All things considered ...

Camping out in support of rampant consumer capitlism is ok … (see Walmart Black Friday: Shoppers Fight Over $2 Waffle Makers [VIDEO])

camping out against it is not … 

The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy

What work would you do if your income was taken care of?

I LOVE this idea…it would be nothing short of a worldwide paradigm shift away from consumer capitalism…think about how different everything in your life would be!

‘…A basic income grant would reduce the pressure of having to find the best paid job. It would give us the means to ask ourselves where our individual abilities and skills lie and in which way we can contribute to society. It would give us the ability to shape our education around what we want to become, instead of around the job market. As a society we would be able to turn our attention to the work we consider meaningful and indispensable. Today, so many of the interesting and important new projects and initiatives fail because of labor costs…’

LOVE this campaign which extends Adbusters’ Buy Nothing Day into the new Aussie ‘Month of Something’ tradition we seem to be developing (via Buy Nothing New)