Monday, 16 November 2009
Buy Nothing Day morphs into a Wildcat General Strike on November 27
We are glad to repost this notice from the Adbusters email list:
There is only one way to avoid the collapse of this human experiment of ours on Planet Earth: we have to consume less. So this November 27 (November 28 in Europe and overseas), we’re calling for a Wildcat General Strike.
We’re asking tens of millions of people around the world to bring the capitalist consumption machine to a grinding – if only momentary – halt. We want you to shut off your lights, televisions and other nonessential appliances. We want you to park your car, turn off your phones and log off of your computer for the day. We’re calling for a Ramadan-like fast. From sunrise to sunset we’ll abstain en masse – not only from holiday shopping, but from all the temptations of our five-planet lifestyles.
...To learn more and to get involved, visit the Buy Nothing Day web page.
There is only one way to avoid the collapse of this human experiment of ours on Planet Earth: we have to consume less. So this November 27 (November 28 in Europe and overseas), we’re calling for a Wildcat General Strike.
We’re asking tens of millions of people around the world to bring the capitalist consumption machine to a grinding – if only momentary – halt. We want you to shut off your lights, televisions and other nonessential appliances. We want you to park your car, turn off your phones and log off of your computer for the day. We’re calling for a Ramadan-like fast. From sunrise to sunset we’ll abstain en masse – not only from holiday shopping, but from all the temptations of our five-planet lifestyles.
...To learn more and to get involved, visit the Buy Nothing Day web page.
Labels: Buy Nothing Day
Sunday, 26 November 2006
International Buy Nothing Day
Hi Supporters and Shoppers!
As is our tradition, in support of International Buy Nothing Day  weare closing our HelloCoolWorld.com online store on November 24, 2006 andwill reopen late in the day on November 25. Since Adbusters put it sowell in the Blackspot Newsletter that we just received, we decided toinclude their missive in this email to all of you.
Enjoy Buy Nothing Day!
XO Kat for the grassroots teams of HelloCoolWorld.com
(COMING SOON: the revamped theCorporation.com 2.0 site, and the Campaign4 Corporate Harm Reduction. Did the film inspire you to take action?Tell us what you did: info@HelloCoolWorld.com)
And now a message from:
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WWW.ADBUSTERS.ORG
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Dear Blackspotters,
As we toil to make the Blackspot venture bear fruit, we think it's agood strategy to occasionally pause and take stock of all of the idealsthat motivated all of this effort in the first place. That's why we hopeyou'll join us this Friday or Saturday (November 24th and 25th) incelebrating the 14th annual Buy Nothing Day.
This year's Buy Nothing Day has a special poignancy. Never before haveour emerging environmental crises been planted so firmly on the lips ofthe policymakers and the general public. Rather than screaming from thefringes, high-profile economists and scientists are sounding thewarnings in respected journals and the halls of parliament -- warningsthat our oceans are dying, that the ice shelves are melting, and that weare setting ourselves up for the most massive and widest-ranging marketfailure the world has ever seen.
All of this points to a profound need for a shift in the way we seethings. Recycling, protecting our waterways, driving hybrid cars -- allthe old environmental imperatives -- are great, but it's becomingobvious that they don't address the core problem: we have to change ourlifestyles, we have to change our culture, and we have to consumesmarter and consume less.
This is the message of this year's Buy Nothing Day, and there are only afew days left to get that message out onto the streets. From the quietlysublime to the crazily anarchic, the ways in which you can mark BND areonly limited by the imperative not to spend. Strut your stuff as if thefate of whole planet is resting in your hands, because even if each ofus only does one small thing to contribute, tens of thousands of smallthings sure add up!
At the BND campaign headquarters - that's http://webmail.web.ca/hwebmail/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adbusters.org%2Fbnd -we've already featured upcoming actions in Japan, the UK, Canada, andthe USA, with more to come from all over the world, including Brazil,Colombia, Denmark, Hungary, Spain and Sweden. You can also downloadposters and other resources, as well as connect with activists in yourown little corner of the globe.
Remember: Make a scene. Make people laugh. Make them think. If you haveto, make them angry. Just get out there.
Cheers,
THE BLACKSPOT TEAM
P.S. Blackspot Shoe sales - as well as the entire Adbusters Culture Shop - will be disabled for the entirety of Buy Nothing Day.
Good Company Communications Inc.
308-611 Alexander, Vancouver, BC
V6A 1E1 Canada
Hi Supporters and Shoppers!
As is our tradition, in support of International Buy Nothing Day  weare closing our HelloCoolWorld.com online store on November 24, 2006 andwill reopen late in the day on November 25. Since Adbusters put it sowell in the Blackspot Newsletter that we just received, we decided toinclude their missive in this email to all of you.
Enjoy Buy Nothing Day!
XO Kat for the grassroots teams of HelloCoolWorld.com
(COMING SOON: the revamped theCorporation.com 2.0 site, and the Campaign4 Corporate Harm Reduction. Did the film inspire you to take action?Tell us what you did: info@HelloCoolWorld.com)
And now a message from:
------------------------------------
WWW.ADBUSTERS.ORG
------------------------------------
Dear Blackspotters,
As we toil to make the Blackspot venture bear fruit, we think it's agood strategy to occasionally pause and take stock of all of the idealsthat motivated all of this effort in the first place. That's why we hopeyou'll join us this Friday or Saturday (November 24th and 25th) incelebrating the 14th annual Buy Nothing Day.
This year's Buy Nothing Day has a special poignancy. Never before haveour emerging environmental crises been planted so firmly on the lips ofthe policymakers and the general public. Rather than screaming from thefringes, high-profile economists and scientists are sounding thewarnings in respected journals and the halls of parliament -- warningsthat our oceans are dying, that the ice shelves are melting, and that weare setting ourselves up for the most massive and widest-ranging marketfailure the world has ever seen.
All of this points to a profound need for a shift in the way we seethings. Recycling, protecting our waterways, driving hybrid cars -- allthe old environmental imperatives -- are great, but it's becomingobvious that they don't address the core problem: we have to change ourlifestyles, we have to change our culture, and we have to consumesmarter and consume less.
This is the message of this year's Buy Nothing Day, and there are only afew days left to get that message out onto the streets. From the quietlysublime to the crazily anarchic, the ways in which you can mark BND areonly limited by the imperative not to spend. Strut your stuff as if thefate of whole planet is resting in your hands, because even if each ofus only does one small thing to contribute, tens of thousands of smallthings sure add up!
At the BND campaign headquarters - that's http://webmail.web.ca/hwebmail/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adbusters.org%2Fbnd -we've already featured upcoming actions in Japan, the UK, Canada, andthe USA, with more to come from all over the world, including Brazil,Colombia, Denmark, Hungary, Spain and Sweden. You can also downloadposters and other resources, as well as connect with activists in yourown little corner of the globe.
Remember: Make a scene. Make people laugh. Make them think. If you haveto, make them angry. Just get out there.
Cheers,
THE BLACKSPOT TEAM
P.S. Blackspot Shoe sales - as well as the entire Adbusters Culture Shop - will be disabled for the entirety of Buy Nothing Day.
Good Company Communications Inc.
308-611 Alexander, Vancouver, BC
V6A 1E1 Canada
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