{"id":31369,"date":"2017-01-27T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=31369"},"modified":"2017-01-27T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T22:05:00","slug":"my-resistance-im-dumping-new-balance-on-the-corp-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=31369","title":{"rendered":"My Resistance: I’m dumping New Balance on the corp heads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s what I’ve done today–a letter to the corporate heads of New Balance, placed in a shoe box containing my New Balance sneakers. The package will go out from my post office tomorrow.<\/p>\n

I’ve read that numbers of people have tossed their New Balances into the garbage but I’m not sure that makes as much of an impression as returning them to the executives of the brand.<\/p>\n

I got the information about New Balance from GrabYourWallet,<\/a> the super database of brands to boycott because in one way or another they support Trump.<\/p>\n

Jim and Anne Davis<\/em>
\nCEO and Vice Chairman<\/em>
\nNew Balance<\/em>
\n20 Guest Street<\/em>
\nBoston, Massachusetts 02135<\/em><\/p>\n

Dear Davises,<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve loved New Balance sneakers for years. They\u2019re comfortable, well priced and at least parts of them are made in America.<\/em><\/p>\n

Too bad, then, that Matt LeBretton was foolish enough to make his \u201cright direction with Trump\u201d statement to the Wall Street Journal\u2013itself owned by a man, not American, who has done his top notch bit to corrupt factual news reporting and trust in our excellent news media.<\/em><\/p>\n

As has become amply, horrifyingly clear, there is no \u201cright direction\u201d in America now, unless you regard fascism as the right direction for this country. Me? No.<\/em><\/p>\n

I marched with 500,000 women in D.C. last weekend and will be undoubtedly marching again. But I did not wear my New Balances. Which are enclosed in this Basics shoe box. Basics are the sneakers I just bought to replace yours.<\/em><\/p>\n

This will not be a simple individual gesture: I have had a blog since 2010, a blog which gets an average of over 20,000 hits a month, and has thousands of subscribers. This letter will be on the blog, under the category of My Resistance and will be noted on Twitter and Facebook.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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