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by Marianne - UCD Global Action Wed, Nov 27 2002, 1:31pm
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What's the story with Buy Nothing Day? Been real busy but would love to know that there's something good planned so if someone would email me please and let me know I'd appreciate it. We're putting posters up around UCD but it's on a saturday and all, no-one will be here so no on-campus action. I'd be interested in doing another food not bombs, if anyone wants to help out giz a shout.
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by Poor person Wed, Nov 27 2002, 2:04pm
I always buy nothing because I never have the money to buy anything outside of the basics. Is Buy Nothing a way for people who have money to protest against other people who have money. Must be nice! Why can't it be 'Buy Something For A Poor Person Day' ?
leaflet & fun
by pat c Wed, Nov 27 2002, 2:44pm
Leafletting, Street theatre & other activities will take place in Temple Bar Square, Dublin from 1 pm on Saturday 30 November.
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by yb men rohtuw - -noitasingro Wed, Nov 27 2002, 2:51pm
address: sserdda phone: enohp :[email protected]
everything has been paid for.
don´t worry about a thing.
related link: knil detaler
buy something for a poor person day
by cuntstable brian stevens Wed, Nov 27 2002, 3:00pm
yes i feel we should buy something for a poor person day, i think it would make us rich people feel good. i like to make myself feel less guilty and also look good in public by buying something for horrible poor people. charitable good deeds enhance my outward social respectability and increases my social standing in the exclusive circle of chums I move in. I think a buy nothing day may affect profits and money going to my executive retailer chums and also multinational supermarket chains, so dont do it, instead think about buying a corporate christmas present for a miserable poor person. cheer em up and also make yourself look good.
do boycotts work?
by confused anti-capitalist Wed, Nov 27 2002, 3:46pm
What's the point in a consumer boycott unless it's a part of a wider campaign.
Earlier this year in Greece there was a "Buy Nothing Day". It was in protest against the Euro rip-off. This was somewhat successful as it had definite demands and it had mass support.
But boycotts are not a way of changing things. Why boycott McDonalds? Why not wear Nike? All goods produced are prodicts of capitalism, therefore products of produced exploiting labour.
If you really want to change things we should try to take over the means of production, ie take over the economy and run it in the interests of ordinary people.
"Buy Nothing Days" are a great way of protest, but it should be remembered that boycotts will not change the world.
Buy Nothing
by Me Wed, Nov 27 2002, 7:27pm
I dont see what everyones big problem with buy nothing day is. Like it or not Christmas is the most consumerist time of year and pretty much everyone (except poor person) is going to buy presents for someone who wont need whatever it is.
I think it's a great idea to try and get people to think about what they are doing. If you want to have a 'steal something day' or a 'buy something for a poor person day' at the same time, fine, but why try and put down something that only has the best intentions?
As for taking over the economy, I'd love to, I'd probably fuck it up but I'd do a better job than those spas, got a plan for this takeover? I'll join u...
This buy nothing day
by Poor person Wed, Nov 27 2002, 7:55pm
Is merely an exercise for those who have money to burn to feel like they are fighting the system. It's a middle class cop-out. But with the best intentions, of course.
Instead of buying christmas presents, give that money to charity instead and make that your gift for family and friends. Put your money where your mouth is instead of keeping it in your pocket for one symbolic day. Sure you're all going to go out and buy presents or trinkets or clothes or whatever the next day or the next or the next for what's the point?
"I feel good because one day out of 365 I bought nothing!" Welcome to my world.
there´s an article on wombles in London.
by Rt. Hon. J. Tweedle-dumb-hum - ah give us a break, i paid for the effing thing. Wed, Nov 27 2002, 9:41pm
and my [email protected]
they´re doing lots of things.
with inspiration from and dis-organised
co-operation peer group stuff from:
‘HISTORY IS WHAT WE’RE GIVEN WHEN WE’VE GOT NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE’
Other groups involved in the Global Day of Disobedience in solidarity with the Argentinean popular rebellion are:
DISOBBEDIENTI - ITALY
JNM - BELGIUM
YOMANGO - SPAIN (Barcelona)
BLACK REVOLUTION - SWITZERLAND
as well as actions in Jordan, Finland, US, Germany
you could easily adapt the flow for Dublin.
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could you easily adapt the flow for Dublin?
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bet you they could in Cork or Galway.
or Derry or Shannon or .....
but not limerick.
The Limerick Leader newspaper has dealt with that sort of thing.
related link: uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=47691&group=webcast
Ray will be selling 'Buy Nothing Today' badges at €4 each
by Boing Wed, Nov 27 2002, 9:54pm
Bring a shopping trolley for a walk on Saturday, do not dump in your local river as you'll need your 1 euro back at the end of the shopping day to have sucesssfully decommisioned a part of capitalism and not have spent 1 cent in the process.
Buy nothing day = Do something day.
Yeah it's do something day it's think and do something day and try n make other people think day. Dont sit at your computers and whinge about what it's not, coz it's whatever you make it - just like every other day.
And now that I've got that off my chest...
Food not bombs - free food - back in action, anyone who wants to bring along food please do so, It'll be like a big picnic, awww. Lots of food hopefully for random hungry/homeless punters not u smelly hippies, well maybe both.
Food supply has been of central importance to all revolutionary and evolutionary movements.
It is one the nice things about France that if one is hungry one can still opt for "exclusion from the judicial area" if caught stealing food to survive, with a "clap on the back" from a gendarme rather than face fine/caution/imprisonment.
This laws dates back to the French revolution.
It has since become common practise in areas of Argentina where repetitive offenders have been "removed" from certain areas for "appropriating food", the prisons now being overcrowded by the hungry.
something to think about.
Since the euro changeover, we've become the SECOND MOST EXPENSIVE COUNTRY IN EUROPE. Only Finland in more expensive. That's one good reason to join in. I think that the link to what happened in Greece ,the current (euro) merged with the general (critique of the worst excesses of consumer culture), needs to be made by the people who partake.