[Imc-cymru] Buy nothing day - feature proposal

[cactus at zetnet.co.uk]

Hello all

A bit late - but... here is a feature proposal for BND rounding up all the
stories in the newswire - anyone want to add 
or change please feel free - i'll put up tomorrow
For London and UK.

cheers tony

I have put it in features - but without 'publish' ticked - hoping that
means i can just tick later...
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Buy Nothing Day 2006

First suggested by a canadian artist Ted Dave in the early 90's<a
href="http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/">Buy 
Nothing Day</a>, has become an annual global event. Using Direct action or
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Culture_jamming">Culture Jamming</a> activists use this day to focus
on consumerism and all its issues. This 
year' on 25th November, the <a href="">Space Hijackers</a> decided to
resurect one of their favourite projects. <a 
href="http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/11/357234.html">The Half Price
Sale.</a>
</p>
<p>
Rhythms of Resistance, Aliens, singers and their lovely friends took over
the city centre in Manchester for a colourful 
celebration and a <a
href="http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/11/356980.html">Free Market</a> to
promote re-
using items rather than binning and re-buying. Members of Redditch Friends
of the Earth held a <a href="http://
indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/11/357082.html">Free Shop</a> & leaflet stall in
Redditch Town Centre, to highlight 
the environmental & ethical consequences of consumerism, and also to
encourage people to live more and work/
spend less!!
</p>
<p>
The Rev. E. Littlehelps, Lord High Purchaser of the Cult of Consumerism,
explains in <a href="http://
indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/11/357169.html">his own words</a> what happened
when a group of activists 
pretending to be corporation-worshippers descended on Oxford City Centre.
</p>
<p>
On Friday, six members of <a
href="http://www.myspace.com/bathactivistnetwork">Bath Activist Network</a> 
visited some of the biggest, badest chain stores in <a
href="http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/11/
356930.html">Bath</a> and hid anti-consumerist letters in books/items of
clothing/crappy Xmas tack.
</p>
<p>
Elsewhere: <a href="http://dearbono.org/2006/11/01/dear-bono">Reverend
Billy</a> lays into <a href="http://
indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/11/356800.html">Bono</a> | People remember <a
href="">Steal Something Day</a> 
six years ago | <a
href="http://adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/view.php?id=329">Adbusters</a> do
a round up on 
global reports and others <a
href="http://indymedia.org.uk/media/2006/11//356812.pdf">critique their
politics</
a>, and some background on <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day">Wikipedia</a>.





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