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Celebrate
STEAL SOMETHING DAY
November 24, 2000
Participate by participating!
a shameless 24-hour stealing spree!
http://adbusters.tao.ca
For the past nine years, a few self-described "culture jammers" from
Adbusters Magazine have dubbed the last Friday in November "Buy
Nothing Day."
>From their stylish home base in Vancouver's upscale suburb of
Kitsilano, the Adbusters' brain trust has encouraged conscientious
citizens worldwide to "relish [their] power as a consumer to change
the economic environment." In their words, Buy Nothing Day "[p]roves
how empowering it is to step out of the consumption stream for even
a day."
The geniuses at Adbusters have managed to create the perfect
feel-good, liberal, middle-class activist non-happening. A day when
the more money you make, the more influence you have (like every
other day). A day which, by definition, is insulting to the millions
of people worldwide who are too poor or marginalized to be
considered "consumers."
It's supposed to be a 24-hour moratorium on spending, but ends up
being a moralistic false-debate about whether or not you should
really buy that loaf of bread today or ... wait for it ... tomorrow!
Well, this year, while the Adbusters cult enjoys yet another Buy
Nothing Day, accompanied by their fancy posters, stickers, TV and
radio advertisements and slick webpages, a few self-described
anarcho-situationists from Montreal's East End are inaugurating
Steal Something Day.
Unlike Buy Nothing Day, when people are asked to "participate by not
>participating," Steal Something Day demands that we "participate by
participating." Instead of downplaying or ignoring the capitalists,
CEOs, landlords, small business tyrants, bosses, PR hacks, yuppies,
media lapdogs, corporate bureaucrats, politicians and cops who are
primarily responsible for misery and exploitation in this world,
Steal Something Day demands that we steal from them, without
discrimination.
The Adbusters' intelligentsia tell us that they're neither "left nor
right," and have proclaimed a non-ideological crusade against
overconsumption. Steal Something Day, on the other hand, identifies
with the historic and contemporary resistance against the causes of
capitalist exploitation, not its symptoms. If you think
overconsumption is scary, wait until you hear about capitalism and
imperialism.
Unlike the misplaced Buy Nothing Day notion of consumer empowerment,
Steal Something Day promotes empowerment by urging us to
collectively identify the greedy bastards who are actually
responsible for promoting misery and boredom in this world. Instead
of ignoring them, Steal Something Day encourages us to make their
lives as uncomfortable as possible.
As we like to say in Montreal: dranger les riches dans leurs niches!
And remember, we're talking about stealing, not theft. Stealing is
just. Theft is exploitative. Stealing is when you take a yuppie's
BMW for a joyride, and crash into a parked Mercedes just for the
hell of it. Theft is when you take candy from a baby's mouth.
Stealing is the re-distribution of wealth from rich to poor Theft is
making profits at the expense of the disadvantaged and the natural
environment. Stealing is an unwritten a tax on the rich. Theft is
taxing the poor to subsidize the rich. Stealing is nothing more than
a tax on the rich. There is solidarity in stealing, but property is
nothing but theft.
So, don't pay for that corporate newspaper, but steal all of them
from the box. Get some friends together and go on a "shoplifting
"spree at the local chain supermarket or upscale mall. With an even
larger mob, get together and steal from the local chain book or
record store. Pilfer purses and wallets from easily identified
yuppies and business persons. Skip out on rent. Get a credit card
under a fake name and don't pay. Keep what you can use, and give
away everything else in the spirit of mutual aid that is the
hallmark of Steal Something Day.
Download our detourned poster <http://adbusters.tao.ca>, make copies
and stick it up wherever you can. And don't forget, send your
scamming and stealing tips to us at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
See you next Steal Something Day which, unlike Buy Nothing Day,
happens every day of the year.
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