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	Buy Nothing Day - Adbusters
		we take the commitment to buy nothing very seriously on that day, and as a show of support, are closed to ensure no one can buy anything from our company.
		People are still going to buy things, so why not encourage them to be more aware of where their money is going.
		Buy Nothing Christmas is not really about refusing to spend a dime over the holiday season.
	www.adbusters.org /metas/eco/bnd (984 words)

	Buy Nothing Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Buy Nothing Day is an informal day of protest against consumerism observed by social activists.
		In the United States and Canada, supporters demonstrate on the day after American Thanksgiving.
		This day, often called "Black Friday," is one of the busier shopping days of the year (though not in Canada, but the date remains there to synchronize events).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day (235 words)

	Black Friday (shopping) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, is historically one of the busiest retail shopping days of the year.
		Although Black Friday is typically the busiest shopping day of the year in terms of customer traffic, it is not typically the day with the highest sales volume.
		Anti-capitalist protestors have chosen this day as Buy Nothing Day in North America (though Canada has no equivalent event in its commercial cycle), where those concerned about the increasing power and influence of consumer corporations are urged to not make consumer purchases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping) (445 words)

	BUY NOTHING - Enough is enough!
		Buy Nothing Day is a day of cheerful and critical protest against Western overconsumption, the unequal worldwide distribution of well-being and wealth, and the influence of advertising on our daily lives.
		Buy Nothing Day is especially a day of protest by all of those who find that they have enough, and want to voice their opposition to the incessant trend towards 'always more.' Buy Nothing Day is particularly celebrated in countries that have a very high level of consumption.
		On Buy Nothing Day diverse countries and cities will host lively and eye-catching street actions, in which the shopping public will be asked to think about their own consumer behavior.
	www.koopniets.nl /buynothingday.htm (622 words)

	Buy Nothing Day Denmark
		Buy Nothing Day is the day where the consumers can stop to think about the daily over consume.
		Buy Nothing Day is organized internationally by the Canadian organization Adbusters – Media Foundation.
		In Denmark Buy Nothing Day is organized by the green consumer organisation Active Consumers (Danmarks Aktive Forbrugere) who seeks to raise debate and reflection on the possibilities we have to create a consumption, that is socially and environmentally sustainable.
	www.bnd.dk /english.htm (395 words)

	BUY NOTHING DAY - Saturday November 24th 2007
		To buy, or not to buy, that is the question.
		Buy Nothing Day highlights the environmental and ethical consequences of consumerism.
		For BND 2007 we want you to become these ZOMBIES and stalk the high street.
	www.buynothingday.co.uk (510 words)

	Buy Nothing Day - The CHUD.COM Message Boards
		I think the idea of having a particular day to do it is a bit silly and I would prefer a buy less life to a buy nothing day.
		Many of my days are "buy nothing days." Mostly because they are also, "my sorry ass is broke" days.
		I participated in Buy Nothing day, though I was forced to join my sisters as they bought something, which blew.
	www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?t=53729 (889 words)

	BUY NOTHING DAY
		The Buy Nothing Day campaign has sparked debate, radio talk shows, TV news items and newspaper headlines around the world.
		The ways in which people have marked the Buy Nothing Day events worldwide have been as diverse as the participants themselves.
		This year, the Buy Nothing Day in Germany, will be on Saturday, the 26th of November 2005.
	www.buynothingday.de /htm/english.htm (289 words)

	Buy Nothing Day
		Originating in Vancouver, Canada, Buy Nothing Day draws attention to the harmful effects of over-consumption by industrialised nations on the rest of the world.
		The International Buy Nothing Day is a day full of cheerful and peaceful actions and activities to confront the shopping audience in Western countries with the consequences of over- consumption and the influence of advertising on our daily lives.
		Buy Nothing Day will be celebrated in Australia, Belgium, Canada, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 of November.
	www.shoalhaven.net.au /inews/bushtele/nbt77/bynot.html (515 words)

	Buy Nothing Day (Site not responding. Last check: )
		That's the day when the stereotypical American consumer goes on a buying binge at the local shopping mall and mega-mart in order to get a head start on the Christmas buying season.
		BND is a day to do just the opposite.
		It's a day to rebel against gross consumerism, a day to avoid suburban traffic jams, and, of course, a day to further reflect on the plenty that we enjoy in this country and the price the world's environment and other people pay to support that plenty.
	missouri.sierraclub.org /SierranOnline/NovDec1999/BuyNothingDay.htm (377 words)

	Buy Nothing Day (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yesterday was the ninth annual Buy Nothing Day in Rhode Island.
		Buy Nothing Day is recognized by community and activist groups around the world.
		But many of the volunteers at Buy Nothing Day were people who came for coats and stayed to help.
	www.greens.org /rhode/NewFiles/BND.html (565 words)

