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This blog originally appeared as a newsletter. If you’d like to receive updates from Adfree Cities as they happen, including monthly newsletters and special updates, you can sign up here. This month’s newsletter looks at the growing movement against Black Friday and consumerism generally. No longer the preserve of activists, anti-Black Friday calls have gone mainstream….Continue reading November 2024 updates from Adfree Cities
It may seem inescapable, but many are choosing to resist Black Friday’s desperate appeals to buy stuff you never needed. Adfree Cities looks at the origins, the chaos, the backlash and the boycotts – and the fun you can have when you choose to opt out….Continue reading Reuse, reduce, resist! Have we had enough of Black Friday?
Whilst bagging household goods at discount prices is welcome – especially in a cost of living crisis – Black Friday turns the dial up to 11, warping our need into excess. The consequences for our health, workers rights, and the environment have been well documented, even back in the 1950s….Continue reading Behind the Black Friday Ads