It’s been two weeks since I cut back buying only things I need involving food clothing and shelter. First thing I noticed this week is I have less trash and less recyclable. So I guess you can say I’m an accidental minimalist.
You just buy the day before or after. To really get noticed, close your Meta accounts, dump Prime, buy groceries and necessities from small local businesses that share your values. It’s less convenient and costs a bit more but what is your freedom worth to you?
Frustrating. Apart from not buying from Amazon or American fast food chains, which I almost never do anyway, there's not much I can do to contribute from the UK. Any suggestions?
Well I can understand the sentiment I feel the same way about the Ukraine war and other worldly disasters. But honestly the fact that you voice the fact that you're thinking about us over here means more than you realize. Solidarity helps when we falter and gives us strength to take the next step...
No matter which country we live in, LargeCorporations’re truly taking advantage of the needs of the people as it’s Them That’s Supporting & Donating copiously to government representatives to get TheirAgenda/Profit done!
Idk so much about Canada but there’s always something tht can be addressed!✌🏼
Nobody said it has to be just one day, did they? Maybe it’s a really good time for people to keep the money that they have, in their own pocket and when they need something make every effort to obtain it from small businesses, family, businesses, people you know. Barter services and goods. 💪🏼
Boycotts are ineffective if there is a set end date. Especially if that end date is after one day. The Montgomery bus boycott lasted a little over a year.
ist is growing
John Deere
Harley Davidson
Jack Daniel’s
Ford Motor
Lowe’s
Molson Coors
Boeing
Walmart
McDonald’s
Meta
Amazon
Target
The Smithsonian Institution
Google
Amtrak
Accenture
Pepsi
GM
Disney
GE
Intel
PayPal
Chipotle
Comcast
PBS
Deloitte
Goldman Sachs
Coca Cola
Citigroup
JP Morgan Chase
Reward them on some other day.
Why is it so gd hard for Americans to NOT SHOP?
In Germany in the 80s, all retail and commerce STOPPED for the 2 major Christian holidays: Christmas & Easter.
No one bought ANYTHING from Dec 23-26, & from Good Friday to Easter Monday.
No one starved.
No one died.
Part of it is the influence of overconsumption. So many people fall for the “must have this” mindset that they see everywhere. Quite literally, America is riddled with ads everywhere pushing whatever product or business. Billboards, commercials, ads on YouTube, ads on news media, etc
I rather enjoyed those times even though I am not Christian and had no family over there. I enjoyed the solitude—the peace and quiet.
I cooked & baked, read books, took long walks in the woods and at the sea, worked on my own writing and painting.
Listened to music.
It was glorious.
I thought that had since changed.
My point is that it’s possible.
Hey…we all know the Germans are the better Americans.
They’ve been doing their damndest since 1945.
But they sure know how to do Christmas and Easter.
It's more sensible now in that it's only the days that are actually holidays - the 25th and 26th december and easter monday - where shops are fully closed
Having to plan and shop for meals for a whole five days all at once would just be way too much for a lot of people
In Bavaria everything still closes on Sundays, except some restaurants. We were out of toilet paper and I had to sneak some out of a restaurant bathroom. Had a big roll down my shirt and I pretended I was pregnant
Funny. 😄
Back in the day, there were cigarette machines on every corner—I ran out if smokes on Karfreitag one year—had to get smokes from a machine. That’s when I learned about the law!
We can do this as a country of pissed off human beings tired of carrying Millionaire Billionaire Welfare Queens and being treated like Rodney Dangerfield NO RESPECT! They need us we have leftovers and we are going to use them!
How about we boycott right-wing supporting companies or those that have cancelled DEI programs? We should support Costco, but not McDonalds or Pepsi Co (KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut). Don’t penalize large companies that are doing the right thing!
I think it’s about time we realize that none of these “large companies” (corporations) are doing the right things…they’re all exploiting workers and they’re all profiting off of minerals and resources exploited from poorer countries.
"large companies that do the right thing" are not a thing that exists. costco has done shit that would have me refusing to support them (which, granted, is easy for me because ive never even been to one).
unfortunately coke also called ICE on it's own employees so you're basically dropping cola from costco. You'll find that the majority of large company owners support right wing candidates in some way. Best to just cut the head off the snake and get rid of the conservatives through votes or violence.
Given that people are already saying that they'll shop at Costco and Penzeys and will buy "essential" items, let's just try to make it through the first day.
For me, this is daily now. Since early Jan., no more frivolous purchases, less spending in general, and NO Amazon purchases. Figure at least 15-20% reduction in non-essential spending. Not that hard.
that's a much better idea. or better yet, cut back spending to only essentials for 2025; i'm not sure I could do that, but if enough people did it would make an impact.
Let's try to get 1 day first. It will be hard to get enough people for 1 day to be noticable. If that can make news then we can expand it beyond 1 day.
A day is nothing! STOP BUYING FROM AMAZON PERIOD! Get off Facebook and Instagram FOREVER! We need progressive alternatives to all fascist-aligned social media. They've shown their cards, to keep participating and purchasing from them makes you a part of their damnable cancer.
And, just like cancer, you have to starve them. Before they starve us. Move as one and we win. We need a DON'T BUY GAS DAY! They feel that. Do it by brand, do it in general but everybody has to do it because the amount of $ they lose in one day freaks them out!
A lot of people who would participate in this don’t know about it. This needs more light, and people need to understand that is about the ability to demonstrate mass action, not to put anybody out of business in a day.
Yes, it is not something that will really hurt most businesses since most people will shift their buying to the days before and after. But what it can do is send a message. When sales are drastically down on Friday, it lets them know the people are not happy.
On the same page as you, farmers markets, garage sales, thrift stores. Check for a local buy nothing group near you. It's neighbors swapping things with neighbors. Only problem is mine is on facebook so if we meta blackout then that goes away.
Then say goodbye to Blue Sky. All 6 addresses are on Amazon.
They might take a hint from Virgin Mobile. Virgin bought old bathrooms in UK parks and turned them into small, low cost datacenters.
I'd rather post from a shithouse than Amazon.
I'm not taking any more questions. You somehow have a distorted version of my claims, and I find that disturbing.
The answer is at the top of my profile. If you didn't bother trying to understand, don't bother me.
Enjoy your Amazon adventure on Blue Sky.
All six servers are owned and operated by Amazon.
I haven't made my decision long term, but if you're going to boycott Amazon Friday, you can not be on Blue Sky:
a major Amazon account.
And keep them coming - they'll get bigger and more effective.
And over the long haul let's learn to live with less. We all have like 6 streaming apps - maybe we rotate two every four months instead and take a nice chunk out of what we give them annually and miss roughly zero content.
I don't understand what this is supposed to do or how this is supposed to help? I'll participate, but I can't imagine that enough people will participate that any of these companies will even notice any difference. For one day, or even one week? It takes more time than that. Drop them permanently.
This article proves my point. Even with this, Target is waving it off as having nothing to do with policy- and that is a decline in traffic over a whole month.
One day is NOT enough to make an impact. We need to drop these places for a longer period of time- a month, a quarter... or permanently.
Do tell? Does BlueSky have private messenging? I would be quite interested since I am looking for other social media, not FB/IG/tiktok, any & all suggestions are welcomed.
Bluesky has private messaging but this is a region specific activism group. I'd recommend that if you want to join a discord for activism, you use the discord server search function or https://disboard.org/search
Good to know. Thank you. Even if it is region specific, it wouldn't be bad to share information & utilize as many platforms as possible to get messages out.
Using our wallets to get the point across has worked for generations of protests. BUT -- if you can, show our support for the small family places that are and will continue to suffer because of these policies.
Wait what? Because I’ve been doing this every day since being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that United Healthcare won’t cover because I no longer have money to spend and am in debt up to my eyeballs.
Make it every day, if having to pay more anyway, why not support small businesses, farmers markets, & second-hand shops? Make barter & trade in your communities to help each other. There are lots of ways to make big differences that helps average people. Their livelihoods are at stake too.
I agree. No fast food. People need to learn what once was a highly valuable skill: cooking at home. It’s time we shutter ALL fast food restaurants & making DoorDashing illegal for good & get back to home cooked meals from scratch. No more taking the easy way out.
I won't be shopping or spending money anywhere, except at a local restaurant. It's date night and our anniversary, and we're not skipping that because of a fascist dictator. Local only, though - no chains.
Should be for the whole weekend. February 28, March one, and March two. Those who will not buy anything Friday, will just buy on Saturday. We need to boycott buying the whole weekend.
Where possible, cut back all non-essential spending indefinitely. Drop streaming services, cancel Prime, buy secondhand books, go for walks, spend time with friends and family. It's a frugal way of life, but it's simpler and more wholesome. You don't have to feed the system.
Those who can should stretch it out for a week. Or two. Or a month! We don't need all this non food stuff we buy all the time, but I recognize people will need food, diapers, formula and medications, so get them where you want.
This is everyday. I'm a middle class single mom of three teenagers and started doing this Jan 1.
Among these are Target, Aldi, Facebook, Instagram, X, MSNBC ( new), Disney, Netflix, Xfinity, all new clothing replacements,and many more. Mostly cut for necessity (rising costs)..now civil disobedience
True, but they removed themselves from their commitment to hiring fairly so that's why they are out. I've shopped there for 20 years or more. They jumped on the Trump bandwagon pretty quickly
Pretty plugged in with my local small businesses here so feel confident who I am supporting. The ones who had any support visible for dickhead or any GOP candidates are forever burned into my brain.
If the companies don’t feel a noticeable difference in sales, should they then focus on catering to the conservatives, since they could attribute all their sales to conservatives spending their money and none of it from the left?
Its a habit that is easily broken. I haven't used any of these since muscreant and felonious gump began dismantling the government and the Constitution. complacency and the desire for convenience in everything is what has gotten us to this point t in history.
Unfortunately I already boycotted Amazon and fast food for years already.
There is no Walmart in Oz but I do support this idea in principle.
Make it global.
Glad to here than I was on a system in Greece, and asked them what's this 28Feb. They had a slightly different description, but I didn't yet go back to see the full original text.
I think it IS the same boycott. In Greek!
What a good feeling. I am no longer shopping on Friday's. Not going to any store or restaurant that rolled back DEI, got rid of Facebook and I am no longer tempting myself by going on Amazon. It's like a wait off my shoulders.
Will everyone please remember & recognize that 28 FEB is also #RareDiseaseDay? The NIH-FDA event has been cancelled, along w life-saving programs. And now, Medicaid cuts will kill us.
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While boycotting this hell, please send the $ you save to the GFM/fundraiser of a rare-disease patient.🙏🏼
The only store we have not 100% boycotted is Amazon simply because they have by the... but we cut our Amazon shopping by like 90%. It's crazy how quickly my family's disposable income turned to savings in the bank. We always support local but now even more!
Also utilize thrift stores, garage sales, farmers markets, craft shows. Your neighbors buisness if you must buy things. Shopping local instead of big retailers. I plan on not buying anything unless you can eat it for as long as we can.
A brother & his family live in LV. I know his kids are maggots. Spoke to him yesterday, last time I will ever try to reach him. At least he texted me 2 years ago when our mother died. Aw.
Used to really like shopping at Target. It was a bummer to give it up, but it wasn’t as big a pain in the ass as I expected. Plus I found a cool local hardware store that is quite happy to take my money.
Let this be the starting point for boycotting the t & m & supporting businesses for as long as possible. A one day blackout is horriblely naive, we need to act decisiely
That's what I usually do. I never shop at Walmart, (I even feel embarrassed cycling close to their store), and I never go to fast food places. It's so unhealthy there. I don't expect to do any shopping on Friday, anyway. So it's easy for me to support the "Blackout." i like the idea.
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WHAT NOT TO DO:
Do not make any purchases
Do not shop online, or in-store
No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy
Nowhere!
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I’m learning how to bake bread from scratch. I’m farmers market shopping now. Hopefully my veggie/herb/berry garden will wean me off that by summer. My pantry is stocked.
I thought Costco was one of the good businesses?
I know they pay really well at $30. an hr, have health insurance, and allow unionization.
The teamsters represents approximately 18% of Costco employees.
Another strategy, eat can-food for a week,so their veggies will be rotten&cheap; eat slightly rotten veggies for another week till their meats are all stale;cook the stale meat well lasting another 2 ...till they're all defeated. U get the idea, but it must take collective actions&be organized well.
What about organizing a hunger strike, stop eating for a day, then drinking water for three days, eating can-food for another 7, going to McDonald's & eating leftovers for another two weeks, that's 25 days enough to crippled any greedy politicians and capitalists.Until their food &money r all rotten
that excuse is often used and while it may be true to some degree I doubt it is true for for people here using that excuse.
Most people value their immediate convenience over resisting the oligarchy and strengthening their community.
Well, maybe it depends on one's view of "convenience." Is it convenient because I can't be bothered or is is convenient because my kid has a party at school tomorrow and needs a costume all of a sudden?
Or those parents who can't afford to shop anywhere else cause Walmart kicked out all small businesses a two decades ago and is the primary employer in a rural community? There are a lot of variables.
Now, I don't have kids - by choice - and I am heavily involved in boycotts (for instance I haven't purchased anything Kelloggs since April of last year). But I'm also aware of the people in my community and how they truly are limited.
This kind of boycott only really matters if there is sustained change. If you just wait to place your Amazon order on Saturday then Amazon has lost nothing.
Props to my fellow poor people who’ve been not buying shit since forever! Y’all would be amazed at how much shit you can live without. Don’t stop after Friday. Make it a way of life.
I've had a lot of experience doing without since I became disabled in america😀. But I haven't had to deal with death camps and rampant disease and famine before so....
Here here. All this “dont buy clothes, dont buy amazon, dont buy fast food”. Shit, try being poor its really easy to not buy all this stuff. I buy something from amazon about once a year. Its not a necessity
Anyone who supports the Republicans, is boycotted in my house. I would go without rather than buy from Amazon again. I am happy to report I have found other local sources to purchase from.
I was starting to enjoy shopping at Walmart. I could squeeze 3 stores of shopping into 1 trip. Since they are going along with the discriminative hiring, I will no longer shop there. I will spend money at small local stores as well as Costco. Walgreens is OK too.
A lot of us have, but for some people it’s a whole new concept. Hopefully a baby-step of one day, with encouragement from others, will let them realize how easy it is.
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Economic warfare baby!
Idk so much about Canada but there’s always something tht can be addressed!✌🏼
John Deere
Harley Davidson
Jack Daniel’s
Ford Motor
Lowe’s
Molson Coors
Boeing
Walmart
McDonald’s
Meta
Amazon
Target
The Smithsonian Institution
Google
Amtrak
Accenture
Pepsi
GM
Disney
GE
Intel
PayPal
Chipotle
Comcast
PBS
Deloitte
Goldman Sachs
Coca Cola
Citigroup
JP Morgan Chase
Why is it so gd hard for Americans to NOT SHOP?
In Germany in the 80s, all retail and commerce STOPPED for the 2 major Christian holidays: Christmas & Easter.
No one bought ANYTHING from Dec 23-26, & from Good Friday to Easter Monday.
No one starved.
No one died.
I cooked & baked, read books, took long walks in the woods and at the sea, worked on my own writing and painting.
Listened to music.
It was glorious.
People just buy like absolute idiots the days before and after, it does not change fuck.
Typical German.
And they ALWAYS know better.
No sense in arguing with them.
My point is that it’s possible.
Hey…we all know the Germans are the better Americans.
They’ve been doing their damndest since 1945.
But they sure know how to do Christmas and Easter.
Having to plan and shop for meals for a whole five days all at once would just be way too much for a lot of people
Back in the day, there were cigarette machines on every corner—I ran out if smokes on Karfreitag one year—had to get smokes from a machine. That’s when I learned about the law!
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH from 12:00 AM to 11:59 PM
What NOT to do:
*Do not make any purchases
*Do not shop online, or in-store
*No Amazon
*No Walmart
*No Best Buy
*No Target
*No McDonalds
It only makes a few ignorant sponge-heads feel good
“Hey, do the thing (that I’m not organizing) my way. Thx carry on”
Fight the Power
They might take a hint from Virgin Mobile. Virgin bought old bathrooms in UK parks and turned them into small, low cost datacenters.
I'd rather post from a shithouse than Amazon.
The answer is at the top of my profile. If you didn't bother trying to understand, don't bother me.
No chains, or corporations, will benefit from my hard earned money, if I can help it.
All six servers are owned and operated by Amazon.
I haven't made my decision long term, but if you're going to boycott Amazon Friday, you can not be on Blue Sky:
a major Amazon account.
And over the long haul let's learn to live with less. We all have like 6 streaming apps - maybe we rotate two every four months instead and take a nice chunk out of what we give them annually and miss roughly zero content.
One day is NOT enough to make an impact. We need to drop these places for a longer period of time- a month, a quarter... or permanently.
We need to do MORE, not settle for action so small they can simply ignore it.
Permanently drop these companies.
Unless it is an emergency.
These fkers have been killing democratic socialism here for 20+ years by death of a thousand cuts.
Among these are Target, Aldi, Facebook, Instagram, X, MSNBC ( new), Disney, Netflix, Xfinity, all new clothing replacements,and many more. Mostly cut for necessity (rising costs)..now civil disobedience
Me either!
I'd be pressed to find somebody who didn't vote for that asshole.
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While Trump is president, pretend that every dollar you spend goes directly to Trump. Stop helping the economy of a leader who wants to hurt people.
They became oligarchs because we gave them our money.
They remain oligarchs because we still give them our money.
Stop giving them money.
I think we could skip one day!
Just essentials from a small business near you
EconomicBlackout
#Resistance✊🏻💙✊🏻
We have the POWER!🥳
There is no Walmart in Oz but I do support this idea in principle.
Make it global.
"Turning the tables" isn't a goal.
https://open.substack.com/pub/stephaniejones2/p/a-lesson-from-the-civil-rights-movement?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=10omzc
I think it IS the same boycott. In Greek!
I will be calling 2 reps a day every day. No shopping on Friday anymore.
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While boycotting this hell, please send the $ you save to the GFM/fundraiser of a rare-disease patient.🙏🏼
Sincerely
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We should do this longer and often.
Buy the essentials and nothing else. Watch how fast things change.
They're just calling for as many people as possible to do it on the 28th,just for one day for impact. But only if it's doable for each person 🥰
WHAT NOT TO DO:
Do not make any purchases
Do not shop online, or in-store
No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy
Nowhere!
bsky is hosted by Amazon, conduct yourself accordingly :)
Also, a complete list of GM products here:
https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/general-mills-brands/
Search an "A to Z" list of all Nestlé products here:
https://www.nestle.com/brands
I’m in. Boycott shopping🚫🛍️🛒 until….🕊️
I know they pay really well at $30. an hr, have health insurance, and allow unionization.
The teamsters represents approximately 18% of Costco employees.
Most people value their immediate convenience over resisting the oligarchy and strengthening their community.
It might be small, but it a start. Doing nothing isn’t an option anymore….
I don’t hate people who have more but I wish they had a better understanding of our lives.
https://bsky.app/profile/kemcee.bsky.social/post/3lj54mlezuk2i
They became oligarchs because we gave them our money.
They remain oligarchs because we still give them our money.
Stop giving them money.