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Noah
12-26-2005, 10:32 PM
Hi,
Did anyone see the 30 person renegade anti shopping choir on Main street on Monday? As detailed on the mouseplanet monday morning update.
Apparently 30 people came in with choir robes hidden underneath sweat suits and started marching down main street singing anti shopping songs and anti Disneyland shopping songs until the police were able to remove them from the park. I just wonder who paid for the 30 or so peoples adult admission tickets. That is over $1800 in money that could have been spent on charity or some other good cause. Instead spent to disturb paying guests at Disneyland and cause a commotion for families waiting for the parade. How sad.

PapiBear
12-26-2005, 10:39 PM
That sounds like a great name for a band - "Renegade Anti Shopping Choir". Their first album could be titled "Do Not Buy This CD".

SandraVB79
12-27-2005, 12:03 AM
That sounds like a great name for a band - "Renegade Anti Shopping Choir". Their first album could be titled "Do Not Buy This CD".

LOL


Well, it always strikes me when I see that people have nothing better to do... Don't they have real hobbies? Family to visit at this time of the year? Volunteer work to do to keep them busy?

The Mouse Is Back
12-27-2005, 09:24 AM
I definitely don't approve of where and when they decided to do this - but the message that Christmas (and everything else) has become overcommercialized, and that consumers are sheep who will cave to advertising pressure and the need to "keep up with the Joneses" is a valid and timely one.


-Allegra-

Opus1guy
12-27-2005, 09:27 AM
Well I guess if Main Street is also supposed to represent the "ideals, dreams and hard facts that have created America"...then a public protest marching down Main Street would be appropriate to that great American Right.

;)

P.S. I heard a rumor that these people were signed into the Park by Food Services Managers who are trying to divert Guest spending from merchandise purchases, toward more food purchases. It's a cutthroat Disney-world out there! Look for Merchandise Services to start their own retaliatory "Churros Are People!" skywriting campaign, soon.

;)

disneyhound
12-27-2005, 10:18 AM
P.S. I heard a rumor that these people were signed into the Park by Food Services Managers who are trying to divert Guest spending from merchandise purchases, toward more food purchases. It's a cutthroat Disney-world out there! Look for Merchandise Services to start their own retaliatory "Churros Are People!" skywriting campaign, soon.;)
hee hee hee...

SandraVB79
12-28-2005, 12:15 AM
I definitely don't approve of where and when they decided to do this - but the message that Christmas (and everything else) has become overcommercialized, and that consumers are sheep who will cave to advertising pressure and the need to "keep up with the Joneses" is a valid and timely one.


-Allegra-

Every year at work, we receive a Christmas Bonus, which equals a month's salary. Last year, I received the bonus, and two days later, the Tsunami struck Asia. I donated my whole bonus to Plan, Unicef and "Artsen zonder grenzen" (Doctors without frontiers, or something like that, don't know how it has been called in English).
Sorry if, after donating about $2000, I still want to spend money in stores (being them Disney or not).
Whether Christmas is overcommercialized or not, it's not of anyone's business where I spend money, how much money I spend, how I spend it or when I spend it.

hlbtimes2
12-28-2005, 08:28 AM
Dh and I were laughing a couple weeks ago, about the whole "over commercialism" thing. Did you know that 40 years ago when they made Charlie Brown Christmas they were talking about it then? For at least 40 years groups of people have been complaining. Its nothing new!

The Mouse Is Back
12-28-2005, 11:40 AM
IIRC, 40 years ago Christmas merchandise didn't hit the aisles and advertising until after Thanksgiving, and the advertising wasn't anywhere near as "in your face" as it is now.. They start up with it now before Halloween.

Yep. More commercial and aggressive, by my standards. A LOT more.


-Allegra-

potzbie
12-28-2005, 12:01 PM
Yes! I saw them!

The "choir" was dressed in red choir robes.

The leader was dressed in an all white suit, might some people might call an Ice Cream suit, and leading the group, while ranting in a preacher-kind of way.

The words of their chants I heard were something about "JESUS".
I did not hear any specific rant about "SHOPPING" or "COMMERCIALISM", as other posters mentioned.

I was surprised to see a DL security person on a walkie talkie at the end of the choir, which immediately suggested to my mind that DL had NOT authorized this ad hoc group.

When I saw them, they were marching from the HUB to the ENTRANCE.
When I last saw them, they apparently had circled TOWN SQUARE because they were now marching from the TOWN SQUARE back up MAIN STREET.
That is when I saw the security man with the walkie talkie.
I was wondering how DL security was going to "take down" the group.

What were they thinking?
If they wished to send a message, then all they sent was, "We are whackos."

Disney Vault
12-28-2005, 01:52 PM
Wow, people are nuts. I think it would have been cool to see how the disney security handled the situation.