International Buy Nothing Day 2000

November 23, 2000

International contacts and activities in

Europe

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Below the list of BND-contacts in Europe. There are also lists for America and for the Rest of the World.

Europe
Austria - Belgium - Denmark - Finland - France - Germany - Great Britain - Greece - Italy - The Netherlands - Northern Ireland - Norway - Portugal - Slovakia - Slovenia Spain

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AUSTRIA

Saturday Nov. 25: 'Kauf Nix Tag'

Contact: Ronny Wytek, A-1030 Vienna, Obere Weissgerberstr. 13/15 Phone: +43/676/9221433. E-mail:

Ronny Wytek on 15 Oct 2000: "On October 10 we had our first coordinative-meeting for "Kauf Nix Tag" in Vienna. We will meet at 25th November at 10.00am on a famous shopping-highway (Mariahilferstrasse). The exact meeting point will be fixed during the next coordinative meeting (date see below).
Maybe there are more ideas and resources fixed within the next coordinative meeting at 14th Nov 18.00, A-1120 Vienna, Flurschützstr. 13!

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BELGIUM

Saturday November 25: Niet-Winkeldag

General contact: Elcker-Ick (Christel Grieten), Breughelstraat 31-33, 2018 Antwerpen. E-mail:

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DENMARK

November 24: Koeb intet dag

Contact: Danmarks Aktive Forbrugere (Active Consumers - Denmark), Susan Hansen, Campaign Manager.
Rosenoerns Alle 41, 1970 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
Tlf. +45 35372030. fax. +45 35372038
E-mail:
Web: www.bnd.dk (monstly in danish but also with an english page)

Susan Hansen on Thu, 26 Oct 2000: "Buy Nothing Day - Denmark will raise the topic of sustainable consumption in a public meeting the 21. of November in Copenhagen. Furthermore there has been produced a Buy Nothing Day-postcard that will be distributed in and near by supermarkets. On Buy Nothing Day activists from Active Consumers Denmark, will make a symbolic action in Copenhagen. "

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FINLAND

Friday, November 24th: 'älä ostä mitään -päivä'

Alä Ostä Mitään-päivä (Buy Nothing Day), c/o LUONTO-LIITTO (The Finnish Nature League), Annankatu 26 A 5th floor, 00100 Helsinki, Finland.

Fax: +358-9-68 444 222 Phone +358-9-68444233 or +358-41-5116911 (mobile)

Internet: http://www.luontoliitto.fi/bnd

Contactpersons: Immi Kormi. E-mail: or or 358-50-5748188

Tampere -contact: Elvis Mikola, Phone: +358-50-5748 188

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Elina Mikola on 5 Sep 2000: "I can send you later more detailed information about the plans for the day, but the campaign will be celebrated in several towns all over the country. We are also producing an tv uncommercial and "advertising" the day in some magazines."

Immi Kormi on 5 Sep 2000: "Check the websites! (they aren't ready yet, but getting better all the time...). We are producing some high-class BND-material here in Finland; For example italo-western-style tv-commercial, postcards, cool websites...
(If you are interested to spread this material in your country, please contact Elvis or Immi!)
Material should be ready in the end of the October. If everything's going all right, we'll have some samples of that material in our websites ( http://www.luontoliitto.fi/bnd) then."

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FRANCE

Saturday Nov 25, 2000: 'Journee sans Achat'

General contact: Casseurs de Pub (that's French for Adbusters), 11 place Croix-Paquet, F-69001 LYON. Email: Web: http://www.antipub.net Tel. 04 72 00 23 57 - Fax. 04 78 28 57 78

Vincent Cheynet on Tue, 05 Sep 2000: ,,Casseurs de Pub issue n02 will be in newspaper kiosk (20 000). A new film (30') is soon finish. We ar preparing actions."

Our partner in Paris is:

RAP - Risistance ` l'Agression Publicitaire 53, rue Jean Moulin - 94 300 Vincennes Til. +33 (1) 43 28 39 21 - Fax. +33 (1) 58 64 02 93 Internet : www.antipub.net
Courriel :

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GERMANY

November 24th: 'Kauf Nix Tag'

Contact: Stephan Näser, Sendstrasse 34, D-44309 Dortmund/Germany.
T. 0049231/200125,
eMail:

Stephan Näser, on Thu, 23 Nov 2000: ''I'll celebrate it on the 24th, but it's difficult in the moment to find further interested people. Next year I'll prepare it very much earlier, so that I have more time to inform people and to advertise for this event. Eventually I build up a private Homepage only for "BND"-activities.
I've prepared an comment in the lokal radio and that's all for this time - unfortunately.''

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GREAT BRITAIN

November 25th: 'Buy Nothing Day'

Contact; Michael Smith E-Mail: telephone: 07887 608 609 Internet: http://www.buynothingday.co.uk

Activities are to be announced on the BND UK site Mid September.

