{"id":12671,"date":"2011-12-20T08:33:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T13:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12671"},"modified":"2012-07-11T09:24:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T14:24:47","slug":"next-on-the-protest-agenda-occupy-xmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/next-on-the-protest-agenda-occupy-xmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Next on the protest agenda: Occupy Xmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick Hayes<\/a> talks about the new agenda item for the self-declared 99%:<\/p>\n

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At a time when Occupy protesters are closing up camps the world over — either due to force by the authorities or because it\u2019s too cold to protest outside — the widely acknowledged founders of the Occupy movement, Vancouver-based magazine AdBusters<\/em> has claimed protesters\u2019 next move should be to \u2018Occupy Christmas\u2019. The rationale for this, is as follows: \u2018You\u2019ve been sleeping on the streets for two months pleading peacefully for a new spirit in economics. And just as your camps are raided, your eyes pepper-sprayed and your head\u2019s knocked in, another group of people are preparing to camp-out. Only these people aren\u2019t here to support Occupy Wall Street, they\u2019re here to secure their spot in line for a Black Friday bargain at Super Target and Macy\u2019s.\u2019<\/p>\n

What bastards the 99 per cent are! Occupy protesters have experienced an ordeal akin to Christ being nailed to the cross, and all the greedy, selfish, Judas-like masses want to do is shop! The new Occupy protests began on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) in the US last month, where goods are heavily discounted in shops in an attempt to kick-start spending and get shops\u2019 P&L sheets \u2018into the black\u2019 in the run-up to Christmas. Occupy protesters left their tents and headed to the malls to tell consumers — or \u2018cum-sumer whores\u2019 as some protesters put it in their leaflets — to stop buying Christmas presents at discounted prices for their loved ones.<\/p>\n

The idea behind this, as AdBusters<\/em> — renowned also for founding Buy Nothing Day — noted is that \u2018Occupy gave the world a new way of thinking about the fat cats and financial pirates on Wall Street. Now let\u2019s give them a new way of thinking about the holidays, about our own consumption habits\u2026 This year\u2019s Black Friday will be the first campaign of the holiday season where we set the tone for a new type of holiday culminating with #OCCUPYXMAS.\u2019 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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