Calendar

 Nov. 19
Why Shop? Week Rally
1-3 p.m. Courthouse plaza, Pearl St. Mall, Boulder, CO
or hold your own community event

Nov. 20
Corporate Accountability Day
Use the Why Shop? Week website to demand corporate accountability for working conditions and living wages.
Tell your favorite companies that you won't support their exploitation of women workers any longer.

Nov. 21
Alternative Holiday Gift-giving Day
Create a holiday gift list that promotes ethical consumption.
Contact the Center for a New American Dream and the Heifer Project for ideas.

Nov. 22
Day without Advertisements
Boycott all media that feature discriminatory and coercive advertising.
See the Adbusters site for information on how to resist media messages.

Nov. 23
Day Without Waste
Pre-cycle, re-use, recycle, and reduce the waste generated by consumerism.
Send wasteful packaging back to its manufacturer to demand change!
See the Co-op America web site for information on re-using wood and paper products.

Nov. 24
International Buy Nothing Day
Stay home and relax! Enough is enough!
See their website for more information

Nov. 25
16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence begins today
with the International Day of Struggle Against Violence Toward Women
Last year's events in Mexico honored murdered maquiladora workers