Buy Nothing Day: Saturday 25th of November 2006 in Berlin/Germany

• What started as a simple idea more than 11 years ago in North America, (on the day after the US holiday called Thanksgiving - America's busiest shopping day of the year) Buy Nothing Day has grown into a worldwide celebration and demonstration of consumer awareness and over-consumption. The Buy Nothing Day campaign has sparked debate, radio talk shows, TV news items and newspaper headlines around the world. The ongoing global "war on terrorism" has sharpened our appreciation of how tenuous and potentially catastrophic is a voracious First World's dependence on foreign oil, networked international money markets, and the utterly uncompassionate survival instincts of multinational corporations. Over-consumption creates long-term ecological problems that aren't accounted for in the GDP.

People in more than 65 countries have decided to make a personal statement by NOT consuming for 24 hours.

The ways in which people have marked the Buy Nothing Day events worldwide have been as diverse as the participants themselves.

The Buy Nothing Day movement is a 100% self-organizing system.

This year, the Buy Nothing Day in Germany, will be on Saturday, the 26th of November 2005. So start planning your events, actions, demonstrations, projects, NOW! We want to hear about them and to get others involved to help make your projects a BIG success.

There’s no right way to celebrate Buy Nothing Day. The idea is to do *something* *ANYTHING* to start up Debate, make people Think and to take Action. The shining hope for a revolution in human consciousness lies in the actions of everyday people.