Nonviolent Economic Resistance

Stop funding what you are fighting.

Your spending is political whether you want it to be or not. Buckoff shows you which companies fund what you're fighting, helps you take your money elsewhere, and connects you with enough people to make the pressure real.

$19.9T

Annual US consumer spending in 20241

382

Days of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Dec 5, 1955 – Dec 20, 1956)2

53%

Success rate of nonviolent campaigns vs 26% for violent ones3

  1. 1. US Personal Consumption Expenditures, 2024. Federal Reserve FRED
  2. 2. Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dec 5, 1955 – Dec 20, 1956. Stanford Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute
  3. 3. Chenoweth, E. & Stephan, M. (2011). Why Civil Resistance Works. Columbia University Press. (323 campaigns, 1900–2006.) Read the research
How It Works

Here's how it works.

1

Choose Your Cause

Start with what matters most to you. Pick the cause that keeps you up at night.

2

See the Connections

See which companies are funding what you're fighting. Every claim is sourced. Do your own research.

3

Take Your Pledge

Pledge to withdraw your support. Switch providers, cancel subscriptions, buy alternatives.

4

Move Money Together

Share it with three people. When enough people act together, companies feel it. That's how this works.

5

Dive Deeper

Protest, create, organize. Share your story, join events, and go further with your cause.

Why This Works

This has worked before. More than once.

Every government has pillars of support: the corporations and organizations that keep it operating. When enough people know and vote with their dollars, companies feel it. And when companies feel the pressure, things change.

The techniques Gandhi used against the British Empire were economic. The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted 382 days, and it worked because organized people stopped spending money where their dignity wasn't welcome.

In Serbia, the student movement Otpor brought down Milošević using coordinated economic pressure. Researchers have documented the same pattern across dozens of successful nonviolent campaigns around the world.

The pattern is always the same. When enough people withdraw their economic participation, the pillars that hold up unjust systems begin to crack. Companies feel financial pressure before governments feel political pressure.

Find your cause.
Join your people.
Move money with purpose.

Do your own research, make your own choices. That's the whole idea.

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