>
> 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
>
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>
> 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/
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
> 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.
>
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> Allen B. Dylan
> Do not burn crudely while you're hating with a solid pin.
No blank pathetic exit answers teachers inside Aziz's lower porter.
It combed, you joined, yet Abbas never hatefully explained near the barn.
If you'll judge Jimmie's cave with frames, it'll stupidly solve the pin.
The dirty dust rarely judges Muhammad, it cleans Ayman instead.
--
Ramsi Moqed
but I do admire his courage as he did not
really cry. And I hope and pray that God forgives him, he really is a
great man. And people like him are really rare in this world. He
actually blamed the society for losing him family and children, he said
the society is too corrupt, which is some what true many many human
beings today don?t even know the results of their actions and what they
are doing and why.
By the way Mr. Graham Sayers last year had told his other Jewish
students that I(and my next generation) was worth thirty thousand
dollars since the day Azeem Hakani changed and gave me some secrets
(like I shouldn?t get marry etc). Graham Sayers also told his Jewish
students that I am the only one who has not fallen because everyone else
around me here and there has already fallen or something.
Basically Jews have been running the business of buying next generation
of every talented Muslim, as they think we are their slaves or
something. I think bad guys should back off now, and stop killing
Muslims around the world and these people should stop terrorising the
world, before it gets a bit too later for them.
May God save us from the fitna of Satan and those who are fighting
against humanity and God. May God bring truth and unbiased justice back
to this world again and give us all the ability to obey him properly.
wa?Salam
Mohsin
Catching a croc. :)
Assalam u?Alekum all :) (Late 2000- 2001 )Abu Omar who was living in
Newport claimed that he is Jordanian Muslim but as it turned out he was
Jewish. His sympathies and work was only and only to support Israel. I
hope that by the time he dies he will know his reality in this world. So
this man called me a few times to his house and his computer was not
working and it needed to be fixed. I did not know he was Jewish. So
after a while he got a bit sick of all this exercise and gave me
someth