No Shop Day

It seems that there were in fact two No Shop days. Many people celebrated this worldwide anti-consumerism day on November 29th, others took action on Saturday 30th. In England there were actions country-wide. Sheffield saw 50-80 people spend the day at ‘MeadowHELL’, one of Britain’s largest temples of consumerism. Sheffield Kids Against McDonalds distributed their own leaflets there, with security’s requests for them to move on ignored until they were forced to plead. Elsewhere in the shopping mall there ensued games of cat and mouse with security while the whole place was leafleted and free tea, coffee and daffodil bulbs given out to people.

Two monks were heard to be preaching from the escalators asking shoppers to “Please use up all the Worlds resources by December 25th so that you can all find eternal happiness in Merry MeadowHELL”.

Meanwhile in Manchester, the Arndale Centre had a visit from Aliens perplexed at the levels of frantic activity based around the purchase of products, the vast majority of which seemed not only to be surplus to living requirements but had also been transported to the Arndale Centre from all over the world by burning huge amounts of precious fossil fuels. London saw a living room set up in a Kensington High Street arcade where a walking, talking TV espoused the dangers of consumerism. Later in the afternoon there was a mass leafleting and stickering of supermarkets, clothes stores, bank cash machines and London Underground. For more information write to: Enough, One World Centre, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, M2 5NS.