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| Subject: Retarded Black Friday protesters hit back with ‘Buy Nothing Day’ Fri Nov 29, 2019 8:54 pm | |
| Black Friday is set to be the biggest shopping day of the holiday season. Salesforce projects online sales to hit $40 billion globally, with $7.4 billion spent in the United States alone — a 16% year-over-year increase. According to Adobe Analytics, Thursday was the first Thanksgiving Day ever to surpass $4 billion in online sales. But not everyone is shopping. Activists are protesting consumerism with ‘Buy Nothing Day.’ Canadian artist Ted Dave started Buy Nothing Day in 1992 and it later got promoted by the Canadian magazine Adbusters. The protest’s website urges people to “buy less, live more.” And aside from not shopping, supporters are encouraged to cut up their credit cards in stores, wander malls like zombies chanting, “Buy Nothing Day,” and form long, “inexplicable” conga lines in shopping center parking lots. Climate activists have also joined in on the protest, declaring Black Friday to be “one of the most polluting, destructive days of the year: extinction & climate change come at a discount,” one participant said in a tweet.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-friday-protestors-hit-back-with-buy-nothing-day-175441993.html
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