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Another Successful Whirl-Mart Ceremony |
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by a.
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06 Jun 2001
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On Sunday June 3, breathingplanet ?aRt/AcTioN! held its second Whirl-Mart ritual. The anti-shopping ceremony lasted about an hour, during which the 15-20 participants paraded theough Wal-Mart in Latham farms pushing empty shopping carts. Join us on the first sunday of EVERY MONTH to make a solid anti-consumerist statement in the NY capital region and around the world. |
sentimental participant: for me, whirl-mart is a lot more than a protest, and i mean we're not like carrying signs or anything. its like a ritual thing that sheds a new light on the reality of...you know... all of this. its like, not only are all the shoppers looking at us and saying 'whats going on with these people', but we're looking at ourselves and looking at this consumer driven space and all this stuff everywhere lined up waiting to be bought and sooo much packaging everywhere....and saying 'humans sure are fucked up animals.' its kind of a surreal experience actually."
a firstimer near the end of the service: "it is kind of like church...i'm getting tired, i'm bored, and i feel better, but i don't know why."
another participant: "we need to keep this thing going. it's an awareness thing. if we make known why we are doing what we are doing it has potential to gain quite a following. we are all consumers and there are a lot of people waking up and realizing all of the ways in which big corporations dominate our everday life. we need to use our power as consumers if we're gonna change anything. Whir-Mart is a way to say 'listen...we know what's up'....and to say it artistically and subtly. i had fun. i'll come back next month, yea.
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