Please do not boycot KODAK!

[Greg Crawford]

This is a response to a post from another board...
the idea of boycoting Kodak is such a bad idea, to me that I thought I should enlarge this discussion to all the major Super 8 boards.
Thanks for readying!

As corporations go Kodak is one of the better ones. Manufacturing most if not all of their products in the United States..and being the biggest employer of blind people in the US.

The problem with this new Global Economy is it's pitting It's pitting American and European works against those people living in the Third World living on peanuts. We are not improving their living standards and many have to work 7 days a week 12 hours a day. With now personal life, or way to brake out of the slave state they are in.

If you want to boycott something what about an American boycott for shopping for anything on the day after Thanksgiving. Our biggest US shopping day of the year. And it's legal! I know this would get the attention of the world.

Hear in the US we need elected officials to represent the people of this country and not the Greedy Corporations.

Consider this one more point before the American civil war, corporations had a local charters that could be revoked. Corporations had to do good for there communities. That means providing jobs and livable wages. What we need is more corporate accountability to Government and the people.

[rcroster]

Boycotting makes no sense whatsoever, especially when you consider that there are no substitutes for other brands of Super-8 film. Kodak is the only game in town.

The only way to help Kodak become more responsive to the community's desires is to do the exact opposite of boycotting and to purchase more Super-8 film stock.

So go ahead, pick up the phone today and call 1-800-621-3456 (direct purchase from Kodak). Ask for 5 or more rolls of KMA-464 and it will cost you $10.83 per roll (processing NOT included). As of today, Kodak also has in stock the new and improved Plus-X B&W reversal film stock (PXR 464, 7265) for $10.89 per roll (processing NOT included). In another two weeks or so, they will have in stock the new and improved Tri-X B&W reversal film stock (TXR 464, 7266) for about the same price as Plus-X. These are all wonderful film stocks so let's look at our glass as half full instead of half empty and enjoy that which is available instead of pining and whining for that which is not available and probably will never be..... unless, of course, there is a major surge in Super-8 film shooting that might make it worthwhile for Kodak to introduce a new Super 8 film stock. GET OUT THERE AND SHOOT SUPER-8!!!!