Forum Post: The Day after Thanksgiving
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 3, 2011, 8:37 p.m. EST by UsernameSeattle
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The Day after Thanksgiving. What better way to make a statement than to have a National SHOPPING Strike. It just seems to me that this should be a concerted effort all over the country - not to shop.
With people shooting and stabbing and fighting over Tickle me Elmo's and PSP's...
It would only work if you had a well thought out plan. Easy to read and easy to understand. Then you would have to go to every website with all of your free time and get it known by as many people as possible. You have less than a month, and I'm willing to help.
What will the flyer/blog say?
"Black Friday" is a disgusting spectacle of obese American mega-greed.
Remember the people getting stomped to death?
They were S.C.U.M. but that's beside the point.
Only bourgeois tools & idiocratic proles participate in the Walmartian bacchanal called "Black Friday".
Starve the beast! Shower your loved ones with love, not with the fruit of Chinese labor.
Lol, if you're not already on a "shopping strike" you're probably a lipservice hypocrite.
One day - and our economy would fall apart? and I do not think it would be miniscule - quite obviously there are a ton of us out of work and can't afford to shop anyway.
So, the thousands of occupiers won't shop on one day and that is somehow supposed to send a message. Since there is no goal or leadership to OWS, what is the message to send on this upcoming Black Friday? I thought the major complaint was money in politics. Shouldn't that grievance be brought to those who wrote the laws allowing such corruption? Oh wait, that would require a message and leadership which OWS doesn't need, it just needs to keep throwing out silly ideas like this.
whew and then we could watch our economy fall apart all over the place! OH WAIT, you could convince MILLIONS not to shop, and tens of millions still would. the impact would be miniscule... just like all the old attempts to "not get any gas for a day or a week". well the sad truth is, sooner or later you WILL fill 'er up, and they WILL get your money.
Let them! Then the REST of us can shop on that day without the crowds! Ok....there aren't enough of them to constitute "crowds", but there would at least be a couple of open parking spaces!
true......... hey thats a GREAT IDEA. lets all boycott shopping on black friday :)
Seeeee? wink We CAN support OWS! I support their no-shopping strike! And their idea about NOT paying their mortgages! (because housing prices will fall even more and then we can invest in their real estate) And in NOT paying their student loans! (because then Liberal colleges AND Liberal professors with tenure and high salaries will become a thing of the past)
What else?
hmmm... I don't know but im suddenly feelin the love for OWS! I may even donate some of my millions of BIG CORPORATE dollars to them ;)