'Buy Nothing Day 2002'

Martin

I know this one is just two days before the Irish Consumer Boycott Day on December 2nd. It's a shame they have to be so close to each other, but all determined individuals like myself will go through Saturday and Monday without opening their wallet.

Please forward this email on to your friends- Martin.


WHAT'S IN STORE FOR 2002 www.adbusters.org/

"United We Spend?" United Let's Don't.

If enough jammers turn their disaffection into resistance for just one day,
November 29 could mark the delivery of a landmark social message.
More than a million people will celebrate 11 years of opposition on the
unofficial "opening day" of the Christmas frenzy. Play this one right and
we will make Buy Nothing Day 2002 a global event on par with Earth
Day. Previous participants have come up with the traditions: swap
meets, teach-ins, concerts, street theatre, credit-card cut-ups,
postering, potlucks. But hey, it's a culture jam - no one's drawing up any
rules.

Here's what to expect from Adbusters: more and better info, campaign
materials and TV and radio spots that press the point. We're doing a
little outreach as well. Last year's alignment with the peace movement
gave the day a wider resonance, and the bigger the BND tent, the better.
This year, we're asking religious groups to add their voices, and we've
made a pitch to environmental groups worldwide. After all, we told them,
"Over consumption is mother of all our environmental problems." With
vocal support from the greens, BND really could become an eco-holiday
sans frontières.

We can already expect a boost from the spiritual
side. This year, Christians were a visible Buy
Nothing force for the first time, and other faith
groups are sure to follow. Sites like
buynothingchristmas.org and books like Bill McKibben's ecumenical
Hundred Dollar Holiday argue that we need space for values outside the
commercial imperative. (The Pope's argument that markets can't answer
all needs doesn't hurt, either.) In 2002, watch for a deeper, interfaith
challenge - the first stirrings of a prophetic "no."

Shorty

[URL=http://]http://www.buynothingday.co.uk[/URL]

Buy Nothing Day in the UK and Ireland is this Saturday the 30th, it's the 29th in the USA.

Kurdt

hmmmm....a good day to go shopping...

buzzerbuckley

buy nothing day is a plile of ****e.Another gimmick to rival other non entitys such as no car day etc.

Rather than try to address serious issues such as globalisation,corporation power, human alienisation and human rights,days like these are a side show, a red herring and a complete waste of time as someone who buys nothing one day will buy twice as much the day before or after.

I for one wont be participating in either...