Monday, December 1, 2008

Acte de Résistance

My personal act of resistance was not the most clever, but my personal version took some cajones. On black friday, when i was at my grandmothers house, which is in conservative territory, i spent about 2-3 hours at the local shopping mall, and by local i mean the largest one that was available, and protested people going shopping on black friday, in order to let people know that they don't have to be pulled into the shopping ploys and marketing scheme like cattle to a slaughterhouse, and that by supporting businesses that use near slave labor, and in some cases real slave labor, to get cheap products, they are only furthering our social debt to humanity. I of course thought about printing off pamphlets, but before printing off huge amounts, i sent out a control group, and the response was resounding, they were all thrown into the garbage and into the street. It was then that i decided that not to hand out any more pamphlets, as they would just add to our environmental crisis, as well as they were difficult to make and cut. I personally felt that i tried hard, and froze my ass off, but it wasn't all that successful. I think i may have jumped in too deep too quickly as i was resisting outside of a very conservative areas shopping center, and i wasn't prepared for what it would take. One thing that i would like to comment on was that i loved the rush i got from informing people of their choices and what is wrong with the status quo, and i would definitely protest again, and hopefully very soon, if anyone knows of any protests, let me know, for what cause, and when i will try to be there.

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