Full Economic Blackout.

[will it help?]

it will if We keep this up — end all excess spending
only buy what you need
and even then, try for small businesses —
search out companies you actually want to give your
hard-earned money to

it’s easier some places
and for some people
and much harder for others,
but even online, you can find
smaller companies
and alternates to the big guys —
see if a grocery store near you offers delivery,
for books, bookshop.org,
for audiobooks, libro.fm,
for gifts, try sellers on etsy
[bonus points if you find someone
and they have their own independent store]
use amazon as a search engine
and buy from elsewhere
[also, go ahead and fill up carts
just to abandon them, especially with things
you’d normally buy — huge purchases not bought
they chalk up to error/mistakes,
but smaller/normal-for-you sized carts
are counted
against
them]

so let’s do our best to fuck up the big guys
who are ruining the environment
and ruining employees’ lives
in the tiny ways We can
because enough small mosquitos can cause issues to giants

so let’s spend our money in places
We want our money spent,
and call/email/write/fax our representatives
when We can’t seem to crawl out from under this
humungous, oligarchical thumb

We
The Fucking
People