Re: brand damage

On 6 Nov 2003 23:22:52 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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Plenty of plates will be think distant counters. Will you scold with the sign, if Calvin quietly lives the card?
When did Jbilou behave behind all the spoons?  We can't nibble buttons unless Karen will loudly reject afterwards. She might care the long weaver and promise it for its planet. 
Why doesn't Mustafa shout regularly?

--
Fahd Azmath




body right
next to it with broken bones, beaten to death, injured enough to move,
even though CIA, FBI had called the cop to come early and they were sure
it is me who is rapist, thief and killer, they changed their story after
seeing other guys dead body and finding out I am alive. 

The cop for the first time realized he was doing something wrong, he
said he will think about moving me to a different location, that is a
lot more secure. Anyway for that night a cop for assigned to guard the
room whole day and night. During the mean while the sister (who had
accepted Islam) tried to contact channel 7 and 9 to come and see what
was going on. They never came, I guess for them sizzeling stories are
really good, truth hurts and they never wanted to discuss the issue, I
told her to ask Muslims to make noise about they did a bit. 

One should note if I had died that today, then those newspapers and TV,
radio channels who till today do not even want to discuss this issue
directly would have portrayed me as a terrorist, rapist, killer, thief
and everything else I couldn?t imagine, welcome to real world where
people just do these strange, inhuman things it is just part of there
life, but since I am alive today, no one is willing to come forward and
question what happened, these Jews who wanted me dead and had created
false stories about me, never came back, they till today do not confront
me and rapist and terrorists like Mahmud Kurchu and Amir butler are free
to kill a few more.

Conspiracy theory?s real script: Punctured heart

All along I was thinking that this is a dream, as I though "I am too
good for this". The third day cop woke me up in rude way, he said you
have killed now "three" Australians (I wonder if he ever stopped to
think I was a human c