Please help us spread the word about the campaign with the following materials
Proposal
Follow up the sure success of the No Kings2 Protest with a big, sustained action for NOVEMBER.
After every protest many are left with the question, “What’s next?” Let’s capitalize on the success of our huge national protest in October, ride the momentum of it and recent successful public boycotts of Disney/ABC, Nexstar, Sinclair, Target and Tesla.
What?
“DON’T BUYIT” CAMPAIGN* – NOVEMBER 2025
BOYCOTT DISCRETIONARY SPENDING WITH ALL BIG BUSINESSES IN NOVEMBER. TURN UP THE HEAT!
* The slogan is not a typo. It is intended to catch your attention and be memorable because of the invented word.
It has a double meaning: a call to action to not buy things, and to not buy the White House assault on our Democracy. The slogan is also meant to be easy to understand and to appeal to a larger and younger crowd. We aren’t buying the White House BS!
Why and Why Now?
Billionaires and Big Businesses are propping up the current administration. “Don’t BuyIt” turns up the volume of our voices across the board at this inflection point. As with our protests and targeted boycotts, our coordinated actions can have a real impact, causing companies to change course. The run-up to the holidays is a critical financial period for many companies. The month of November includes Black Friday and Cyber Monday, making this month a prime target. (pun intended) What an opportunity!
The Ask?
This is a call to action to individuals to expand the focus of our targeted boycotts of individual companies to all big businesses. Stop buying what you consider discretionary purchases for November. Rethink what you buy and gift this year: when to spend, who gets your dollars, and maybe even if you spend. The goal is to squeeze the bottom lines of businesses, notifying them that we have economic power and will use it.
What spending is discretionary? Anything beyond the basics of food, health, housing, and transportation. You decide what is discretionary, depending upon your situation. It’s voluntary. Not everyone will be able to participate but you do what you can.
Which are Big Businesses? Examples might be Amazon, Target, Home Depot, Apple, Walmart (not including food and medicine). Local Business support is not Big Business. While eating at restaurants may be discretionary, local restaurants don’t fall into the big business category excepting national chains.
When you do open your pocketbook, consider spending differently. Buy locally, support smaller businesses, buy from makers, buy subscriptions to organizations or support those who are supporting our values. Shift monies you save buying to supporting individuals and organizations in need during these challenging economic times.
After every protest many are left with the question, “What’s next?” Let’s capitalize on the success of our huge national protest in October, ride the momentum of it and recent successful public boycotts of Disney/ABC, Nexstar, Sinclair, Target and Tesla.
What?
“DON’T BUYIT” CAMPAIGN* – NOVEMBER 2025
BOYCOTT DISCRETIONARY SPENDING WITH ALL BIG BUSINESSES IN NOVEMBER. TURN UP THE HEAT!
* The slogan is not a typo. It is intended to catch your attention and be memorable because of the invented word.
It has a double meaning: a call to action to not buy things, and to not buy the White House assault on our Democracy. The slogan is also meant to be easy to understand and to appeal to a larger and younger crowd. We aren’t buying the White House BS!
Why and Why Now?
Billionaires and Big Businesses are propping up the current administration. “Don’t BuyIt” turns up the volume of our voices across the board at this inflection point. As with our protests and targeted boycotts, our coordinated actions can have a real impact, causing companies to change course. The run-up to the holidays is a critical financial period for many companies. The month of November includes Black Friday and Cyber Monday, making this month a prime target. (pun intended) What an opportunity!
The Ask?
This is a call to action to individuals to expand the focus of our targeted boycotts of individual companies to all big businesses. Stop buying what you consider discretionary purchases for November. Rethink what you buy and gift this year: when to spend, who gets your dollars, and maybe even if you spend. The goal is to squeeze the bottom lines of businesses, notifying them that we have economic power and will use it.
What spending is discretionary? Anything beyond the basics of food, health, housing, and transportation. You decide what is discretionary, depending upon your situation. It’s voluntary. Not everyone will be able to participate but you do what you can.
