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From: Sean Fenley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: (en) steal something day
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 03:16:22 -0500 (EST)
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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' intellegentsia 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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