	Buy Nothing Day boosts awareness - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Buy Nothing Day is an annual worldwide conscious-raising event in which participants declare a moratorium on buying -- on the biggest shopping day of the year.
		The Buy Nothing Day celebration was held in the Thistle Corridor, complete with a bartering table and free vegetarian chili.
		Also in 1997 both CBS and NBC refused to air Adbuster's 30 second advertising spot promoting Buy Nothing Day because it would be harmful to their business interests.
	www.brockpress.com /media/paper384/news/2002/12/03/News/Buy-Nothing.Day.Boosts.Awareness-335657.shtml (451 words)

	nothing.no _ buy nothing day _
		Buy Nothing Day exposes the environmental and ethical consequences of consumerism.
		The initiative for the Buy Nothing Day was taken in 1992, in Canada, by Ted Dave, who was working in the advertising world.
		THE 11,202,803 CHILDREN - who were born out of nothing during the 31 days of Mars 2002...
	www.nothing.no /featured_1102.htm (399 words)

	Buy Nothing Day this Friday - Lifehacker (Site not responding. Last check: )
		People who eat fast food not because they're "buying into consumer culture" or because "Americans are fat and lazy", but because they work 14 hours a day to make ends meet and would rather spend an extra hour with their family than cooking lentils.
		I'm sure the supporters of BND have their hearts in the right place, but buying nothing doesn't just affect the rich people who run the giant corporations; it affects those of us in the working class much more.
		Our buying patters, our city-building patterns, our dependence on the car, our expectation for an ultra-high standard of living (compared to the world as a whole)--all these factors (and a few more not mentioned) are eliminating the "middle class" and creating a poor, work-until-you die-class, and a middling-affluent work-until-you-die class.
	www.lifehacker.com /software/shopping/buy-nothing-day-this-friday-138699.php (2606 words)

	Buy Nothing Day (fwd)
		In the absence of running water during the day (water was turned on for a couple of hours each morning and night), we girls would scramble to fill every bucket in the bathroom with water for an emergency that was surely around the corner.
		Buy Nothing Day will be celebrated in Canada,the United States, England, Ireland, The Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand.
		Global action-day Buy Nothing Day is part of the worldwide anti-consumerism campaign, started in 1992 in Canada, as a more or less personal statement on consumerism, by Ted Dave.
	www.ibiblio.org /ecolandtech/agriculture/forums/sustainable-agriculture/msg02508.html (472 words)

	Buy Nothing Day--November 28
		Buy Nothing Day is the name given to the day after Thanksgiving.
		Buy Nothing day encourages you to resist by buying nothing on the biggest sale day of the year.
		If you must buy something...Earthbound is a not-for-profit corporation which builds partnerships with cooperatives and fair trade organizations worldwide to develop and promote products that are economically just and environmentally friendly.
	www.afn.org /~iguana/archives/1997_11/19971109.html (242 words)

	Wired News: You Better Shop Around -- Not!
		On Friday -- the day after American Thanksgiving and the biggest shopping day of the year -- and throughout the weekend, thousands of anti-consumerism activists worldwide will take to the malls to persuade shoppers not to shop.
		Spearheaded by Adbusters, the Canadian anti-consumerism oranization, Buy Nothing Day events are being organized by a wide variety of consumer groups, environmentalists, globalization protestors and, for the first time, faith-based groups.
		Buy Nothing Day appeals to environmentalists, anti-consumerism groups and churches, which have long decried the commercialization of the holidays.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,56489,00.html (783 words)

	Buy Nothing Day Japan - Why Do We Buy?
		Now that we have all we need, we buy for other reasons: to impress each other, to fill a void, to kill time.
		Buy Nothing Day is a simple idea: try not to shop for a day, and see how your view of our world changes.
		In 1992, Buy Nothing Day started in Canada, and quickly grew into a "non-consumption masrdi gras" celebrated in at least 35 countries.
	www.bndjapan.org /english2 (163 words)

	Buy Nothing Day (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Give it a try, and see how hard it really is. Buy Nothing Day is a "24 Hour Moratorium on Consumer Spending" that was started in 1992 to remind the public of the real power that they have over the consumption of goods.
		Buy Nothing Day always falls on the day following US Thanksgiving, which is typically the biggest shopping day of the year and the kickoff point of the Christmas consumption frenzy.
		This year's Buy Nothing Day was more heavily subscribed than ever before, with over 15 countries participating in the celebration.
	it.stlawu.edu /~advertiz/jamer/buy.html (254 words)

