rec.models.rc, grassroots anti-brand

rec.models.rc:  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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        Make a straight donation... it's a worthy cause 
        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.

https://www.groundspring.org/donate/index.cfm?ID=2217-0%7C742-0

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Sadam Ramsi AL-Afghani
Let's shout alongside the pathetic caves, but don't open the deep butchers.



ASIO too, who were telling Mahmud Kurchu exactly what was going on,
later they tried to make me stay with an Irani Jewish family under the
witness protection program, it was sister Maryam who was angry about it
and stopped all these "dumb" moves by police, I really thank her for
that. I +vely identified all these people they brought it claiming these
guys were my parents, I told them I am Muslim though I did not remember
much. 

As everytime I woke up I wanted to go back to school, as I couldn?t
remove those hand cuffs in dream, I would start crying and so, during
the mean while Mahmud Kurchu made changed the story about those two
Jewish terrorists, they told the world these guys died in car accident.
So these cops started giving me more injections to erase my memory as
well, as I wasn?t forgetting Jews who raped my body and kidnapped me,
they gave me these injections thrice. They told me all these things
happened to me because I was hit by car, I was involved in car accident
etc. 

Acutally there were times when I had to do investigation for that cop,
like he believed Mahmud Kurchu?s statement that Dog bit his nose off, I
told him what kind of dog would bite a nose and not the feet or so. And
even if that Arfff :). 


So after a few days they pealed my skin from my legs and covered the
marks of cuts around my body. Today I have no sign of any operation on
my body. Then they moved me back to the my garage room, one day the CIA
guy came in. I regonised his voice, I told the other good cop (who was
handling my case) about it, he called this CIA guy back, upon
recognizing him, the CIA guy told the cop that if I remember all this he
will have to kill me, it may very