Buy Less, Sing More anti-capitalist choir took to the streets and the shopping arcades of Cambridge on Saturday 1st August 2009, singing songs from Rev Billy and the Life after Shopping Choir songbook.
I managed to convince a few friends to accompany me in a placard-waving counter-action, to encourage people instead to Buy More Stuff. Given the number of glum-faced people with chain-store bags and scurrying in and out of shops, I think we won!
Have your own campaign in your own hometown, or stick posters up in your window. Remind others to strive for validation as consumers and surrender unto Mammon!
Click on the images below to download the pdf for print-ready A4 size versions, or feel free to create some yourself!
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You can also download all of the above ‘buy more stuff’ posters as a zip
With many thanks to Michael Holden who organizes Buy More Stuff campaigns in and around Seattle, whose idea I ‘borrowed’
I found this lovely video on the youtubes. Enjoy!
One reply on “Buy More Stuff”
Hurrah lady! I’ve just found this 🙂
Check out the latest action:
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=462135
Someone will have to organise a protest protest protest – I’ll sing, you wave signs, and the newbies can chant “Wave more signs!”. Yes.
xxx