Pocketbook Protest
This holiday season, vote with your dollars. Shop small businesses and hit the billionaires in their profit margins.
The Naughty List
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Amazon
Amazon holds a monopolistic position in the market, contributes to dangerous working conditions for its employees and drivers, and CEO Jeff Bezos has donated over $1 million to this administration.
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Apple
Apple deleted ICEBlock from their app store when Trump demanded it be taken down — an example of corporate obedience to authoritarianism. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has donated a million dollars to Trump’s inauguration and millions more to tear down the East Wing and construct Trump’s ballroom.
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Home Depot
Home Depot is allowing ICE agents to illegally detain and kidnap laborers from their stores. The laborers in our communities are not able to look for work safely.
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Spotify
Spotify is running ads recruiting agents for ICE, the federal agency charged with mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities.
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Target
Target has rolled back their DEI initiatives, which included ending programs that help Black employees advance, cutting financial support for Black-Owned businesses, and removing LGBTQ+ products from their stores.
Nice Alternatives
Consider hand-making gifts this season, or shop small businesses to support people in your area directly.
Use cash, check, or debit to avoid paying a percentage to major credit card companies
Who’s nice?
Co-ops, craft fairs, farmers markets
Local small businesses
Businesses that are actively supporting marginalized communities or standing against fascism