Creating Community Events

  • Target a company or companies from our list of corporate addresses. Ask everyone in your school or organization to call or email these companies on a certain day to demand they take responsibility for labor conditions.
  • Invite organizers from activist groups to lead a demonstration at a retail store near you. Educate the personnel and ask them to contact the company with your concerns.
  • Organize a letterwriting rally. Provide samples of postcards and letters, lists of addresses, fact sheets, and stamps. Invite local businesses to provide incentive prizes for each letter or postcard sent. Create a party atmosphere with bands, speakers, and posters.
  • Organize a mall march with signs and slogans like "Together we hold the world's purse strings" and "Corporate Greed: Who Needs It?" Hand out flyers which urge ethical consumerism to shoppers, stores, and businesses.
  • Organize a tennis shoe drive. Send the shoes to Nike and other overseas athletic footwear manufacturers. Ask that the shoes be distributed to their workers since they don't earn enough to buy them themselves.
  • During Why Shop? Week, send representatives from your class or organization to local churches, business groups, civic organizations, classes, and public forums to share information about ethical consumerism. Give interviews on your local radio and TV stations.
  • Create a video with interviews, facts, and figures to share with local groups and media people.
  • In addition to Why Shop? Week, these events can be held on September 25, National Attack on Corporate Greed Day, and October 4, National Day of Conscience.


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