[Boundless]

And just what will be the message to whom,
when 19 Oct comes and goes, and
nothing happened?

Entirely apart from the merits of the advocacy
in play here, was it smart to schedule this
during the peak of election frenzy?

Or, looking at some of the sponsors, is this
actually a political stunt? And if so, for
the benefit of which candidate?

[Tamar1973]

And just what will be the message to whom, when 19 Oct comes and goes, and nothing happened?

I have no idea, but people on FR try to organize boycotts or advertise the boycotts started by others all the time. Before I posted this info, I did a search to try to make sure this hadn't been posted before, I found boycotts encouraged against such groups as CBS, Norwegians, French, Bruce Springsteen, Yahoo, Blockbuster, USA Today, etc. Most of these have had little to no sucess yet it gives the allusion of power and activism.

It's also as American as the Boston Tea Party.