Buy Nothing Day Dance
Celebrate this year's Buy Nothing Day with a dance your debt away extravaganza at Union Square, NYC. Music and all the fun you CAN'T buy! Also, check out the Ten Commandments of Buylessness.
THOU SHALT
Forgive people, yourself and everybody else. We all shop too much.
THOU SHALT
Know your Devil. Shoppers are only dancing in the land of ten thousand ads. Consumerism is the system. Corporations are the agents of the system.
THOU SHALT
Respect the micro-gesture. Magicalize the foreground. Fore-go the plastic bag and grab that bare banana – Amen!
THOU SHALT
Practice asking for Sweat-free, Fairly-traded and Locally Made products. That's the rude that's cool.
THOU SHALT
Buy less and give more. Giving is forceful, the beginning of fantastic new economies.
THOU SHALT
Buy local and think global. Love Your Neighbor (buy at independent shops) and Love The Earth (walk to, bike to, mass transit to – the things you need.)
THOU SHALT
Citizens can buy or not buy, produce or not produce. We can change to a sustainable personal economy. Then corporations and governments will change.
THOU SHALT
Envision the history of a product on a shelf. Workers and the earth made that thing. Resisting Consumerism is an act of imagination.
THOU SHALT
Complexify. Don't be so easy to figure out. Consumers tend to regularize. Shopping at big boxes and chains makes us all the same. Viva la difference!
THOU SHALT
Respect heroes of the resistance. A small band of
neighborhood-defenders who staved off a super mall with years of
protests? Beautiful.
It's our turn now. CHANGE-A-LUJAH!
- 11-28-08
- Reverend Billy's blog
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hands in the AIR!
The date?
When is buy-nothing-day?
" Twist away the gates of steel...unlock the secret voice" DEVO
The Word
Revelation 11:17-18, 17 saying: "We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and have begun to reign. 18 The nations were angry; and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great— and for destroying those who destroy the earth."
Mark 4:19 but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.
Hebrews 13:5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."
Keep the faith brothers and sisters. The world is filled with non believers, jokers, and fasle preachers that want to misled you and mock the word. Beware of the Christian right wing leaders they are not men of the word, they worship the owl, aka Moloch or Ba'al. These are the same men that rape and molest children. These are the same men that gather at the Bohemian Grove.
P.S. On a lighter note, Check out Colbert's Christmas Special.
Amen Brother!