As
the situation in Russia gets ever more dire, suggestions on how to
effectively protest Putin's Russia have cropped up all over the
internet, from civil disobedience to moving the Olympics to a variety of
boycotts. Nancy Goldstein at The American Prospect gives an anylsis of the different methods that are being tried and gets to the Achilles' Heel of the Russian government:
Russian LGBT activists have been saying for some time now that there’s no point in aiming at so small a target as the Kremlin’s heart, especially when its wallet presents a larger, more tender object.
The Stoli boycott is evidently proving to be more effective than some would believe, and a Change.org petition asking
Coca-Cola, Panasonic, Samsung, Procter & Gamble, and Visa to pull
their sponsorship from the Olympics has received over 100,000
signatures. Meanwhile, gay rights activists in New York collected over 340,000 signatures urging
world leaders to help eliminate anti-gay laws in Russia that they
delivered to the Russian U.N. ambassador at his residence. The important
thing is that whatever is done, it must impede Putin's war against
homosexuals beyond the Sochi Olympics.\
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