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Buy Nothing Day 26 November 2004

by Peter — last modified 2007-04-15 04:31

Melburnians went shopping crazy today, but they were offered help - a free credit card cutting-up service outside Myer in the Mall from midday to about 6pm, courtesy of the Melbourne BND Committee, supported by Environment Victoria, Friends of the Earth Melbourne, and the Australian Conservation Foundation.

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Produced by pc
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Produced 2004/11/25
Duration 4 minutes 8 seconds
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As well as the Credit Card Cut-up, shoppers were offered counselling in the form of leaflets, and invited to consider the awful example of a number of shopping zombies ... Proceedings ended with a visit from the well-known Dresses of Mass Seduction, who gave a spirited rendering of some equally well-known songs ñ though the words sounded a bit different ...

Those who were brave enough to undergo the operation were rewarded with a free BND t-shirt, and there were also Christmas Gift Exemption Vouchers to be had for the asking.

Copyright 2007, by the contributing author. Cite/attribute Resource. pc. (2006, November 27). Buy Nothing Day 26 November 2004. Retrieved October 08, 2008, from EngageMedia Web site: http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/pc/videos/bnd2004.avi. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Creative Commons License