If you’re living in Canada, you can avoid today’s shopping craziness, que en el U.S. is known as “Viernes Negro” — the day-after-Thanksgiving, start-of-the-Christmas-shopping-season, mega-sale shopping day.

Aquí en Canadá, it’s just a regular work day.

But if you want to take the no-shopping thing one step further, hoy es Buy Nothing Day.

Originally conceived by Vancouver artist and activist Ted David (here’s a brief history of Buy Nothing Day) and now promoted by the Vancouver-based Adbusters organization, Buy Nothing Day is an international protest against consumerism.

Como dice Adbusters, “There’s only one way to avoid the collapse of this human experiment of ours on Planet Earth: we have to consume less.”

Desde el Adbusters’ Sitio web:

We’re asking tens of millions of people around the world to bring the capitalist consumption machine to a grinding – if only momentary – halt.

We want you to not only stop buying for 24 horas, pero para apagar las luces, televisions and other nonessential appliances. Queremos que aparcar el coche, turn off your phones and log off of your computer for the day.

We’re calling for a Ramadan-like fast. From sunrise to sunset we’ll abstain en masse, not only from holiday shopping, but from all the temptations of our five-planet lifestyles.

En Canadá, hay Buy Nothing Day en eventos Guelph (SOBRE) y Montreal, but you don’t need to go to an event to honor the day — you can just stay home!

¿Quieres saber más? Ver Adbusters’ Buy Nothing Day Campaign o revisar la Comprar Nada Día evento Facebook.