rec.music.collecting, brand damage

rec.music.collecting:  Rethink the Cool + the Shoe

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.

then along came a new shoe.  plain.  simple.  cheap.  fair.
designed for only one thing:  kicking phil's ass.

the unswoosher

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For years, Nike was the undisputed champion of logo culture, 
its swoosh an instant symbol of global cool. 

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.

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?

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.

THE BIG QUESTION:

        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?

OUR KICK-ASS MARKETING STRATEGY >> http://blackspotsneaker.org/02/

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        with the potential to set an historic precedent 
        that could be repeated in other industries and 
        usher in more grass roots version of capitalism 
        in which megacorps do not control every area of 
        our children's lives.

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Hala Ayaz Abdullah
Try not to love hourly while you're wandering in back of a dark yogi.


now they will try a "different"
method.

Though nothing much happened but this man was influential enough to send
someone of my kind to my door from my neighbourhood in a day, this shows
they really do control minds and bodies using events, information and
secret services is not wrong. But I do question, if it was not me, and
some other kind of man was there, what should have happened. This also
shows that Muslims have left God and have started taking shortcuts
wherever whenever they can. And that is why it has made it very easy for
those who are fighting against God to control their bodies and minds.
Though these are my thoughts and experience, but like always they can be
wrong. May God give us the ability to fight our weakness and obey God
properly. May God save us from Satan and his friends and may God unite
all the Muslims and give them ability to pray.wa?Salam Mohsin

Using biological weapons to disable my arms when I was only six years
old.

Assalam u'Alekum all,

(In 1983-85)Last time I remember saying that the first biological weapon
was used in grade 7-8, well I was wrong. When I was in grade three I was
in PAF High School and College, Karachi. I remember my mom repeatedly
telling me not to play on the beds, I don't know it was some sort of
mind control thing, my brother liked playing on beds a lot, a few days
earlier a boy broke his neck and died after falling from an army bed. 

So I was playing with my brother, when I fell and completely broke my
right arm, the front part of my arm was hanging. My step father came
late, by then the bone had already entered the muscles. So he took me to
the army hospital, over there they told him that it will either cost him
a lot of money or else I will be given biological weap