Bank Locally:

• Industrial Bank

• Founders Bank

Updated lists of DMV local businesses:

• Black-owned businesses (and more)

• Woman-owned businesses (and more)

• Farmers Markets - many are year-round!

• Consignment and Thrift Stores

• Coffee Shops 

• Immigrant-owned restaurants

• Maryland and DC festivals - have fun and support local vendors!

• Use this Washington DC events calendar to find fun activities where you can shop local

Find free stuff:

• Join and find local Buy Nothings

• Find your community's email listserv - you can get a lot of free/inexpensive home goods from your neighbors!

• We're not engaging in BS on Meta, but you can still find some good free and cheap stuff on your local facebook marketplace

Follow these active DMV communities so you can participate in third-places:

• Rhizome DC  

• Movement Infrastructure Project Calendar

• Free DC

• Sunrise DC

Big businesses taking a stand for DEI...they're still problematic but a little less so, I guess?

• Costco

• e.l.f. Beauty Products

• Microsoft 

• Apple 

• Ben and Jerry's

Banks that Support Fossil Fuels:

• Wells Fargo

• CitiBank

• Bank of America

• Chase

Caught Union-busting:

• Amazon

• Starbucks

• Trader Joe's

Check out LaborLab if you are experiencing union-busting at your place of work

Corporations that cosign genocide:

• Chevron (including Caltex & Texaco)

• Intel

• DELL

• Siemans

• Hewlett Packard (HP)

• Carrefour

• AXA

• Reebok

• Disney+

• SodaStream (I replace my CO2 tanks with simplisoda and it's way more convenient and less $)

• RE/MAX

• McDonald's

• Coca Cola

• Burger King

• Papa John's

• Pizza Hut

• WIX

• Google

• Amazon

• Booking/Airbnb/Expedia

Big business that ended their DEI efforts:

• Amazon

• Walmart

• Target

• Meta

• McDonald's

• Ford

• Harley-Davidson

• Lowe's

• John Deere

• Tractor Supply

• Brown Forman (parent company of Jack Daniel's)

• Google