There is a divide in the United States that will play out three Fridays from today, as it does every year, that typifies the chasm between Black Friday and Buy Nothing Day. Black versus Buy Nothing may not be the first divisive pairing you think of when you think of opposing groups in the U.S. […]
Black Friday, Shop Local Saturday, Buy Nothing Day and Walmart
If I lived in Bedford Falls I might enjoy the hustle and bustle of Christmas Shopping with the rest of the townsfolk, excluding mean ol' Mr. Potter. But I live in a metropolitan area with over a 1,000,000 other souls and no freeways. I am not your typical American Shopper. I consider shopping to be […]
Why Buying Local Is Better, Usually
If you are a small business operator starting out in a new direction, as I am, there is so much to consider beyond the usual business plan if you are also a political creature, as I am. When I was a graduate student studying semiotic analysis of cultural systems, my major professor told me there […]