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Food Drive to Feed Chaffee

11/07/25 - 09:00 AM: Longfellow Parents Association Clothing SWAP for elementary aged sizes

11/10/25 - 11:15 AM: LWV Chaffee County: Bell Policy Institute, Wealth Inequality 200 Steele Drive, BV

11/10/25 - 05:30 PM: Guidestone Homesteading Series - Food Dehydration 101

11/10/25 - 05:30 PM: Indivisible Social at Tres Litros

11/11/25 - 01:00 PM: Volunteer to load food at Caring & Sharing

11/12/25 - 05:30 PM: Salida Garden Supply - Mushroom Cultivation Class

11/12/25 - 09:00 AM: Chaffee County Commissioners Board Meeting - 104 Crestone Ave, Salida

11/13/25 - 06:00 PM: World Kindness Day Potluck at the Congregational United Church of Christ in BV

11/17/25 - 05:30 PM: Guidestone Homesteading Series - Canning & Preservation Basics

11/18/25 - 09:00 AM: Chaffee County Commissioners Board Meeting - 200 Steel Dr, BV

11/20/25 – 07:00 PM: Queer Happy Hour The Slammer, BV

11/24/25 - 11 AM to 8 PM: Moonlight Monday for the Alliance

11/25/25 - 01:00 PM: HRRMC Board meeting - Shavano Room or Zoom

Black Out the System: Nov 25th - Dec 2nd

12/02/25 - 06:00 PM: Queer Happy Hour at Tres Litros

12/07/25 - 09:00 AM: Central Colorado Humanist at A-Church

Every Monday - 12:00 PM: Community Soup at Salida Presbyterian Church

Friday’s – 10:00 AM: YAS Club gopfca.com/yas-fridays

Please send events to resist@ludditelocal.com

General Boycott Tips

Visit the Chaffee Community Foundation Safety Net page and see how we can help feed Chaffee County!

If you see a Little Free Pantry OR Library that has pantry supplies, map it here.

No Spending - 11/25/25–12/02/25. Not some of us giving it our all. It has to be all of us giving it some.

Join Chaffee Mutual Aid! Build networks of mutual aid that enable our community members to thrive.

Dollar Tree Uses Predatory Tactics: They offload nearly expired food and sell products at a higher price, by volume, than real grocery stores. Across the US, they’ve priced out better grocery stores, creating food deserts in low-income areas. They eliminate the competition, then raise prices.

Mother Jones - Agents from ICE and Homeland Security brace for confrontation with immigration rights supporters in Los Angeles on June 8, 2025. Taurat Hossain/Anadolu/Getty

Wake up. Take a look at what is happening outside of our idyllic valley, open your eyes, and wake up.

In 10 months that have felt like 10 years, the United States of America has been openly transformed into something that has been lurking over or under the surface since our inception as a nation. White supremacy is implemented by executive order. A federal masked police force is abducting (kidnapping? disappearing?) people from the streets and being asked to meet quotas imposed by an unelected ghoul, Stephen Miller. The Supreme (sic) Court has said policing based on skin color is A-OK. Now many with work visas, along with US citizens, have been sent to concentration camps with no due process.

Wake up. We the People need to wake up.

A mass protest of 7+ million patriots renouncing kingship has been hand waved away as insignificant. 40+ million people lost access to federal assistance putting food on the table. Congress has traded Medicaid in order to ensure the wealthiest among us pay less of their golden hoard back to the country that enabled them to make said hoard in the first place. The House of Representin' has worked a grueling 2 weeks in the past 3 months while getting paid and having the best healthcare possible. The wealthiest (sic) country in the world is letting people starve and go bankrupt due to medical treatment, while razing the east wing of the White House to build a Neo-Versailles for $300+ million.

Wake up. Be angry, be loud, open your eyes.

Hart Van Denburg/CPR News

Snopes Article Above

Mass marches and social media outrage have been proving ineffective. As successful as the most recent No Kings rallies were, they are barely a start to what will be needed to unseat the Fascists currently pulling the levers of power. This calls for a change (escalation?) in tactics; action that will get the attention of the powers that be, along with the corporations pulling their strings. The only color the USA likes more than red, white, and blue (emphasis on WHITE) is green. It is time to start hitting them at their bottom line.

Wake up. Corporations and PACs have bought and paid for a majority of our representatives.

One day marches every 3 months are easily ignored by large corporations and paid-for politicians since it doesn't impact them directly. Money does. The groups Blackout The System and The Take It Back Movement are organizing a general boycott and strike 11/25 - 12/2. For one week, over Black Friday, we shut it down. We don't ask, we bring the economy to a screaming halt. No work, no spending, no travel, no projects, no events, no restaurants. If this movement can reach a critical mass, it will be unignorable.

Photo: Mark Apollo/Pacific Press/SIPA/AP

Malaysia & Cambodia: Oecophylla smaragdina. Working in concert, weaver ants pull the leaves of their tree crown nests together with their bodies. Photo: Mark W. Moffett/Minden Pictures

This is a big and incredibly difficult task that requires us to come together in solidarity to ensure everyone has what they need during the blackout. From blackoutthesystem.com "Greed is the disease. The opposite of greed is community. And we are building a community large enough and organized enough to rival the rigged system." That being said, not everyone can participate in all aspects of the blackout and that is OK!

Not everyone has the privilege to take a week off work, or stock up on food before the blackout. Participate how you can, no judgement regardless of how much or little you can do. It is going to take all of us to build the systems we deserve, systems that work for us and leave no one behind.

Spread the word. Let’s send an unignorable message.