Pledge · Economic Pressure · Corporate Accountability
THE ECONOMIC POWER PLEDGE
Move your money with the movement.
Black America holds more than a trillion dollars in spending power. Pledge to move yours with the movement, on purpose and together.
TAKE THE PLEDGE★ WHAT'S HAPPENING
THE SITUATION
The Economic Power Pledge is The Advocacy League's commitment for sustained economic action. It is not a one-day blackout. It is a standing promise to use your everyday spending as leverage: to honor active boycotts, to redirect dollars toward Black-owned and values-aligned businesses, and to move together the moment a coordinated action is called.
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★ IN PLAIN TERMS
Coordinated economic action — Choosing together — on purpose, at the same time — where our money does and doesn’t go, so the pressure is felt.
Buying / spending power — The total dollars a community spends. Organized, it’s leverage; scattered, it’s invisible.
★ WHY IT MATTERS
$1.6T
Black U.S. annual spending power — organized, it moves institutions
Black Americans hold more than a trillion dollars in annual spending power. Spent without coordination, it is invisible. Organized, it is one of the most powerful tools we have. From Montgomery to today, economic pressure has moved institutions that ignored everything else. The pledge turns scattered spending into a force.
★ WHO'S CARRYING THIS FIGHT
From the Capitol to the streets, this is the line of power behind the bill.
★ RUBRIC SCORES
How we score every fight in our Campaign Lab — so we put power where it changes lives.
Viability
Medium
Recommendation
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Justice & Freedom Agenda
Economic Justice & Wealth Equity
Democracy
Building
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Public health
Minimal
Why this viability: People-powered and always available — the win depends on coordination and sustained participation, which we control.
★ WIN PATH · Collective economic power
Chokepoint: Corporate revenue · The play: Coordinated, sustained, targeted — move together on one target, one demand · Leverage: $1.6T Black spending power · sponsor pressure
Eight-systems impact
Historical pattern: From Montgomery to today — Black economic withdrawal as the pressure that moved institutions that ignored everything else.
★ WHAT WE'RE DEMANDING
Take the pledge. Commit to spend your power with intention and to act when a coordinated economic action is called.
★ THE RECEIPTS
$1.6T
Black U.S. annual spending power
Source: Selig Center, UGA
381 days
the Montgomery boycott — economic pressure that won
Source: history
On purpose
scattered dollars → organized force
Source: The Advocacy League
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