The key thing to remember is that a one day blackout won’t have an effect on the corporations. What it will do is get more people comfortable with taking action. If you can go one day without buying from Amazon, two days isn’t much more, and then a week, and then a month. The idea is to ratchet up the action.
Just like how fascism has a progression to slowly “boil the frog,” collective societal action does, too. This isn’t an end but a beginning.
This is a much better plan. Much better. We should be organizing longer pauses with different targets. We should have a different one every week or longer.
Really, that’s still weak. Why go back to Amazon at all after a week or two? Anything you can find on Amazon, you can purchase elsewhere.
I say, delete your goddamned Amazon account already. Don’t give them one more penny. You certainly don’t have to. They’re not the only retailer in town for fuck’s sake.
Getting people to take part in actions that have no effect on their target can eventually make them feel that all such actions are pointless, though.
It can always be spun as a symbolic statement, but giving it the appearance of an economic boycott leads to confusion about how effective boycotts actually work.
The key thing to remember is that a one day blackout won’t have an effect on the corporations. What it will do is get more people comfortable with taking action. If you can go one day without buying from Amazon, two days isn’t much more, and then a week, and then a month. The idea is to ratchet up the action.
Just like how fascism has a progression to slowly “boil the frog,” collective societal action does, too. This isn’t an end but a beginning.
Amazon blackout, that’s March 7th through March 14th.
This is a much better plan. Much better. We should be organizing longer pauses with different targets. We should have a different one every week or longer.
Really, that’s still weak. Why go back to Amazon at all after a week or two? Anything you can find on Amazon, you can purchase elsewhere.
I say, delete your goddamned Amazon account already. Don’t give them one more penny. You certainly don’t have to. They’re not the only retailer in town for fuck’s sake.
It’s the very least we can do.
This is the level we need to be at. Now. The minimum level.
You’re half right. It does affect the corporations but not much. Change is change. Just need to be more proactive about it and keep continuing.
Getting people to take part in actions that have no effect on their target can eventually make them feel that all such actions are pointless, though.
It can always be spun as a symbolic statement, but giving it the appearance of an economic boycott leads to confusion about how effective boycotts actually work.