:GLOBALISATION_PROJECT [research - www.adbusters.org]:
My first stop for anti-globalisation research took me to the Adbusters website. It was created off the back of the magazine of the same name. It consists of a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs creating material to post on the site/print in the mag. Their aim is to “topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century.”
The magazine is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is a not-for-profit, reader-supported, 120,000-circulation magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces.
The work produced by Adbusters has been embraced by organisations like Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, has been featured in hundreds of alternative and mainstream newspapers, magazines, and television and radio shows around the world.
It has one of the most diverse readerships of any publication. Read in 60 countries worldwide.
Readers span from professors and students; activists and politicians; environmentalists and media professionals; corporate watchdogs and industry insiders.
With this specific vision and wide and varied readership Adbusters is one of the foremost adversaries of initiatives such as globalisation. The organisation seems very anti-capitalist and portrays serious issues with a lot of political satire.
One of their campaigns that interested me specifically in relation to globalisation is called ‘Buy Nothing Day’ and it occurs November 25th every year.
Basically it was created to try and reduce the effects of global warming by encouraging consumers to not shop on this day. I think this shows that there are people that are thinking of the consequences of global capitalism but they are still certainly in the minority.
Here is the advert made by Adbusters to promote Buy Nothing Day 2005, they couldn’t get advertising airtime from any of the mainstream networks.
My first stop for anti-globalisation research took me to the Adbusters website. It was created off the back of the magazine of the same name. It consists of a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs creating material to post on the site/print in the mag. Their aim is to “topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century.”
The magazine is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is a not-for-profit, reader-supported, 120,000-circulation magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces.
The work produced by Adbusters has been embraced by organisations like Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, has been featured in hundreds of alternative and mainstream newspapers, magazines, and television and radio shows around the world.
It has one of the most diverse readerships of any publication. Read in 60 countries worldwide.
Readers span from professors and students; activists and politicians; environmentalists and media professionals; corporate watchdogs and industry insiders.
With this specific vision and wide and varied readership Adbusters is one of the foremost adversaries of initiatives such as globalisation. The organisation seems very anti-capitalist and portrays serious issues with a lot of political satire.
One of their campaigns that interested me specifically in relation to globalisation is called ‘Buy Nothing Day’ and it occurs November 25th every year.
Basically it was created to try and reduce the effects of global warming by encouraging consumers to not shop on this day. I think this shows that there are people that are thinking of the consequences of global capitalism but they are still certainly in the minority.
Here is the advert made by Adbusters to promote Buy Nothing Day 2005, they couldn’t get advertising airtime from any of the mainstream networks.
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