Buy nothing day

A 2000 Buy Nothing Day demonstration in San Francisco

The Buy Nothing Day ( English Buy Nothing Day ) is a consumer-critical and growth-critical action last Friday (North America) or Saturday (Europe) in November. It is organized in over 60 countries.

In America, this day is also the Black Friday , the day after Thanksgiving ( English Thanksgiving ), have released to the many Americans and trade marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season with many discounts and bargains. Black Friday is about the fifth day of the year with the highest sales. A 24-hour abstinence from consumption is intended to protest against "exploitative production and trading strategies of international corporations and financial groups" and to encourage reflection about their own consumer behavior and the global effects. Conscious buying behavior aimed at sustainability of each individual should be encouraged.

The Buy Nothing Day was invented in 1992 by the Canadian artist Ted Dave, taken up by the Canadian media and advertising agency Adbusters Media Foundation (active for Greenpeace and the American Greens) and, among other things. a. sponsored by the Esprit company founder.

In Germany, the day of action was organized by the association “Narra e. V. ”and Konsumnetz-AG of the globalization-critical network Attac .

Outside of the USA, this day of protest is hardly known and - apart from isolated actions by groups like Attac - it receives little attention. In Austria, the collective monochrom supported the project in particular ; however, the group decided not to carry out any more actions from 2013 onwards.

See also

• Consumer strike
• Consumerism

Web links

Commons : Kauf-nothing-Tag  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Florian Rötzer: Information guerrilla ? In: Telepolis . November 26, 1997, accessed November 22, 2020 . 
• Buy nothing day. In: ORF.at. November 25, 2006, accessed November 22, 2020 . 
• Maike Brzoska: The wallet remains closed today. In: taz.de . November 25, 2006, accessed November 22, 2020 . 
• Bernward Janzing: Debate Economy: Blasphemy during Advent. In: taz.de. November 29, 2008, accessed November 22, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stephan Kaufmann: Consumer criticism: Don't buy anything on the buy-nothing day. In: fr.de . November 25, 2017, accessed November 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Are you celebrating Black Friday or Buy Nothing Day? USA Today, November 25, 2016, accessed on November 26, 2016 (English): "Join millions of us in over 60 countries [...] for Buy Nothing Day [...]" 
3. ↑ Different information depending on the source: greenpeace.ch (2011): 45 countries ( Kauf-nix-Tag agenda ( memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )); the number "over 80" mentioned by Attac in 2004 has been adopted by many media.
4. ↑ ^{a b} “Nothing” is being auctioned on Ebay - exhibition in Berlin. Break in the consumption frenzy: Narra and Attac celebrate the purchase-nothing day. In: attac.de. November 26, 2004, accessed November 21, 2020 . 
5. ^ David Mikkelson, Arturo Garcia: Is Black Friday the Biggest Shopping Day of the Year? In: snopes.com. November 28, 2003, accessed November 20, 2020 . 
6. ^ Richard A. Feinberg: Christmas Shopping Facts and Figures. In: newswise.com. November 22, 2000, accessed November 20, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Barbara Crook: Can you say bye to buying 1 day a year? The Vancouver Sun, September 25, 1992
8. ↑ Thomas Fischermann: Revealing instead of advertisements. A Canadian advertising professional fights against consumerism. In: zeit.de . November 9, 2000, accessed November 20, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Attac consumer network info page. In: jpberlin.de. Retrieved November 21, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Go shopping or refuse. In: Salzburger Nachrichten, November 30, 2013