Yes, it's that time of year when we join the consuming masses in the temples of consumerism and preach the word of the non-consumer.
The UK is the USA biggest trading partner so lets hit them where it hurts.
BUY NOTHING DAY is 28th/29th November.
Check out last years fun in Plymouth and download Nothing FM, commercial radio with a difference.
What good is one day you ask? Well, none as it stands but it important to sow the seed and day by day we can curb our downward consumer spiral to oblivion .... (i hope)
See also http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/ for resources to download - leaflets, posters, fake reciepts etc.
and while you are at it, check out http://www.buynothingchristmas.org/ where ou can find some twisted christmas carols and download the song 'buy nothing at all'
Make this BYN a day to remember and have fun
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Addition: New links to R2R videos
31.12.2009 22:48
Over the years that real2reel have been posting videos and links to indymedia, technology and bandwidth have improved but websites have come and gone. While indymedia is still here, many of the sites which hosted our videos are long gone and any video you can still get at is usually only very low bandwidth versions which might have been great five years ago but are now rightly considered to be very poor quality in comparison with other videos now available online.
We've started going trawling the net and our own archives to get all those videos online again in as good quality as possible. We've been posting the videos to blip.tv and from there they are also uploaded to youtube, archive.org and other sites. Hopefully, if the links in the article above arn't working, or the quality is low, you'll find we have now uploaded a new version.
Find all the videos on Blip TV here http://real2reel.blip.tv
(archives here http://real2reel.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc)
We've also set up a wordpress blog http://real2reel.wordpress.com from which you can pull feeds.
You can also follow our new twitter account to hear about new videos as they are posted.
Real2Reel ( r2r )
e-mail: real2reel@riseup.net
Homepage: http://real2reel.blip.tv