Yolo Progressive Democrats of America will sponsor a demonstration to boycott Arco/ampm on Thursday, June 24 between 4:30 PM and 6 PM at the Arco/ampm station at Russell and Anderson. Arco and ampm are retail brands of BP.
While we await action on the disaster in the Gulf, we can play our part. We can stop rewarding BP. It is our purchases at Arco Stations that give BP its profits and power.
Please bring signs carrying your messages.
The demonstration will follow Davis Police Department guidelines to not interfere with pedestrian or vehicular traffic. There will be no physical interference with the commercial business of this gas station.
QUESTIONS TO: zbox@dcn.org.
If you bankrupt BP, how is BP going to reimburse all the folks in the Gulf region for their losses? What happens to all the Gulf region BP workers who depend on their BP jobs to put food on the table? Sometimes ill thought out actions have unintended consequences.
How is protesting in front of Arco in Davis possibly going to bankrupt BP a multinational giant?
DMG: “How is protesting in front of Arco in Davis possibly going to bankrupt BP a multinational giant?”
I assume the idea of protesting in front of the Arco gas station is to deter customers from buying gas there, no?
I view it as raising awareness.
DMG: “I view it as raising awareness.”
Look at the title of the article – Vote With Your Wallet/Boycott Arco…
I know where I’m going to buy my gas on June 24th at 4:30 sharp.
suppose the boycott works, and Arco gas stops. If BP goes under a couple of things will happen:
1. fuel price spikes, which affects poor people the most
2. we would have to possibly get more fuel from foreign areas, like the middle east.
3. the people who work for BP are now out of a job and cannot pay their mortgage, unlike the executives who have enough money to weather the storm
Please think through what you do before you do it.