bnd2007

Despite the wickedly cold weather (below freezing, windy, and snowy), one lone protester still came to the Kick Starbucks Out event at the Smoky Hill Starbucks. For three hours in the cold, I stood on the sidewalk outside the Starbucks with a simple sign saying shame that pointed towards the Starbucks. I told people how Starbucks coffee and chocolate was sourced from farms that used slave labour and even cited evidence but the majority of them decided to mindlessly continuing buying their Starbucks.

All across Colorado, people are preparing to observe Buy Nothing Day, an alternative to the capitalist-bred Black Friday. Black Friday (the day after thanksgiving) is the biggest shopping day in the country, and got its name because of its ability to make the numbers in the transaction register of a business go from red to black.