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International Buy Nothing Day 2000| International Buy Nothing Day 2000 |
November 20, 2000
International contacts and activities in
America
Send corrections, additions and other news toBelow the list of BND-contacts inAmerica. There are also a lists for Europa and for the Rest of the World.
America
Argentina - Arizona - Arkansas - Brasil - California - Canada - Colorado - Maryland USA - Massachusetts - Minneapolis USA - New York - North Carolina, USA - North Dakota USA - Oregon USA - Panama - Philadelphia USA - Texas USA - Washington USAIs your country not in the list...? Why don't YOU take the initiative?! Send your details to
Also you can have a look at
http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/toolbox/contacts.html
for more contacts.ARGENTINA
Friday Nov. 24: Dia del compre nada
Contact: Alejo Estebecorena, Buenos Aires, Tel: (05411) 4857-6287.
e-mail:'We will make a new space for think, for designers, salesman and consumers. A day to interchange ideas and discuss.'
ARIZONA USA
Friday Nov. 24: 'Buy Nothing Day'
Contact for Fayetteville: Helene Cherrier, 65 Forsythia Drive # 10, Fayetteville, AR 72703, USA
Contact for Phoenix:
Telephone Number: 1-877-616-6500 ext. 393
Website: buynothing.8m.com
Egroup List: groups.yahoo.com/group/bnbrigade/In Phoenix, AZ, the Buy Nothing Brigade will be having autonomous actions at malls around the valley all day long and then that evening, we will convene at Tempe Beach Park (Mill Ave. & Rio Salado Parkway) to hold a rally and march.
I encourage anyone who has not contacted the Buy Nothing Brigade to do so soon and tap into the awesome group of people who have already assembled as the Buy Nothing Brigade. We've been having extremely effective non-hierarchical, democratic meetings and it's working wonderfully. Please contact us and Buy Nothing!ARKANSAS
Friday Nov. 24: 'Buy Nothing Day'
Contact: Lennie Dusek, Little Rock, Arkansas. E-mail:
Lennie Kat om Mon, 13 Nov 2000: "In Little Rock, Arkansas Buy Nothing Day will be celebrated by a 'trading station' in Allsopp Park. Folks will bring items they wish to trade, barter, swap, and haggle. Postcards are being mailed out to make Arkansans aware of the alternative to fighting crowded malls, hunting parking spaces, enduring long lines, and sitting in traffic.
I'm very excited that my event is getting press in 'The Economist' magazine (internationally distributed). The article will appear in the Nov. 20-26 issue.BRASIL
November 25: Dia do consumo zero
Pedro Inoue, Rua Simco `lvares 1001 casa 3, CEP 05417-030 Sco Paulo SP, Brasil
Phone - 55 11 3813 8166/ 55 11 9311 8446(Cel)
Pedro Inoue Tue, 14 Nov 2000:: "We will probably celebrate it on saturday, since friday everyone is working. I haven't figure out what it going to happen yet, but we still looking for ideas to make it happen. We could hand out a flyer telling people what is the definition of consume. From the etmological dictionary - it comes from latin cosiume (i guess it writes this way):
consume - to spend untill destruction.
Where are we all going?"would like very much to receive information how he can do something to fortfy BND! Contact: Evandro Vieira Ouriques,
Rua Barco de Itapagipe, 385, Bloco 1 Apto. 801, Tijuca
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil 20.261-005
Phone number: 55.21.234.5894,CALIFORNIA
November 24: Buy Nothing Day
Mass Direct Action planned in San Francisco: look for involved activities at Union Square in the city. On BART & MUNI trains will be sreet theatre as well as invisible theatre. We have a series of workshops and teachins geared toward educating ourselves of Buying Nothing for a Day, and direct action techniques
Contact: Samir Bitar - phone for information 415.582.8661 - Email
Los Angeles - Clark Scheffy is looking for other people to work with. Contact him!''
E-mail:Contact for Berkely:Steve Green
E-mail:Steve Green on Mon, 13 Nov 2000 Generally folks like me go out and cause a rukus, with the idea in mind we're trying to change people's minds, not piss people off. Although we do that too, which is fun.
