“Buy Nothing Day?” Oh, Here’s The Notice, Stuck Between The Best Buy Flyer And The Perfume Sample
Always classy lefty protesters were supposed to celebrate “Buy Nothing Day” on Friday by
going to their one-stop anti-globalization center, Wal-Mart, and
- filling up shopping carts with merchandise, then abandoning them;
- wasting employee’s time;
- clogging checkout lines;
- and urinating on the floors of the bathrooms.
Of course, in the Bay Area, the protest professionals came out:
In Emeryville, the Shellmound Peace Walk ended at 7:00am at the Bay Street Mall. In the North Bay, the People’s Revolutionary Organization hostied a full day of direct action at a variety of shopping centers starting 9am at Kohl’s in Petaluma. In San Jose, the Buy Nothing Day Bike Party gathered at 5:30pm. A Fur-Free Friday march and leafletting event started at 11:30am in the center of Union Square in San Francisco.
Yes, the highly targeted “Buy No Fur on November 25″ movement. Other events somehow involved “the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine.”
Did it work? Not according to holiday weekend sales figures. But one of the sponsor sites, Adbusters.org, saluted itself anyway:
“On Friday, millions of people across North America did not participate — in the doomsday economy, marketing mind-games, and the frantic consumer-binge that’s subsumed our culture.”
By that definition, I participated — or, did not participate? — by accident. I’ll have to make up for it tomorrow.
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H/t: Indy Media Watch
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