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Man To Run NYC Marathon Carrying Textbooks To Protest High Cost Of College Texts
We know how much our readers hate expensive textbooks, so meet Andre Ditto, the 47 year-old vegan personal trainer who is going to run the NYC marathon carrying 30lbs of textbooks both to protest the high cost of college textbooks and as a promotion for ebook retailer CafĂ©Scribe. More »
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Shopdropping?
One NY group is holding workshops to teach "shopdropping," which they explain is "the opposite of shoplifting." Basically, they want you to print out their "improved" labels and place them in retail locations. The organization also provides PDFs of the labels they've made so you can cut out and tape them to the appropriate products with ease. An interesting idea, but we wonder if it makes any difference? Does printing out someone else's labels and affixing them to still another person's merchandise really mean anything? Does shopdropping have "biting back" potential, or is it just a waste of time?—MEGHANN MARCO More »
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Kmart T-Shirt Protest Continues; Kmart Pulls Shirt
A "domestic violence" t-shirt that has been causing some uproar in Maine has sparked protest in Toledo, Ohio. From the awesomely named Toledo Blade:- A T-shirt sold at Kmart stores that shows a boy pushing down a girl and calls the action "Problem Solved" drew more than 50 protesters to the sidewalk in front of the chain's Alexis Road store yesterday afternoon.
- Spokesman Kim Freely said: "We've heard and respect the opinions of our customers and the item is no longer available at Kmart. And we have no plans to reorder it."
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HazMat Protesters Drop Mad Science
Here's another version of the DRM protest involving hazmat suits and the San Fran Apple store. It's got less Talking Heads, more people speaking about (or, heads talking...) about why DRM is bad. If you don't know why it is, watch. If you do and would like to have your beliefs affirmed, watch. If you like sweaty geeks, watch. All we know is DRM prevented us from easily transmogrifying our sister into the next Grandmaster Flash, so now we're totally mad against it, even more than we were madly before. More »
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Sweaty Anti-iTunes Hazmat Geek Speaks!
John Sullivan, one of the Haz Mat suit geeks n e nerds who stormed the nation's Apple Stores last Friday, wrote us in response to our recent post, calling our attention to a write-up he did of Defective Design's protest at Boston's Cambridge Side Galleria. The fuzz seemed pretty cool with the whole thing: More »
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