Re: brand damage

On 6 Nov 2003 23:05:40 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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and watch me getting raped, people stand up and ask for justice, because
it gets late for you, if you want don't want this to be fate of your
child. People till today I feel pain in my blood vessels, heart. People
one day I will not be around, who will stand up and ask for unbiased
justice, how long will I be ignored, how long will humanity remain
slave.

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 I am sure most of average Muslims are not aware
of the fact that today in Mecca and Medina there are Jewish Muslim
scholars in our leading mosques and universities. How did I find out,
well we will insha?Allah answer this in future. But in my case I knew
about presence of bad guys in Vatican City long before I found out that
these guys were present in Mecca and Medina as well. Look at it this way
there rarely are leading Muslims who are either not with bad guys are
else not working for any other groups or so. Which is a bit tragic but
true. That is why I say good guys should define their limits, I mean now
the whole world is a "play ground? so we rather define out limits a