Happy Thanksgiving, beautiful people! Hey, we haven’t had an open thread in nearly a month, that will not stand, let’s remedy that situation. Furthermore, this just came across our “transom,” from a new group called OC Action, and it sounds like a good guide as we go forth to shop (or not) this Black Friday weekend:
Whether you work in the field or an office, run a small business or a kitchen, raise children or are grinding through school – your hard work fuels the 4th largest economy in the world. The California you’ve built should work for you – not billionaires and corporations.
Small businesses, workers, and families like yourself keep our state running, not the billionaires. Our wallets should support the people who treat us with respect, pay fair wages, and reinvest in our communities.
That’s why today we’re launching Buy California For California, a campaign to use our buying power to support community over cruelty.
Until the end of the year, we’re asking you to boycott businesses that profit from our pain and instead spend your hard-earned cash on the people from our neighborhoods, who really fuel our cities, care for their workers, treat customers with respect, and reinvest in their community.
As part of the national We Ain’t Buying it campaign, we are boycotting these three corporations for enabling Trump’s attacks on our communities and democracy:
- Amazon, for paying a fraction of what they owe in taxes while our communities are starved of health and other resources
- Home Depot, for colluding with ICE raids and kidnappings ,
- Target, for caving to Trump’s attacks on diversity and inclusion
Our dollars should reflect our values and support the real ones. The ones running the kitchens where generations of cooks feed our communities (yes chef); the artisans honing their craft on workbenches from the Bay to San Diego; the designers and textile workers that keep us clothed, and the community leaders that dare to dream boldly, no exceptions.
We know how hard you work to make a living, and where we spend our extra pocket cash matters. That’s why working people are uniting to take back our economic power. We’re putting pressure on these billion-dollar corporations at a time when they expect to profit the most. We’re done with them having a revolving door to the White House all to promote the policies and actions that are devastating our neighborhoods.
Will you join us in powerful, people-powered resistance? Here’s how:
- Sign the promise to boycott Target, Amazon, and Home Depot from now until the end of the year
- Commit to shopping Buy California For California. Use your hard-earned cash at local shops that make our state special this holiday season
- Uplift local businesses you love and trust, so we can list them on our registry, and others know where to shop too! Let’s build out alternatives to the big corporate box stores enabling Trump’s agenda, so that more people know where to spend. We shop where we get respect!
Sign the promise today and stand with us and the small businesses that build our communities.
We have more power than the billionaires want us to believe. We are California and we’re standing on business.
In solidarity,
Penelope at OC Action
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Ada and Katie Porter should share the diet drugs with Ada’s son. They are so mean.