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19 Jan 2008 Buy Nothing Day: A way to spread a message
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I was talking to my friend yesterday morning during our breakfast run. He talked about how the night before he attended this talk relating to the 9/11 event, the war on Iraq and what can be done against the political conspiracy (or something like that). During the talk he came up with a pretty good idea of spreading the message to politician.
His idea was to take a holiday called Buy Nothing Day and modify it or create a day called something like "Not Buying the War Day". The idea being if enough people bought absolutely nothing on this day it will create an impact on the economy that would make politicians take notice or even be embarrassed.
I thought the idea was intriguing and a good one. It would be pretty cool to see as an experiment what would happen if everyone in the country, if not the world, bought nothing and essentially stopped the flow of money. And of course I believe that no ordinary citizen wanted to go to war to Iraq.
Just imagine it. One person buying nothing will not make any difference. Neither would every person in a town. But if we could get everyone in a county/state to buy nothing that would be something. If we could get a whole country buying nothing for one day, that would be amazing.
If we could get everyone in the developed world buying nothing....
Spread the word, get preparing. Mark November 24h down on your calendars. Whether it be to speak a message or to conduct a massive economic experiment, let's make a difference.
Posted at: 11:00 AM
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