su boicot frente a las tiendas donde se vende el producto.
  3. Haga que los consumidores firmen peticiones o tarjetas comprometiéndose a apoyar el boicot.
  4. Envíelos a la compañía.
  5. Produzca materiales educativos, películas o kits de demostración para educar a los consumidores sobre el problema y cómo pueden ayudar.
  6. Publicidad en periódicos, radio y televisión.
  7. Incluso podría tratar de obtener un respaldo de celebridad.
  8. Produzca botones, pegatinas para el parachoques y camisetas.
  9. Crear un sitio web con información sobre el boicot
  10. Enviar alertas por correo electrónico y actualizaciones.
  11. Escribir comunicados de prensa para notificar a los medios de mítines, conferencias de prensa, demostraciones o cualquier otro evento que apoye el boicot.
  12. Haga demostraciones frente a la sede de la compañía.
  13. Habla en las funciones de la comunidad.
  14. Cartas a periódicos y revistas locales y nacionales
  15. Escribir artículos para boletines informativos de otras organizaciones.

Lo importante no es lo que sabes sino a quién conoces.


Intente obtener apoyo y/o respaldo de organizaciones grandes de caridad o de grupos de campaña existentes. Aumentará el peso de su campaña, ellos sabrán cómo obtener más recursos y también podrían promover su causa.

Una estrategia más difícil pero que vale la pena puede ser apelar a los accionistas de la compañía.

Convenza a otras compañías de "unirse" a su boicot, no hay nada como la presión de los compañeros.

¿Estas listo para la acción?


Hay muchos lugares en Internet donde puedes encontrar más información sobre boicots.

Este documento fue elaborado usando la guía Co-op America.

Traducido de la siguiente fuente: Boycotts: Your Quick-Start Guide - ethical consumer.

Five years in prison for the police man who tortured journalist Lydia Cacho

Five years in prison for the police man who tortured journalist Lydia Cacho.


MEXICO CITY (AP) - The Office of the General Prosecutor (PGR) reported that the Second District Court residing in Puebla issued a five-year and three-month prison sentence against police officer José Montaño, accused of torturing the journalist Lydia Cacho.

In a statement, the agency stated that the Court determined that the Special Prosecutor's Office for Crimes Against Freedom of Expression (FEADLE) established that during its transfer from Cancun, Quintana Roo, to the capital of Puebla on December 16 of 2005, the author of "The demons of Eden" was subjected to "physical and psychological violence because of her journalistic work and exercise of freedom of expression."

At that time Montaño served as commander of the state police of Puebla and was responsible for the transfer of the journalist.

On June 22, 2005, the businessman Kamel Nacif Borge denounced Cacho for defamation and slander, and asked the governor of Puebla, Mario Marín, to exercise his influence so that the communicator was arrested for the publication of the book 'The demons of Eden "- where she publicly denounced a network of prostitution and child pornography - in which she links Mario Marín with Succar Kuri.

Lydia Cacho was arrested on December 16 by the puebla judicial police in Cancún, Quintana Roo, and transferred by land to the city of Puebla. The arrest warrant was issued by Judge Rosa Celia Pérez González. After almost 30 hours of arrest she was released, after paying a deposit of 106 thousand pesos.

In April of 2015 was realized the first hearing in which Lydia Cacho had her aggressor in front.

After announcing the sentence against the former commander, the PGR endorsed its commitment to continue investigations related to the case and to disclose criminal responsibility and to execute the arrest warrants that are still pending.


The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) "evidenced" the responsibility of the State Police of Oaxaca in at least three civilian deaths


State Police responsible for at least 3 deaths in Nochixtlán, CNDH.


The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) "evidenced" the responsibility of the State Police of Oaxaca in at least three civilian deaths during the operation carried out in Nochixtlán and other points of Oaxaca on June 19, 2016.

The operation began to evict a highway blockade in Asunción de Nochixtlán, Oaxaca, but extended to Huitzo, Hacienda Blanca and Viguera. It lasted 12 hours and had a total of seven people killed by gunshot wounds, all of them civilians, and was described by the president of the CNDH, Luis Raúl González Pérez, as "an example of what should not be police actions of this nature ".

On Wednesday, the CNDH issued recommendation 7VG / 2017, where it was confirmed that the Federal Police, the Gendarmerie, the Public Security Secretariat of Oaxaca, the State Police and the State Investigations Agency committed serious violations of human rights.

