General Boycott Tips
General Boycott Tips
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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.
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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.
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.
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.