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http://www.adbusters.org


BUY NOTHING DAY November 25 is fast approaching and we're ramping up our activities. Plan your own consumer fast with some help from the Action pyramid. Check out the ideas, make them your own, and contribute to the biggest BND yet. Then, visit the "In the news" section to track the buzz BND is generating.

http://www.adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/

WALMART TAKEDOWN Walmart's dirty deeds are in the spotlight like never before and it's time to make them pay. Check out the Walmart Takedown section to get tips on organizing a Whirl-Mart, jamming their shopping carts, or getting a group of jammers together to watch "WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price." http://www.adbusters.org


The Buy Nothing Day Team.
bnd@adbusters.org


Informant: Hopedance



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This is it people. Are you ready for one of the biggest celebrations in Buy Nothing Day history?

If you're reading this message you're not alone. 85,000 people from 60 countries have signed up online and the BND website has been white hot - with more than 20,000 visitors a day. http://www.adbusters.org/bnd

For millions BND is a chance to take the plunge and find out what it feels like to go consumerism cold turkey. Jammers take the message even further. In the US, the Wal-Mart takedown has become a huge focus, with 24-hour marathon screenings of The High Cost of Low Price and pranks planned from Wisconsin to Alaska. Elsewhere, the Codepink Women of Pittsburg will be handing out big pink price tags and students from Grassroots Activism will dish up wholesome free samples of nothing.

In Toronto, the circus is coming to town, with Kapitalist Klowns, street parties and Santa zombie walks. In Ireland, Galway jammers will unleash street theatre, a film fest, art installations, and a barter fair. In Berlin, shopping police will hand out "fines". Japanese jammers in Nagano are planning a BND student workshop, and in the UK, the Radical Cheerleaders and the Nexus Chainstore Massacre have their sights set on London's shopping Mecca, Oxford Street. Check all this out at the BND hub: http://www.adbusters.org

So, we know what you're not doing on BND - but what will you do? Send your pics, film clips, stories, highlights and personal epiphanies to Brian for a Best of BND spot online and in the magazine.

Brian Highley
BND Coordinator
brian@adbusters.org

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/16/tortureisnotus/


Informant: Andrea Ball

David Corn: In a Veterans Day speech on Friday, George W. Bush veered from the usual commemoration of sacrifice to strike at critics who have questioned whether he steered the country into war by using false information. While accusing his critics of falsifying history, Bush never conceded that he launched the war on a false premise - that Saddam Hussein was up to his neck in WMDs - and, thus, as he paid tribute to veterans of this war and others, he did not accept responsibility for sending American troops into battle for a cause that did not exist.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111505G.shtml

Though the medieval-looking church exudes serenity and other-worldliness, the 3,500-member congregation has been speaking out on controversial issues since an All Saints rector protested the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. That tradition continues, with the recent disclosure that the IRS is threatening the church's tax-exempt status because of an anti-war sermon there last year.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111505F.shtml

At a time when the Bush administration is furiously parrying a new round of accusations that it exaggerated the threat from Saddam Hussein in leading the nation to war, the imagery on Monday was startling. There was Ahmad Chalabi - who, as a leader of Iraqi exiles before the war, funneled what proved to be inaccurate information about Mr. Hussein's weapons programs to the United States - being whisked into meetings with Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111505E.shtml

The race for New Jersey governor between the multimillionaires was supposed to be a tight one, or so the final polls said before Tuesday's election. But Douglas R. Forrester, a Republican, lost by a wide margin to Senator Jon S. Corzine, a Democrat, and the chief reason, Mr. Forrester now says, is President Bush's unpopularity.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111505D.shtml

The American government, which claims to lead a campaign against terror so that democracy and freedom may triumph in the world, is ever more often forced to explain itself about the way its agents treat prisoners. Arbitrary detentions, secret prisons, torture: accusations against the United States pile up.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111505B.shtml

Halliburton and its subcontractors hired hundreds of undocumented Latino workers to clean up after Katrina - only to mistreat them and throw them out without pay.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111505A.shtml

Why You Need to Read this Pamphlet:

Today, we confront a government whose greed and thirst for power has deceived us into war, deserted thousands of us in a time of need knowing the devastation about to happen, and continued to fail us as we pleaded for help.

http://missionnotaccomplished.us/WTPv17n.pdf


From Information Clearing House

The man who leaked thousands of pages of top secret documents to the media in 1971 to expose the U.S. government's handling of the Vietnam War warned Saturday that another terrorist attack could permanently damage civil liberties.

http://tinyurl.com/dmp2r


From Information Clearing House