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Independence Day Debt Protest 09 Report June 29, 2009

Posted by BDO in Debt is Slavery, Organizational.
Tags: activism, beating, Debt, educational, overspending, protest
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From 9am – 10am on Saturday, June 27th, I took my “Debt does not lead to happiness” poster and silently protested the addiction of overspending and personal debt. I would say there were about 1000 cars that travelled by that intersection of Raleigh, NC. I got one honk, two thumbs up, many curious stares, and much more deliberate ignoring. The last time I did a protest in February in Jacksonville, NC I got many more smiles and thumbs up. There could be two reasons for the lack of enthusiasm for this message. Either the truth of “Debt does not lead to happiness.” stung too hurtful for people in this area to give me a positive reaction or the recent surge in political dialogue in the government’s decisions to spend overshadowed the personal intent of this protest which lead to people not give me a positive reaction. Either way, the message was put out there and the receivers had to take it and deal with it in their own way. My hope is that it helped influence some decisions that day to not overspend or go into debt or at least raised the level of conversation within the car about personal finances.

I plan on doing another protest in August for the Back to School season. My intent is to caution people from overspending and going into excessive debt during the “Back to School Sales”.

Will you join me in your community and protest personal debt to help educate people about the dangers of overspending?

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