Which are Big Businesses? Examples might be Amazon, Target, Home Depot, Apple, Walmart (not including food and medicine). Local Business support is not Big Business. While eating at restaurants may be discretionary, local restaurants don’t fall into the big business category excepting national chains.
When you do open your pocketbook, consider spending differently. Buy locally, support smaller businesses, buy from makers, buy subscriptions to organizations or support those who are supporting our values. Shift monies you save buying to supporting individuals and organizations in need during these challenging economic times.
Business Card to hand out AT demonstrators, TABLING EVENTS, SHARE IN OTHER GROUPS
WE NEED YOUR HELP. JOIN US IN SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN!
To print your own business cards download the file below. It is on a white background. We encourage the cards to be printed on an orange background as that color has been associated with Trump or on yellow since Ezra & Leah (Indivisible co-founders) are encouraging everyone to wear yellow for No Kings2. If you want to print out flyers on your own printer (10 per sheet) and cut yourself download the Don't BuyIt FLYER file further down on this page.
To print your own business cards download the file below. It is on a white background. We encourage the cards to be printed on an orange background as that color has been associated with Trump or on yellow since Ezra & Leah (Indivisible co-founders) are encouraging everyone to wear yellow for No Kings2. If you want to print out flyers on your own printer (10 per sheet) and cut yourself download the Don't BuyIt FLYER file further down on this page.
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DOWNLOAD THESE TWO FILES (FRONT AND BACK) TO PRINT YOUR OWN FLYERS (OR ON BUSINESS CARD STOCK) AT HOME
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Draft ideas for letter to editor
Letters to the Editor of local newspapers are great ways to help spread the word that voting with our dollars every day matters. And this holiday season in particular it is critical we spend our money and time in ways that send a clear message to big business that if they won't support us and our democracy then we won't support them.
Help us spread the word on alternative ways to enjoy the holiday seasons without relying on shopping at big businesses who align with the current "regime's" policies and actions.
Example Letter to the Editor to send in early November
November is the beginning of run up to the Christmas Holidays and gift-giving season. Many look forward to this time with enthusiasm and nostalgia. The giving and receiving of gifts is an old custom. Many of us overspend and have sticker shock when the credit card bill arrives in the new year. What gifts have you received that left a lasting memory? The answer to this question for me is an easy one. My family didn’t have much money and certainly little left after paying basic expenses. The Christmas gifts I remember most were from a year when there must have been nothing to spend, so my dad headed down to his workshop and turned out a doll’s cradle and a wardrobe for doll clothes. As you make a plan, I urge you to consider going against the grain and make some memories in favor of lavish gifts. We have an illustrated family cookbook that I treasure. Maybe give Amazon a pass and check out a local small business, or contribute to a cause in the recipients name. Believe me these personal gestures will outlive the new whatchacallit.
Help us spread the word on alternative ways to enjoy the holiday seasons without relying on shopping at big businesses who align with the current "regime's" policies and actions.
Example Letter to the Editor to send in early November
November is the beginning of run up to the Christmas Holidays and gift-giving season. Many look forward to this time with enthusiasm and nostalgia. The giving and receiving of gifts is an old custom. Many of us overspend and have sticker shock when the credit card bill arrives in the new year. What gifts have you received that left a lasting memory? The answer to this question for me is an easy one. My family didn’t have much money and certainly little left after paying basic expenses. The Christmas gifts I remember most were from a year when there must have been nothing to spend, so my dad headed down to his workshop and turned out a doll’s cradle and a wardrobe for doll clothes. As you make a plan, I urge you to consider going against the grain and make some memories in favor of lavish gifts. We have an illustrated family cookbook that I treasure. Maybe give Amazon a pass and check out a local small business, or contribute to a cause in the recipients name. Believe me these personal gestures will outlive the new whatchacallit.
social media graphic for announcement of campaign blog
POSTER
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PARAGRAPH TO INCLUDE IN YOUR NEWSLETTERS AND ON SOCIAL MEDIA TO HELP SPREAD THE WORD
The “No Kings” chant in Tucson has a second verse, “What’s Next?”
