#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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BM
VERY CONVINCING POINT! OMG ARE YOU AN ENGLISH PROFESSOR?
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VERY CONVINCING POINT! OMG ARE YOU AN ENGLISH PROFESSOR?
Anonymous
The purpose of the previous comment was not to compare testicle size (it was a figure of speech). It is way too easy to run your mouth online, everyone is a brilliant critic when sitting on your ass doing nothing. Try standing up to Corrupt Government overrun by corporate interests.
Occupation has just begun and people are only starting to wake up, you have seen nothing yet.
Anonymous
The purpose of the previous comment was not to compare testicle size (it was a figure of speech). It is way too easy to run your mouth online, everyone is a brilliant critic when sitting on your ass doing nothing. Try standing up to Corrupt Government overrun by corporate interests.
Occupation has just begun and people are only starting to wake up, you have seen nothing yet.
Anonymous
This movement is about the 99%, don't be fooled by the media. We are everyone and anyone that has ever been targeted and oppressed by coporations pushing their products on us. We grew up being told that we had to have this or that, that we had to spend money to be someboy, that we had to go to a college. So we borrowed, borrowed, borrowed, and believed it all, only to be shut down by the coporate fat cats. Funny things about fat cats, they aren't cute and little kids doin't like them.
Anonymous
This movement is about the 99%, don't be fooled by the media. We are everyone and anyone that has ever been targeted and oppressed by coporations pushing their products on us. We grew up being told that we had to have this or that, that we had to spend money to be someboy, that we had to go to a college. So we borrowed, borrowed, borrowed, and believed it all, only to be shut down by the coporate fat cats. Funny things about fat cats, they aren't cute and little kids doin't like them.
Anonymous
RIght...it was all some evil plan cooked up by "fat cats" to control what you were told from birth...just so they could shut you down. Right...that must have been it.
Anonymous
RIght...it was all some evil plan cooked up by "fat cats" to control what you were told from birth...just so they could shut you down. Right...that must have been it.
Anonymous
if you don't think the fat cats cooked up a plan, your are the one who had your brain fried, the fat cats do nothing but cook up plans, welcome to the OWS movement, please buckle your seat belt and hang on!!! WE ARE THE 99%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Anonymous
if you don't think the fat cats cooked up a plan, your are the one who had your brain fried, the fat cats do nothing but cook up plans, welcome to the OWS movement, please buckle your seat belt and hang on!!! WE ARE THE 99%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
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