Every Dollar Is A Vote.
Every dollar you spend is a vote. Every time you choose not to buy something it’s a vote. You voted yesterday. You'll vote today -- maybe hundreds of times. Did you vote for human rights, the environment, compassion for animals and Nonviolence? Or did you vote for greed, environmental destruction, cruelty and violence?
What is happening isn’t being done to us; it is being done by us. Social Justice, human rights, the environment and animals are being exploited by industries that are driven by unchecked, unethical, anything-for-a-buck commerce. Our purchasing habits -- what we buy and what we choose not to buy -- drive that system.
An oppressor (whether a government, an industry or an individual) has no power if we don’t give it to them. Let’s stop giving it to them!
When millions of us act in line with our consciences and practice ethical consumerism instead of unethical consumerism, we regain our power and shift the world back in line with our ideals.
“We can re-invent civil disobedience in a million different ways… The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling -- their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
- Arundhati Roy
Nonviolence, Inc.
PO Box 1161
Boulder, CO 80306
720.252.8449
