The 28th is "Buy Nothing Day". It seems the Networks won't run Un-Ads...

[JanMichael]

A real "Free Market" of ideas, eh?

http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/

http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=21153

"The forthcoming January-February issue of 'Adbusters' magazine will feature an expose on how virtually every media network in the industrialised world refused to sell airtime for Adbusters' so-called 'uncommercials'.

”We tried just about all the networks in the U.S., Canada, Germany, the UK, South Africa, Australia, Japan,” said Kalle Lasn, founder and editor in chief of Adbusters, in an interview with IPS.

”They all said 'No,' except for CNN in America and a little on CBC in Canada.”

These ”uncommercials” were timed to coincide with the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), scheduled for Dec. 10-12 in Geneva. They include promotions for Buy Nothing Day and ads saying that Big Mac hamburgers are 52 percent fat."


Well I'll be darned! I didn't realize that the US Media was so self censored:shrug:

[veganwitch]

1. i think we are going for a walk that day.

that and ive got three days with jeremy until he has to go back to new hampshire until i can see him again (which i dont know when that will be) so i think we are going to be doing other things ;).

[tom_paine]

2. Shocked! I am SHOCKED!

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[JanMichael]

3. You too?! I just can't BELIEVE that the Networks protect their investors!

What were we on that Media Transparency list again? 16th?

[TexasMexican]

4. Meh I like Black Friday.

I need to get my good deals on.

[JanMichael]

7. How do you feel about the issues though? Consumerism, Media Blackout?

There's more to this than getting some underware at 75% off.

[JanMichael]

5. Why the heck did this get "Lounged"?! It's a GD topic.

Seriously, I don't get it.

I guess I'll have to "Ask the Administrators".

<sigh>

[JanMichael]

6. Thanks.

I was SO confused there for a moment...

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

8. but, but ... we have a free press?

Even if we have money, they won't let us on our OWN airwaves - that should tell you something.

[blm]

9. This is my third one.

I also don't buy anything on Sept.17, Citizenship Day.

[KFC]

10. What the hell is the point of "buy nothing day"?

That ranks right up there with "take no shits day". I'll teach my body a lesson.

[JanMichael]

11. Stunning display of negativity.

Cheers.

[nolabels]

22. Why do they have it for just one day?

They should do it for a week or two. Out in So Cal that Buy Nothing thing is giving them Crook CEO's from the grocery chains a run for their money.

Those grocery chain corporations and the news organizations that advertise with them are not talking about it, but you can sure sense it.

Some of my Teamster Brothers have just stopped pulling trucks into the grocery warehouses because of the strike, people are turning up the heat

The editor let this little part slip by (he he)

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20031026-9999_mz1b26point.html

The point man
By Frank Green
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
October 26, 2003

(at the bottom) (snip)

Many supermarket analysts nevertheless are sticking by Burd and Safeway, supporting the hardball attitude that gaining concessions from labor now will greatly benefit the long-term profit outlook for the industry.

For instance, even after Safeway posted its dismal third-quarter results, Merrill Lynch issued a relatively glowing report titled the "Top 6 Reasons Why We Like Safeway."

The company said it issued a "buy" recommendation because it foresees a cyclical recovery in Safeway's sales, among other factors. Merrill Lynch noted Safeway's willingness to endure a strike in the region to avert huge cost increases.

"If the Southern California contract was negotiated on a business-as-usual basis, costs would escalate by $130 million over the next three years," Merrill Lynch said.

The strike and the pending sale of Dominick's "are essentially distractions from the core issues where we are beginning to see positive traction," the company said.
(snip)

The shit for brains probably have already lost more than half a billion in sales, but who cares, what’s money when you’re union busting?

[durutti]

12. To protest consumerism. n/t

[JanMichael]

13. kick

This is as much about the right to air a commercial as it is about Over Consumption.

[JNelson6563]

15. agreed

While there's little I can do about the ad black-out I can sure as hell buy nothing that day and what shopping I do will be local. I also like some of the small businesses that have made use of the internet. You can support some small businesses who struggle against Wal-Mart etc. that are far from your home too.

Julie

[Hep]

14. I hate buy nothing day

Serves no purpose. I use Buy Nothing Day as Shop Only at Locally Owned Businesses Day. No need to screw my neighbors so I can make a snobby political statement that will serve no long term purpose.

[DUreader]

16. Every day is 'shop at locally owned business day'

[Hep]

17. NO it isn't

Some days are, I Need a New TV and The Last Locally Owned TV Store Went Out Of Business Years Ago Day.

[DUreader]

20. You 'need' a TV? You sound like an addict.

pretty wimpy

[Hep]

21. LOL

I didn't buy an XBox for nothing, Captain Judgment Passer.

[JanMichael]

23. Here's a suggestion: Take your idea and use it in a positive manner.

Like trying to work with people instead of being a negative nelly all the time on issues like these?

And still, still, I don't see the anti-Anti Consumerist Activists saying shit about the Media blockade in this so called "free market of ideas".

There are two issues here, not just the obvious one.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

18. How about "Who Gives a Shit Day"

Protesting "consumerism"? That is beyond goofy. Mabye we can protest "motionism" for a day and stay very very still.

[Monte Carlo]

19. Adbusters intentions are good, but they're trying to hold back the ocean.

They are doomed to failure with their strategy. They're trying to get exposure through a medium by attacking the very thing that keeps it solvent. "Buy Nothing Day"? Give me a break. This is America - we are nothing if not consumers.