Note this is an opportunity to hand out free Ubuntu disks, demonstrate Ubuntu and take other actions to promote Ubuntu and undermine consumerism. There is a farmers market which i may do this at tomorrow for example.
Drew On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:21 PM, nuboon2age <[email protected]> wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day > > http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104195596316003 > > "Buy Nothing Day is your special day to unshop, unspend and unwind. Relax > and do nothing for the economy and for yourself - at least for a single > day." > > http://www.buynothingday.org/ > > "A few people start breaking their old patterns, embracing what they love > (and in the process discovering what they hate), daydreaming, questioning, > rebelling. What happens naturally then, according to the revolutionary past, > is a groundswell of support for this new way of being, with more and more > people empowered to perform new gestures unencumbered by history. > > Think of it as an adventure, as therapy – a week of pieing and pranks, of > talking back at your profs and speaking truth to power. Some of us will put > up posters in our schools and neighborhoods and just break our daily > routines for a week. Others will chant, spark mayhem in big box stores and > provoke mass cognitive dissonance. Others still will engage in the most > visceral kind of civil disobedience. And on November 26 from sunrise to > sunset we will abstain en masse – not only from holiday shopping, but from > all the temptations of our five-planet lifestyles." > > http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd >
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