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Global Boycott for Peace Mission Statement
GBP defined
Boycott Position Recommendations (Boycott End conditions)
GBP Membership
Operating Procedures and Decision Making
Organizational Structure
What GBP Does/Proposes To Do

 Mission Statement (Draft)

The mission of Global Boycott for Peace is to build a worldwide network of boycott activists to pressure the U.S. government, through it's corporate sponsors, into becoming an international partner in maintaining a peaceful and sustainable world and renouncing militarism.

 GBP Defined (Draft)

Global Boycott for Peace (GBP) is an international network of individuals and organizations promoting peace through boycott activities undertaken in the tradition of nonviolence.

We choose to boycott the goods and services of U.S. corporations because they profit from war, from the preparations for it, and from the continued exploitation of world peoples and resources. They, and powerful individuals associated with them, fund the major political parties and control the major corporate media that together actively obstruct our progress toward a peaceful and sustainable world.

We work in solidarity with:

• Those who bear the brunt of exploitative policies and practices

• Groups and individuals working to change these policies and practices

• Those who boycott to withdraw direct or indirect support of these policies and practices

• Advocates of a socially and politically responsible business sector who, with their spending and investing choices, support businesses and institutions that don't contribute to these policies and practices

• Those promoting 'globalization from below': cooperative production without profiteering owners and investors

  Boycott Position Recommendations (Draft)

The following positions have been informed by the desires of groups and individuals around the world. GBP encourages boycott campaigns to adopt the following:

1. GBP recommends both a 'general' boycott, where most U.S. corporations are boycotted, and a 'targeted' boycott, where an effective subset of U.S. corporations are boycotted--with national and regional boycott campaigns choosing the approach that is most appropriate for them.

2. GBP asks all people to continue the boycott until the U.S. government:

   1. Ends its imposition of a U.S.-run puppet post-war government in Iraq and gives the U.N. a leading role in post-war transitional governance

   2. Officially ratifies the treaty authorizing the International Criminal Court, recognizing the competence of the International Criminal Court to prosecute war criminals and cancelling all bilateral agreements

   3. Abandons the Anti-Ballistic Missile System and reinstates the ABM Treaty

   4. Ratifies (or strengthens their stance on) the prominent and otherwise universally accepted international accords on weapons and global warming including but not necessarily limited to the: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Kyoto Accords on Global Warming, 1997 Landmine Treaty, and the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention (Chemical Weapons Convention).

   5. Renounces its doctrine of preemptive war

   6. Brings its expenditures for the military into line with that of the other nations of the world

   7. Ends the use of a double standard on Weapons of Mass Destruction that approves Israel's and the U.S.'s stocks of these weapons

   8. Starts negotiations for a two state solution for Israel/Palestine

 GBP Membership (Draft)

GBP comprises three types or levels of membership:

Committee Member (full GBP members): An individual who has committed to share in the work of GBP, and who represents either himself or herself, or an independent peace-related organization. Only these individuals who have committed to sharing in the work of GBP are eligible to vote in GBP elections and referenda.

Sponsoring Partner (GBP-affiliated): Sponsoring Partners are organizations or individuals that endorse the Mission Statement and Position Recommendations of the GBP. Two examples are national / regional sub-sections of GBP, and independent boycott campaigns.

1. Sponsoring Partners are encouraged to offer their input in GBP discussion.

2. Sponsoring Partners have offered to lend their support to GBP in some material way such as assistance with press, materials, financing, link placement, etc.

3. While a Sponsoring Partners' input and advice is carefully considered and highly valued, they have neither the obligations nor the voting powers of Committee Members.

Endorsing Associate (supporting but non-affiliated): Endorsing Associates are not directly affiliated with GBP but have lent their 'voice' to GBP's boycott by publicly voicing their agreement with GBP's strategy and goals. They are not formally involved in discussion or support of GBP, but simply endorse its activities.

 GBP Operating Procedures and Decision Making (Draft)

GBP uses a semi-consensus model of decision making, where a proposal is approved if it receives 75% or more of the votes cast. Committee members – those who have committed to sharing in the work of GBP – are eligible to vote in GBP elections and referenda.

GBP members are in in the process of developing and approving rules and procedures to facilitate GBP's functioning as a democratic, egalitarian, nondiscriminatory organization of equals. These rules are to be posted prominently on the GBP web site.

 GBP Organizational Structure (Draft)

Global Boycott for Peace is an organization/coalition of equals. There is a facilitator, chosen by consensus, which is rotated periodically among members. The basic organizational units of GBP are the working committees, whose members carry voting privileges. The working committees that exist at this time are:

EXECUTIVE
Coordinate the day to day work; facilitate the task of defining the coalition/network.

RULES
Develop guidelines for decision-making and whatever else needs guidelines to facilitate the process

OUTREACH/HUMAN RESOURCES
Contact other organizations, web sites and individuals; solicit their participation in the coalition; respond to contacts we receive via the web site(s) and any other means; develop things that these people around the world can do to participate in the boycott campaign; provide 'people power' to the working committees

PRESS RELATIONS/BOYCOTT NEWS
Issue press releases, give interviews, write/compile news articles about boycott the U.S. organizing around the world, review and submit other pertinent articles for publication on the web site

WEB SITE CONTENT (proposed)
Review suggestions and make recommendations for, and make final decisions regarding content for the main Global Boycott for Peace web site. Also, define the core content and appearance of the non-English language sub-sites.

GRAPHICS
Manage graphics for both web site and other media, e.g., posters, flyers, e-stationery, etc.

WEB SITE
Create and manage the web site and any sub-sites for the coalition. Work with Graphics committee on appearance aspects; develop 'standard suite' of web site functionality, including database for volunteers and/or respondents. Provide discussion group, and recommendations for online chat, private e-lists, etc. for managing communications among us.

Non-English language sub-sites and sub-sections of the GBP coalition/network (Arabic, Turkish, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, German – others anticipated) compose and update content for the these sub-sites of GBP; perform 'Executive', 'Outreach /Human Resources', 'Press Relations/Boycott News', 'Graphics', and other appropriate functions necessary to organize a section of GBP in the countries where the respective languages are used. Help identify workers for the GBP committees. Work with other boycott advocacy groups in these countries.

 What GBP Does/Proposes To Do (Draft)

GBP presently provides, or proposes to provide the following, to promote a boycott of U.S. goods, and to facilitate the growth of a coordinated international boycott U.S. campaign:

• Boycott news source
• Source of information about distinct boycott campaigns
• Networking service, bringing people and groups together for their mutual purposes
• Facilitation of the development of country/language--based sub-sections of GBP
• Web site, perhaps conceived as a 'hub' for the larger network, centralizing whatever functions the network members wish to centralize.
• Facilitate the development of country/language--based sub-webs to the main GBP web site
• Recruitment function--bring new people into the boycott campaign(s)
• Press Relations function to keep the boycott before the public eye
• Graphics expertise and services to members and associates
• Development and coordination pro-boycott public actions/demonstrations
• Advance a boycott strategy with the anti-war/anti-imperialism community
• Market/demographic/economic research
• Boycott marketing/education/propaganda through various media
• Strategic planning
• Fund raising
• 'Central offices' w/ phone, staffing, etc.
• Fostering of the values of nonviolence, non-discrimination,environmental sustainability, anti-exploitation