#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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I think we can use that strategy to selectively target the DOW thirty. To either recycle their businesses spots to more responsive organizations for force down their price for hostile take over and conversion to full employee ownership.
No one should be investing in the mid cap and large cap stocks because its useless to invest in a market with a thousand overlapping mutual funds that shower down money on non responsiveness. I could see indexes for small cap firms but its a total pork of obscene proportions to allow this level of subsidy for this who do not need it and should not have it.
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I think we can use that strategy to selectively target the DOW thirty. To either recycle their businesses spots to more responsive organizations for force down their price for hostile take over and conversion to full employee ownership.
No one should be investing in the mid cap and large cap stocks because its useless to invest in a market with a thousand overlapping mutual funds that shower down money on non responsiveness. I could see indexes for small cap firms but its a total pork of obscene proportions to allow this level of subsidy for this who do not need it and should not have it.
premjipremji
Is it practically possible to plunder Capitalism?
What if the “Collective intelligence” can create any product cheaper and better than that of any Corporate? What if the masses can produce them through production houses formed by cooperative movement? What if a large supply chain, controlled by the “collective intelligence” practicing “Diminishing Capitalism”, can supply them through a cluster of distribution houses owned by cooperatives? What if they can effectively avoid all sorts of advertisements? What if any individual can utilize this supply chain to sell his products? What if the buyer and seller are equally benefited by getting away from Corporate greed? What if the ethical profit of this supply chain can be utilized to improve the basic needs of humanity? What if we can create a safe and secure new world based on sharing and caring philosophy?
We can plunder every corporate in th world. See, we are so organized now. If we use our creative intelligence, sure we can do that. There is a simple plan for that. Can I share that with you all?
It's time to act...We should bring out our products... WILL YOU GIVE ME AN OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT A SIMPLE PLAN TO PLUNDER EVERY CORPORATE IN THE WORLD?.
premjipremji
Is it practically possible to plunder Capitalism?
What if the “Collective intelligence” can create any product cheaper and better than that of any Corporate? What if the masses can produce them through production houses formed by cooperative movement? What if a large supply chain, controlled by the “collective intelligence” practicing “Diminishing Capitalism”, can supply them through a cluster of distribution houses owned by cooperatives? What if they can effectively avoid all sorts of advertisements? What if any individual can utilize this supply chain to sell his products? What if the buyer and seller are equally benefited by getting away from Corporate greed? What if the ethical profit of this supply chain can be utilized to improve the basic needs of humanity? What if we can create a safe and secure new world based on sharing and caring philosophy?
We can plunder every corporate in th world. See, we are so organized now. If we use our creative intelligence, sure we can do that. There is a simple plan for that. Can I share that with you all?
It's time to act...We should bring out our products... WILL YOU GIVE ME AN OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT A SIMPLE PLAN TO PLUNDER EVERY CORPORATE IN THE WORLD?.
Anonymous
Think about a business that gives away all of its products... for free. Think about all businesses giving away their products for free. Okay, at first glance this seems silly to most people.
Imagine you start an olive oil business and give away your products locally, in person. You charge whatever people think is fair, because people are programmed to reciprocate and can hardly stand being in debt to another. If someone can't pay you, right then, who cares? You still have their goodwill. The most productive for his fellow man will be the most powerful, will get the most votes, etc. And no corporation can compete with free.
Or can they? Perhaps corporations in the future will pay you to use their products, if the biggest corporation can control everything, including people's lives. Then, why wouldn't they pay you for total control? Would you take that bargain?
Think about it.
Anonymous
Think about a business that gives away all of its products... for free. Think about all businesses giving away their products for free. Okay, at first glance this seems silly to most people.
Imagine you start an olive oil business and give away your products locally, in person. You charge whatever people think is fair, because people are programmed to reciprocate and can hardly stand being in debt to another. If someone can't pay you, right then, who cares? You still have their goodwill. The most productive for his fellow man will be the most powerful, will get the most votes, etc. And no corporation can compete with free.
Or can they? Perhaps corporations in the future will pay you to use their products, if the biggest corporation can control everything, including people's lives. Then, why wouldn't they pay you for total control? Would you take that bargain?
Think about it.
Anonymous
People already have taken that bargain. Some of us work for minimum wage and struggle to make enough MONEY to afford a better life. If that's not the case, we most likely work at well paying jobs and struggle to make enough TIME to afford a more fulfilling life.
Like it or not, we're like junkies. Working for the very people who are selling us our next high. You know. That hand bag or 70 inch led tv screen. It's the equivalent of a drug dealer using his own products.
Anonymous
People already have taken that bargain. Some of us work for minimum wage and struggle to make enough MONEY to afford a better life. If that's not the case, we most likely work at well paying jobs and struggle to make enough TIME to afford a more fulfilling life.
Like it or not, we're like junkies. Working for the very people who are selling us our next high. You know. That hand bag or 70 inch led tv screen. It's the equivalent of a drug dealer using his own products.
cats.are.wonderful
I'll start by saying that I've worked hard over decades, not to make a "better life" but to learn to live well with what I earn and what I have. I don't feel (and never did feel the need) for an IPhone, an IPad, any designer or corporate-logo products even when even when I was still a kid in Jr High School. What I've learned over the decades is that the problem is as much us as it is the corporations. If we're ever going to change the system we must begin by changing ourselves, learn new ways of thinking through which we can learn and adapt ways which will allow us to live well, live happily, without the need of pretentious, ostentatious consumerist attitudes which, by their nature, compel us to buy those things which, in the eyes of average America, are "cool" and through the purchase of which would make us look cool in the eyes of others. So what if I don't have the latest designer clothes? So what if I'm not wearing Nikes or Adidas? So what if Armani doesn't appeal to me? That doesn't matter to me and, in a better America it wouldn't matter to anyone else, either! If true and sweeping change is to take place not only in America but in the rest of the world then it begins with us, by our own decisions, by our own choices, by the lives we choose to live for ourselves, for those around us and for those we love. It's only by becoming and being in ourselves what we want the world around us to be can we change the world by being the very example of what it could be.
cats.are.wonderful
I'll start by saying that I've worked hard over decades, not to make a "better life" but to learn to live well with what I earn and what I have. I don't feel (and never did feel the need) for an IPhone, an IPad, any designer or corporate-logo products even when even when I was still a kid in Jr High School. What I've learned over the decades is that the problem is as much us as it is the corporations. If we're ever going to change the system we must begin by changing ourselves, learn new ways of thinking through which we can learn and adapt ways which will allow us to live well, live happily, without the need of pretentious, ostentatious consumerist attitudes which, by their nature, compel us to buy those things which, in the eyes of average America, are "cool" and through the purchase of which would make us look cool in the eyes of others. So what if I don't have the latest designer clothes? So what if I'm not wearing Nikes or Adidas? So what if Armani doesn't appeal to me? That doesn't matter to me and, in a better America it wouldn't matter to anyone else, either! If true and sweeping change is to take place not only in America but in the rest of the world then it begins with us, by our own decisions, by our own choices, by the lives we choose to live for ourselves, for those around us and for those we love. It's only by becoming and being in ourselves what we want the world around us to be can we change the world by being the very example of what it could be.
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