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:Q: Why should I think this project will work? | |||
:A: Because many global NGOs with long experience in [[w:moral purchasing|moral purchasing]] have proposed or launched similar efforts, usually as shorter-term [[w:boycott|boycott]] efforts. Such projects were instrumental in ending the apartheid regime in South Africa, for instance. More recently, [http://act.greenpeace.org/1020609361/1021119917/1021124011/1021160307/index_html Greenpeace activists discussed 'personal moral purchasing rules' and systems to support them] including collecting [http://act.greenpeace.org/1014917000/1014941204/1024270541/1024347962/1024421552/1024691201/index_html Universal Product Codes of offending products]. Given the experience of the organizations that support and organize such efforts, it may be more appropriate to ask "what makes you think this project would ''not'' work?" | |||
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