Solution:  Spend your money wisely - in a way that doesn't perpetuate the current flawed status quo.

Why We Need It:  Every dollar we spend has an effect.  If we spend our money with corporate conglomerates, we serve only to strengthen the system that is tearing our society and culture apart bit by bit and to weaken the network of communities, small businesses, and citizens that we all live within.

Why You'll Like It:  Stick it to the man!  Without support, the corporatcracy that we live under will eventually crumble.  If we support our local communities instead, they will thrive and prosper, making life better for every one of us.

In Depth:  Why should we serve as the very lifeline for the culture-wide system that is polluting our living space, fragmenting our communities, sucking most of us dry financially, contributing to the disillusionment and discontentedness of our people, and causing widespread corruption in our political leadership?  That is exactly what we're doing every time we spend money with most corporate conglomerates, or buy a new car, or purchase fossil fuel, or donate money to a typical political campaign.  We are, to use a polite version of a traditional phrase, soiling the place we eat.  We are helping maintain a system that harms us.

Take a very simple action against this backwards way of doing things and refuse to support this system any longer!  Instead, support the alternatives as much as possible - local businesses, simpler and sustainable ways of living, renewable energy, less-polluting methods of transportation, food production, manufacturing, and so on.  Our country's day-to-day operations are arguably built upon the economy, and the way our economy works is largely determined by the consumers, that is, us.  Given this view, every time we spend money, it is more than just an exchange of currency for goods or services; to spend money is to make a value judgment, to take an ethical or unethical action.  We can ask ourselves, upon every purchase, "What am I supporting with this purchase?"  If the answer is "Big Oil" or "The corporate/political good ol' boys club" or "The rabid military-industrial complex" or "The psychotic pseudo-Judeo-Christian-fundamentalist-pretenders war-mongering profit-grubbing old soft fat white men in suits", ask yourself whether you can get that item or service somewhere else, or whether you actually need it in the first place!  If your answers are a little more mundane than the examples we've provided, that's okay too.  You get the point.  Conversely, if your answers are more along the lines of "The family down the street" or "The locally-owned hardware store" or "The development of renewable energy", spend away with a clear conscience.

The idea is simple.  Our monetary contributions make a difference somewhere, somehow.  It is ours to spend - we can decide what we want to strengthen and what we want to weaken.  Check out our Links page for a few companies that are worth supporting with your business.  And, of course, when at all possible, stay local!