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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 - Buy Nothing Day Japan

Kyoto

The 9th yearly Zenta Claus Meditation

3:00-7:00 pm (participants meet at 2:00) Meet Zenta, become Zenta (or an elf)! Zenta meditation in front of HANKYU Department Store (Shijo-Kawaramachi)
Wanted: Zentas, Elves, costumes!
RSVP.
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Zenta Food Fest

8:00pm-0:00am
Organic and fairly traded food and drink donated by Tengu Natural Foods for Zentas and their friends. Bring your own plate and chopsticks.
Reservation required. 20 people max.
Place: Café Shiminurasaki
http://www.kyoto-tv.com/kawazoicafe/shimimurasaki/shimimurasaki.html
Food donated by: http://www.alishan-organic-center.com/
Details and Reservation:

Buy Books With Books!

Green e Books, a foreign books second hand store will have a "buy nothing book exchange box." Take a book, leave a book!
Details Click Here

Tokyo area

HandMade Spicy Chocolate Workshop

Take a Love-Bites from our spice farm!

SlowWaterCafe provides three-day-workshop to harvest the spice, cook and wrap the sweet confectionary from BND toward St. Valentine Day.

Contact: Info (AT) slowatercafe.com

Slacker BND at Shibuya

Leafletting in Shibuya- Hachiko Exit, 11am-evening. Stop by, play harmonica, talk about BND- bring your ideas!  Photographers wanted.

Contact: Tokyobuysnothingbaby (AT) gmail.com
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Osaka

"Fuse Roadside BND"

Having a project distributing food/blanket to people living on the roadside. Bring sleeping bag and food as donation if you can (but not too much, we don't have storage). Part of the food donated by Second Harvest Japana project distributing food/blanket to street lifers. Food donated by Second Harvest Japan:

RSVP!

MeetingTime: 7pm
Loacation: Kintetsu, Fuse Station. South Exit, Bus Stop, at Big Thermomater.
Organizer: Fuse Yomawari no Kai (Homeless Comrades in East Osaka)
http://ca.geocities.com/kitakawachi_nojuku/
Contact: rebel_jill (AT) resist.ca
Details:

Chiba

"Sell Nothing Day" on "Buy Nothing Day"

BookCafe Tetrascroll (MinamiBoso, Chiba) will hold a "Sell Nothing Day" on "Buy Nothing Day".  Instead, we will go out to our vegetable patch, do some farmwork and have lunch there!  Please join us for a lunch-in-the-field!

Details: Contact  bookcafe(AT)tetrascroll(dot)info

Gifu

”Object Exchange Market"

BND Gifu will be organizing an "object exchange market" on Dec 2 11 am- 4 pm at Cafe Purana where NO money activities will take place, and nothing will be "sold". Goods will simply be exchanges. For instance, a farmer will bring her fresh vegetable -say Chinese cabbage. A local Brazilian is bringing his homemade Brazilian sweets. Say they agreed to exchange 1 Chinese cabbage to 2 Brazilian sweets, then, exchange of the items will take place.

This kind of bartering was commonly practiced in Japan up to post-war period. More so, it is still practiced in Andes in Peru. At the moment, we have fresh local veges, Brazilian, Peruvian homemade sweets, plates, cups and sources, and book stores are planned. contact for details: xcultural(AT)hotmail.co.jp

(Poster of this Event (PDF 3.1MB))

Anywhere

Net businesses to sell nothing on BND!

" I'll just put up a banner, explaining to my customers, it's BND, so please come again tomorrow."
Contact

Postering, Flyering and Teach-ins

NO-Shoppers