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Bits
The bits are taken primarily from
Adbusters, as well as from articles, websites, books, songs, and people Lloyd has had contact with, as well as from Lloyd.
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Wal-Mart has given employees red-white-blue stickers that read "United We Stand"
to wear on their name badges. One employee put a home-made sticker on his badge
that read "No More Blood". He was told by management that it violated the Wal-Mart
dress code no-slogans-on-clothing rule, and was given the choice to remove it
or be terminated. God bless free America.
PepsiCo is using independent (i.e. "indy") rock bands to market their product
"Amp". The irony lies in a multinational
corporation that saturates people's lives and environments with unhealthy garbage
succeeding in buying out "independent" musicians.
Canada Post endorses deforestation
Canada Post offers a service called "Addressed Admail" where bulk advertisements
are mailed to you in envelopes with your name and address on them. In the style
of the "advertorial", this service legitimizes the wasteful practice of deforestation
and abuse of the postal service ideal with bulk advertisements by dressing consumerist
propaganda as valuable addressed mail.
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A 23-year-old in Oslo wrote the word "Idol?" on 23 posters advertising Hennes
& Mauritz depicted thin girls clad in underwear. He now is being made to pay 9000
kroner to the ad company who made the posters.
Technofascism: a global system of imperialism in which ostensibly free individuals
allow corporate America and the United States government to manipulate and control
their lives through money, markets, media, and technology, resulting in the loss
of political will, civil liberties, collective memory, and traditional culture.
A group of people in a small town in the United States put anti-war flyers on
cars which displayed patriotic paraphernaelia. Already in disfavour by the locals
because of the way they look and think, these people were charged with "emotional
abuse" and "disturbing the peace".
Safeway is not a Canadian company.
A Kindergarten class in Asheville, North Carolina made a project called the "World
Wall". The kids brought in words beginning with each letter of the alphabet to
paste into a large mural. The project ended up displaying over one-hundred different
corporate logos, including Kodak, Microsoft, Resse's, Lego, Nascar, AOL, Tommy
Hilfiger, and nearly every Philip Morris Product.
By US law, the airspace over any stadium is now a "no-fly zone".
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If you think a car gives you control, try being in a traffic jam.
"If those in charge of our society--politicians, corporate executives, and owners
of press and television--can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their
power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves."
--Howard Zinn
In Santa Monica, all copies of the issue of Adbusters the cover of which depicted
a singed American flag was taken off the shelves of a "Wild Oats" market, because
one customer complained about the image.
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