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From: "Loretta Laurin" <loretta_laurin@hotmail.com>
To: vancouver@adbusters.org
Subject: [Vancouver] Buy Nothing Day and Fair Trade Week at SFU
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:20:02 -0800
Hey Jammers!
I've been working with Oxfam SFU to create a fair trade week from Nov. 20th - Nov. 24 and I figured it might be of interest to you. All week, except Thursday, we'll be selling fair trade goods on campus (Simon Fraser University, in Convo Mall) We also have some fun awareness raising activities that, if you participate in, you can be entered to win a gift basket of fairtrade items (One basket per day). We also have a gift wrapping station and cups of fair trade coffee by donation. On friday there will also be a swap meet, where you can get rid of your old junk and/or pick up someone else's "junk" for free! I encourage all of you to come out.
On Thursday, of course, it is BUY NOTHING DAY! We're going to be giving out free samples of nothing on campus and encouraging students to sign our buy nothing pledge.
On top of that, I'm also planning to do some BND things off campus, and I would love it if any of you could join in and/or help organize it. It is going to be a shopping-death-flashmob at metrotown in the evening. (Probably at around 6:30)
The details still need to be sorted out, but the general idea is that we'd gather into a big court area in metrotown mall and stage a "death by shopping" scene, where everyone runs in screaming and looking like consumourism has beat them up (bar codes stamped on skin, clothes hangers stuck in shirts, chokeing on monopoly money, etc.) and then we all die dramaticly. (Oh the creative potential!)
There will also be a more activisty part of this before the flashmob, where we will go around advocating Buy Nothing Day to shoppers. (Handing out flyers, talking to people, asking shoppers if they're aware about the impacts of consumourism, etc.) The idea is that we'd come in from all entrances in small groups (depending on how many people are participating), raise awareness, and walk towards the flashmob spot and meet up all at the same time. (of course, by meet up, I mean make a scene)
However, I'm not quite solid in this plan because I don't know how horrible the security would be with regards to our actions, so we're always open to more ideas :)
If you're interested please let me know!
Cheers,
-Loretta
----Original Message Follows----
From: "Loretta Laurin" <loretta_laurin@hotmail.com>
To: vancouver@adbusters.org
Subject: [Vancouver] Buy Nothing Day and Fair Trade Week at SFU
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:20:02 -0800
Hey Jammers!
I've been working with Oxfam SFU to create a fair trade week from Nov. 20th - Nov. 24 and I figured it might be of interest to you. All week, except Thursday, we'll be selling fair trade goods on campus (Simon Fraser University, in Convo Mall) We also have some fun awareness raising activities that, if you participate in, you can be entered to win a gift basket of fairtrade items (One basket per day). We also have a gift wrapping station and cups of fair trade coffee by donation. On friday there will also be a swap meet, where you can get rid of your old junk and/or pick up someone else's "junk" for free! I encourage all of you to come out.
On Thursday, of course, it is BUY NOTHING DAY! We're going to be giving out free samples of nothing on campus and encouraging students to sign our buy nothing pledge.
On top of that, I'm also planning to do some BND things off campus, and I would love it if any of you could join in and/or help organize it. It is going to be a shopping-death-flashmob at metrotown in the evening. (Probably at around 6:30)
The details still need to be sorted out, but the general idea is that we'd gather into a big court area in metrotown mall and stage a "death by shopping" scene, where everyone runs in screaming and looking like consumourism has beat them up (bar codes stamped on skin, clothes hangers stuck in shirts, chokeing on monopoly money, etc.) and then we all die dramaticly. (Oh the creative potential!)
There will also be a more activisty part of this before the flashmob, where we will go around advocating Buy Nothing Day to shoppers. (Handing out flyers, talking to people, asking shoppers if they're aware about the impacts of consumourism, etc.) The idea is that we'd come in from all entrances in small groups (depending on how many people are participating), raise awareness, and walk towards the flashmob spot and meet up all at the same time. (of course, by meet up, I mean make a scene)
However, I'm not quite solid in this plan because I don't know how horrible the security would be with regards to our actions, so we're always open to more ideas :)
If you're interested please let me know!
Cheers,
-Loretta
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Re: Buy Nothing Day @ SFU
Thu, November 23, 2006 - 11:10 PMDetails:
What: Flashmob! Staging a death by shopping scene.
When: Friday Nov. 24th (BND) Run in at 7:00pm sharp
Where: The ground floor of the Atrium Court in metrotown (Between Lush and the blue christmas/santa display)
How: Dramatic death by consumerism Flashmob. BE CREATIVE!! This is the fun part! (You can team up with friends to make a more elaborate scene)
Some potential ideas:
Suffocation by shopping bag
Choking on money
Drowning in old receipts
Being attacked by advertisements
Caught in coat hangers
Pasted with labels/brands or sale signs
Stamped with bar codes
Have a friend dress up as a Wal-Mart smiley face and pretend to stab you
Come as a mourner dressed in black, carrying a coffin/tombstone with a witty memorial (ie. "RIP planet earth. Death by greedy human consumption")
Go nuts, Have fun :)
If you're not very good at faking your own death it may be useful to have some people dress up as manifestation of consumerism and others as the ignorant shopper and stage a little battle. All types of "warfare" that are not actually dangerous are acceptable. WE DON'T WANT ANYONE TO GET HURT. This is meant to be peaceful, fun, and non-destructive.
So after everyone dies off, we will lie there (or stay in whatever position you have "died" in) until a designated person will yell "Today is Buy Nothing Day" and everyone will then disperse. (Cheering can commence if desired)
