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ACT Adopt A Shelf
Provide safe harbor for a retired elf on the shelf. $7/month covers one handcrafted thimble-bed and unlimited TV privileges.
Sponsor → EST. 1823 • PARODY Elves Deserve
Elves Deserve
Better.
For 1,200 winters, they've toiled in fluorescent-lit workshops under a sugar-based wage system and a single, deeply narcissistic boss. It's time to listen.
14,629 supporters this winter, and counting.
THE CRISIS
The Numbers Don't Lie.
(The Elves Would, Under Duress.)
Through tireless field research (and several very confused interviews conducted in a reindeer stable), PETE has uncovered the following, definitely-real statistics.
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of elves work more than 300 nights per year without scheduled breaks
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unionized elven workshops exist on any known continent
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cookies consumed annually as the sole legal tender
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average daily height loss among elves during peak season
A day in the life of Tinsel Cogswaddle
04:00 · wakes up in a communal hay bunk he shares with six cousins.
04:07 · begins stitching button eyes onto 2,400 teddy bears.
12:00 · 11-minute lunch of one (1) sugar cookie.
22:30 · goes to bed covered in glitter he will never, ever get out.
Tinsel is 847 years old. He has had one vacation.
WHY ELVES MATTER
They built your childhood.
Now they need ours.
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Cultural Heritage
Elves have been quietly sustaining seasonal joy since long before recorded history. Their oral tradition is preserved entirely in limericks. Lose the elf, lose the limerick.
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Ecological Stewards
Elves maintain 83% of the world's remaining mushroom circles. Without their gentle foraging cycle, the entire fairy-industrial complex collapses within two fiscal quarters.
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The Cookie Economy
An estimated 1.2 billion cookies circulate through elven supply chains each year. If elves vanished overnight, your grandmother's oven would become a speculative asset.
TAKE ACTION
Four Ways To
Be On The Right Side Of History.
Every small action matters. Except leaving milk out. That's literally part of the problem.
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ACT Boycott Forced Surveillance
Refuse to participate in seasonal programs that place elves in civilian homes as unpaid night-vision operatives. It's a job. Pay them.
Sign Pledge →03
ACT Fund A Sabbatical
Give an elf their first real vacation in 600 years. Preferred destinations include anywhere that is not snowing, ever.
Gift A Getaway →04
ACT Tell Santa, Nicely
Compose a firm-but-fair letter to the North Pole HR department. We provide a template. He reads every one (allegedly).
Draft Letter →
Donate one cookie.
Save an entire workshop.
100% of all donations go directly to elf sabbatical funds, mushroom-circle restoration, and a very comfortable beanbag for the PETE mascot, Gilbert.
VOICES OF THE LIBERATED
Real elves.
Real(ish) stories.
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I hadn't slept since 1847. PETE got me a weighted blanket and a long weekend in Ibiza. I'm a new elf.
Twinkle Greenleaf
Former Sewing Machinist, Workshop 14
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For 312 years my only vocabulary was 'merry' and 'ho'. Now I have opinions about jazz. Thank you, PETE.
Bramble Oakfoot
Recovering Ornament Stacker
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They told us the big guy was 'family'. Turns out 'family' pays in crumbs. I walked out. You can too.
Mistletoe Fizzwick
PETE Advocacy Lead, Northern Hemisphere
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
PETE × PETU
We've joined forces with our horned counterparts at PETU, the People for Ethical Treatment of Unicorns. Because elves deserve unions, and unicorns deserve more than glitter-based compensation.
Stop the rainbow extraction. End the birthday-party gig economy. Pay the horn tax.
FOUNDER · PETU
David Gumpel
Horn-rights advocate. Former glitter auditor. Currently unreachable. On sabbatical with a unicorn.