CANADA
Friday, November 24th: 'Buy Nothing Day' / 'Journie Sans Achats'
Theme for 2000 is "First World Denial"
General contact: Adbusters (Campaign manager: Tom Liacas), 1243 West 7th Ave Vancouver BC Canada V6H 1B7. p. 604.736.9401 f. 604.737.6021 email: Web: http://www.adbusters.org
Tom Liacas on Tue, 12 Sep 2000: "Direct actions will reclaim the main shopping strip as we did last year. Culture Jammers plan special actions this year which will target the average shopper. Adbusters Media Foundation wil make full use of its resources to promote Buy Nothing Day in North America and abroad. Television "uncommercials" and radio spots will air, billboards will be purchased and posters will hit our city streets. Join other organizers on our International Contacts List: http://adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/toolbox/contacts.jhtml
Contact for Calgary: Richard Norman E-mail:
The day before Buy Nothing Day there will be a 'blind-consumer sheep line' in Calgary. A long string of people, all dressed similarly in black, with upc codes pinned to their backs, are blinded and will be led by Mr. and Ms. Corparate.
On Friday 24, Biy Nothing Day, we will be dragging the load of overconsumption by:
attaching ball and chain loonies to our legs wearing T-shirts with a BND message on it (if you have an old shirt you don't mind writing on and snazzin' up for the event) wearing the sunglasses with the corporate blinders pushing people around in the limp shopping carts like on the BND posters (hard to really explain until you've seen the poster or go to www.adbusters.org)
Contact for Harvey, New Brunswick: Nathan and Rachel Braun, 30 Marys Point Road, Albert County, Harvey, New Brunswick, CANADA E4H 2N1. Tel. 506 882 1012. Fax 506 882 1013 E-mail or
Contact for Guelph (Ontario, Canada): John Seguin. E-mail:
John Seguin on Tue, 19 Sep 2000: "However, I wasn't very active last year, and I don't know how active I'll be this year. There will be some demos & public education, like last year. I'm far to busy to have anything inspirational to say. (Unfortunately)"
Contact for Montrial: Marie-Pierre Leduc, 3600 Ste-Famille st, Montrial (Quibec) Canada H2X 2L4
Tel.: (514)218-1080 - page
E-Mail:Marie-Pierre Leduc on Mon, 13 Nov 2000: "Planned activities:
Greetings from Montrial! It's good to know we're not alone!"
- Get the word out as much as possible (give people some insight on BND, ex.: overconsumption = natural resources exhaustion, pollution, exploitation of 3rd world countries, etc. BND can be seen as an occasion to reflect on our consumption habits)
- Put out some posters, hand out some flyers (with my friends and people on adbusters contact list) in shopping malls, schools, etc. PRIOR TO NOVEMBER 24, so that people can choose not to buy anything on time.
- Get in touch with local TV, radio stations and papers.
Contact for New Brunswick: Jon Cleveland, Mount Allison University
E-mail:Jon Cleveland on Mon, 13 Nov 2000: We are going to the mall to do street theatre and to hand out flyers. we are also doing street drawing and making signs out of recycled cardboard for anti-advertising. Trying to kill capitalism one purchase at a time."
Contyact for Vancoover: Chris Hurl, Oxfam UBC, 109-2335 W 3rd. Ave, Vancouver, BC, CANADA V6K 1L6
phone: (604) 736-2349
e-mail: orChris Hurl on Sun, 12 Nov 2000: "We will probably poster and paint the UBC campus. Then, we will probably dress up although I'm still not entirely sure about costumes and do street theatre in front of the Student Union Building. We might also hand out those Christmas Gift Exemption Vouchers. Any ideas or advice would be appreciated.
We want to make this the best Buy Nothing Day yet! Lets show people that there are ways of resisting the consumerist system!"Onother BND-activist in Vancouver: Dawn, e-mail
Dawn on Sun, 19 Nov 2000: "I am a student from Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. On Friday the 24th of November I am going to the streets near the art gallery in downtown Vancouver. Hopefully, a lot of people from all walks of life will be there with banners and signs and excitement to celebrate Buy Nothing Day.
For anyone else that works in retail, this will be liberating as for once the message is 'buy nothing' instead of 'buy this, you need it and I need to sell it to you'! See you out there."Cntact for Red Deer, Alberta, Canada: Stu Bota, E-mail
Stu Bota on Wed, 15 Nov 2000: 'Hopefully on this day the people of our country, one of the worst offending countries, will listen to what we have to say and will realize that over-consuming is destroying our environement and hurting those who are forced to slave in order to keep our so called NEEDS met.
