solarbird | February 28th: no spending for 24 hours

I’ve seen a couple of variations on three protests going around via this graphic:

NATIONWIDE PROTESTS: February 28, economic blackout: no spending for 24 hours. March 7-14: oligarch protest 1, no buying from Amazon, March 14 national strike, don't work if you can.

The first definitely has some momentum behind it, with decent social media coverage and some traditional media coverage as well. I’m participating and encouraging you to do so as well.

If it’s possible not to spend a dime on Friday, don’t do it. Aside from the most obvious level, if you normally do grocery shopping on Friday, maybe see if you can move it to Thursday night or Saturday. If you buy gasoline for your car on Fridays, see if you can move that too. If you have payments you have to make on Friday, see if you can get them in Thursday night after business hours but before midnight.

Lunch at work? Maybe it’s time to go old school and bring it in a bag or break out your old lunchbox if you still have that.

If you’re accepting money on Friday, see if you can reschedule it.

There are options here, I’m just saying. Explore them.

The only thing these fucks give a single fuck about is money. This kind of thing won’t change that, and won’t even change what they’re pulling in.

But if there’s a big enough one-day dip… it’d be a pretty decent warning shot.

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