BUY NOTHING DAY 2004 26 November For 24 hours, millions of people around the world do not participate -- in the doomsday economy, the marketing mind-games, and the frantic consumer-binge that's become our culture. We pause. We make a small choice not to shop. We shrink our footprint and gain some calm. Together we say to Exxon, Nike, Coke and the rest: enough is enough. And we help build this movement to rethink our unsustainable course. In its 13 years, BND has become a flashpoint, a day when people of all stripes come together in symbolic protest. Visit the new BND Action Pyramid for a sample of great ways to celebrate. Need posters, clip-art, web banners, handbills, radio-clips or stickers? No problem. 2004 BND promotional goods are ready for download. We've put together a radical new tool to keep Jammers connected: JammerGroups, city-based email networks. Join now. We've also got news and reports from previous BNDs in our archive. Be in touch as your plans come together, Happy jamming. www.adbusters.org info -------------- JAMMERGROUPS Want to connect up with other jammers on November 26? Then join your city's JammerGroup. It's a powerful new organizing tool that makes it easier than ever to meet-up and plan community actions. <http://adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/getlocal.html>
Ad Busters is a great publication. I won't be buying anything that day, but I'm not exactly the biggest consumer in the first place.
Good Man. I think the idea is to, join the mailling list and organize your own Buy nothing day protest n your town... as well as buying nothing. Its real simple and easy to join, click www.adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/getlocal.html
How about buy everything day... Get yourself several credit cards (they are so easy to get these days)... spend up to the limit on each one... and then just don't pay em off.... get a couple of hundred thousand to do that and it could be more interesting... Fly...
Yeah great idea! and seeing that "everything we know is wrong" i think you should do it. good luck...and make sure you rinse Capital One because they are wankers.
I can imagine, there'll be one poor sod who actually does it, and everyone else will be laughing at them when they go bankrupt....
That is a great idea, it would actually have an effect. Not quite like Ed Norton blowing up the financial district of a major city at the end of "Fight Club", but still... I wonder how many people would need to do this for the companies to actually write off the debts as unreclaimable... hundreds of thousands? Would they ever?
It'd take a lot more than that I think. And with that many defaulting on their debts I doubt they'd write them off. They'd drag people through the courts and send in the bailifs....
Already done that and now I can't answer my front door without fear of it being "them" waiting for me