Our inspiring words will have to be that for the first time in our little oil slurping city there is actually more than just a handful of people that are willing to fight corporate greed."Contact for Whitehorse Raven Recycling Society, Box 3968, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory Y1A 5M6, Canada
Tel: (867) 667-7269, Fax: (867) 668-5744 e-mail:
Web: www.ravenrecycling.homestead.comWe have started a campaign to encourage people not to purchase anything on BND in the City of Whitehorse. Newspaper columns, posters around town etc. are all ways in which we will try to get our message out. Part of our campaign is focused on how much North Americans consume and how much we throw away compared with the rest of the world.
Contact for Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada): Holly P. E-mail: .
Holly P. on Thu, 16 Nov 2000: Last night I emailed a few local newspapers in hopes of getting published in some form. Today, I put up posters all over my high school. A lot of people were wondering out loud what Buy Nothing Day was, and I had to explain. Some said they're going shopping that day anyway (there's no school that day), but none went so far as to rip the posters down, as far as I could tell. I also put up a couple on telephone poles near the school, about 3 before my fingers felt slightly frost-bitten and I had to stop :)
On the 24th I'll be headed out to a mall with some friends to hand out these nifty BND receipts I got from the UK site.COLORADO
November 24: 'Buy Nothinh Day'
Contact for Buy Nothing Day:
Nina Wadlinger on Wed, 8 Nov 2000: "I am a student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, a member of WAAKE-UP! (the World Awareness and Action Koalition of Equal United Progressives!), and a member of the Rocky Mountain Rebels radical cheerleading squad.
I am trying to organize something as well for Buy Nothing Day on Nov 24. I have organized a list of Boulder/Denver contacts from the Adbusters list at http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/toolbox/contacts.jhtml. We will be doing actions along with Why Shop week as well.
Folks can contact me at 303-245-8255 or email me
The website for WAAKE-UP! with links to the radical cheerleaders was http://yeah.to/democracy.Another contact in Boulder: Damien McAnany, 855 Orman Dr., Boulder, CO 80303 USA.
E-mail: damien.mcanany (at) excite.comDamien McAnany on Sun, 12 Nov 2000: "I'm planning on getting together a group at a local new mega mall in our area. We're still working on ideas, but any suggestions would be gladly accepted!
November 19 - 25: 'Why Shop? Week'
Contact: Dr. Kayann Short, Tel: 303-492-1267. E-mail: Website http://spot.colorado.edu/~shortk/whyshop.html
Why Shop? Week was organized by women's studies students in the Farrand Academic Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. They designed this event in order to educate students and the community about how sweatshop labor exploitation and U.S. overconsumption of resources impact women globally. Students urge shoppers to practice ethical consumption and demand corporate accountability for labor exploitation. To kick off Why Shop? Week, students on November 19st will perform "The Twelve Days of $mas" and "No Value" in front of the County courthouse on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Co.
Kayann Short on Wed, 6 Sep 2000: ..We actually have a week long event starting the Sunday before Thanksgiving, but Buy Nothing Day will be Nov. 24 for us because it's the day after turkey day. Looking forward to a great campaign."
MARYLAND USA
November 24: Buy Nothing Day
Contact: Adrienne Ruhf, 9521 Lumberjack Row, Columbia, MD 21046 USA
Phone: (202) 777-2644 x3970
E-Mail:Adrienne Ruhf on Sun, 12 Nov 2000: "November 24, In this country the minority who are aware and concerned, including myself, will do all that is possible to spread awareness of Buy Nothing Day and the factors in our global society which has created the need for such events. This will be my first year participating in the day, I was only informed of it a few months ago. I am looking forward to spreading the word to others in my school and community."
MASSACHUSETTS
November 24th: Buy Nothing Day
Contact: Andrea Kulish kalamity1 (617) 587-8690
Andrea Kulish on 11 Sep 2000: "I don't know exactly what is going on yet but I am sure we will raise some fine raucous in the name of BND!! Feel free to contact me for any reason. Hope to hear from you and if you plan to do any BND activities this year. Last year was a blast and I am looking forward to it again this year. I am planning to do some more organizing, stickering etc. and would like to know if you will be participating too. If so I'd love to do some brainstorming with you."
Contact Boston: Rob Freeman. E-Mail:
Rob Freeman on Fri, 15 Sep 2000: "People will be in emergency rooms from overeating after Thanksgiving Day. We, the BND people, will probably march again in Cambridge.
