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Black Friday strikes back with ‘freedom to shop’

By Erik Curren | December 2, 2013

Blacklie Day 2013 screenshot

If you're rooting for humanity to survive much into the future, then you'll surely find yourself on the opposite side of the holiday shopping season from America's big retailers. If they're rooting for more sales, you may be rooting for consumers to buy less. People who care about climate change and peak oil want industry to stop trashing the planet. But industries that make … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: Black Friday, Buy Nothing Day, Christmas, Occupy Wall Street, Pope Francis, Reverend Billy

Why adbusting is more important than ever

By Erik Curren | June 10, 2011

Culture Jam

Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge and Why We Must is not a new book -- it first came out in 1999. But given how important it will be to the world's climate and energy future to dislodge Big Oil, Big Coal and other polluting corporations from control of government -- and given how hard this will be to do -- the guerrilla approach of culture jamming … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: activism, Adbusters, Buy Nothing Day, consumerism, culture jamming, Kalle Lasn, plutocracy, Wisconsin

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