A boycott need not be a grim exercise, scanning labels for the name “Wisconsin,” like counting grams of unsaturated fats. We might even call it “fun for the whole family.” Parents worried because their kids think that Labor Day commemorates the end of summer vacation, that Taft-Hartley is a brand of designer sportswear (signs of pervasive ignorance far more detrimental to workers’ rights than the hubris of any upstart junior governor), can use the occasion to explain why “people like us” have vacations to begin with, why “kids like you” go to school after Labor Day instead of being scalped alive in textile mills. Google “Wisconsin + company” and print the list. Hang it on the fridge. Take it to school. Post it on your Facebook page.

Religious, civic and professional organizations can also make an affordable statement as to where they stand. Some of these groups expressed solidarity for their disaster-hit neighbors by holding conferences in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. They can be just as neighborly by refusing to hold a conference in Wisconsin. If the word “Milwaukee” appears on their flight ticket, they can change their flight.