Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: John Higdon Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: AT&T Change in Corporate Donations Policy Message-ID: <6280@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 11 Apr 90 17:27:54 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 29 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 248, Message 2 of 7 Leonard P Levine writes: > [in re AT&T] > What is their donation policy? Can I get a list of those charities > that they do donate to? There is no question of thier caving in, they > did; what is open to question is just what forces we can put on them > to cave in to the groups that we disapprove of? Do you check out the corporate philanthopic policies of every company you deal with or just the ones that get big, sensational press? Do know that the firm that manufactured your toilet paper is donating to all the politically correct groups? Or what about the soap you washed with this morning? What would you do if you found out that your LEC was donating to the "wrong" out outfit (ie, "groups that we disapprove of")? You are certainly free to take your business to whomever you please, but to do so for reasons other than performance, cost, or value, is allowing your attitude to get in the way of productivity. Why not leave economic political coersion to the totalitarian countries where it belongs? Or, if you feel that strongly that your political beliefs must get in the way of doing business, at least be consistent and check out *everyone* you do business with. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !