2. Building your own skills, strategies, etc. If you can cut Amazon for a week. Maybe next time you can cut it out for 2. If you know how, you can help friends & family members. If you build forward we can reach a point where Bezos notices...
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3. Studies have shown that shifting as little as 10% of your shopping from national chains to local businesses does incredible good. Can you find 10% of your spending you can permanently shift. It may not stop Amz from doing bad, but it can really help local businesses do good...
The thing is...we are unlikely to see any impact right away, but that's kind of the nature of building community and pushing for justice. Radical goals achieved through many small, often hard to see, acts & victories that accumulate into a just world.
These boycotts & protests, etc. are like practice runs. We don't have enough people yet to make the kind of impact we need, but we can learn what's the most effective & get better organized so we're ready for when more people join the resistance. Plus all that other good stuff you mentioned.
Our family has boycotted Amazon since 2020. We live in a big city and have a car so it’s easy to avoid Amazon. Maybe my little boycott didn’t take them down but I’ve certainly spent way more money locally than I would have if I hadn’t cancelled my account.
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