[Imc] buy nothing day +

[jacobs]

Hey all, this seems like a great idea. Resist the temptation to shop for 
victory on the day after thanksgiving. Pass it on!!

Peace,

James Jacobs

>Saturday 24th November is Buy Nothing Day (Friday the 23rd in US)
>
>We are a culture jamming group planning an action next Saturday 24 November
>(23 November in North America) on Buy Nothing Day. We need your help!
>
>We are going shopping we want you shop too! We say don't buy nothing ....BU=
>Y
>EVERYTHING.....and then return it telling the shop why you are 'not
>satisifed' with their lousy product.  Many stores have returns policies
>proclaiming they'll gladly return your money if you are not completely
>satisfied.=20
>
>This is happening globally so you can fake-shop wherever you live. Adbuster=
>s
>are fully behind us, see the page on their web-site about us and we are
>featured us in the next magazine.
>
>Fanclub is on the main Adbusters Buy Nothing Day page. (On
>http://adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/ under UPDATES.)
>
>You can get more info from our website http://www.fanclubbers.org
>
>We want people to do stuff in other cities off their own back. Maybe you ca=
>n
>support us in some way to make this a great day out shopping!
>
>Get in touch let us know if you are up for it, tell your friends, spread th=
>e
>word
>
>FC
>
>
>
>Fanclubbing =AD Anti-shopping as art
>
>In this time of hysteria and constant paranoia, when America as being
>continually told that the patriotic duty of every citizen is to stimulate
>the economy by "shopping for victory". It's cheering to see that one
>enterprising bunch of artists is heeding that call in a way that makes at
>least as much sense as our leaders' call to shop 'til you drop.
>
>Fanclub are artists charged with a sense of mischief and a mission to throw
>a spanner in the consumerist machine. Fanclub have taken a fresh look at
>shopping and invested it with all the thrills you got way back when you
>shoplifted as a teenager; but this time, it's legal.
>
>They call their version of shopping fanclubbing and they propose you try it
>out as part of the activities for Buy Nothing Day, an annual worldwide day
>of anti-consumption, which takes place on November 23rd.
>
>Going shopping on Buy Nothing Day. Surely now: isn't that a bit
>contradictory? Well here's the catch. Fanclubbing involves going shopping a=
>t
>a store with a 'no-questions-asked' guarantee, buying an object, and
>immediately returning it for a refund. Then he or she turns right around an=
>d
>repeats the transactions again and again so on and so forth, ad nauseum. Al=
>l
>this time, the store grits its teeth, and gets its guarantee tested to
>destruction.
>
>What Fanclub wish you to do is get out there and do it yourself. Get out
>there and shop in circles and create your own anti-consumerist culture-jam
>for Buy Nothing Day. Tills will ring, yet not a penny will be spent, while
>shutters click and video cameras record the confusion as fanclubbing happen=
>s
>en masse. The results of this will be exhibited on the Internet as an
>example of what happens when we stop shopping and start playing.
>
>So =AD is it a prank or is it art? Fanclub don't really care how you view it 
=
>=AD
>as long as you think about the nature of consumption. Fanclub want to wipe
>the smile off the caring face of global capitalism and show a glimpse of it=
>s
>real nature.=20
>
>Behind the smiles, the 'no quibble' guarantees and the dead-fish stare of
>customer care lies the truth of a beast that exploits. A beast that doesn't
>like the taste of its own medicine. Fanclub want to use the ingenuity and
>humour of the individual to prise open a chink in global commerce's armour.
>
>But Fanclub doesn=B9t want you to stop there. They want to see customization,
>adaptation =AD fitting fanclubbing to your own needs.
>
>Want to make a point about sweatshop labour? Then go round and round with
>Nike products. Want to make a point about the mindlessness of entertainment=
>?
>Buy a television and take it back tell them you don=B9t like the programmes.
>Fast food get your goat? Try eating your Big Mac and then =8Creturning=B9 it 
to
>McDonalds.=20
>
>Or do you just feel like having a laugh? Do it in costume. Enlist your
>friends.=20
>
>Be your own Fanclub.
>---------------------------------------------------------
>FANCLUB's webpage: www.fanclubbers.org


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James R. Jacobs 
Graduate Reference Assistant 
Education/Social Science Library
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign                        
Home: 303B1 Paddock Drive  
Savoy, IL 61874           
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jacobs at uiuc.edu
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