Boycotts

SHOPPING YOUR VALUES ON THE CENTRAL COAST

"PublicSquare" – calling itself an ‘anti-woke Amazon’ and noted as a “MAGA brainchild” – promotes almost 100 central coast businesses.  PublicSquare invites people to support the businesses listed on their website because they have been vetted as adhering to the site’s values – businesses that oppose Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policies, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) policies, the right to abortion, climate activism, and other so-called “radical agendas.”Their Board of Directors includes Donald Trump, Jr., who is also a major investor in the site; and Kelly Loeffler (former Senator from Georgia) was a Board Member until she was appointed by Donald Trump to lead the Small Business Administration. If PublicSquare invites MAGA supporters to shop their values by supporting like-minded businesses, that gives everyone else the same information and power – we can use their website to avoid businesses that promote values we oppose. 

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ABOUT Public Square (PublicSq)

• An explicitly conservative, "anti-woke" online marketplace founded by Michael Seifert. It positions itself as a platform for consumers seeking to support businesses that align with traditional, right-leaning, and anti-abortion values, acting as a direct alternative to corporations promoting progressive agendas. 

• Ideology: The platform identifies as pro-life, anti-woke, and conservative.

• Purpose: It aims to connect users with businesses that share conservative values, focusing on "America-first" and patriotic branding.

• Backing: PublicSq. has received support from prominent conservative figures, including Donald Trump Jr..

• Market Position: It serves as a marketplace for companies looking to avoid progressive, inclusive, or "woke" branding, catering to an audience seeking conservative alternatives. 

• PublicSq. serves as a curated marketplace for consumers and businesses that prioritize conservative,, right-wing, and traditional,, family-oriented, anti-woke, or, MAGA-aligned, values, acting in direct opposition to progressive or, "woke" corporate policies.

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Economic boycotts will become much more effective if we adopt some additional strategies to sustain them. Stop buying everything except essentials. Delete all of your retail apps and unsubscribe from their emails. Go to their actual site and leave site reviews telling them what you're doing and why, and email customer service. Not everyone can boycott places like Target, especially if we're avoiding Amazon. But be sure to research brands they carry that are the lesser of all evils, and buy those items instead. Do not support companies that oppose DEI. Become a farmer's market and local mom & pop retail shopper. Use cash whenever possible. Vote with your $, and keep it going until we save our Democracy!

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ALTERNATIVE - GIFT ECONOMY

A global gift economy is a system of exchange where goods and services are given without explicit, immediate, or transactional expectation of reward, focusing instead on building community, trust, and long-term reciprocity. It contrasts with market economies by fostering, rather than concluding, social relationships through delayed, often indirect giving.  

THE BUY NOTHING PROJECT

• A global, community-based gift economy movement, operating through local Facebook groups and a dedicated app, where members exchange goods and services for free. Founded in 2013, it focuses on reducing waste, fostering community, and bypassing consumerism by allowing neighbors to give, receive, lend, and share items without any monetary exchange.  

• The "Buy Nothing" concept is a hyper-local solution that has the power to make an impact on a grander scale by limiting consumerism of new products as well as reducing waste. The Buy Nothing community is a global gift economy network, modeled after an ancient system of giving, receiving, and sharing gifts of stuff and self in ways that build the best sort of wealth: resilient, joyful communities that are inclusive at their core. 

• Everything is freely-given and freely-received, without any expectation of reward or compensation other than the joy of giving, receiving, sharing, and building a strong web of connections between people. Learn more about how you can participate in the giving economy by visiting the website. 

• Join ONE where you live. Search for your local Buy Nothing Group on Facebook:

• Buy Nothing Baywood-Los Osos, CA 

• Buy Nothing Morro Bay/Cayucos, CA 

• and more

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Resist List

• Collects stories of resistance which aren't making it into the mainstream news

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