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A NEW ASK: Wear keffiyehs, pins, and other symbols of solidarity with Palestine whenever you shop at PCC. PCC is OUR CO-OP. Workers' speech is suppressed by management, who won't let them show their solidarity with Palestine. Show your solidarity with Palestine and with PCC workers both.

We will continue to escalate until PCC changes their policies, stands with their workers by guaranteeing their freedom of speech, and halts their support for Israel's war machine by destocking all brands that support the genocidal Zionist project.

By focusing on our boycott demands and ignoring our demand that PCC allow their workers to show solidarity with Palestine, PCC management is trying to split us apart. How exactly are we meant to 'vote with our dollars' that we want workers to be allowed to show their opposition to genocide?

To continue to stock brands which fund the Israeli war machine almost two years into the escalated genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank—that’s political. To force employees to remove ceasefire pins and keffiyehs, to demand their silence at work. That’s political, too.

PCC is absolutely political. Employees are permitted to wear BLM pins, and PCC has a rainbow logo on its social media for pride month. In the era of Trump 2, it’s obvious that BLM and queer pride are political. Good! PCC’s progressive positions are why we support it.

By suppressing actual democratic movements like our own, PCC’s leadership is failing in its most basic responsibilities to us, and to humanity. Their cowardly excuse is that opposing the genocide is political, and they want to stay apolitical.

Unlike other stores, whose leaders are bound primarily to the profit motive, PCC as a cooperative represents broader interests, holding ‘concern for community’ as one of its core principles. PCC’s members support it specifically because of this.

A fake 'democracy' where money gets to vote, where the richer you are, the more you count, is what brought us here, and as socialists it's what we're fighting against. We are not only consumers, we are human beings, and as co-op members, we are entitled to a voice in how the co-op is run.

In a statement, No Azure for Apartheid said 1,500 Microsoft workers, 100,000 members of the public have signed onto their demands to stop supplying cloud computing services to the Israeli military. They also said that more than 320,000 letters have been sent to company leadership

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If you, like us, want to shop at a truly responsible PCC, let their leadership know. Sign our letter to the board. Complain to store management. Come volunteer at a table with us. Tell your friends, share our thread, and follow our page for updates as we escalate to win.

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