In November, this is What’s Next. “Don’t BuyIt”.
Join the Boycott and Build Team (a subgroup of Indivisible Tucson Action Alliance) in an economic boycott of big business by stopping discretionary spending in November. Sing it in your loudest Jimmy Kimmel voice. Instead of big business purchases, cut back, spend locally, and support small businesses. Our coordinated actions can have a real impact, causing companies to change what they do. The run-up to the holidays is a critical financial period for many companies. The month of November includes Black Friday and Cyber Monday, making this month a prime target. (pun intended).
“I think the holiday season is a really important time to have this particular conversation
and this particular leverage.” Leah Greenberg, Co-Executive Director of Indivisible, speaking on a recent "What's the Plan" call about economic impact campaigns.
For more information and to sign up to receive daily blog posts in November go to https://www.indivisibletucson.org/dontbuyit.html
In November, this is What’s Next. “Don’t BuyIt”.
Join the Boycott and Build Team (a subgroup of Indivisible Tucson Action Alliance) in an economic boycott of big business by stopping discretionary spending in November. Sing it in your loudest Jimmy Kimmel voice. Instead of big business purchases, cut back, spend locally, and support small businesses. Our coordinated actions can have a real impact, causing companies to change what they do. The run-up to the holidays is a critical financial period for many companies. The month of November includes Black Friday and Cyber Monday, making this month a prime target. (pun intended).
“I think the holiday season is a really important time to have this particular conversation
and this particular leverage.” Leah Greenberg, Co-Executive Director of Indivisible, speaking on a recent "What's the Plan" call about economic impact campaigns.
For more information and to sign up to receive daily blog posts in November go to https://www.indivisibletucson.org/dontbuyit.html
WE ARE NOT ALONE - OTHERS WORKING ON ECONOMIC DISOBEDIENCE
As we have begun the work we are hearing from some of you about other individuals and organizations putting a focus on using our collective economic power, especially during the upcoming holiday season. If you are or know of an organization focused on both shorter term targeted boycotts as well as longer-term permanent shifts in consumer behavior to take back our country from the oligarchy we'd love to hear from you.
Black Out the System
https://blackoutthesystem.com/ and https://blackoutthesystem.substack.com/
The People's Union USA
https://thepeoplesunionusa.com/
Working Class Poor
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgCgV6Ky1GU8aICNp2BFRKg
Robert Reich Substack - https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-can-we-do-now
"What should we do now?"
"#6. Participate in or organize boycotts of companies that are enabling the Trump regime — starting with Tesla, X, Amazon, Home Depot, Walmart, and Palantir Technologies. Never underestimate the effectiveness of consumer boycotts. Corporations invest heavily in their brand names and the goodwill associated with them. Loud, boisterous, attention-getting boycotts can harm brand names and reduce the value of corporations’ shares of stock."
Truth Matters Substack
Part 1
https://politicsusa46.substack.com/p/thy-symbolism-is-chilling-the-outlook?r=54ihjc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Part 2
https://politicsusa46.substack.com/p/economic-disengagement-is-the-only?r=54ihjc
Black Out the System
https://blackoutthesystem.com/ and https://blackoutthesystem.substack.com/
The People's Union USA
https://thepeoplesunionusa.com/
Working Class Poor
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgCgV6Ky1GU8aICNp2BFRKg
Robert Reich Substack - https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-can-we-do-now
"What should we do now?"
"#6. Participate in or organize boycotts of companies that are enabling the Trump regime — starting with Tesla, X, Amazon, Home Depot, Walmart, and Palantir Technologies. Never underestimate the effectiveness of consumer boycotts. Corporations invest heavily in their brand names and the goodwill associated with them. Loud, boisterous, attention-getting boycotts can harm brand names and reduce the value of corporations’ shares of stock."
Truth Matters Substack
Part 1
https://politicsusa46.substack.com/p/thy-symbolism-is-chilling-the-outlook?r=54ihjc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Part 2
https://politicsusa46.substack.com/p/economic-disengagement-is-the-only?r=54ihjc
PRESS RELEASE
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