Buy Nothing Day and OCCUPYXMAS

[Kaleko]

Buy Nothing Day / #OCCUPYXMAS

http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd

You’ve been sleeping on the streets for two months pleading peacefully for a new spirit in economics. And just as your camps are raided, your eyes pepper sprayed and your head’s knocked in, another group of people are preparing to camp-out. Only these people aren’t here to support occupy Wall Street, they’re here to secure their spot in line for a Black Friday bargain at Super Target and Macy’s.

Occupy gave the world a new way of thinking about the fat cats and financial pirates on Wall Street. Now lets give them a new way of thinking about the holidays, about our own consumption habits. Lets’ use the coming 20th annual Buy Nothing Day to launch an all-out offensive to unseat the corporate kings on the holiday throne.

This year’s Black Friday will be the first campaign of the holiday season where we set the tone for a new type of holiday culminating with #OCCUPYXMAS. As the global protests of the 99% against corporate greed and casino capitalism continues, lets take the opportunity to hit the empire where it really hurts…the wallet.

On Nov 25/26th we escape the mayhem and unease of the biggest shopping day in North America and put the breaks on rabid consumerism for 24 hours. Flash mobs, consumer fasts, mall sit-ins, community events, credit card-ups, whirly-marts and jams, jams, jams! We don’t camp on the sidewalk for a reduced price tag on a flat screen TV or psycho-killer video game. Instead, we occupy the very paradigm that is fueling our eco, social and political decline.


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Are you in?

Me, I've never been more ready for a flash mob dance at the local mall than this Thanksgiving.

[Lefta Dissenter]

1. We're heading to the belly of the beast

Parking near the mall to collect signatures to RECALL WALKER.

[Kaleko]

2. Valiant and fierce.

Go forth and recall that slime. Thank you!

[lonestarnot]

3. Way yat!

Get 'im!

[AnnieBW]

4. I got my prescriptions at Target today

Because I refuse to go anywhere near a big-box store this weekend. The closest I'll probably get is driving by them on my way to a local business.

I don't shop on "Black Friday" anyway, and haven't for years. It's not because I'm taking a stand. It's because I don't like crowds.

[Kaleko]

6. This year you can take a stand

by sitting at home. How sweet is that?

[prairierose]

5. yuck...mall is a four letter word in my universe...I avoid...

them at all times. I never go there willingly...I'm celebrating buy nothing day Friday and staying home....

[Kaleko]

7. kick

[astral]

8. can I buy gas?

that's all I am going to want to buy tomorrow, honest!

[Kaleko]

10. Only after consulting all your sub-personalities in a General Assembly

and reaching a consensus that it's okay for you to occupy the highway.

:spank: ;)

[EFerrari]

9. No one in this house will buy anything tomorrow. n/t

[Lionessa]

11. IF it isn't Buy Nothing for at least a month, it's a waste of energy.

Just delaying handing them your cash for a day or even a week, won't ring anyone's bells. They know you'll get it bought before Xmas. They have to believe you've decided to boycott the entire spending side of xmas.

Bah Humbug!

[Kaleko]

13. I look at this action from a different angle.

It's not primarily about making a huge dent in big box store's cash registers. No, if enough of us can agree on performing yet another concerted action together, we can shake, rattle and roll the many-headed snake! I also consider how much fun can be had doing the exact opposite of what the herd is always supposed to do.

Like V said in V For Vendetta, "What is a revolution without dancing?"

[whistler162]

12. I may buy fish sandwiches for dinner tommorrow is

that okay.

I did buy a new TV from Newegg today. 42" LCD 1080p for $300 delivered couldn't resist.