NECESSARY STEPS TO NON-VIOLENT RESISTANCE:    

1. Stop using credit cards - every transaction generates an automatic 1-2% fee to the banks from the store you are buying from.  Also, stop using bank ATM's which generate extra fees to your account.

                                               

2. BOYCOTT Mobil/Exxon, Shell, Texaco, Chevron, BP  -    use smaller independent stations. Also, REDUCE GAS CONSUMPTION. We MUST stop fueling the original BIG MONEY MONOPOLIZERS! Learn to be a http://www.hypermiling.com/. For conserving gas, you can go to EcoModder.com "hypermiling".

 

3. Do your very best to stop using and throwing away PLASTIC- ! It's a petroleum derivative.   Buy milk in cartons.  Recycle every bit of plastic you must use and return all plastic bags to the grocery store, including plastic bread bags and what your newspapers are wrapped with.

 

4. CANCEL cable television. WE ARE TOTALLY ADDICTED TO THEIR 350 CHANNELS FOR SPORTS, MOVIES, PORN, NEWS. As long as they can keep us entertained they know we won't think.

 

5. MOVE MONEY OUT OF BIG INTERNATIONAL FRANCHISED BANKS: Bank of America;  HSBC (Bank of China); CITIBANK/CHASE, etc.  Move to local credit unions or smaller local banks.  Keep cash at home, at least to cover immediate expenses for a few months, in a safe deposit box.  

 

6. STOP DONATING MONEY TO YOUR CHURCH- Instead, donate food directly to pantries or money directly to people you know that need it. Cut out the religious minutemen that are taking millions via Televangelism and using it to gain power not do good!!!  Help a poor person or relative weatherproof their home or give them energy efficient light bulbs.

 

7. CUT ENERGY USE AT HOME AND AT WORK.  Best thing people can do against big oil and dirty coal is also good for your own monthly costs.  Help cut energy expenses for local businesses, schools, and public buildings by turning lights off in empty rooms and bathrooms- instead of having that money go to the corps that are polluting and earning billions off of us and our community members. 

 

8. BUY LOCAL!  Support your community businesses, owned and operated by your neighbors.  And look for product labels.  When it's possible, only buy MADE IN USA!

 

9. START PAYING OFF ALL YOUR DEBT.  Don't fall prey to ultra-consumerism.  We are CONSTANTLY bombarded with advertising to BUY BUY BUY!  We don't need all that STUFF! Put your money to good use: if you have a mortgage, secure your home first.  Pay down the principle by adding any extra money each month- this saves thousands over time!

10. MAXIMIZE YOUR 401K to only what your company matches.  Choose a treasurey money market fund, not a stock fund that you may not understand.  401K's have big penalty fees if you need to withdraw it early, so keep this in mind.  Paying off a mortgage has equal value protecting you in retirement.  Once it's paid off, no matter how deep recession/depression gets, your home is pure CAPITAL.

 

11. GROW some of your own food when possible.  Plant an apple or pear or cherry tree (or all three).  These mentioned grow even in colder climates.  If you have the blessing of a large garden, learn to plant vegetables.  Talk to your green-thumb family and neighbors.  Once grown, this produce is CAPITAL.  Trade and/or sell it locally. 

 

12. BUY SMALL CARS! (or used) Unless you have 6 children, you have no need for a gas-guzzling SUV. 

 

13. SHOP GARAGE SALES for things you need, and exchange goods/services on "http://www.craigslist.org.

 

14.  IF YOU HAVE EMPLOYER PRIVATE INSURANCE- LIKE BLUE CROSS- USE IT- GO GET YOUR MAMMOGRAM OR COLONOSCOPY, ANNUAL CHECK UPS AND PAPS.-GET YOUR FLU SHOT THAT IS FREE !!!

- IF YOU HAVE MEDICARE OR MEDICAID OR STATE JOB INSURANCE- KEEP UP ON PREVENTIVE CARE BUT DONT ABUSE IT!   

 

15. BUY NECESSITIES and GAS in the lower income areas near you, so the tax revenue goes to that area, not the higher income regions where it's not needed.

 

16. RECYCLE and make your own COMPOST. Make efforts to reduce trash and weight of trash- which not only helps the environment, but cuts expense for trash in your town. The more trash weighs the more taxpayers pay.  Demand your public works enforce recycling and composting of yard waste.

 

17. REDUCE MEAT CONSUMPTION- which is a huge corporate factory lobby for DC (unless locally raised beef).