buy nothing day

Consumerism run frighteningly amok: How can you not think about unchecked want when you watch the video above and hear the delighted cackling of the man behind the cameraphone as he shoots a scrum of Wal-Mart shoppers duking it out over the last Xbox 360 on Black Friday? But Twin Cities native David Carr, writing [...]

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If ever there was a year in which Buy Nothing Day might really take off, it’s 2008, as the foul economy clouds consumer confidence and impedes the Black Friday shopping impulse. But since a byword of BND, as the international grassroots anti-consumerism movement is known for short, is “Do Nothing,” Buy Nothing Day [...]