The rumor about an economic protest in the US, calls Economic Blackout or “economic blackout of February 28,” spreads rapidly on social networks, generating expectation among consumers.
The request made on social networks is that US consumers refrain from purchasing the main retailers on Friday, February 28, an action that is generated in the middle of the excessive increase in the price of certain products such as food, fuels, housing and public services.
An example of the increase in products is the vertiginous cost of eggs, which last January averaged $ 4.95 a dozen.
Many Americans receive emails to ask them to join the protest.
“I’m not going to spend money tomorrow,” he told CBS News Pat Gavin-Gordon, a senior adult of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Gavin-Gordon learned about the boycott through an email that circulated among a small group of his friends, which he describes as “socially responsible women who try to do things for the community and help people.”
This American sees the Economic Blackout on Friday 28 as a way of expressing its disapproval of many things that, they say, are happening, for example, the mass layoffs ordered by President Donal Trump.
It is the same case as Isabel Cotarelo, resent of Kingston, New York, who also spoke with CBS News and told them that she is in favor of the economic blackout of February 28, Poque does not share the way in which she is being administered to the country.
“I am totally in favor of the economic blackout of February 28 to demonstrate that most people do not agree with the way they are taking things, with the richest man in the world, with how oligarchs are supporting this government and they only care to enrich themselves,” he told CBS Moneywatch.
It is known that behind the economic boycott is a group called The People’s Union USA, an organization that would have been founded by John Schwarz, originally from Queens, New York, who for weeks has promoted the consumer’s blackout.
The People’s Union says that it has no political affiliation and that it focuses on “equity, economic justice and real systemic change.”
Some publications in which the economic blackout is promoted have suggested a selective boycott of retailers such as Ford, McDonald’s, Meta, Target and Walmart for their position before President Donald Trump’s policies.
What is the 24 -hour economic blackout?
According to an email that arrives in Citizens, during the 24 -hour economic blackout, consumers are urged to stop all purchases, both online and in stores from midnight on Friday, February 28 until 11:59 on the night of that same day, to stop spending in large corporations.