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DESCRIPTION:Buy Nothing Day Caroling!\nFriday, 11/23, 2pm - 4pm\nUnion Square, 
 intersection of Geary & Stockton\ndowntown San Francisco\n\nJoin Globalize 
 This! for a festive day of Buy Nothing Day Caroling, in which we'll be 
 singing from a songsheet of global justice, anti-corporate, 
 anti-consumerism lyrics in a fun parody of Christmas Carols. We will be 
 performing the carols for shoppers in Union Square, a square known for its 
 luxury shopping and expensive stores, on the busiest shopping day of the 
 year, the day after Thanksgiving.\n\nPlease wear red or green, a Santa hat, 
 or that tacky Christmas sweater in the back of your closet, and get ready 
 to sing! We will have a few signs (decked in holiday cheer) reading 
 "Caroling against Consumerism" and other slogans. While most people will be 
 singing, a few people will be handing out flyers and soliciting donations 
 from shoppers to raise funds for the struggle against CAFTA in Costa 
 Rica.\n\nThe day after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day of the 
 year. On this day corporations and businesses try to inaugurate a season of 
 wasteful shopping. Buy Nothing Day represents a counterpoint to the culture 
 of mass consumerism that is destroying the environment, redefining and 
 destroying our cultures, and leading to the exploitation of workers in 
 other countries. We encourage you not to buy anything on this 
 day.\n\nGlobalize This! is a group dedicated to global justice. We have 
 been working with our contacts in Costa Rica with Bloque Verde to continue 
 to oppose the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Right now we 
 are building a coalition of groups including groups in Perú, Colombia, 
 South Korea, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, and El Salvador to oppose 
 U.S.-based free trade agreements in each of these countries - it means 
 opposition to NAFTA, CAFTA, the Peru-US Trade Promotion Agreement, the 
 Colombia-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, and the South Korea-US Free Trade 
 Agreement among others.  We are also working on building a economic justice 
 calendar for 2008 which will include an anti-corporate globalization 
 activist camp in early 2008 as well as summer actions to follow. \n\nFor 
 more info please visit www.globalizethissf.org.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/19/18462169.php
SUMMARY:Buy Nothing Day Caroling @ Union Square
LOCATION:Union Square\nintersection of Geary & Stockton\ndowntown SF
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/19/18462169.php
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