Before the internet, bookstores were the commons for information and community. Today, like all local brick-and-mortar, they’re nearly extinct. We can’t fight oligarchs without addressing monopoly, so one of the ways we resist is through supporting local business. Buy your books locally when you can. Or buy from Bookshop.org, which shares a portion of every sale with small local bookstores. You can even set your favorite as your recipient!
Small Bookstores Find Out How »
Are you participating in a boycott this weekend? Whether you’re all-in with no spending anywhere, or supporting small businesses while you boycott the big ones, also take the step of signing a strike card at GeneralStrike.US
Signed cards have doubled since the inauguration, but we have a ways to go to hit the 3.5% threshold for action, so sign the card and spread the word.
Remember the SAVE act, that would have required voter verification likely to disenfranchise anyone whose birth certificate didn’t match their current ID? (Like a lot of married women, for example…)
It didn’t die. It was reborn as a regulatory database that—coincidentally—also bears the acronym SAVE. Click through to protect voting rights.
Small businesses rely on the holiday season even more than big box stores. We can’t break corporate power without alternatives, so most economic pressure campaigns exempt small businesses. Whether you’re shopping today or not, boost small businesses for people who are. They need our business.
Small Business Saturday Find Out How »
House Democrats have officially launched an information-collection portal for ICE abuses. If you have direct knowledge of abuses from violence to detentions of U.S. citizens, report it here.
This is how we collect and document evidence for criminal trials later, as well as establishing the reasons for abolishing ICE when we have the political power to do it.
There are too many economic calls to track this holiday season. We support the “We Ain’t Buying It’ movement which exempts small business, but we also encourage Buy Nothing Day, an economic protest older than the Patriot Act. The idea is simple: on Black Friday, buy nothing.
Buy Nothing Day Find Out How »