BND-campaigners in London, please contact Michael Stuart, e-mail:

Michael Stuart on Fri, 22 Sep 2000: "At this stage I'd rather not be a contact if that means people expect me to provide some leadership as I am 'only' a sympathetic individual and not linked to any planned action here. I have subscribed to the e-mail list and would be happy to be put in touch with anyone else in London, UK to do something for the day."

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GREECE

Friday, Nov. 24

Contact for Athens: Melita Karalis. E-mail: Fax: 7714.215

Will do press promotion and radio promotion, like last year.

'Buy and die!...'

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ITALY

November 24: Giornata del Non Consumo

Contact for Rome and Milan New Brain Frames, Stefano Minguzzi (Aka Albion)
Web: terre.it/bnd/ (in Italian)
mailing list (in Italian): consumocritico (at) egroups.com (to subscribe send a blank message to ).

There are several events in Italy, my group projects marketing strategies to informe everyday people about critical (or smart?) ways to consume, to buy and to live. We design poster, banner, image.

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THE NETHERLANDS

Saturday, November 25th: 'Niet-Winkeldag'

General contact: Omslag, werkplaats voor Duurzame Ontwikkeling (Breaking Point, Workshop for Sustainable Development), Marta Resink and Dick Verheul, P.O. Box 81, 5600 AB Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Phone: +40-2910295. E-mail: Internet: koopniets.nl

In The Netherlands Niet-Winkeldag will be celebrated for the sixth time. Last year there were activities in more then 20 cities.

In many cities there will be stalls, where people can exchange their ever-received-but-never-used Saint-Nicolaas-presents. ('You don't have to buy anything new. You can use the same presents again and again...')

Again Omslag has published the Consuminderkrant (Consume Less Newspaper). The circulation is 20.000 copies. The Consuminderkrant is now for free in public libraries.

The Consuminderkrant (in Dutch) can be found on the internet: koopniets.nl

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NORTHERN IRELAND

Saturday, November 24th: Buy Nothing Day

Contact for Dublin: Timothy Pegg
E-mail:

Timothy Pegg on Mon, 13 Nov 2000: We are celebrating BND on 24th just for solidarity, although the 25th would make far more sence whatever.
We are looking for a table and an urn presently so we can set up in Dublin towncentre maty be gatting sponsorship from interested magazine "node".
Have made cardboard a6 flyers which we have been handing out round the town and continue to do so.
Local TV station TG4 wish to film us.
Laminated a3 flyers and will wear these.

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NORWAY

Saturday, November 25th: "Kjøpefri dag".

General contact: Framtiden i våre hender, v/Carin Leffler, Pb. 4743, 0506 Oslo, Norway.
Tel: ++47 - 22 20 10 45.
Fax: ++47 - 22 20 47 88.
E-mail:
Web: www.fivh.no

Carin Leffler on Mon, 6 Nov 2000: "It's the fourth time we celebrate the "Kjøpefri dag", and like last year "Kjøpefri dag" will be celebrated in 5-6 cities in Norway. The activities are not set yet but there will (surely!) be "Buy Nothing Zones", street theatre, free "Fair trade coffee" and ginger cakes for bypassers, information about the day (leaflets) and a few surprises.
There has also been produced a "Gift card" (75 000 copies) that are distributed in cafees, restaurants and shopping centers in Oslo. It is designed as a post card with the text "Gift card" at the front. Turn it around and you'll find the message: "The reciever of this card will be invited to dinner in my house on the 25th of November". (There are also cards with other messages - the same type of "do-something-uncommercial-today")."

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PORTUGAL

Dia Sem Compras

Contact:

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SLOVAKIA

Friday Nov 24: 'Dnes nic nekupte'

Contact: Tomas Bella. E-mail:

Tomas Bella on Mon, 11 Sep 2000: "What will happen in Bratislava depends on how many people will participate in organising. Will inform you later."

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SLOVENIA

'Dan brez nakupov'

Ljubljana - Elves (Tom d'Elf), Skrati Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. Email:

Tom d'Elf on Thu, 11 Sep 2000 "We will probably not be organizing anything this year, but in case someone from Slovenia decides it'd be nice to have something like BND in Slovenia, we can provide our experiences and materials we have from previous actions."

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SPAIN

Fridag Nov. 24: Dma No Compres Nada (Spanish) / Dia No Compris Res (Catalan)

Contact: Mar Centenera, c/Abrera, 8, atic 1* 08760 Martorell (Barcelona).
e-mail

Mar Centenera on Mon, 20 Nov 2000: "I hope as many people as possible ad to the campaign. Guys, we've to make any protest against capitalism global and extend it arround the world."

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