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🎁 Your Small Business Saturday dollars make a big difference, with customers spending around $184 billion today. The holiday season is often a make-or-break time for small business owners, and choosing to support them means keeping the lights on. Here are some ways to do that!
🛍️ The "Mass Blackout" and "We Ain't Buying It" campaigns are calling on consumers to opt out of spending over the holiday shopping weekend. The effort is "not targeting small businesses or communities," but rather larger "corporate systems." (May require login)
🏳️🌈 A court ruled that same-sex marriages must be respected throughout the entire European Union, rebuking Poland for refusing to recognise a marriage between two of its citizens that took place in Germany.
Giant holiday 'giving machines' are in over 100 cities around the world — they've already raised $50 million
Even in times of uncertainty, the holidays are a season of giving. And Light the World Giving Machines, giant vending machine-style kiosks found in 126 cities across 21 countries and on six continents, are making giving back easy.
Users can pick a specific dollar amount or item to contribute to a specific charity, like spending $35 to give a solar lamp to a refugee family.
Since the project's inception, nearly $50 million has been donated by people across the globe. In 2024, 2 million meals were donated to feed people in need, 125,000 refugees received emergency food boxes, and much more.
Why is this good news? While most of us make our holiday wish lists this year, there are people around the world who need their basic needs met. These giving kiosks make donating easy and engaging, helping people make giving back part of their holiday, too.
17,000 acres of ancestral land were returned to a California tribe, the largest in the region's history
California just returned 17,000 acres of ancestral land to the Tule River Indian Tribe in what Governor Gavin Newsom called "the largest ancestral land return in the history of the region and a major step in addressing historical wrongs against California Native American tribes."
Now, a number of conservation projects will begin, including the reintroduction of Tule elk, which has already begun.
Newsom said that "the historical wrongs committed by the state against the Native people of this land echo through the natural worlds of California ecosystems that lost their first and best stewards."
Why is this good news? Beyond the lands being wrongfully taken from the Native tribe, returning them to stewards who care about their protection, restoration, and long-term conservation is critical.
If you've ever tried eating better, you know it's not exactly easy. From buying expensive organic ingredients and oils to prepping, cooking, plating, and tracking, so much goes into a high-quality healthy meal that it can all be a little overwhelming — unless you have Forkful.
Forkful offers the best of both worlds: A wide variety of restaurant-quality meals fit for any diet, that are also made with the finest ingredients (think grass-fed beef, organic produce, and avocado oil).
Add to that the fact that every dish is fresh, never frozen, prepared by chefs, and only takes 2-3 minutes to prepare, and you've just discovered your newest healthy eating hack.
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Businesses doing good
Courtesy of Compare Foods
A Latino-owned grocery chain in Charlotte offers free delivery to people afraid of leaving home due to ICE raids
Compare Foods has nine stores in the Charlotte, North Carolina area — growth that blossomed due to changing demographics in the area, with 45% growth in the state's Latino population between 2010 and 2022.
It prides itself on offering international and Latin American products, often acting as the premier option for immigrant families in the U.S. South.
That consideration led to its latest initiative to support its customers: Providing free grocery delivery across Charlotte amid a new string of Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the area. The agency has made 250 arrests, and thousands of students have been reported absent from school.
Why is this good news? People deserve to have enough food to eat, and to go to the store without fear that they'll be taken from their families. With that safety threatened in Charlotte, Compare Foods is stepping up to help people meet their basic needs.
Hundreds of anti-ICE protesters brought their local Home Depot to a halt by buying and returning 17-cent ice scrapers
This weekend, Californians across Monrovia and Burbank formed long lines outside of their local Home Depots to participate in a unique protest: buying and immediately returning 17-cent ice scrapers, disrupting sales and leading to a chaos of mass returns at registers.
Organized by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, the protest was in response to increased ICE presence at Home Depot stores, calling on the retailer's management to keep federal officers off their property.
Why is this good news? As customers, it can feel near impossible to move the needle in getting massive corporations to change, but peaceful, creative, nonviolent protests like these speak volumes in getting people in power to listen and act.
'Dollar Tree Dinners' creator invents and donates 'Thanksgiving in a Box' kits for families in need
Rebecca Chobat is the face of Dollar Tree Dinners, a social media channel dedicated to helping people make nutritious and tasty meals using ingredients from stores like Dollar Tree and Dollar General.
Building on her "meal in a bag" inventions for people affected by SNAP cuts, Chobat created "Thanksgiving in a Box" kits, which include printed recipe cards and all the ingredients for traditional Thanksgiving dishes like green bean casserole, mashed potatoes and gravy, and more.
Chobat herself donated 12 full dinner boxes, eight casserole kits, and eight single-serve holiday meals to people in her community — and her comments were filled with others "copying" her idea.
Why is this good news?Families across the United States are stretched financially, making Thanksgiving a heavier lift this year. Research shows that the average Thanksgiving meal is approximately 10% more expensive this year, and many Americans plan to cut back on festivities.
Child care workers are building a network of resistance against ICE.Child care workers, a substantial portion of whom are immigrants, are setting up detailed protection plans with the families in their care in case parents or the workers themselves are detained, leaving the children behind.
We know that many of you are participating in the boycotts this weekend — while small businesses aren't the target, we did want to express our gratitude if you choose to spend your money to support our small business this weekend. It means so much to us.
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