Buy Nothing Day

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Buy Nothing Day is a day of protest founded by the Adbusters movement. As the name implies, it is a day during which participants refrain from making purchases in order to protest consumption and commercialization. The event also typically features street-theater protests such as zombie-walks through shopping malls, a technique surprisingly ineffective, since everyone knows that insulting and offending the very people you wish to influence works so well. In the UK participants in Buy Nothing Day are advised to be nice to shoppers and reminded that "Ultimately, shoppers won’t listen if you treat them like the enemy." [1]

In the U.S., Buy Nothing Day occurs on "Black Friday", the day after Thanksgiving, traditionally the start of the Christmas shopping season and the biggest shopping day of the year. It is held on the following Saturday in the rest of the world.

Buy Nothing Day is a part of the international communist atheist pagan furry homosexual war on Christmas.

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