The annual holiday spending cycle fuels business in America as families gather and business shuts down. Instead of dreading it, leverage it!
We collect tips from how to choose a boycott, to how to navigate family gatherings with authenticity. Along the way leverage your gift-buying to support small and local businesses and charities. You might even find ideas to loop your MAGA relatives into resistance!
Join Black Voters Matter in shifting your spending from big corporate powers (especially Target, Amazon and Home Depot) to businesses that invest in our communities.
Sign a pledge card and put your money where your values are. This isn’t a boycott, it’s a conscious re-factoring of your economic power. Support your community.
“We Ain’t Buying it” Find Out How »
Before fascism descended, we had real problems. Now we have all those problems, 99 new ones, and a cartoon gestapo. It’s easy to give up hope, but critical that we remember what we’re fighting for.
So what are you fighting for? Going back to 2015 is impossible—and kind of depressing at this point. So what do you want to build?
Get tickets to a museum or arboretum. Have lunch at a local restaurant. Check shops for locally-made holiday gifts. Find out what makes your home great, invest in local venues and products, and tell people!
Bonus: if you’re near a target city (Portland, Chicago etc.) take a road trip and post pictures!
Are you looking for a unique gift that supports resistance and the local community? Find a small-time artist who accepts commissions for bespoke work, and have something created for someone you love—or yourself!
Commissioning art takes some faith and flexibility, but it creates a truly meaningful gift or memory. From tattoo flash to a mural on a fence or a bespoke item of clothing, gifting art to yourself or a loved one builds community, joy and resilience.
Create relationships in your neighborhood. Do it formally through a neighborhood project, or take the next step with someone. Wave, borrow a cup of sugar and take back cookies, or invite them to dinner. Start slow and build.
This is especially easy to do over the holiday season when dropping by with cookies or inviting folks over for an open-house hot-cocoa bar are entirely normal things to do.
If you usually stock up on Starbucks or other national brands to give a small holiday gift to teachers, delivery drivers or others, go local this year. Buy a stack of small gift certificates from a favorite local store, or see if your Chamber of Commerce has a gift card program.
Keep a few on hand for emergency gifting, and support your local economy!
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