Action Items
Divest
Boycott
- Amazon because of wasteful packaging, poor workplace practices, poor pay, encouraging overconsumption
- Chick-fil-a because they’re gross bigoted chicken
- Coca-Cola for using undocumented labor and then using ICE to get them deported without being paid
- Dollar General — they price gouge smaller and more rural communities
- Fast fashion like H & M
- Fox/Fox News/Tubi — oligarch with hate agenda
- Hobby Lobby — poor business practices and homophobia
- Kroger for using discriminatory pricing
- McDonald’s — low quality and high price, poor business practices
- Meta — look into alternatives to FB and Insta and Threads, keep minimum viable presence for family/non-techies that won’t leave
- Sprouts — funding GOP, selling homeopathy stuff
- Target for ending DEI
- Tesla
- Walmart — undermining American businesses, abandoning small towns, poor employee treatment
- Washington Post — Jeff Bezos
- Whole Foods because it’s Amazon
- X (duh) — Mastodon or BlueSky instead
Don’t Cross Picket Lines
- Alamo Drafthouse (Feb 2025)
Create/Build
Zines
- Things removed from school curriculums due to censorship
- Things removed from military training due to censorship
- Things homeschool parents should teach but may not have access to/know about
- Food sovereignty
Web Content
- Local content for communities
- Guides/web zines
- Blogs to replace social media from billionaires
- Archive and mirror content wiped out by government
- Memes/threads of useful info
Other/Physical Objects
- Free little library — stock with useful books, banned books, zines
Support
- Shop with small businesses, CSA/farm shares
- Mutual aid when you can afford to
- Seed banks — especially for indigenous plants, food sovereignty — help stock them, responsibly withdraw and plant
- Help care for national parks due to staffing cuts
- Support history projects losing federal aid due to orange politics
- Crowdfunding/patronage
- Sharing
- Zines
- Support your local library — use it, tell your elected officials it’s important, demand funding, reject book bans
Learn
- Gardening/food sovereignty
- Self-defense
- Sustainability practices
- Weather awareness — they’re looking to defund NOAA
- Repair and mending — less spending on new things, more fixing and reuse, thrifting.
Educate
Fellow Working Class
- Stick to class solidarity
- Things that affect both sides
- Use smaller less fancy words
- Explain why things are/aren’t xyz.
- Provide sources, especially from neutral outfits.
- EMPATHY whenever possible!
Follow
- Corinne Loperfido — sustainability, the planet, mending, upcycling, feminism, much much more