Re: blackspot revolution

On 13 Nov 2003 22:55:50 GMT, [email protected] wrote:
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>Rethink the Cool + the Shoe
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>phil knight had a dream.  he'd sell shoes.  he'd sell dreams.
>he'd get rich.  he'd use sweatshops if he had to.
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>then along came a new shoe.  plain.  simple.  cheap.  fair.
>designed for only one thing:  kicking phil's ass.
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>the unswoosher
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>For years, Nike was the undisputed champion of logo culture, 
>its swoosh an instant symbol of global cool. 
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>Today, Phil Knight's Nike is a fading empire, badly hurt by 
>years of "brand damage" as activists and culture jammers 
>fought back against mindfuck marketing and dirty sweatshop labor.
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>Now a final challenge. We take on Phil at his own game - and win. 
>We turn the shoes we wear into a counterbranding game. The swoosh 
>versus the anti-swoosh. Which side are you on?
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>Adbusters has been doing R&D for more than a year, and guess what? 
>Making a shoe - a good shoe - isn't exactly rocket science. 
>With a network of supporters, we're getting ready to launch the 
>blackSpot sneaker, the world's first grassroots anti-brand. 
>You can help launch the blackSpot revolution.
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>THE BIG QUESTION:
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>        Is it possible to take Phil Knight's billion-dollar 
>        marketing momentum and, in a quick judo-like move, slap 
>        him onto the mat with the power of his own PR thrust?
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>OUR KICK-ASS MARKETING STRATEGY >> http://blackspotsneaker.org
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>        Make a straight donation... it's a worthy cause 
>        with the potential to set an historic precedent 
>        that could be repeated in other industries and 
>        usher in more grass roots version of capitalism 
>        in which megacorps do not control every area of 
>        our children's lives.
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Long term affect of short term solutions

Assalam u?Alekum all :) 
Yesterday we were talking about Iraq and how
current Iraq war can make things worst for all of us around the world.
There are a few issues here, it may be very easy for those who have
authority to decide how things should be done. But the fact is at the
street level things are not as we think they are, mostly average people
just hear and believe what they see and hear from media. They don?t
consider that their could be encoded messages in everything and it may
very well be that TV, news are not entertainment anymore. 

Things actually get worst when secret service agents and Israelies
equipped with biological weapons and authority who do not believe in any
kind of boundaries and ethics try to control minds and events on the
street. Such people have lived with people on the street for years, so
each time things go wrong, ordinary people who only relate to
environmen