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Whirl-Mart Consumption Awareness Rituals, April 6, 2002

Whirl-Mart is a worldwide consumption awareness ritual which happens on a monthly basis and will coincide with Big Business Day in April. Participants gather at superstores and form a chain of people who push empty carts through the aisles. A Whirl may seem to be no more than an absurd and chaotic infiltration of peoples‚ usual shopping space, but it is symbolic as well. It is symbolic of the will to resist consumerism and advertising, despite being saturated in it mentally and physically (as one is inside a superstore). As a form of protest, it is unique because of its silent meditative qualities.
Whirl-Mart Consumption Awareness Teams gear up to push empty carts for Big Business Day.

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Locations:

Troy/Albany, NY — Email: breathing planet

Hudson, NY — Email: brucefrishkoff@yahoo.com

NYC, NY — Astor Pl. K-Mart 11:45 AM on Sat. 4/6

Austin, TX — Email: howandwhy@meowmail.com

Denton, TX — Email: mwallace@library.unt.edu

Pleasonton, CA — Email: may_bee_doll@yahoo.com

Indianola, IA — Email: depew@simpson.edu

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Main Contact: Email: breathing planet

Big Business Day consists of a consortium of independently organized actions and performances in protest of the ways in which Big Business is taking over every aspect of peoples‚ lives, eliminating choice, broadening inequality, and destroying democracy.

learn more about Big Business Day at:
citizenworks

Big Business Fact Sheet at:
bigbusinessday

Around the country and the world activists and performers are focusing their anticonsumerist energies and their situationist desires on forming Whirl-Mart Consumption Awareness Teams and organizing rituals. These foolish ceremonies will serve as a monthly reminder of overconsumption, encourage people to think about their own rituals of consumption, and offer people the opportunity to express resistance in a unique and satisfying way.

If YOU want to ritualize your resistance to consumer culture, join a local Whirl-Mart, or create your own.
you can consult an online starter kit and list of worldwide contacts as well as other info./docu. at:
breathing planet