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SSJ4Sephiroth · 11-10-2002, 07:40 PM

From www.a-frecords.com

As many of you already know, the day after Thanksgiving is traditionally the start of the Holiday Shopping Season. The trend towards ever more excessive levels of consumerism in the so-called "First World" countries is exactly why ADBUSTERS, a progressive magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces, started BUY NOTHING DAY eleven years ago.

BUY NOTHING DAY is a protest of everything that is wrong with consumerist Western culture. The day after Thanksgiving was chosen for BUY NOTHING DAY because the advertising and retail industries have hyped it as THE shopping day for the holiday season for so long that it is difficult to separate the two. Instead of spending money on this day that has for years been associated with little but the start of a month-long spending spree, ADBUSTERS encourages all of us, at a minimum, to buy nothing at all, all day long, on November 29, 2002. Regular people and activists all over the world have taken this idea and have run with it, staging protests, teach-ins, sit-ins, leafleting at malls and setting up "BUY NOTHING" shops that have nothing for sale in order to educate people about BUY NOTHING DAY.

All through the month they'll be posting suggestions of what to do on this day on their site. But if you don't want to go, I'll post them here. Today's suggestions are:
1.GO HIKING AND ENJOY THE GREAT OUTDOORS.

2.START LEARNING HOW TO COOK OR BAKE.

3.CALL A FRIEND.

[ 11-10-2002, 07:43 PM: Message edited by: SSJ4Sephiroth ]

11-10-2002, 07:40 PM	#1
SSJ4Sephiroth Beholder Join Date: May 4, 2001 Location: The Outside Looking In Age: 37 Posts: 4,361	From www.a-frecords.com As many of you already know, the day after Thanksgiving is traditionally the start of the Holiday Shopping Season. The trend towards ever more excessive levels of consumerism in the so-called "First World" countries is exactly why ADBUSTERS, a progressive magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces, started BUY NOTHING DAY eleven years ago. BUY NOTHING DAY is a protest of everything that is wrong with consumerist Western culture. The day after Thanksgiving was chosen for BUY NOTHING DAY because the advertising and retail industries have hyped it as THE shopping day for the holiday season for so long that it is difficult to separate the two. Instead of spending money on this day that has for years been associated with little but the start of a month-long spending spree, ADBUSTERS encourages all of us, at a minimum, to buy nothing at all, all day long, on November 29, 2002. Regular people and activists all over the world have taken this idea and have run with it, staging protests, teach-ins, sit-ins, leafleting at malls and setting up "BUY NOTHING" shops that have nothing for sale in order to educate people about BUY NOTHING DAY. All through the month they'll be posting suggestions of what to do on this day on their site. But if you don't want to go, I'll post them here. Today's suggestions are: 1.GO HIKING AND ENJOY THE GREAT OUTDOORS. 2.START LEARNING HOW TO COOK OR BAKE. 3.CALL A FRIEND. [ 11-10-2002, 07:43 PM: Message edited by: SSJ4Sephiroth ]