If you’re living in Canada, you can avoid today’s shopping craziness, na ang U.S. is known as “Black Biyernes” — the day-after-Thanksgiving, start-of-the-Christmas-shopping-season, mega-sale shopping day.

Dito sa Canada, it’s just a regular work day.

But if you want to take the no-shopping thing one step further, ngayon ay Bilhin Walang Araw.

Originally conceived by Vancouver artist and activist Ted Dave (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.

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

Mula sa Adbusters’ website:

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 oras, ngunit upang patayin ang iyong ilaw, televisions and other nonessential appliances. Gusto ka namin na magparada iyong sasakyan, 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.

Sa Canada, may mga Araw ng Bilhin Walang mga kaganapan sa Guelph (SA) at Montreal, but you don’t need to go to an event to honor the day — you can just stay home!

Nais malaman ang higit pa? Makita Adbusters’ Buy Nothing Day Campaign o tingnan ang Walang Araw ng kaganapan ng Facebook Bilhin.