Strike

Bisan made a smart move extending the global spending strike from the 21st by seven days more, until the 28th.

From what I heard, it means:

1. Minimize spending or banking to emergencies only
   
2. No work
3. No school, at least physically, but I suggest you completely avoid going to school altogether
4. Don’t go outside, except for protesting and emergencies (but even if it's for emergencies, show your support for Palestine physically and actively)
5. Even if you don't have Palestine badges, shirts, etc, or a keffiyeh, or anything in hand to make a peaceful protest item, show your activism verbally. Explicitly call out the west and Illegal Israeli Occupation and the IOF. Don't whisper, don't talk, you must yell.
6. I say don't go outside and don't spend money, except for emergencies. However, me, you should "boycott" the need of an emergency as best as you can. Take care of your health as much as you can as fast as you can.
7. No shopping, movie theater movies, or even streaming movies. That counts as spending. I'm putting those in front just in case I forget.
   
8. No social media scrolling unless it's for Palestine. Do not like (some people like but don't repost but some don't), post, repost, reply, follow, etc. unless it is about Palestine, which in that case, like and retweet, and comment if you'd like. You may need to mute people who don't apply.
   
9. Don't get mindlessly sucked into social media.
   
10. Remember to keep boycotting! Primarily boycott the ones BDS say to boycott (including the grassroot boycott section), as well as the popular McDonald's-Disney-Starbucks boycott in the West. There's a reason there's a focus on Starbucks and their $11 billion dollar loss in December and their Stanley Valentine's Day cup collabs.
• There's a reason why the boycott focus is on those 16 companies (and Israeli produce). It's simple, it's easy (unlike some of BDS' pressure targets, which own tons of subsidiaries or are monopolies), and it's organized. There are more companies that support Israel than you think. Looking at the BDS boycott list, I think the hardest to boycott as a consumer might be Carrefour (Idk I'm stupid), Chevron/Caltex/Texaco depending on your area, and Teva if you take their medicine but still decide to boycott. It's definitely not McDonald's though.
  

For eight days in a row, you will send messages from the martyrs and living people of Gaza and Palestine, just like you did in November. Your priorities and ideals should lie there.

I heard it can also go for as long as it needs to, as it should.

Unfortunately I’m not sure if I can participate to an effective ability as 1, most of the stuff they’re asking for (besides social media scrolling and a Notion and Bard addiction) I don’t do much anyway, and 2, I just started going to in-person college classes last week. If I strike so early, especially if online studying is off the cards, I’m not sure what would happen.

I use an ad-blocker, but taking a break from entertainment social media period will be my biggest contribution to the strike.

 

Also Click to Help! I think it doesn't count as spending as much as real spending does, I seen it promoted among other fundraisers during the strike. I think Click to Help uses the money from the ads on the site, so turn off your ad-blocker!

Note (January 24): There is also a boycott on K-Pop streaming in tandem to Bisan's global strike. K-Pop in particular, as it's ran by the K-Pop community. It started late, but there are probably others like this. The original plan was to boycott YG, SM, JYP, and HYBE for five days, but it has recently been updated to include all K-Pop (because people were using the strike as an excuse to promote "underrated" groups), and, since it's a consumer boycott, it will last as long as it needs to. The global strike, for the most part, is economic. Music streaming is not a necessity, and it especially doesn't need to be legal. If you're really concerned about where your money's going on streaming services, boycott Spotify and download your songs to a private place.

Some say the K-Pop boycott has been extended to end on February 1st (though some people are saying the boycott creator is against that), but I don't think that will do anything as much as last week did. Some are saying the boycott has been extended to February 29th, let's see how it plays out.