MFWitches

People often get in touch with MFW to ask how they can take part in our consumer boycotts. So here’s an explanation of what you can do, and why it matters.

The commitment we need (for people who want to make a difference) is to contact 1, 2, 5 or more advertisers from our data lists each week, telling them why you demand they stop funding the misogyny, hate and lies expressed by the media personality or program/channel you choose.

There are two ways to contact advertisers. You can use the data lists via our MFW website mfw.org.au, or via our web-based app at app.mfw.org.au. In either case, follow these instructions:

1. Click on campaigndata.mfw.org.au (#ToYourBrooms link on our sites) for all our #ToYourBrooms advertiser boycott campaigns. These target individuals, programs and/or media orgs which are the worst in terms of broadcast hate and lies. They currently include:

- #BinBen (Ben Fordham/2GB)

- #NewsCorpse (Rupert Murdoch’s papers and Sky News)

- #SquishSpotlight (Kerry Stokes’s Spotlight TV show)

- #TuckOff (Tucker Carlson) and

- #VileKyle (Kyle Sandilands/KiiSFM).

2. Click on murdochfreeworld.mfw.org.au for our #MurdochFreeWorld supplier campaign, which targets businesses which stock or supply Murdoch- or Stokes-owned content.

It’s easy to take part. Just find and click into on the hashtag campaign (as above) you prefer, and locate advertisers you currently use (or might use). Contact them via the email or social media details supplied. Tell them you’ll stop buying their products/services unless they stop funding the content you object to, and explain your specific objections. You can even tell them what they’re funding goes against their own Code of Conduct or Mission Statement (find these on their websites).

Don’t take no for an answer, don’t listen to them say they don’t control where their advertising goes (this is rubbish), and keep it up with more advertisers. But please: always be polite. Currently, a few thousand witches a week do this. But if it were ten or fifty thousand, advertisers would pull out a lot faster.

We also need financial support, preferably with a recurring donation of $5 or $10 per month, or more if funds allow. We can’t run our campaigns without the wherewithal to pay our staff who work very hard to compile and analyse huge amounts of data we then supply to you. If it matters to you to reform our media, please assist:
mfw.org.au/donate/
mfw.org.au/merch/

Finally, since mass-reporting by the trolls who want media lies to prosper causes us to sometimes disappear from our platforms, follow us in as many places as possible:
MFW Coven: facebook.com/groups/2599767…
Insta: @MFWitches
Facebook: @MFWitches
Threads: @mfwitches

It’s a crucial time to get involved, since media lies are getting worse. They’re losing profits since more people see through their bullshit daily, and this causes them to publish for link clicks rather than truth. The only way to combat this is to show them they’ll lose more profit via losing advertisers unless they stop using outrage and deception to get attention.

Our motive isn’t to put these companies out of business or for journalists to lose their jobs. We just want the lies and lack of balance to stop. If Rupert Murdoch and other similar media outlets would choose to run their companies with relatively objective reporting, we’d quickly abandon our witchy campaigns.

What happens next, witches, is up to us all. If enough advertisers and suppliers pull out of supporting these awful companies, neither our politicians nor the media will fail to get the memo that we’re fucking tired of being lied to on a daily basis by journalists and companies who refuse to follow their own media codes. And they’ll quickly change.

Now’s the time for all of us to take a stand. We’re a collective of angry sweary witches who are determined to make a permanent difference.

And if we don’t do this, who fucking will?

Are you in?

#ToYourBrooms

The words in the pic below appear to be absolutely true.

At least, according to “The Age”, which reported these exact words as said by Jess Wilson back on October 5th this year, and repeated by a number of reputable publications and social media pages since:
“Asked on Sunday if it was bad to “Americanise” the state’s healthcare system, Wilson responded: ‘Not at all. This is happening in Queensland today. In fact, the Labor government has implemented it here in the past’, she said.”
smh.com.au/politics/victo…?

