#OCCUPYXMAS kicks off Nov 25/26
Hey dreamers, occupiers, rabble-rousers,
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.
Historically, Buy Nothing Day has been about fasting from hyper consumerism – a break from the cash register and reflecting on how dependent we really are on conspicuous consumption. On this 20th anniversary of Buy Nothing Day, we take it to the next level, marrying it with the message of #occupy…
We #OCCUPYXMAS.
Shenanigans begin November 25!
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ
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Anonymous
It's your total lack of any historical perspective or imagination which I find chilling, shallow, and mildly repulsive.
Anonymous
It's your total lack of any historical perspective or imagination which I find chilling, shallow, and mildly repulsive.
Anonymous
Let me know what kind of drugs you are using to avoid such kind of brain.....
Anonymous
Let me know what kind of drugs you are using to avoid such kind of brain.....
Anonymous
I'm sorry, you have me all wrong.
I only use 100% homemade, wood carved electronics. And I send my digital signals through Morris Code via a satellite wooden box set up. Check it out...
http://www.419eater.com/images/akinkwu16.jpg
http://www.google.ca/imgres?q=computer+screen+wood+carving&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=RYv&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1275&bih=624&tbm=isch&tbnid=r3FyUzoS2eQ_1M:&imgrefurl=http://m.eb.com/assembly/50966&docid=Wcw7J-pDky8ahM&imgurl=http://media.web.britannica.com/eb-media/44/27144-004-822DD3F9.jpg&w=470&h=300&ei=mhfNTqvVG8Py0gHtg4hM&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=671&vpy=222&dur=3127&hovh=179&hovw=281&tx=96&ty=200&sig=113654389720196215900&page=8&tbnh=121&tbnw=169&start=149&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:19,s:149
As for you, I'm sure I've got your type nailed to the T.... You're probably someone who can derive much joy, humor and satisfaction from watching some poor shoeless Kenyan kid run a marathon while throwing cheesy puffs at Starvin Marvin. That's a sport to you.... don't lie. You twisted d!ckwad.
Anonymous
I'm sorry, you have me all wrong.
I only use 100% homemade, wood carved electronics. And I send my digital signals through Morris Code via a satellite wooden box set up. Check it out...
http://www.419eater.com/images/akinkwu16.jpg
http://www.google.ca/imgres?q=computer+screen+wood+carving&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=RYv&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1275&bih=624&tbm=isch&tbnid=r3FyUzoS2eQ_1M:&imgrefurl=http://m.eb.com/assembly/50966&docid=Wcw7J-pDky8ahM&imgurl=http://media.web.britannica.com/eb-media/44/27144-004-822DD3F9.jpg&w=470&h=300&ei=mhfNTqvVG8Py0gHtg4hM&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=671&vpy=222&dur=3127&hovh=179&hovw=281&tx=96&ty=200&sig=113654389720196215900&page=8&tbnh=121&tbnw=169&start=149&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:19,s:149
As for you, I'm sure I've got your type nailed to the T.... You're probably someone who can derive much joy, humor and satisfaction from watching some poor shoeless Kenyan kid run a marathon while throwing cheesy puffs at Starvin Marvin. That's a sport to you.... don't lie. You twisted d!ckwad.
Anonymous
Nobody is saying that individuals should not work hard, be thankful for what they have, and take responsibility for themselves.
The message of Adbusters is that all the shit around you which you are taking for granted actually control's people's lives. Where do you think the parts which made my computer came from? It's not like awareness alone is going to fix the problem. So now I know somebody was exploited to make a product I enjoy. Great, world fixed.
But how about if this knowledge actually affected not just people's buying decisions, but also their living decisions?
As for the message of Occupy, which is significantly different from the message of Adbusters, it is NOT that people should not work hard and take responsibility for themselves and that they shouldn't be thankful for what they have.
You want to work hard? GO OCCUPY. Try to cook for 60 people day after day. Try to keep a city of tents secure against wind, snow and rain. And people are very thankful that the work they are putting into it has allowed for activists (such as Adbusters) to get their message out to more people than ever, and their message is this:
It doesn't matter if you work hard in America, you will still be shafted as long as banks and big businesses are allowed to control the political climate and economic regulation.
But believe me. We are not whining. You are whining. What you are doing is the definition of whining. We are doing something about it. It's your own fault if you can't figure out what those somethings are. For one, many recently homeless people now have a huge support structure available to them. That alone is huge! Two is that people involved in the occupation are WAKING THE FUCK UP and realizing that there are resources and food all around them! Much of Occupy Olympia's food comes from excess gleaned from local farms and businesses, and guess what? Some people there who maybe lived on hamburgers and corn oil / corn syrup products because they couldn't afford real food are now eating better than they ever have in their lives, all because people simply started communicating with each other and realized that they could afford to feed each other better.
OK I'll stop. This is getting lengthy. But seriously, shut up
Anonymous
Nobody is saying that individuals should not work hard, be thankful for what they have, and take responsibility for themselves.
The message of Adbusters is that all the shit around you which you are taking for granted actually control's people's lives. Where do you think the parts which made my computer came from? It's not like awareness alone is going to fix the problem. So now I know somebody was exploited to make a product I enjoy. Great, world fixed.
But how about if this knowledge actually affected not just people's buying decisions, but also their living decisions?
As for the message of Occupy, which is significantly different from the message of Adbusters, it is NOT that people should not work hard and take responsibility for themselves and that they shouldn't be thankful for what they have.
You want to work hard? GO OCCUPY. Try to cook for 60 people day after day. Try to keep a city of tents secure against wind, snow and rain. And people are very thankful that the work they are putting into it has allowed for activists (such as Adbusters) to get their message out to more people than ever, and their message is this:
It doesn't matter if you work hard in America, you will still be shafted as long as banks and big businesses are allowed to control the political climate and economic regulation.
But believe me. We are not whining. You are whining. What you are doing is the definition of whining. We are doing something about it. It's your own fault if you can't figure out what those somethings are. For one, many recently homeless people now have a huge support structure available to them. That alone is huge! Two is that people involved in the occupation are WAKING THE FUCK UP and realizing that there are resources and food all around them! Much of Occupy Olympia's food comes from excess gleaned from local farms and businesses, and guess what? Some people there who maybe lived on hamburgers and corn oil / corn syrup products because they couldn't afford real food are now eating better than they ever have in their lives, all because people simply started communicating with each other and realized that they could afford to feed each other better.
OK I'll stop. This is getting lengthy. But seriously, shut up
Anonymous
Not to put Ad Busters down, they are great... and the Occupyxmas 24 hour ban on purchasing is a way to bring the message to the other 98% who are shopping(and it seems like fun.) But just avoiding shopping for 24 hours WILL HAVE NO EFFECT. However, if we take just one product , such as Apple Jacks that is roughly 40%-50% sugar (depending on where you get your information) and everyone of the 99% bans that product. Something will change. It will be a start. It will illustrate that we (THE 99%) HAVE THE POWER.
Anonymous
Not to put Ad Busters down, they are great... and the Occupyxmas 24 hour ban on purchasing is a way to bring the message to the other 98% who are shopping(and it seems like fun.) But just avoiding shopping for 24 hours WILL HAVE NO EFFECT. However, if we take just one product , such as Apple Jacks that is roughly 40%-50% sugar (depending on where you get your information) and everyone of the 99% bans that product. Something will change. It will be a start. It will illustrate that we (THE 99%) HAVE THE POWER.
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