Editing Buy Nothing Day (section)

==Buy Nothing Christmas==
Buy Nothing Christmas started unofficially in 1968, when Ellie Clark and her family decided to publicly disregard the commercial aspects of the Christmas holiday.<ref name="buy nothing">{{cite web |url=http://www.buynothingchristmas.org/about/index.html |title=About Us |website=Buynothingchristmas.org |access-date=2017-01-03 |archive-date=July 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710174456/http://www.buynothingchristmas.org/about/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Contemporarily, a movement was created to extend [[Adbusters]]' Buy Nothing Day into the entire Christmas season.<ref name=EGM>{{citation |page=398 |title=Encyclopedia of Gender in Media |editor=Mary Kosut |author=Susan Alessandri |publisher=SAGE |year=2012 |isbn=9781506338286}}</ref> Buy Nothing Christmas first became official in 2001 when a small group of Canadian [[Mennonite]]s created a website and gave the movement a name.<ref>Priesnitz, Wendy. [http://www.naturallifemagazine.com/0612/buynothing.htm "A Buy Nothing Christmas."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727061247/http://www.naturallifemagazine.com/0612/buynothing.htm |date=July 27, 2020 }} ''Natural Life Magazine'', November/December 2006. Retrieved 27 November 2008.</ref> Adbusters in 2011 renamed the event Occupy Xmas,<ref>[http://occupyxmas.net/ Occupy Xmas], {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111231142336/http://www.occupyxmas.net/ |date=December 31, 2011 }}</ref> a reference to the [[Occupy movement]].<ref name="Occupy Xmas1">{{cite web |last1=Leitsinger |first1=Miranda |title=Consumer fasts, mall sit-ins -- anti-Black Friday actions urged |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/consumer-fasts-mall-sit-ins-anti-black-friday-actions-urged-flna1c7100896 |website=NBC News |access-date=6 October 2023 |date=23 November 2011 |archive-date=September 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240905224316/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/consumer-fasts-mall-sit-ins-anti-black-friday-actions-urged-flna1c7100896 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Buy Nothing Day was first joined with Adbusters' Buy Nothing Christmas campaign. Shortly after, Lauren Bercovitch, the production manager at Adbusters Media Foundation, publicly embraced the principles of Occupy Xmas, advocating "something as simple as buying locally—going out and putting money into your local economy—or making your Christmas presents".<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-12-07|title=An occupied Christmas|url=https://thefulcrum.ca/news/an-occupied-christmas/|access-date=2020-11-28|website=The Fulcrum|language=en-US|archive-date=November 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121203850/https://thefulcrum.ca/news/an-occupied-christmas/|url-status=live}}</ref> Previously, the central message of Occupy Xmas and Occupy Christmas differed in that Occupy Xmas called for a "Buy Nothing Christmas" and Occupy Christmas called for support of local economy, artists, and craftspeople in holiday shopping. The union of these ideologies calls for a Buy Nothing Day to kick off a season of supporting local economy and family. ''Adbusters'' editor Kalle Lasn claimed in 2006 that the holiday was celebrated in over 65 countries around the world.<ref name="Toronto">{{cite web |last1=Gates |first1=Vanessa |title=Buy-nothing spirit gains holiday foothold |url=https://torontoobserver.ca/2006/12/05/buy-nothing-spirit-gains-holiday-foothold/ |website=Toronto Observer |access-date=6 October 2023 |date=5 December 2006}}</ref>