Read these two letters we received calling for local action on feeding our families in Onondaga County: Onondaga County is sitting on a $100 million surplus while families across Syracuse and the county struggle to put food on the table after deep cuts to SNAP (food stamp) benefits. The County Legislature should…
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From National Indivisible: Earlier this month, Spotify began running ads to recruit for ICE, making them an active enabler of the hiring spree to build an American secret police force. That’s bad, and if we want there to be consequences for capitulation, we have to be the consequence! What worked to…
Here are the pros and cons we have been hearing and discussing about changing county legislators terms from 2 to 4 years and implementing 12 year term limits.
Why boycott? X is owned by Elon Musk. If another reason to boycott beyond that fact is needed, a 2014 USC study indicated that since 2022 (when Musk bought Twitter) hate speech increased 50%, transphobic slurs increased 260%, homophobic tweets increased 30%, and racist tweets increased 42%. X “acts as…
Why boycott? Dell has contracts with ICE and the Israeli Defense Ministry that provide servers and other technologies, totaling $18.8 million and $150 million. This makes Dell a material supporter of ICE’s human and civil rights abuses, and Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Additionally, Dell CEO donated $350 million worth of shares to Israel. Alternative product: Ethical technology companies that haven’t bent a knee to 47 are getting harder to…
Why boycott? Mary Kay cosmetics has made monetary contribution to Republicans 87% of the time, including funding Marsha Blackburn and Mike Lee, two of 47’s biggest sycophants. Conair made 99% of monetary contributions to Republicans including 47, Ted Cruz, and Kevin Kramer. Alternative companies 1) Black Opal Cosmetics contributed to blue candidates 91% of the time. Blackopalbeauty.com 2) Estee Lauder contributed 69% blue candidates. 3) BLK + GRN: Sustainable, plant-based, and…
Why boycott? Remember when President Carter put his peanut farm in a blind trust to avoid conflict of interest because it was the ethical thing to do? Well, 47 is about as aligned with legal or ethical behavior about as well as he can pronounce acetaminophen. The corrupt Trump criminal family enterprise made $1.6 BILLION dollars in his first term. He’s on track to…
Why boycott? Indivisible has called for a national boycott after Disney’s CEO Bob Iger (who’s worth about $700 million btw) bent a knee to “a third-rate mob boss, FCC Chair issued a public threat to ‘take action’ against stations airing Jimmy Kimmel for a joke that offended the regime. His…
Why boycott? Elon Musk bought the U.S. Presidency for $277 million. This is by far the largest bribe provided to 47’s campaign. Musk is worth $463 BILLION dollars and is the recipient of $38 BILLION dollars of government subsidies (our tax dollars!) for his playtime toy rockets to Mars, that…
Why boycott? No company represents the growing wealth gap between the billionaire class and the working class as much as Amazon. Alternative ideas: Amazon has wormed its way into convenient shopping in our society, but it is not too big to fail. We have choices. If one chooses to window…