Your LNP-voting and ONP-voting friends, neighbours and family members need to see the pic below pronto, witches, so please share far and wide or comment on this thread to boost its reach. (We’re not sure who first posted it, but happy to credit them if advised.)

Since if there’s one thing most Aussies (even those who are otherwise deeply conservative) detest and fear, it’s the prospect of the Americanisation of our healthcare. Medicare is sacred, and our extraordinary ability to (in most cases) receive excellent, timely and reasonably-priced care for our health needs is a fucking miracle.

Of course, we know Medicare and the entire healthcare system in Australia isn’t perfect. It isn’t perfect in Canada, the UK or most of Europe, either. But the fact that Australians and other people in developed nations aren’t routinely bankrupted by their medical needs (as are tens of thousands of Americans yearly) is a blessing most of us take too much for granted.

You can take our mostly-great and mostly-functional Medicare system from our cold dead fucking hands, Jess. And if more Victorians took their heads out of their arses and realised just what you and your bastard cronies intend to do to Victoria once you (probably) get into power, then many of them would reconsider their upcoming vote.

Maybe you can stop some of those LNP votes, witches?

Well, we can but try.
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We’re in a bit of a bind, witches. We’d like to start an exciting new campaign, but after exhausting our resources fighting Kyle and Karl, we lack the financial support to ramp up a new campaign. If you’d like us to fire up our operations again and you can afford a modest monthly subscription, please consider financially supporting our work: it’s a subscription to the future for the price of a coffee (or two) each month. Go to: mfw.org.au/support if you can help. And thank you!

#ToYourBrooms

Donald Trump’s unprecedented and embarrassing failures in the USA mid-term elections yesterday were also vital for Australia’s interests, witches.

Because the suffering being endured by Australians due to the cost-of-living problems imposed by inflationary pressures largely caused by tariffs and high fuel prices are his fault. Because his bullshit wars and support for and funding of genocide (including the strong possibility he’d use one or more nuclear weapons as part of those wars) are untenable for the entire planet. And because the 400 billion dollars earmarked for this country to pay to grovel to Trump instead of going to fund our own schools, hospitals and the vulnerable has always been completely out of order.

That’s why so many Aussies are celebrating the “Bluenami” wave although some people will say this huge success and even huger relief is none of our business.

Since those people are wrong: the defeat of unchecked fascist cruelty in any country is a victory for all countries. And the defeat of the latent unchecked fascist cruelty which has grown to worrying proportions here just has to happen here, too, if we have any chance of a decent future for all.

This is why we’re re-posting the meme below today, which quotes words stated by Pauline Hanson last year. They’re an example of just one way she’s steadfastly aligned herself with Trump in recent years, thinking she’d ride on his fucked-up coattails to similar election victories here. We also understand her team has been deleting references to Trump from their campaign material today, because they know it’s now poison here.

So we have to stop her in her race to establish a similar far-right government here. It’s urgent, and it’s important.

To do so we must all, in the lead-up to the Victorian election and the even more important lead-up to the next federal election, please tell everyone you know that Americans have now loudly repudiated Trump for good reason, and we must do the same for anyone who agrees with his policies and follows his example here.

Hanson can be defeated here, just as Trump has now been in the USA as an ongoing force.

And we can do it.

Let’s fucking go.

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We’re in a bit of a bind, witches. We’d like to start an exciting new campaign, but after exhausting our resources fighting Kyle and Karl, we lack the financial support to ramp up a new campaign. If you’d like us to fire up our operations again and you can afford a modest monthly subscription, please consider financially supporting our work: it’s a subscription to the future for the price of a coffee (or two) each month. Go to: mfw.org.au/support if you can help. And thank you!

#ToYourBrooms

We weren’t rooting for you: we were rooting for ourselves being saved from a nuclear Armageddon plus runaway inflation due to Trump’s disgraceful tariffs and illegal war. Americans voted for him and deserved him, but the rest of the world didn’t. Get it right.

It’s amazing what can happen in America when the voting machines aren’t rigged, isn’t it?