This is a Nationwide effort. We need volunteers to organize local groups. We are asking group members to boycott Facebook Marketplace, Amazon and Tesla and others, on July 19th & 20th 2025. Some group members have already started boycotting these companies. We will march, boycott and picket Amazon distribution centers, Wholefoods and other Amazon entities like Prime video streaming, Telsa dealerships and service centers and Facebook Marketplace on July 19th & 20th. We have a plan to compensate employees for who may miss work on those days, if they were scheduled to work.
We picked July 19th & 20th due to the correlation with the first Women’s Rights Conference in Seneca Falls, NY in 1948. Also, in Loas July 20th is Women's Union Establishment Day. This holiday celebrates the founding of the Laos Women's Union, a significant organization advocating for women's rights in Laos. Please use this link to learn more about the history and significance of this day in Laos: https://nationaltoday.com/womens-union-establishment-day/.
It also so happens that the first Social, Civil and Religious rights, for women meeting in the United States of America happened on July 19 & 20 in Seneca Falls, NY. It was called the Seneca Falls Convention. At the convention they presented a Declaration of Sentiment which began with descriptions of 19 "abuses and usurpations" of women's rights and went on to describe a list of 11 resolutions. The eleven resolutions demanded women be treated as equal to men. The resolutions implied that many laws placed women in a subservient or inferior position to men as having no legal force or authority. They demanded that women have equal rights within the church and equal access to jobs.
The 19th resolution called to secure a woman's right to vote. Please visit this History Channel link to learn more about the Seneca Falls, NY convention and the subsequent meetings. https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/seneca-falls-convention#declaration-of-sentiments On the 20th of July 1848 Frederick Douglass gave a speech in favor of women's suffrage, supporting the belief that women should have the same political rights as men. He went further by saying that giving women the right to vote would benefit the government and he expounded on the belief that women should be given the same educational and work opportunities as men.
Soon after the convention an article in The North Star written by Douglas detailed the connection between abolitionism and feminism. Douglass didn't stop there. He helped found the American Equal Rights Association in 1866, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and he continued to advocate for women's rights throughout his life.
In keeping with these events, We thought it would be appropriate to have Pocketbook Brigade events on Saturday July 19 and Sunday July 20th. We are asking people to support Women or Minority Owned Businesses that weekend. We can disseminate posters locally to businesses across the USA, which they can put in their store windows certifying them as a woman or minority owned business. At the same time we are asking people to Boycott Trump (going forward we will call him "47") supporters like Elon Musk, Jeff Bazos and Mark Zuckerberg. To pull this together quickly, we will need everyone’s help to get the word out on social media, emails and text messages and to approach woman and minority owned businesses in your area. We can include lists of the businesses on our websites.
We can also work to get interviews or at least coming events announcements on public radio and TV stations to spread the word.
Please conact us via our contact us page to request an invitation to our next virtual planning meeting or to submit an event description to be considered and possiby added to our calendar of events page.
Our marches don't affect their pocketbooks, but our boycotts will. It is going to take all of us to stop them. We must work together. We can't wait to work with you.