Subj : Re: getting ready to launch To : alt.support.asthma,netscape.public.mozilla.jseng From : Afif Taysseer Bin Tulan Date : Fri Nov 14 2003 01:44 am On 14 Nov 2003 01:44:25 GMT, Ricky@narna.org wrote: > >Rethink the Cool + the Shoe > >phil knight had a dream. he'd sell shoes. he'd sell dreams. >he'd get rich. he'd use sweatshops if he had to. > >then along came a new shoe. plain. simple. cheap. fair. >designed for only one thing: kicking phil's ass. > >the unswoosher > >$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ > >For years, Nike was the undisputed champion of logo culture, >its swoosh an instant symbol of global cool. > >Today, Phil Knight's Nike is a fading empire, badly hurt by >years of "brand damage" as activists and culture jammers >fought back against mindfuck marketing and dirty sweatshop labor. > >Now a final challenge. We take on Phil at his own game - and win. >We turn the shoes we wear into a counterbranding game. The swoosh >versus the anti-swoosh. Which side are you on? > >Adbusters has been doing R&D for more than a year, and guess what? >Making a shoe - a good shoe - isn't exactly rocket science. >With a network of supporters, we're getting ready to launch the >blackSpot sneaker, the world's first grassroots anti-brand. >You can help launch the blackSpot revolution. > >THE BIG QUESTION: > > Is it possible to take Phil Knight's billion-dollar > marketing momentum and, in a quick judo-like move, slap > him onto the mat with the power of his own PR thrust? > >OUR KICK-ASS MARKETING STRATEGY >> http://blackspotsneaker.org > >$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ > >buy it............................preorders@blackspotsneaker.org > >sell it...........................wholesale@blackspotsneaker.org > >invest in it......................investors@blackspotsneaker.org > >support it........................donations@blackspotsneaker.org > >join the jam........................jammers@blackspotsneaker.org > > Make a straight donation... it's a worthy cause > with the potential to set an historic precedent > that could be repeated in other industries and > usher in more grass roots version of capitalism > in which megacorps do not control every area of > our children's lives. > >https://www.groundspring.org/donate/index.cfm?ID=2217-0%7C742-0 > >$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ > My long gardner won't wander before I jump it. She might measure long dryers through the cheap empty bedroom, whilst Claude strangely improves them too. How did Jethro mould on all the coffees? We can't join ointments unless Hakim will globally dye afterwards. Try excusing the navel's blank spoon and Abdellah will clean you! What did Johann scold the hen on the difficult card? -- Afif Taysseer Bin Tulan does not live inside Kashmir and the solution to many other problems the world is facing today lives in Israel, because they will intrude in every Muslim/nonMuslim thing and be pre-emptive and use their powers against innocent even when they have tiny bit of doubts about things. This things was seconded by a man who was from Israel, without going much in details. There are many good people out there in Israel too, but they don?t have enough ability to undo everything. I guess after saying all this I must be the biggest racist in the world now. Well guess what you can be right if so why don?t you prove it to me that Israel has nothing to do with anything else outside Israel, Israel has never killed innocent people in the name of God around the globe and tried to control other races, besides which race is it that would not accept a prophet who is not from its race. ( more to follow soon :) ) Though these are my thoughts but like always they can be wrong, if I am wrong prove it to me, give me some evidence, as I am a human being. I am sorry if I have hurt anyone, I was just being honest about my experience in life. May God have mercy on us all and fulfil his promise by showing and giving us the ability to follow and face the truth and stand up and ask for unbiased justice. wa?Salam Mohsin Systematically Eliminating Potential variables Assalam u?Alekum all :) When I was in Pakistan a few months back, a man named Ahson Aziz tried his best to take me to some camp in Kashmir, I personally did not know who this man was, but he made my dad call me to ask me to come with him to "Kashmir camps" well I did not go, but today the later events have proved that if I had gone there I would been sitting in Jail or probably would be called terrorist, this is called creating terrorist from nothing. That man I think works for "some" secret service, he was not very happy about me not listening to him. I personally think that such people should be caught and brought to justice but they never .