[Summit] Buy Nothing Day Winter Coat Exchange

[Greg Gerritt]

15th Annual BUY NOTHING  DAY
WINTER COAT EXCHANGE
If you have a coat to give, please drop it off.
 If you need a coat, please pick one up.
 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25 10-2PM
 State House lawn (directly across from Providence Place mall)
 rain location  St Johns Cathedral   271 N Main St Providence
Pawtucket Visitors Center, 175 Main St. Pawtucket
On November 26th 2010 ­ the busiest day in the American retail calendar and
the unofficial start of the international Christmas-shopping season ­
thousands of activists and concerned citizens in 65 countries will take a
24-hour consumer detox as part of the  annual Buy Nothing Day, a global
phenomenon that originated in Vancouver, Canada. Some see it as an escape
from the marketing mind games and the frantic consumer binge that has come
to characterize the holiday season, and our culture in general. Others use
it to expose the environmental and ethical consequences of over-consumption.
In Providence as part of International Buy Nothing Day, we hold a winter
coat exchange on the lawn of the State House directly across from Providence
Place mall. In Pawtucket the transfer of coats takes place at the Blackstone
Valley Visitors Center. Events are also held at 4 other locations in Rhode
Island. There are many partners for this event: community organizations,
places of worship, civic, and environmental groups. Volunteers are needed to
help with this life-affirming event.
Contact information:  Providence  Greg Gerritt: 331-0529;
gerritt at mindspring.com;
       Phil Edmonds: 461-3683; philwhistle at gmail.com
Pawtucket -  Arthur Pitt 724-8915; kingarthur02940 at yahoo.com
Other participating locations
       Newport ­ St Paul's Church 12 West Marlborough St. 10 AM to Noon
Maggie Bulmer 
          849-3537.
Woonsocket   St Ann¹s Arts and Cultural Center  84 Cumberland Street Wally
Rathbun Stannartsctr at aol.com
Wakefield --St. Francis Church, 114 High Street, 10AM to noon Tom Abbott
364-0778
          Barrington  Bayside Family YMCA  70 West St   Connie Ganley
mcganley at comcast.net
 




on 9/27/11 7:17 PM, Emlyn Addison at noisyblocks at gmail.com wrote:

>> What Greg said!
> 
> Ditto. Heard about the coat exchange thing through the grapevine last
> year....love it.
> 
> 
> Emlyn
> 
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