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!
Go spend time in the place you live! Visit a museum, stroll through an arboretum, or show locally. Be a tourist in the place you live and bring new eyes to the experience. Chat with shop owners and get to know your own city in a new way.
Restaurants are one of the best places for individuals — especially minorities — to start a business in America. Shift your prepared food budget from national brands to local options, and actively promote your favorite places.
Reward Restaurants Find Out How »
Create relationships in your neighborhood. Do it formally through a neighborhood project, or reach out personally. Wave, borrow a cup of sugar and take back cookies, or invite someone to dinner. Start slow and build.
Todays economic action: don’t buy SPCX stock, and if you have investments in index funds, shift to S&P 500 if you’re able. They didn’t change the rules to make Musk a trillionaire and shift the risk to retirement accounts.
Economic Action Find Out How »
Before fascism descended, we had real problems. Now we have all those and more. It’s easy to give up hope, but critical that we remember what we’re fighting for. Imagine what you WANT, not just what you’re afraid of. Brainstorm steps to build what you want with a friend, or throw a Hope Party!
Whether you participated in yesterday’s buy nothing strike or not, spend this weekend consciously choosing to shop small and local. Help the most vulnerable businesses make up for any losses, and deprive big box stores of every dollar you can, today and every day. Take “Small Business Saturday” year-long!
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