Last week the Yale School of Management lists 131 companies in 28 countries which continue doing business as usual with Russia (https://som.yale.edu/story/2022/over-400-companies-have-withdrawn-russia-some-remain). Of these at least 29 companies operate in the United States as the table below shows. Our objective is to let the companies know that continuing doing business with Russia will have a negative impact on their US business.
Among companies, which do business as usual with Russia (even with curtailed activity as explained in editor’s note below top photo) are Acer, Lenovo, Asus, Xiaomi, Huawei, Toyota and Mitsubishi. Acer, Lenovo, Asus, Xiaomi and Huawei products are sold through major retailers’ stores in the US including Walmart, Costco, Best Buy, Home Depot, Office Depot and Staples. Toyota and Mitsubishi sell their cars through their dealerships in the US. The hope is that protesting these retailers’ local stores and the local car dealerships in question would encourage them to put pressure on Acer, Lenovo, Asus, Xiaomi, Huawei, Toyota and Mitsubishi to end doing business with Russia.
Another aim of the protests is to raise awareness in our communities of the plight of the Ukrainian people and their struggle for democracy and freedom.
The proposal is to conduct protests by people displaying signs. The protests, lasting about 40 minutes each, would be held in front of Walmart, Costco, Best Buy, Home Depot, Office Depot and Staples stores as well as the Toyota and Mitsubishi dealerships in Reno/Sparks. Additional goal of the protests is to attract the attention of the local media, thus amplifying the protests’ message.
Hopefully, such protests would be replicated all across the country.
If you can help achieve this goal or have ideas on this matter, please contact VictoryToUkraine1@gmail.com
Slava Ukraini! (Glory to Ukraine!)