I was sent this by a friend who saw it trending around various social media which I don’t use.

Personally, I think it would do good to lengthen the economic blackouts to 3-7 days. But, any coordination helps, and I think the weeklong corporate boycotts will at least send a message.

I’m looking for other places to share this. I checked BuildTheResistance, but I couldn’t figure out a way to submit dates for a protest without a link to a site. I have a link for the February 28th blackout, and I would be grateful to anyone that could help me in sourcing these other protests.

EDIT: found the sources! They’re all by The People’s Union USA. It’s just that all the boycotts besides the 28th are tucked away in their FAQs page.

I should say, as well: I think general boycotts are a good idea, and I support the idea of protesting on these dates. However, I don’t necessarily trust The People’s Union USA. They have a login feature. Don’t be so foolish as to make an account on a fucking resistance website.

      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
        5·
        2 days ago

        I guess the answer is suggest other people do so as well.

        The nice thing about being anti-capitalist for essentially my entire life is that these boycotts are always easy for me. Hopefully I can show the way for others too.

        Edit: for anyone here who has an Amazon prime sub, maybe consider canceling on the 7th. If there’s enough that could have a big impact too I think.

  • K0W4L5K1@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Maybe we should also have like protest classes on how to be self sufficient. Grow your own food. It can be done on any property any size. Join a community garden. things like that will help people stop using these big brands

  • NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca
    9·
    2 days ago

    I’m already doing all of these things. I really only buy groceries, and those are all Canadian.

    • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      11·
      2 days ago

      I assume because this is more for the normies. I plan to keep my wallet away from these companies regardless, but some people need a little push.

      If they can give up Amazon for a week, maybe they realize they can live without it. But I think more politically inactive people can be convinced with “only for a week” than “boycott this corporation that you’ve been dependent on your whole life forever.” Sometimes it’s about getting people to take that first step.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    4·
    2 days ago

    So do we just … Not use the internet March 7th to 14th? Because Amazon makes the bulk of its money from Amazon Web Services which is like half the internet at this point.

    Pretty sure Blahaj is on AWS even.

    Amazon is basically impossible to “boycott” due to that.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Even then, it doesn’t do much except reduce traffic to sites that are already paying for hosting. The people paying for hosting would have to find new hosts for it to mean anything. Amazon makes money directly from the people paying for hosting, not the people visiting the site.

        • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
          4·
          2 days ago

          Gotcha. Are there any viable alternatives to AWS I could help promote? I’d imagine it’s hard to find a web hosting service that isn’t an evil corporation.

          • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            4·
            2 days ago

            I’d imagine it’s hard to find a web hosting service that isn’t an evil corporation.

            That is indeed the issue at hand. The ones that aren’t evil corporations don’t have as much stability, which is enough for most people to be put off them. “High availability” has become the name of the game and consumers are fucking coddled babies. If a website doesn’t load instantly, they’ll just leave and not come back.

            • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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              2 days ago

              You can’t even convince them to switch to something that works fine, either. Been trying to get my peers to run some type of Linux for the past year or so, because it really does just work now - for daily office activities and gaming.

              But, they know Windows so they stick with Windows. That’s why I’m hoping an announced temporary boycott will break their link with these megacorps enough to help them see that you really can just switch.