I'm buying all my Christmas presents in Canada!

[oldtime dfl_er]

Actually I'll buy a few things from local crafters at the Pike Place Market in Seattle (solid blue!) but everything else is gonna be an import.

[trotsky]

1. From your screen name, you must be from MN!

Us current DFLers might just have to use that same shopping strategy.

[oldtime dfl_er]

2. used to live in MN

In the good old days of Clean Gene. In Seattle now, still very close to the good old Canadian border!

[Starlight]

3. I'm giving EVERYONE donations to progressive charities.

ACLU, Amnesty International, Sierra Club, Greenpeace are some of my favorites. Local animal shelters & food banks are great, too.

IMHO toy drives & such just perpetuate the "consumption is good" stereotype & I wouldn't waste my money there.

[carpediem]

7. that's what we're going to do too.

Someone posted this morning about a charity called heifer where you can buy an animal or a tree for a poor family so they can make a living off of it and use the milk, eggs, wool or fruit it produces. We donated a goat in our kids names earlier today. We are also going to do this in lieu of giving money to churches. We haven't been able to find a church where we live that isn't pushing the Christian Coalition materials and until we do our offering will be going to do what the churches won't - take care of the poor, the hungry, or the sick. It is better than giving money to a 'building fund'.

[Starlight]

9. Do you have a Unitarian Universalist congregation in your area?

You might want to check them out. They tend to support liberal causes.

http://www.uua.org/

[ribrepin]

8. I'll go you one better

For the folks who voted for Bush on your gift list: Donate in their names to the ACLU for the holidays. Make another donation on their birthdays too.:9

[Starlight]

10. LOL, that's what I gave my repub boss last year.

I'm sure he appreciated it at least as much as I appreciated the tin of popcorn he sent me that I immediately regifted to my neighbor. :eyes:

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Ok on to the boycott

DO NOT buy christamas gifts if you can avoid it

buy only essencials and then from local markets. DO NOT pump more money than absolutely necessary

I know it may siound cruel but we need this to happen

[nostamj]

5. gee... ya couldn't support a few DU marketers?

I'm talking with skinner about creating a webring for DUers with online stores (not nec. political)

[Lorien]

6. I'm sending back all the Christmas catalogs

with a "no purchases until Bush is out of office" sticker attached!

[WolverineDG]

11. for my republican family members

i'm combing the house, looking for stuff to give them (not trash of course, i do have some nice stuff, but i'm not spending $$ on them this year.) most of my other presents have already been bought on trips i took this year.

but i like the aclu idea. i have just the cousin in mind for that one :evilgrin:

dg

[Lisa]

12. wait -- consider making a stop at the Tom Bihn store near Pioneer Sq.

They've taken a lot of flak for the anti-Bush message on their labels ...

http://www.tombihn.com/page/001/CTGY/NEWS


Actually, I'm Canadian and I'm thinking of ordering a bunch of stuff from them for Christmas!