What is Economic Activism?

What is Economic Activism?

Taylor Ellwood

At the Portland reading for the 2012 anthology, one of the questions that was asked to myself, Daniel Pinchbeck, Kal Cobalt, and Paul Levy, was how people can curtail or otherwise control the actions of such companies as Monsanto. My own response to that question and a later one, which asked how we can show people who have different ideologies why it's important to adopt our causes, is that we need to focus on more than overt political activism or subversive activism driven toward sabotaging a company or the ideologies of other people. We need to adopt a plan of economic activism. Such a plan is needed now more than ever, with the current economic state of not only the U.S. but the world in general. In such an economy it is much more tempting to cut corners and not consider the ramifications or consequences of cutting those corners, but the reality of cutting corners economically is that those cut corners inevitably effect the environment, standards of living, and most importantly whether we humanely take care of each other or simply devolve into a fight for survival.

Economic activism focuses on the idea of using one's wealth to represent one's values. For the purposes of this article wealth is represented in two different ways. The first way is the financial resources, savings, stocks, bonds, etc. that a person has. The second way is the resources a person has such as food, trade skills, networking, and other related every day activities which are used to navigate the maze that is called life.

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