Founded by John Schwarz, the People’s Union is not a political party, but a movement for all people, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or political affiliation. The goal of the People’s Union is to unite Americans against the corruption and greed that has kept everyday citizens struggling for decades.
In response to the plutocratic coup currently underway in the United States, the People’s Union is calling citizens to participate in an “economic blackout.”
Following is author, lawyer, and political commentator Robert Reich’s thoughts on today’s economic blackout.
Friends,
A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers – including Amazon – [today], February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”
The purpose is to send a clear message: We have the power. We don’t have to accept corporate monopolies. We don’t have to live with corporate money corrupting our politics.
We don’t have to accept more tax cuts for billionaires. We don’t have to pay more of our hard-earned cash to Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg or the other billionaire oligarchs.
We don’t have to reward corporations that have abandoned their DEI policies to align themselves with Trump’s racist, homophobic, misogynistic agenda.
We have choices.
Most Americans are struggling to keep up. Most live from paycheck to paycheck. Most can barely afford housing costs, food prices, and pharmaceuticals – kept high by monopolies, and fueled by private equity.
If politicians won’t hear the voices of average Americans who are being shafted by corporate America, we have to deliver our message to corporate America directly.
From midnight tonight to midnight Friday night, please: No Amazon, no Walmart, no Best Buy, no Target, no Disney, no Google, no Facebook. Don’t spend on fast food, major retailers, or gas.
Avoid using credit or debit cards to make nonessential purchases.
Buy essentials such as medicine, food, and emergency supplies, of course, but make those purchases at small, local businesses.
Consider this a test run. If lots of people participate, I’m sure a longer one will be organized.
[Today’s] economic blackout is an initiative of The People’s Union USA, which describes itself as a “grassroots movement dedicated to economic resistance, government accountability, and corporate reform.”
I hope you'll join.
– Robert Reich
via social media
February 27, 2025
via social media
February 27, 2025
Related Off-site Link:
A Movement Is Calling for an "Economic Blackout' on Friday. Here's What to Know – Chandelis Duster (NPR News, February 27, 2025).
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Marisa Kabas: “We’re Witnessing a Coup By an Unelected Billionaire Propped Up By a Felonious President”
• Timothy Snyder on Resisting the Oligarchs’ “Logic of Destruction”
• “This Is Essentially Viktor Orbán’s Playbook”
• “An Extremely Clever Ruse” by and for the Rich: Owen Jones on Elon Musk’s Coup
• “To Be a Rib in This Body of Our Country”
• Quote of the Day – February 21, 2025
• Robert Reich’s Ten Reasons for “Modest Optimism” During the Trump-Vance-Musk Regime
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