Saturday, November 27, 2010

Swiss urged to leave wallets at home on Buy Nothing Day...

Buy Nothing Day, an international protest against unbridled consumerism, is being marked on Saturday in more than 60 countries, including Switzerland.

swissinfo.ch speaks to the Swiss event’s organiser, the founder of a Buy Nothing Christmas initiative and asks a retail expert whether it’s all just a waste of time.

“The philosophy is to object to the current trend, dictated to us by most Western governments, that a good citizen is one who buys a lot,” said Pietro Majno from the Swiss Growth Objection Network, which is organising events across the country. More...

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