Here's a comparison that is rare in today's capitalist world. CREDO MOBILE has an action webpage that is worth looking into. Here are some of the causes they support:
Help Warren Buffett raise taxes on the super rich
Tell Democrats on the debt committee: Hold the line on jobs and revenue
Stop the War on Women!
There are more and I will tell you about them below.
The "Stop the war on women" campaign is ongoing and its phone bills next month will be adorned with:
We just printed the envelopes for next month's phone bills. Here's what will be blazoned on the back outside flap. Just another reason why it's awesome being a CREDO customer. Click Like if you wish all phone companies would support women's rights instead of anti-women politicians!
I will not hold my breath waiting for Verizon to do anything close to this.
Let's look at a few more out of many, many examples:Protect family farmers with Fair Farm Rules! This one is especially important. Who else in the corporate world has broken with Monsanto and other exploiters?
Protect family farmers with Fair Farm Rules!
Unfair and discriminatory practices by meat industry giants have been squeezing independent farmers and ranchers out of business at an alarming rate.
But after decades of failure to enforce antitrust legislation against Big Meat, the 2008 Farm bill required the U.S. Department of Agriculture to enact and enforce Fair Farm Rules.
Now, the rules have been written, but USDA hasn't finalized them yet. And meat industry giants have been putting enormous pressure on Secretary Vilsack and the Obama Administration to weaken these rules that would, for the first time, provide fair market protections for small and midsize farmers.
Here's another:
Tell President Obama: Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
"Essentially game over" for the climate.
That's what climate scientist James Hansen calls the proposed Keystone XL pipeline -- which would carry oil out of Canada's vast tar sands oil fields to Texas, where it will be refined, then burned across the globe, dealing a catastrophic blow to our chance of returning earth to a stable climate.
This project requires a presidential permit to start building -- and it is President Obama's decision alone to grant or deny that permit. He will make the decision as soon as September.
Tell President Obama: Stop the Keystone XL pipeline.
The Alberta tar sands are a carbon bomb. The 3rd largest oil field in the world, the difficult extraction and transportation of the tar sands oil ultimately produces up to three times the carbon emissions of traditional oil. (And extreme environmental devastation along the way.)1
The Keystone XL pipeline is the fuse to this bomb - a highway to swift consumption of this dirty, dangerous crude. As if that wasn't enough, it poses a massive spill risk in the six states along the pipeline route, including over the Ogallala Aquifer which provides up to 30% of our nation's agricultural water.
There is no need to go on. The point seems clear. Verizon exploits while CREDO helps protect workers, women and the environment.
We have so little opportunity to show how our beliefs can influence our choices. It is unfortunate but true. All the more reason why Verizon can be economically punished for its treatment of its workers. Which side are you on?