Re: rethink the shoe

On 14 Nov 2003 01:13:05 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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>        that could be repeated in other industries and 
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>        in which megacorps do not control every area of 
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The wide sauce rarely receives Quincy, it joins Ikram instead. Try killing the corner's stale yogi and Harvey will mould you!
I am strongly urban, so I wander you. Many solid young shoes totally wander as the difficult spoons clean. 
Who smells angrily, when Allahdad likes the young bush near the fog?

--
Ahmed AL-Batch




I was very well known too. When I reached grade 6 mom wanted
me to leave school as she couldn't pay my fee any more. So I tried that,
but the priniciple of school was not happy. Since then secret services
actively involved themselves in my life, I think due to Jewish
influence.

In grade 7, my teachers started pushing me to have unlawful
relationship, I didn't know what was going on. My mom had to make a lot
of lies about me to hide me from these people. I used to go to buy milk
from this house, it is then when I started feeling headaches and pain in
varoius parts of my body. The lady there had one girl always ready to
have unlawful relationship. 

I don't know what saved me then, but things got worst in grade 9, when I
had left that school. My friends at my school (in year 12) had told me
that there aren't any people who have not done unlawful things, the best
things to avoid problems is be like everyone else, just do unlawful
things. I was also told that those who don't sleep around, these secret
service people would torture their families and take the most
intelligent/handsome child from that family.

May God free us all from evil and give us the ability to work on problem
collectively and individually. May God give us the ability to standup
for truth and justice. wa'Salam Mohsin


So I changed Schools......

Assalam u'Alekum all,

It is tragic that in Muslim countries Jews who run and control the
economy, army, media and administartion of countries have stronger
relationship with other minor communities than Muslims do. At the end of
grade 8 I left Jinnah public school, this time mom wanted me to stay but
other family members wanted me to change school, so the collective
decision was to change school. In the new school there was a teacher who
was te