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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9Students involved in the global awareness society at NUI Maynooth are organizing action for Buy Nothing Day.
If you are interested in participating please come along to a meeting.
Mondays @ 6 in student union meeting rooms 3 & 4.
See You there ; )
to my knowledge nothing has really happened for buy nothing day here in ireland in a couple of years... there are so many threads you could pull at the consumerist weave: environmental, ethical, workers' issues; branding - our spaces, streets, lifestyles, minds... hard to know where to begin. where to focus.
think it'd be great to get something going, though. would be cool to link to the idea of simply "not buying", and put a pro-active twist on it: reclamation of space around the cities, towns, country in general that has been privatised and margined off specifically for consumer use.
something, anything, imaginative, interactive and interesting. thoughts?
how many of us even if we did a buy nothing day action or attended one, or put up some graffittti actually bought nothing that day?
how about we pledge to do so...
...idea=was over in London for the European Social forum and the Beyond the E.S.F. and heard that a group called THE LABORATORY OF INSURRECTIONARY IMAGINATION took over starbucks through musical chairs. That could be fun. It's important to organize legitimate targets though.
Banners are fun. Big 'uns. That get hung on key consumer centres in the city...?
not ambitious enough.. symbolism means little (other than to those doing the symbolising), why not a BND every week? or every other day? or 6 days a week??
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It thought that BND was the 26th in USA/Canada and the 27th in Europe. No harm in it being both days though.
http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/bndfaq.html
Everywhere I went on Thursday, I tried to mention in my conversations that the next day was Buy Nothing Day. And everywhere I went on Thanksgiving, nobody paid no nevermind to the tidbit of information.
People have the habit of going out on shopping sprees the day after Thanksgiving deeply ingrained in their minds. Give this 'event' about fifty years to achieve any real publicity at all.
After all, it's not as though it's going to go big time with just us participating- a lot of us who come here are too broke to go on a Christmas shopping spree.
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