Cambridge March for Consumerism

On Sat­ur­day Decem­ber 16 a group of peo­ple in Cam­bridge held a March for Con­sumerism. They set off out­side the Grafton Cen­tre shop­ping mall car­ry­ing plac­ards with slo­gans such as “Spend”, “Buy more stuff”, and “Cli­mate change is some­one else’s prob­lem”.

On Sat­ur­day Decem­ber 16 a group of peo­ple in Cam­bridge held a March for Con­sumerism. They set off out­side the Grafton Cen­tre shop­ping mall car­ry­ing plac­ards with slo­gans such as “Spend”, “Buy more stuff”, and “Cli­mate change is some­one else’s prob­lem”.

The pro­test­ers received many quizzi­cal glances and even struck up a few con­ver­sa­tions with peo­ple walk­ing down Burleigh Street and Fitzroy Street. A police offi­cer stopped to talk to the pro­test­ers but seemed to be hap­py for them to con­tin­ue their march as long as they did­n’t go in the mall. The pro­test­ers also gave out a leaflet which point­ed out the links between unnec­es­sary con­sumerism, the exploita­tion of work­ers, and envi­ron­men­tal prob­lems such as cli­mate change.

Web­sites list­ed on the leaflet were:
Exploita­tion of work­ers: www.nosweat.org.uk
Cli­mate change: www.stopclimatechaos.org
Con­sumerism: www.enough.org.uk

http://www.cambridgeaction.net