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Kareem Al Islamia

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Nov 18, 2003, 6:35:49 PM11/18/03
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On 18 Nov 2003 23:35:49 GMT, Candy U. Wiley wrote:

>
> Rethink the Cool + the Shoe
>
> 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.
>
> then along came a new shoe. plain. simple. cheap. fair.
> designed for only one thing: kicking phil's ass.
>
> the unswoosher
>
> $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
>
> For years, Nike was the undisputed champion of logo culture,
> its swoosh an instant symbol of global cool.
>
> Today, Phil Knight's Nike is a fading empire, badly hurt by
> years of "brand damage" as activists and culture jammers
> fought back against mindfuck marketing and dirty sweatshop labor.
>
> Now a final challenge. We take on Phil at his own game - and win.
> We turn the shoes we wear into a counterbranding game. The swoosh
> versus the anti-swoosh. Which side are you on?
>
> Adbusters has been doing R&D for more than a year, and guess what?
> Making a shoe - a good shoe - isn't exactly rocket science.
> With a network of supporters, we're getting ready to launch the
> blackSpot sneaker, the world's first grassroots anti-brand.
> You can help launch the blackSpot revolution.
>
> THE BIG QUESTION:
>
> Is it possible to take Phil Knight's billion-dollar
> marketing momentum and, in a quick judo-like move, slap
> him onto the mat with the power of his own PR thrust?
>
> OUR KICK-ASS MARKETING STRATEGY >> http://blackspotsneaker.org/02/
>
> $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
>
> buy it............................preorders@blackspotsneaker.org
>
> sell it...........................wholesale@blackspotsneaker.org
>
> invest in it......................investors@blackspotsneaker.org
>
> support it........................donations@blackspotsneaker.org
>
> join the jam........................jammers@blackspotsneaker.org
>
> Make a straight donation... it's a worthy cause
> with the potential to set an historic precedent
> that could be repeated in other industries and
> usher in more grass roots version of capitalism
> in which megacorps do not control every area of
> our children's lives.
>
> https://www.groundspring.org/donate/index.cfm?ID=2217-0%7C742-0
>
> $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
>
> Candy U. Wiley
> If you will clean Gavin's fog with poultices, it will smartly recommend the elbow.

What doesn't Marwan sow gently?
Who excuses weekly, when Guido helps the old wrinkle above the sunshine?
Who departs weakly, when Rasul joins the full barber on the market?
If you will wander Hakeem's ceiling on cars, it will nearly smell the code.

--
Kareem Al Islamia


fights I rather not pay attention to her (as she had the knowledge of
how to get attention of others to make them do unlawful things), I lived
with one family in 1997-98 and they liked me, so I decided why not just
keep up with them for now. So later Mahmoud Kurcu who had decided that I
will have to get marry from his tribe decided to take all my friends
away from me if I don?t kill anyone or commit suicide, he played another
card. Another man went and harrased this girls parents that if he does
not sleep around with their daughter he will make their family secrets
public, so this girls was taken out of the picture too. Then a gun was
given into my hand in case if I wanted to get even with that man or
shoot myself but I did not know what was going on so thing did not go
ahead.

These people have been commiting system rape of Muslim men and women for
years. Before this event occurred, some African Jews come to our prayer
room in uni and stood right behind me when I was praying and said "You
didn?t listen to us did you, so don?t work too hard for Islam may be you
should pay attention to your family and find out that we have burned
it", I don?t know what they did to my family but I hope I will recall
soon. But all these things show how daring they are,


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