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Originally posted by: Skipper
Those things never work because it's practically impossible to get enough dedicated people in this day and age.
I'm not so sure about Buy Nothing Day, as I don't usually participate on it (demonstrators who tried to stop people to shop was arrested and/or beaten, and I don't want to be arrested and/or beaten), but TV turnoff week works. Ratings go sligthly down that week. It envolves a number of schools around the world, in which the children must not watch TV for that week, and than write about how their week was, and what changed in their lifes, and those experiences are shared with students around the world. It is backed up and publicized by a number of groups. TV stations never, EVER talk about it for obvious reasons, except CNN who agrees to air a 15 second ad about TV turn off week every year; so that is why people don't know much about it. But it's always on the newspapers, on the internet, on the radio... Next year (if I'm still here) I'll tell you guys about it and invite you all to participate. Don't worry you'll still be able to watch SW, you can't watch broadcasted TV, you can watch videos on that week (altough it's better to do outdoor activities during that week).