Buy Nothing Day

The purchase - Nix - day ( English: " Buy Nothing Day ") is a critical consumer of action on last Friday ( North America ) or Saturday ( Europe) in November. This is now organized in about 45 countries.

In America, this day ( at the same time ) Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving ), at which many Americans have freely and trade mark the start of the Christmas shopping season with great discounts and bargains. Black Friday is about the fifth- highest sales day of the year. Through a 24 -hour -consumption to the Buy Nothing Day against " exploitative production and trading strategies of international corporations and financial groups " are protesting. In addition, should be encouraged to think about their own consumption and the global impact. A conscious, sustainability aims for total purchasing behavior of each individual should therefore be encouraged.

In Germany, the action of the " Narra eV " and the consumption of network -AG -globalization network Attac is initiated.

Outside the U.S., this day of protest hardly known despite isolated press reports and find - apart from isolated actions of groups such as Attac - little attention.

Was invented Buy Nothing Day 1992 probably by the Canadian media and advertising agency Adbusters Media Foundation, who worked among others for Greenpeace and the U.S. Open, but is also supported by the founders of Esprit.

It remains questionable whether the actual participants of the event, practice sustainable consumption waiver or move only appropriate purchases, comparable to boycott actions against oil companies.