	Buy Nothing Day texts
		Observed on the day after US Thanksgiving –; America's busiest shopping day of the year – the campaign has sparked debate, radio talk shows, TV news items and newspaper headlines around the world.
		In America, Buy Nothing Day played out in some of the nation's last remaining public spaces – its malls.
		Buy Nothing Day just wouldn't be the same if the networks didn't reject our opt-not-to-shop TV uncommercial.
	www.developingteachers.com /tips/bnd_text.htm (904 words)

	Buy Nothing Day lesson plan
		A good start might be to hand out some of the messages from the forum about Buy Nothing Day on the Adbuster website - http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/debate/comments.html.
		The Buy Nothing Day campaign in Seattle distributed this checklist to let shoppers evaluate things they were thinking of buying.
		If the stds are enthusiastic about the Buy Nothing Day, they could storm different ways that they could take action.
	www.developingteachers.com /tips/bnd_plan.htm (1090 words)

	Buy Nothing Day - Adbusters
		BND events took place in over a dozen cities throughout Canada this year, including Vancouver, Montreal, Edmonton, Calgary, Halifax, and Toronto.
		Perhaps it was a coincidence, but on Buy Nothing Day, some days after being told that, 'no, he could not have a gameboy', my six-year-old decided to make his own.
		A strong supporter of Buy Nothing Day, Reverend Billy is bringing something special to the campaign this year with the November 21 release of the film, What Would Jesus Buy?, produced by Morgan Spurlock of Supersize Me fame.
	www.adbusters.org /metas/eco/bnd/view.php?id=338 (761 words)

	Danny Butt: Shop till you Drop – Buy Nothing Day – Nothing™
		The message read: ‘Separate yourself – buy nothing.’ Apart from reading like a clumsy attempt at selling a range of Generation–X cola, the sticker is a frank manifestation of the elitism and bourgeois individualism propping up much of the BND appeal.
		Another BND slogan, ‘Participate by not participating,’ smacks less vividly of privilege, but perhaps even more tightly defines the unholy alliance between ‘passive resistance’ and a drop–out sensibility which is symptomatic of people we all know with too much time on their hands.
		Buy Nothing Day itself seemed to be just too difficult for most people, even some of those sympathetic to the cause (such as the reviewer for Pilot Flyer, who absent–mindedly bought a Coke at work before lunchtime – Doh!) The impact of Nothing™ is harder to gauge.
	www.thepander.co.nz /culture/dbutt3.php (1815 words)

	Serious Editorial: Buy Nothing Day
		Buying nothing for 24 hours can be a tall order, and especially on The Most Wonderful Saturday Of the Year, but this ‘ere superpower could also benefit from a pronounced shift, or at least an honest attempt, to make it known that we’re willing to give the environment, our accountants, and ourselves a break.
		Buy Nothing Day is only a portion of a very good idea: calm without paying for it.
		Natural resources are not all that are devoured by our economy on days like Super Saturday, but the bombinating sounds of high-volume shopping nibble at smaller economies (stateside and international) and at the definition of liberty.
	www.enduringvision.com /archives/buy_nothing_day.htm (760 words)

	Buy Nothing Day 2004 - The Vegan Forum - a vegan message board
		Saturday November 27th 2004 is Buy Nothing Day (UK) where as consumers the aim is to have a simply living day and ditch shopping.
		Buy nothing day aims to expose the environmental and ethical consequences of consumerism.
		unfortunately 27th November is the day the Viva veggie roadshow is coming to Brighton, and although there is going to be lots of free stuff i may well find some things i need to buy there...
	www.veganforum.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1570 (428 words)

	BUY NOTHING DAY POSTERS + FLYERS - Thumped (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Buy Nothing Day (Saturday November 24th Dublin), is a simple idea, which challenges consumer culture by asking us to switch off from shopping for a day.
		BND is a global stand off from such desires - celebrated as a holiday by some, a street party by others - anyone can take part provided they spend a day without spending!
		Buy Nothing Day also exposes the environmental and ethical consequences of consumerism.
	www.thumped.com /bbs/showthread.php?t=923 (766 words)

	Alex Halavais » Buy Nothing Day tomorrow (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kara reminds me that it is once again that time of year to buy nothing.
		Knowing that Buy Nothing Day is so totally based on a day that means something only in the US, its attempt at being global seems rather silly.
		For most people it would be as difficult to spend a day not buying something as it would be to spend a day not watching TV.
	alex.halavais.net /news/index.php?p=951 (662 words)

	AlterNet: Buy Nothing Day (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It's Buy Nothing Day, an annual revolt against consumer culture.
		Buy nothing day falls every year on the day after Thanksgiving, the busiest shopping day of the year and the start of the annual Christmas shopping frenzy.
		Buy locally produced goods and services that employ your neighbors at living wages while having a minimal impact on the environment.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=11901 (1209 words)

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