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virgin bougie lefty: boycotts starbucks because instagram told them to

chad downtrodden proletariat: boycotts everything because they can’t afford anything more than basic food and housing

these boycotts are mainly about avoiding buying from these companies, not working at them.

if you do wanna help though, you can try to waste as much of their money as possible, for example by slacking off or giving customers extra food (of course if this is your only means of living not getting fired should come first)

boycott activism is about inflicting economic loss on the business by abstaining from purchasing goods and services. while boycotts can sometimes entail employee action, it is never expected of you to take action that would result in harm to you or your family. take care of yourself first so that you have the power to fight for others ❤️

I believe in activism for important causes, but even I think it would be best to stay right where you are because your departure would, imo, have little impact. If I were there, I suspect I'd stay quiet and try to focus on what I must do to bring about my next upgrade at McDs, somewhere else, or something I made on my own. I imagine at McDs it's possible to get in a "zone" where you and the tasks become one or something like that. I worked at Wendy's, but never achieved the "zone" because I wasn't there long enough to see how the operation's various pieces came together to make the whole thing work. Best to you.

that’s certainly a thought.

as a non-expert, my understanding is that the list posted here is one aiming to strike a meaningful balance between brevity and breadth across industries. from the linked article:

We must strategically focus on a relatively smaller number of carefully selected companies and products for maximum impact. We need to target companies that play a clear and direct role in Israel’s crimes and where there is real potential for winning, as was the case with, among others, G4S, Veolia, Orange, Ben & Jerry’s and Pillsbury. Compelling large, complicit companies, through strategic and context-sensitive boycott and divestment campaigns, to end their complicity in Israeli apartheid and war crimes against Palestinians sends a very powerful message to hundreds of other complicit companies that “your time will come, so get out before it’s too late!”

Many of the prohibitively long lists going viral on social media do the exact opposite of this strategic and impactful approach. They include hundreds of companies, many without credible evidence of their connection to Israel’s regime of oppression against Palestinians. Many do not have clear demands to the companies as to what we expect them to do to end the boycott, making them ineffective.

be sure to read through the linked article for a full breakdown of how it defines its strategy for maximizing effectiveness and each individual target.

https://www.palestineaction.org/ ❤️

eh i dunno. social media has proved to be a powerful tool for mobilizing.

i get how on an aesthetic level if you are used to seeing tags used for “trends” or “drama” it can come off wrong, but i wouldn’t come down on them as tasteless.

Source: a tumblr post

it’s not on the official BNC list for now, though certainly a valid popular target for the shit it did to its union over a pro-Palestine post. i wouldn’t be surprised if it appears in that bottom right box sometime soon but for now i guess the BNC finds it is not as significant or likely to evoke change of a boycott as the others.