You should be every day voting with your wallet to prevent money flowing into the wrong hands. Boycott these ALEC members who non-stop fund the republican war chests:
- FedEx
- UPS
- Motorola
- Anheuser Busch
- American Express
- Bose
- Chevron
- Marlboro
- Sony
- Texaco
- Boeing (fly on Airbus instead, see how to boycott Boeing)
Quit driving. It’s not just the fuel burn that harms the environment. When you buy fuel, you fund the oil companies who fund republicans. Trump’s 4th biggest cash source came from oil giants. There is nothing worse for the environment than republicans.
Find out which companies funded Trump’s war chest directly, and boycott them.
list of most notable Pro-Trump lobbyists (who funded them? We need to follow the money)
Make America Great Again Inc SuperPAC $331,464,578
America PAC (Texas) SuperPAC $130,300,020
Preserve America PAC SuperPAC $106,088,226
Save America Leadership PAC $91,695,410
Right for America SuperPAC $68,457,574
Turnout for America SuperPAC $25,390,000
Duty to America PAC SuperPAC $20,650,000
Make America Great Again PAC Leadership PAC $16,732,669
SAG PAC SuperPAC $16,412,306
Maha Alliance SuperPAC $4,632,637
Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund SuperPAC $1,848,824
Defend Us PAC SuperPAC $1,544,688
CatholicVote.org SuperPAC $1,432,742
Committee to Defeat the President Carey $536,739
Concerned Americans for America SuperPAC $478,293
Sticker PAC SuperPAC $450,000
American Resolve PAC (Virginia) SuperPAC $442,684
FOUR MORE YEARS PAC SuperPAC $267,216
Greater Georgia Action SuperPAC $242,441
College Republicans of America SuperPAC $85,409
Billboards 47 Swing States SuperPAC $81,694
Asians Making America Great Again SuperPAC $77,064
Win USA PAC SuperPAC $46,807
Great America PAC Carey $34,822
America First Veterans PAC SuperPAC $30,000
New Gen 47 Carey $20,397
Wilberforce PAC SuperPAC $5,000
People & Politics PAC SuperPAC $1,981
Make America Great Again, Again! SuperPAC $200
America First Action SuperPAC $36
There is likely a long list of banks. Banks love republicans in general. We need to get that list and get people off those banks. People should be using cash anyway since banks finance fossil fuels, private prisons, and republicans. In the very least, if you give a shit and you are not a deadbeat then you will avoid using these banks.
(edit) Home Depot, Disney, …, probably others. That’s a long article not an easy list so work required.
grab your wallet is an election cycle out of date, and sadly it’s in Google docs (so use Tor). But it still has a bit of relevance.
Europeans— You can take these actions too. You couldn’t vote for Kamala but you always have the power to vote with your feet. The first ALEC list is international entities.
US folks— In addition to the ALEC list at the top, the following are also ALEC members which (I believe) are US-only:
- CenturyLink
- Charter Communications
- Farmers/Foremost
- Geico
- LMG (Liberty Mutual/Safeco)
- Nationwide Insurance
- PNC bank
- StateFarm
- TimeWarner
(update) Dug up a list of companies that are said to finance AIPAC, a PAC who targets democrats who go against Israel. It blows a huge amount of money on the right-wing candidate which apparently works every time. It’s so effective there is a verb for it: AIPAC-ed. I have not vetted the list but when I look at it it’s all usual suspects of corps I already boycott.
AIPAC feeders to boycott
Intel Corporation
Microsoft Corporation
Google (Alphabet Inc.)
IBM (International Business Machines Corporation)
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
HP Inc. (Hewlett Packard)
Apple Inc.
Motorola Solutions, Inc.
Facebook, Inc.
Oracle Corporation
Qualcomm Incorporated
Pfizer Inc.
Johnson & Johnson
General Electric Company
Coca-Cola Company
Procter & Gamble Co.
Verizon Communications Inc.
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Amazon.com, Inc.
Dell Technologies Inc.
General Motors Company
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Citigroup Inc.
American Express Company
Visa Inc.
Mastercard Incorporated
Walmart Inc.
The Walt Disney Company
Netflix Inc.
Adobe Inc.
Electronic Arts Inc.
Airbnb, Inc.
Uber Technologies Inc.
Lyft, Inc.
Tesla, Inc.
Ford Motor Company
The Coca-Cola Company
PepsiCo, Inc.
Nestlé S.A.
Unilever PLC
The Procter & Gamble Company
Johnson & Johnson
Colgate-Palmolive Company
The Hershey Company
Mars, Incorporated
The Coca-Cola Company
PepsiCo, Inc.
Nestlé S.A.
Oof. This liberal individualist thinking is fairly ineffective.
Organize your workplace, raise class consciousness, support your community, and educate everyone.
None of that is an obsticle to boycotts, so you can do them in parallel.
It’s unclear what you mean by organizing your workplace. Politics at work can have dicey consequences. But if you are careful enough, you can amplify a boycott at a workplace without the workforce even knowing, as I did here.
An employer subcontracted HP for all the office PCs, which sat next to linux workstations. HP got a monthly payment per PC for loaning the hardware and servicing it. I configured emacs and other linux apps to make the HP PC redundant. Then I called HP and said come remove my PC, I don’t need it. My boss had no idea that was a political action… thinks I did that to save the company money or to get more desk space or something. I was happy to keep it that way. If he knew it was politically motivated it could have backfired. So the opportunities to do politics at work are sparse but I still look for them.