12 Ways to Occupy Black Friday and Reclaim the Spirit of the Season Code Pink
go to original November 22, 2012

Out of every $100 spent at local businesses, $45 stays in the local economy. Out of every $100 spent at chain stores, all but $14 leaves the local economy.

1. Buy nothing.

2.  Make a homemade gift

3.Support Walmart strikers,  Joine a picket line to fight for the rights of Walmart workers.  Forrespect.org  and MakingChangesAt Walmart.org

4. Resolve to move your money out of big banks and into a credit union or community bank.

5. Support Mother Earth!  Plant a tree this wintre for a green spring.  Don’t buy bottled water.  Ride the bus.

6. Bailout the people.  Contribute to the Rolling Jubilee, a project of Occupy Wall Street to buy debt by keeping it out of the hands of collectors.  RollingJubilee.org

7. Donate to the Lower Eastside Girls Club for Sandy relief.  GirlsClub.org

8. Give peach a chance.  Give to an organization working against war such as CODEPINK, Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War.

9 BYOB:  Bring Your own Bag.  Carry reusable bags if you have to shop.

10, Support local business!  Buy recycled goods.  Wear sweatshop free clothes ore recycled clothes from a vintage store.  Purchase animal cruelty free products.  Buy local organic food from your local farmer’s market.

11. Subscribe to alternatives media:  The Progressive, The Nation, Texas Observer.

12. Don’t buy war crimes.  Boycott illegal Israeli settlement products. Ahava and Sodastream.  Stolenbeauty.org

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