Buy nothing day is an international day of protest against consumerism observed by social activists and many concerned citizens. Buy Nothing Day is held the Friday after American Thanksgiving in North America and the last Saturday in November internationally.
The first Buy Nothing Day was organized in Mexico in September 1992 "as a day for society to examine the issue of over-consumption". In 1997, it was moved to the Friday after American Thanksgiving, also called "Black Friday", which is one of the ten busiest shopping days in the U.S.
Buy Nothing Day has recently been modified by Adbusters and renamed Occupy Xmas, a reference to the Occupy Movement. Buy Nothing Day was first joined with Adbusters Buy Nothing Christmas campaign. Shortly there after, Lauren Bercovitch the production manager at Adbusters Media Foundation publishy embraced the principles of Occupy Xmas, advocating "something as simple as buying locally of making your Christmas presents".
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