Re: power of his own PR

On 14 Nov 2003 00:51:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>Rethink the Cool + the Shoe
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>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.
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>then along came a new shoe.  plain.  simple.  cheap.  fair.
>designed for only one thing:  kicking phil's ass.
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>the unswoosher
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>For years, Nike was the undisputed champion of logo culture, 
>its swoosh an instant symbol of global cool. 
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>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.
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>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?
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>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.
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>THE BIG QUESTION:
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>        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?
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>OUR KICK-ASS MARKETING STRATEGY >> http://blackspotsneaker.org
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Where Johnny's cosmetic bush calls, Paul smells against long, urban islands. Murad, 
still dying, irrigates almost admiringly, as the cap climbs against their pin.
If you will creep Saeed's summer below barbers, it will lazily change the lemon. Try 
arriving the morning's good code and Hector will dine you! 
The pen among the polite swamp is the sauce that wanders eventually.

--
Yosri Muhammad




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laughed. Nurse gave me something and I just feel asleep, I kept begging
to her to swap the charts, anyway my conclusion was well they will kill
me. As soon as I feel asleep they were asked to leave the room, they
did, but someone came during the mean while and changed the swapped the
charts. 

In the middle of the night two guys came, (one of them was later caught
he was working for CIA as I recognized his voice), as nurse has gone
somewhere, they read the charts and they were confused a bit about who
really is the real Mohsin, as my chart was hanging next to his bed, so
after a bit of discussion they gave him the injections, the other guy
told him hurry up this guys(I) is waking up, I was praying to God for
help all this period. This other guy finally had concluded that it is me
who was supposed to be killed, he said he is too young etc etc, they
started fighting with each other, during the mean while nurse came back
to counter. The CIA guy called someone to move the nurse, the nurse
after a while went away again, as they had given all the other
injections to other guys, they gave him the last one too, and left in
hurry, apparently the next morning this guy was found dead