a fading empire
Ismat Karzai
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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?
>
>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.
>
>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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>buy it............................preorders@blackspotsneaker.org
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>sell it...........................wholesale@blackspotsneaker.org
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>invest in it......................investors@blackspotsneaker.org
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>support it........................donations@blackspotsneaker.org
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>join the jam........................jammers@blackspotsneaker.org
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> Make a straight donation... it's a worthy cause
> with the potential to set an historic precedent
> 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
> our children's lives.
>
>https://www.groundspring.org/donate/index.cfm?ID=2217-0%7C742-0
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Ismat Karzai
through all these bad times, things didn?t stop
here. Have you heard about the Iraqi economic boycott, well that was
putting me in garage and no one sponsoring me so this is how real events
are used to control the mice around the world. The message for others
see you could be next, we can do this to whole world. Did anyone think
about that Turkish bases of US being used to bomb Iraq? Here is the
indirect meaning (thanks to friends for explaining), well the girl they
thought I liked was having unlawful relationship with Selgin Inan. God
knows how many other people have been a victim of these mind control
games. This is very strange because Selgin Inan was also trying to
program me to kill the father of that girl and was doing all this as an
assignment. It is said that he told her and a few other girls that you
can?t join university if you don?t take off your Hijab. In other cases
he told them that he wants to get marry with them, mostly girls only
think about getting married. I trusted this man as my friend and he
stabbed me from the back. This man till today is active