Forum Post: Occupy Black Friday All
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 19, 2011, 8:43 p.m. EST by stop999
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We need to take back Thanksgiving. Stop big business controlling our lives.
Stand in line and load up shopping cart. when time to pay, put all items on counter and leave.
I started this event on Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/events/311012468911011/ Please spread the word. I am not social media savvy. I'm just a mom :) Can't take my toddler and camp overnight in the cold, or risk her getting pepper sprayed, so trying to find another way for folks like me to support the movement.
It's simple:
"This Friday 11.25.11, show your support for the Occupy movement by NOT shopping at malls and big name box stores that take money out of local communities and fatten the pockets of corporate America. Instead, make a commitment to shop locally at independent merchants and to support local artisans. Change your profile picture on Friday to show your support of local merchants, and invite other to join this "event". Let's work together to keep our money local and support other working and middle class Americans this holiday season."
I'm attending :) I also signed these:
http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-target-to-save-thanksgiving
https://www.change.org/petitions/1push-back-the-opening-of-best-buy-retail-stores-on-black-friday-to-5am
Then get ready to get beat up by the shoppers.
Thanksgiving is Day #1 of Occupy the Holidays
Silly suggestion, stop999. Best way to get people to stop Black Friday is to get them to stop shopping. Good luck on that one!
I wont be able to... I will be in line at Best buy and then going to Walmart.
Selfish and greedy. What a guy.
Will you be holding a sign telling them about OWS and the boycott?
-- http://occupywallst.org/forum/the-one-demand-we-all-agree-on/
no, I am getting a great deal on a tv
But you could still do that and carry a boycott sign, multitasking....
that would be wrong. Its like using an ipad and saying you are against corp profits.
Not quite same. An iPad is slightly more useful in obtaining knowledge than a television and as far as I know Fox is not available on any apple products.
Fox news has an app. And apple is a very successful corporation that makes products in China with labor conditions so bad people kill themselves. Isn't that corp greed that OWS is against?
Sarcasm is often misunderstood :-) I run Linux on a laptop, have no iPad, iPhone, blackberry, etc... Up until I bought a laptop I built my own computers and this one is not even stock. It has a 500GB HD with liquid bearings running at 7200RPMs.
My ethics are not fluid, they do not change with my needs. I didn't screw people and get mine and then have some change of heart and now want to change the rules.