Consumerism Sucks
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Purchasing Power in 2009

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Banksy
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Banksy is a British graffiti artist

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The Scream of Poverty
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I Am a Freegan
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Freeganism is an anti-consumerist lifestyle whereby people employ alternative living strategies based on "limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources". Freegans "embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed." The lifestyle involves salvaging discarded, unspoiled food from supermarket dumpsters, known as dumpster diving. Freegans salvage the food for political reasons, rather than out of need.

The word "freegan" is a portmanteau of "free" and "vegan". Freeganism started in the mid 1990s, out of the antiglobalization and environmentalist movements. The movement also has elements of Diggers, an anarchist street theater group based in Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco in the 1960s, that gave away rescued food. (Text's source: Wikipedia)

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Angela Merkel

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Angela Merkel is the current
Chancellor of Germany.
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Jacques Mercier
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Jacques Mercier is a famous Belgian writer,
actor, TV animator and radio personality
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Francis Cabrel

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Francis Cabrel is a famous French
singer, songwriter and guitarist
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Jean Sarkozy
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Jean Sarkozy (23 year old) is the son
of the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy
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Damn! I Can't Find It

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My Recent Photos

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All the photos below are available in full resolution
for printing purposes on my Flickr page
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Please, do not use them for commercial
purposes without my explicit
consent. Thanks.
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© 2009 - Ben Heine

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Ben Heine
by Junior Lopes

Junior Lopes is a Brazilian artist
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