During black friday companies usually make up for losses during the rest of the year. The stock market grows by leaps and bounds and hoards of ravenous coupon clippers rush to feed of the suckling teat of big corporations. So what better way for us to show wall street our discontent with their conduct than to boycott/protest black friday and shop locally for the holidays? Come join the Occupy Movement and hit Wall St where it hurts, their wallet.
A very good idea. I hope many will do this, as I every year try having "Buy Canadian Day" on Canada day. Same general idea, but buy local/Canadian only products. Unfortunately nobody usually does this.
I shop locally on Black Friday. Stuff is cheap, and a good time to wait and buy - why pay more for what you really want and need? Part of what as I see as the misguided activity in the occupy thing is that people haven't been voting with their dollar for the past decade or two and are trying to figure out what to do on short notice. Don't do business with companies that do wrong, as you see it. Consume wisely. Blindly blaming is no progress. Research who you don't want to support, and then don't. Then pass on the research you've done to inform others. It's really not that hard and requires no wasted gas to go to an occupy event. BTW, please conserve.
"SEATTLE - Businesses in the downtown retail core are growing more and more weary of the Occupy protests - especially with the holiday shopping season already underway." http://www.komonews.com/news/local/...reaten-holiday-shopping-season-134188678.html
No, not nobody. (the glass is 1/2 full, not half empty...right?) I try buying locally or regionally ALL the time. I'm not always successful, but I always try. And I always ask the retailer so at least the sales clerks get the message about my attempt to support local jobs, including theirs. If the corporatocracy has made democracy all about dollars then that works both ways. The 99% can use that same 'vote.'
I wish I could not participate in Black Friday. Unfortunately I work in retail, however, me and a few of my fellow employees have decided to pull a improv everywhere and as soon as the doors open freeze for a round about 5-8 minutes.
meh, Occupy "insert this trendy thing" just hasn't been ridiculed enough. Just remember the Tea Party was all because of the Koch brothers and they weren't effective at all. Hope and Change. Pay your fair share. Forward! http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-...is-the-untold-story-of-barack-obama’s-mentor/ Obama isn't a radical communist. Honest. Enjoy being pawns of the elitist left. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/rev...-us-capitalism-and-redistribute-wealth-power/
As opposed to the elitist right? I say they both suck and we shouldn't let EITHER party push us around. We could list SO many things that both sides have screwed up. Why can't we focus on what we actually agree on? We're all fucking pawns because lets face it voting doesn't matter when both sides are owned by the same corporations(did you know they're people?), and congress never gets anything done anyway that isn't just going to make them more money while screwing the general public.
This is the best idea! Don't continue to be part of the consumer community mentality at least for one day! If a huge number of people just stay home it would scream! If they showed up not to shop but to protest!? Small business would suffer that day too, but the message would be clear.
Jill Stein, There is still time! She would restore our freedoms which will be gone for ever after this election. We out number those voting for either party, and we out number them altogether with those that won't vote. Third party green could start a revolution by legally stopping the two parties non violently. We do have a chance here. It may be the last. Tell your friends.. If we do nothing we loose, so what do we have to loose? She may not win, she may not have the answers, but she is not corporate funded and would restore our freedoms like no other viable candidate would.
I did not know this was last year, This year would probably make an impact after we are smashed into the sidewalk by this election.
Funny enough, Scientology also uses Black Friday to improve its stats and sell its books. Last year during the Black Friday, CoS put their "free stress tests" outside JCP. They were there from the middle of the night. As the crowds were waiting in line since midnight with nothing to do, I bet CoS came out totally upstat in terms of tests administered and Dianetics sold.
