No Purchase Necessary
by digby
I know that the holy ritual of the maxed out credit card is very important in the Church of the Divine Shopping Mall, but this “Black Friday” holiday requires us heretics to sit down and do nothing — my favorite kind of activism.
The day after Thanksgiving traditionally is the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States, but British designer Jonathan Barnbrook believes we should think twice about all that conspicuous consumption. We asked him to create a graphic Op-Ed in support of the annual informal protest known as Buy Nothing Day.
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