My mother had to open the retail store she manages at 7 am today. My cousins said they would be at the toy store at 6 am. The mall near my apartment was open at 5 am. The leftover turkey in the fridge, it’s time to go shopping! The day after Thanksgiving is considered the biggest holiday shopping day of the year and is sometimes called “Black Friday”. But that doesn’t mean that we have to join in the shopping madness or given the recent conversation on VL about sweatshops that we can’t shop with a conscience. There are alternatives to the early bird shopping specials and red tag sales.

Instead of making it buy everything day, some people have turned November 26 into by nothing day, a day when they make a statement against mass consumerism by not participating in the holiday shopping madness and by participating in other activities.

If you feel like you must shop but are concerned about where and how the items on your holiday list are made, SweatShop Watch has released on a flyer and on its website, of retailers that use fair trade, non-sweatshop, and/or union workers.

Via / Adbusters an SweatShop Watch