Re: grassroots anti-brand

On 7 Nov 2003 01:41:14 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 
>        usher in more grass roots version of capitalism 
>        in which megacorps do not control every area of 
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So I start the uni  :)

So in March 1996 I start my double degree, as you know I had already
experienced biological weapon but I did not know what was going on.
Selgin Inan and Aynur Bulut both of them are Turkish Jewish Muslims and
till today are working for secret service joined the course I was
Studying. Selgin Inan is a man who is responsible for corrupting a lot
of girls by telling them Muslim girls can?t put Hijab when they go to
university. He was trying to program me to kill one Jewish man. So when
other things were happening in 1996, Azeem Hakani was knew what was
going on as he was working for someone as well, but as he liked me he
wanted to know what was going on, so they showed him Bulut as a Jewish
candidate.

In later 1996 I went back to visit my parents, some how my parents had
already been harassed by these people, so my parents took me to this
clinic where doctor?s daughter came in Black car, they told me she was
my dad?s classmate. For me this did no mean much, I till today don?t
understand indirect things, someone has to tell me the direct meaning. I
came back and started my second year, and I was approached by a real
Israeli Jewish girl named Sarah, I was shy and did not like speaking to
girls and did not know what was going on so I did not payed much
attention to her. But anyway at the same time as I had already been
active in Islamic society some "Jewish Muslims" joined society as well.
By this time Selgin Inan had started praying, the man on the mis