Spychips Protest #2

[Russell Kanning]

Russell is trying to sabotage the protest!!!! It's Friday, not Thursday!!! Don't listen to him!!!

I am a walmart plant.

[Kat Kanning]

I thought he was looking kinda green lately.

[Kat Kanning]

We're going to be there for this.

[Michael Fisher]

We're going to be there for this.

Woohoo!!!   

[Dave Ridley]

turnout was 17 + 1 journalist; don't know who he was with.   I got video with Katherine's cam and she got lots of pics , Katherine could you post them to our image gallary?   Thanks for organizing this!

[NH Katherine]

Pics are online here:

http://www.spychips.com/protest/amherst-slideshow/

Great event! Thanks for the memories and the wonderful photos.

[Kat Kanning]

So did any story come out of that reporter who showed up?

[NH Katherine]

That reporter was from the Hippo newspaper in Nashua.  Does anyone remember his name or have his contact information?
Can someone pick up a copy of the Hippo and see if there's anything in there?

Btw, as a result of our protest, a piece on RFID and our opposition to it will run in the Foster's Daily Democrat in Dover on Dec 11. We are also working with WMUR television on a feature news story that will run some time in January. More will come of this -- we are just getting warmed up.

[AlanM]

That reporter was from the Hippo newspaper in Nashua.? Does anyone remember his name or have his contact information?
Can someone pick up a copy of the Hippo and see if there's anything in there?

Btw, as a result of our protest, a piece on RFID and our opposition to it will run in the Foster's Daily Democrat in Dover on Dec 11. We are also working with WMUR television on a feature news story that will run some time in January. More will come of this -- we are just getting warmed up.

Great! Keep up the good work. 

[Kat Kanning]

I can't find anything on the Hippo website.

http://www.hipponashua.com/

[Michael Fisher]

Woohoo!!!

This is going to be HUGE! ?

[Michael Fisher]

Pics are online here:

http://www.spychips.com/protest/amherst-slideshow/

Great event! Thanks for the memories and the wonderful photos.

Do you have the video footage of the event?  Or was that Dave Ridley's video camera?

[Michael Fisher]

I can't find anything on the Hippo website.

http://www.hipponashua.com/

FOUND IT!!!

http://www.hippopress.com/nashua/051201/shopanddrop.html

Shop and drop
Steely Dan was onto something

By John ?jaQ? Andrews

I?m getting too old for Black Friday.

When I woke up at 6:36 a.m. the day after Thanksgiving, it was already far too late to make the opening of nearly every store in South Nashua.

The morning began at 5 or 6 a.m. for many of the big box retailers. CompUSA actually opened at midnight, ensuring that every advertised product sold out before dawn. There was even something there I thought I might get as a Christmas present, rather than for my pile of neat gizmos that I rarely use, but no dice. All gone by 7:30 when I sloughed in.

The advantage of coming in late, of course, is that traffic isn?t that bad, and you don?t have to stand in line outside in the cold. In my various shopping stops, only once did I have to create a parking spot out of whole cloth. (Parallel parking between two cement supports underneath Best Buy.)

Nor was I confronted with abject rudeness, violence or snarkiness from store employees or fellow shoppers. I?m not quite done Christmas shopping yet, but I got a surprising amount done.

Buy nothing

In opposition to the Black Friday phenomenon is the Buy Nothing Day movement, which rejects consumerism and materialism.

Scheduling it for the first day of the American Christmas shopping season probably hasn?t helped it win many converts in this country, but overseas, it has quite a following.

Big Brother

Opponents of the use of RFID chips in retail products chose Black Friday to stage a protest at the Amherst Wal-Mart, 85 Route 101A. Members of NHCASPIAN (the New Hampshire chapter of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) stood at the roadside, bearing ?STOP RFID? and other signs.

Radio Frequency Identification chips are similar to barcodes in that they uniquely identify retail products. Unlike barcodes, however, they can be read by scanners from a distance of several feet, and while barcodes merely identify a product ? a red sequinned belt, for instance ? the RFID tag in each and every red sequinned belt has a different unique code.

?Currently they?re embedded in the packaging,? said Katherine Albrecht of Nashua, the head of the national CASPIAN organization. She refers to RFID tags as ?spychips,? and fears that the day is not far off when every piece of clothing we wear and everything in our pockets is tagged and trackable.

[Michael Fisher]

Just wait until the WMUR/Fosters stories collide.