We invite individual visual and performing artists, writers, bookstores, book clubs, brave non-profit or government organizations and other individuals or groups across the USA to independently “flood the zone” with creativity, for Create to Liberate, Saturday, April 19, 2025.
Think of the following idea as a pilot light for the creative fire within you (if yours needs to be lit.)
Create to Liberate Idea No. 5
On April 19, load your online shopping cart with big ticket items. Leave them in the cart. Smugly go buy a book and have a cup of coffee at a locally owned bookstore. Leave the cart full for at least a day … maybe the weekend. Then remove the items and go on with your life.
You didn’t really need that M12 12-Volt Lithium-Ion Force Logic Cordless Press Tool Kit anyway!
This act will really mess with corporate data extraction and the cognitive mapping by nefarious billionaires.
Not all acts of creative resistance feel like art … until a group collective engages in the same, targeted practice. Then it is performance art, not unlike great protests in years past.
With its data harvesting and algorithms, technology provides new paints with which to render digital performance protest art.
Find the carts of online shopping platforms for businesses that have either:
- helped install the current U.S. political proxies for Putin; or
- quickly moved to discard policies that prevent discrimination.
Here are nine:
- Amazon (including Audible, Kindle, Ring, Whole Foods Market, Zappos)
- CVS Health
- Disney (including ABC, ESPN, Marvel, National Geographic)
- Home Depot
- Lowe’s
- McDonald’s
- Target
- Variety Wholesalers (including Roses)
- Walmart
And, if you can stomach it:
There are dozens more companies supporting autocracy for which you can search. However, use a non-Google search engine since Google is also no longer interested in a workforce that is representative of America.
How marvelous it will be for thousands of Americans to place big-ticket items in their online shopping carts, triggering positive internal retail reporting systems…
…while you are sipping a latte and reading James Baldwin or Margaret Atwood.
NOTE: Be sure to eventually empty your shopping cart.
The online ads you will receive from your shopping spree will eventually dissipate, reinforcing the creepiness of data mining.
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