Re: brand damage

On 6 Nov 2003 23:48:20 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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minutes late I would have died, Selgin initially couldn?t reply but
later he asked them why ambulance couldn?t come for at least 25 minutes,
even when hospital was told it is an emergency, I think he won logical
argument there (it was my point :)), they attached other things to my
body, placed me in ambulance and started the journey back to hospital. I
had another dream while they were interrogating (Chinese and others
standing near by). But just before we left he tip, someone fired two
shots as ambulance, the driver really was scared, he moved the vehicle
in such a way that I could have died, later another shot was fired(they
only acknowledge one shot), but the other guy came to check me at the
back he fixed a few things and then we started moving again.

At the hospital the Cop who was assigned to handle my case would not
trust me, though I kept losing consciousness again and again, during the
mean while after leaving the cops, Selgin called the Jewish Muslims I
was living with, th