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Buy Nothing Day the antidote to Black Fridays Shopocalypse
2015-11-27 09:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Buy Nothing Day was founded in Vancouver by artist Ted Dave and subsequently promoted by Adbusters magazine, based in Canada. It is an international day of protest against consumerism. It is held concurrent to Black Friday. The first Buy Nothing Day was organized in Canada in September 1992 as a day for society to examine the issue of over-consumption. In 1997, it was moved to the Friday after American Thanksgiving, also called Black Friday, which is one of the ten busiest shopping days in the...
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