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>> suite of lawsuits are piling up against big corporations as consumers pursue massive settlements over household products linked to cancer. run a weedkiller and johnson & johnson baby powder urges among some of the rents that have lost billion-dollar judgments incorporated in the nonprofit group, the american council on science and health, his warning that attorneys are using scare tactics and bogus flames in the name of consumer activism. federal prosecutors recently charge one virginia lawye...

Whatever lying around the bank to cancel their membership. these things do not last. they thought it was going to happen with, you know, the nfl. didnt happen. you know, kaepernick is still not playing. police brutality is still an issue in the black community, and even though the viewership in the nfl, the ratings fell, it was not necessarily a shock because it was falling prior to the boycott of the nfl. so, you know, people are outraged as long as the news is outraged. >> what do you make of ...

If they paid extra, faster to them, but harder to get for others. what if a comcast, for instance, under the guise of network management said you werent allowed to access these other news sites that comcast didnt have as part of nbc? these things on the margins net neutrality, without strong government rules telecom companies might do. they say they dont want to reason. a lot of reason they might not. >> consumer activity here is one of those that may end up being the regulatory check. right? co...

Could become account beginning of a trump fueled era of consumer activism where they have real consequences of companies accused of supporting is trump. the posh sushi restaurant coy announced its shutting down i location at the trump so ho hotel in new york a victim of ps increasingly toxic brand. the council told the website grub street obviously since the election, business has gone down. but the most visible target of these boy kotz remains first daughter ivanka trump. the anti-trump site gr...

Rock, steph curry. how do you think thats going to play out for these successful companies that have these high-profile relationships that may not agree with them getting into politics? >> yeah. i think these companies are going to have to learn pretty quickly that it is not the case that having a great relationship with this president is necessarily great for business. for som companies that may be the case. for others depending on the branding it wont be. consumer activism is back and its here...

Andrew sullivans column this week that he saw it as kind of going too far and being not tolerant. but again, it feels to me like we kbet to say where we spend our money. >> absolutely. in the next decade or so, were going to see even more consumer activism and shareholder activism as a way of holding corporate decision making accountable. so that point about have we gone too far? there are ceos who donated to mitt romney and john mccain. they didnt get protested against. one of the things i see ...

Walmart mom to put her foot down and say you need to change your ways. >> a couple things. remember its important to keep the focus on the political arena as well because we do need legislation but also on the corporate arena. theres various things. not just social media. its consumer activism. and for people that are outraged at what happened. it is financial support. it takes a lot of financial support for groups like the violence policy center. bring handgun control. the mayors organization. ...

Of touch. somehow, they feel that this bullying thing, you know, is going to help them build support among american citizens and guess what, at the decline of union jobs and unionization that happens in most industries, wealth has gone up. mazel tov. >> unions ares last way we have. >> brenda: lets talk about this particular thing that happened. >> this particular case, you know, boycotts are the most american thing we can do and im happy to see that the market has spoken in another way, another...