Re: the shoes we wear

On 14 Nov 2003 01:41:58 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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>        in which megacorps do not control every area of 
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weapon
was used in grade 7-8, well I was wrong. When I was in grade three I was
in PAF High School and College, Karachi. I remember my mom repeatedly
telling me not to play on the beds, I don't know it was some sort of
mind control thing, my brother liked playing on beds a lot, a few days
earlier a boy broke his neck and died after falling from an army bed. 

So I was playing with my brother, when I fell and completely broke my
right arm, the front part of my arm was hanging. My step father came
late, by then the bone had already entered the muscles. So he took me to
the army hospital, over there they told him that it will either cost him
a lot of money or else I will be given biological weapons (as a test, as
he couldn't pay) that will weaken my arms. These Jews who are running
Muslim countries for one century knew that I exist and I am alive, so
they just wanted to take my arms away. So after my arm healed they gave
me biological weapons due to which with in days, my arms turned black,
and became very very weak. I honestly don't know how many more
biological weapons they had tried on me, my body is very weak, thanks to
people like Cebrial Bulut, Selgin Inan, Mahmoud Kurchu, Sam Elhouli and
many more.

Mom made a lot of lies to save my life, we will discuss them some other
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