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Friday, November 24, 2000 (Buy Nothing Day)

Australia: Great response!

(By
Stuart Downs)
Cairns Australia - This morning we had a stall in the public mall in Cairns. We had a large banner, info. stall, face-painting, a rest area with cold water available. Cairns is very HOT at this time of year.

We also had several people in costumes including Santa Claus. We were distributing leaflets about Buy Nothing Day.

We got a great response from the public. Over 70% were supportive of the idea. The local council put a stop to things when they wanted the banner taken down and us to stop handing out leaflets. They were getting complaints from the shopkeepers around the mall.

We've still got one action left today. We're heading to a large commercial shopping mall to do street theatre and hand out leaflets. We've informed the local media.

Oh, by the way, we were interviewed by two local T.V. stations and they got great coverage of costumes, banner and display.

Hope your Buy Nothing Day celebrations are going well.

Will send a full report later.

 

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