Regarding the seven people killed, the CNDH found the following:


The first three dead


Three died in Nochixtlán after receiving shots between 9:00 am and 10:00 p.m. on Robles Street in the hotel zone, and at least two of them were injured by 9 mm caliber bullets. and .223, the same of the arms that carried police state; in one case ballistic elements could not be recovered.

In addition, in the case of one of the victims, not only was it accredited that he was injured by bullets of the caliber used by state police that day, but that a person saw a state police shoot him in the head.

With these elements and a photograph showing the agents in the place of the facts, the CNDH accredited that there were state police armed and firing, that the policemen were located in the same zone and hour in which the three victims were injured by gun of concluding that, "there is a high probability that the death" of a victim "would be attributable to the State Police."


Three dead in "the nopalera"


Three more people lost their lives in Nochixtlán between 11:00 and 11:30 hours, during a second confrontation in the area known as "la nopalera" by the CNDH. Ballistic elements could only be recovered from two of these victims, and these were long arms of caliber .223 or 5.56 × 45 mm, ie the same caliber used by the State Police and the Gendarmerie respectively.

In addition, the CNDH obtained a video published in the media where three uniformed policemen are observed, two of them carrying long arms. The policeman who appears in the foreground comments "the güey ... is there sheltered ... you can see the head", later a policeman is observed lifting his long gun and a detonation is heard.

Moments later, other policemen are observed pointing their long guns while listening "to the red one!", Detonations are heard and the shout of "the one of red!" Is repeated, until a voice of smaller volume says "already fell the Red".

According to the CNDH, the video shows that at least two police officers fired their long arms; one of them was identified by name and position by the Secretary of Public Security of Oaxaca as an element of the State Highway Police.

The coincidences between the sayings of the police in the video and testimonies obtained by the CNDH, as well as the red dress of one of the victims, among other elements, "indicia of the individual responsibility of the death of both victims by the uniformed ones, one of them state highway police ".

"Those who are seen in the video shot outside of any legal context and against any principle of use of force," the Commission concluded.

A dead in Viguera


At 16:50 hours an emergency police operation was ordered in Viguera, an hour's drive from Nochixtlán, to free the 135D highway and allow the passage of the convoy from the first operation.

At 19:00 hours the convoy from Nochixtlán and another that made an emergency operation in Huitzo (between Nochixtlán and Viguera) met in Viguera with the agents mobilized there. All together they unlocked the road.

It was at the height of the monument to Juarez that the police had to stop again by another blockade and a person was injured by firearm between the streets "A Viguera" and "Libramiento Atoyac", passing away shortly after. The CNDH accredited the use of lethal force by the State Police.

Source: Policía Estatal es responsable de al menos 3 muertes en Nochixtlán, acredita CNDH - Aristegui Noticias

"Bajale de huevos" (Stop messing around) was told, with a gun pointing to his head, a member of Mexican against corruption.



Darío Ramírez, director of Communication of Mexicans against corruption and impunity, explained in what consisted the threat against one of the members of that organization.

In an interview for #AristeguiEnVivo with Isaías Robles, he remembered the background, such as the fact that they were targets of Pegasus spy software.

The statement of Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) is reproduced in full here:

Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) has faced an environment of harassment stemming from their investigations and litigation. There are, for example, the cases of espionage that have been subjected to three members of the organization through the Pegasus malware as confirmed by experts in the matter and published by the New York Times.

A new incident of intimidation has recently been reported. Last week a MCCI employee suffered a threat while walking on the street. A motorcycle with two crew men approached surprisingly and one of the individuals went to our collaborator, drew a pistol and asked for the cell phone. So far it seemed like an assault on common delinquency. However, before fleeing, he aimed the gun at our partner's head and said, "Bajale de huevos" (Stop messing around). Then he got on the motorcycle and left. After advancing a few meters hurled the cell phone.

We proceeded as follows: a formal complaint was filed with the Public Prosecutor's Office, which is identified by file number CI-FH / CUH-2 / UI-2SD / 05508 / 10-2017; a communication was sent to the Ministry of the Interior detailing this and several other harassment incidents that have been the object of the organization and its collaborators; the same information was sent to the Rapporteurs of Freedom of Expression of the Mexican Commission on Human Rights (CNDH), the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the United Nations.

We do this to defend our partner and to demand that the authorities investigate thoroughly and punish those responsible.

Despite the adverse context, in MCCI we reaffirm our commitment to combat corruption and impunity and defend freedom of expression and the rule of law. Far from frightening us, harassment is a new sign that we are meeting our goals.