Last year we had a great time marching from Central Square to Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA. We had kazoos and street theatrics. I brought my daughter along and she had a real fun time, and we were both exhausted at the end of the day.
"PAYBEV -- Protests are your Best Entertainment Value." This quote is from Rich Mackin, and it's very true. Most fun I had all year."MINNEAPOLIS usa
Friday November 24: Buy Nothing Day
Contact: Annie Davidson, Big Lake, MN, USA E-mail:
Annie Davidson on 15 Nov 2000: "On Buy Nothing Day Culture Jammers across the country will not purchase anything. Many will go out a protest at local malls, and some may even protest at the Mall Of America.
Buy Nothing Day is a great opportunity to show resistance to corporate rule. Resist corporate takeover by participating in this year's celebration; don't go out, and if you do, BUY NOTHING! Feel free to me anytime about BND or National Turn Off T.V. Week."NEW YORK
Friday november 24 - Buy Nothing Day
Currently no contact known...
NORTH CAROLINA, USA
Friday, November 24th: 'Buy Nothing Day'
Contact: Internationalist Books, Darren Hunicutt, e-mail
Darren Hunicutt on Sun, 12 Nov 2000: "The Internationalist Bookstore in Chapel Hill, NC will be throwing a Buy Nothing Day at our bookstore (405 W. Franklin St.) on Nov. 24th. We plan to remove all the books from the shelves, watch movies/documentaries, enjoy good music, talk to the media, act uncommercial skits in front of the store to eager shoppers, eat free burritos, and create an atmosphere free of commodity purchases.
We don't really have a particular soundbite as our slogan, we are just hoping to get to talk to people on the street or via the media about how ridiculous consumer culture has become and how hidden from public scrutiny the labor practices of transnational corporations are.
This will be our second buy nothing day here, and in America the 24th is especially timely because it is the day after "Thanksgiving", i.e. the biggest shopping day of the year coming right on the heels of our national celebration of gluttony and genocidal history in the United States. Look forward to hearing what others are up to, I just got on your listserve...best wishes!!"NORTH DAKOTA, USAOHIO
Friday november 24 - Buy Nothing Day
Contact for Grand Forks: Jason Schaefer, ph. 701-795-9980
E-mail:We plan on passing out gift exemption vouchers and talking to youth and religious groups.
OREGON, USA
Friday november 24th: Buy Nothing Day
Contact Portland: John Andersen, E-mail:
John O. Andersen on Sun, 12 Nov 2000: I'm hoping to find other like-minded individuals who would be willing to organize local activities with me.
Another contac for Portland: Michelle, E-mail: .
Michelle on Tue, 14 Nov 2000: Our event will be at park blocks, salmon side, 1pm on the 24th. We are going to have a march past all our least favorite retailers. Thank you and take care.'
Mailinglist for Portland: to subscribe send an e-mail to .
PANAMA
Friday november 24th: Dia de no comprar
Street theater, media appearances (hopefully), postering, leaflet distribution, barter market, music in Panama City.
Defensa Ambiental, an environmental group based in Panama City Phone: (507) 239-8491, (507) 683-5420, (507) 227-6146
E-mail:
PHILADELPHIA USA
Friday Nov 24: 'Buy Nothing Day'
Contact: Kathleen Nealon, 705 Medary Ave., Philadelphia PA 19126, USA
E-mail:Kathleen Nealon on Sun, 12 Nov 2000: "I am on a committee interested in social justice. I am going to promote Buy Nothing Day at our next meeting. Hopefully we will spread the word and others will refrain from purchasing anythig on that day."
Texas USA
Friday, Nov 24: Buy Nothing Day
Contact: Evan Stafford, UNT Box 307953, Denton, Texas 76203, USA E-mail:
Washington USA
Friday, Nov 24. Buy Nothing Day
Contact: Bob Haug.
Bob Haug on Mon, 25 Sep 2000: "We have demonstrations in front of major shopping areas to encourage people not to buy more stuff, to cut up their credit cards, to wear BND stickers, etc.
Last year we did the things listed above. Seattle is a cradle of Voluntary Simplicity and Simple Living. We celebrate frugality!E-mail:
Washington, DC - USA
Contact: Dodo, e-mailDodo on Mon, 13 Nov 2000: "We will be demonstrating in front of malls and shopping centers, and giving out "coupons" with suggestions for non-commercial gift ideas. More info after this week's planning meeting in DC."
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