[Imc-uk-features] Buy nothing day - feature proposal

[Shiar]

Well it's been 3 days and no one has done it, so i just did :)

I've done some minor edits, added a few links and filled the missing ones,
and chose a pic from the Oxford action as no pic was proposed.

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Shiar

> 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...
> =========================
>
> 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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