You may already know about the “Buy Nothing Day” (BND). It’s a day of informal protest against consumerism organized by environmental and social activists in North America and around the world on the Friday (or the weekend) after Thanksgiving. It has been going on since 1992, when the first BND was organized in Vancouver, Canada.
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To Consume or Not to Consume?
Posted in Justice, Materialism on November 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Civilize Them!
Posted in Justice on November 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Take a glimpse at the muted history of the Native American experience of “progress” and “civilization’ in the US.
A personal account from the book Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes:
“Oddly enough, we owed our unspeakable boarding schools to the do-gooders, the white Indian-lovers. The schools were intended as an alternative to [...]
THANKSGIVING OR THANKS-TAKING: THE LESSONS
Posted in Empire, Justice, Meditations, Pakistan on November 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The impulse for writing today is the occasion of Thanksgiving which is observed in the US on the fourth Thursday of November each year.
Thanksgiving is a celebration. It is a national holiday. It is one of those few times in the year when American families make it a point to come together, to unite, no [...]
SALAAM!
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