Today: Buy Nothing Day

Posted on | November 28, 2008 | No Comments

Today is the official Buy Nothing Day, as announced by Reverende Billy and Church of Stop Shopping, a New York Based advocacy group lead by comic preacher Reverend Billy, aka. actor Bill Talen, that trough books, flicks and spectacular appearances – most famous of which are those taking place in the citys’ Starbucks branches – are trying to make you and me think about our consumption habits.

“America shopped until it dropped”, they announce in their most recent newsletter, making reference to the economic apocalypse – or “shopocalypse” in the Reverend Billy lingo – that is taking place right now. We buy much more than we are able to consume – and we buy from the big boxes rather than the local stores, thereby weaknining our community while strengthening the corporations.
Absolution is within reach, however: Join the Church in my old hood on Union Square today in New York for the official Buy Nothing Day! Were I not in Denmark, I would surely be there.

Read more on the Reverend Billy website.

Currently I am also reading one of Rev Billy’s books, “What Should I Do if Reverend Billy Is In My Store?”.
Definitely not the last autofunk.dk/freeform101_web posting on this issue…

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