rec.autos.makers: 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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Kareem Moammar bin Duran
Get your lovingly wandering frog towards my autumn.
to be
engineer and then get a job, marriage was not on my mind. So Sarah tries
to approach me and fails. Then they showed Aynur Bulut as candidate to
my friend Hakani. Upon this a few more Jewish Muslims and Jews get
involved in Islamic society, this time everyone knows what is going on
but I guess no one wanted to be poisoned or so, so I was not told
anything.
In late 1997 Cebrial Bulut becomes my friend, he is brother of Aynur
Bulut. But anyway I don?t know what they did but I was living with some
family and I used to like those people, we ended up fighting as he used
to come to visit me everyday and they perhaps didn?t like it that much.
So I end up living in another friends Garage no toilet, no food, no
heater or fan, as no one is ready to pay for my living expenses. So here
I see a dream that a moon hidden behind the tree appears and I like it
more than the one already in the view. I did not know what this meant
for Cebrial Bulut but he was not happy. A few days later I get into a
fight with some other Jewish Muslim girl as she used to make fun of me,
for me it was not a big issue I just wanted to get marry with Mermaid.
At that time I did not know that any of these people were Jewish. So he
asked me if I wanted to get marry, he brought along the pictures of a
few girls too, I didn?t want to get marry at that time. And then he
tried to make me do unlawful things with some girl. But when it didn?t
work , he came back a few days later and told me that "the girl I had
fig
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Kareem Moammar bin Duran