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Adbusters is a political magazine, founded by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz that is published in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada by the Media Foundation. It is an activist magazine, devoted to numerous political and social causes, many of which are anti-consumerism or anti-capitalist in nature. The Adbusters Media Foundation is a 120,000-circulation magazine, the founder of Buy Nothing Day, and one of the sponsors of TV-Turnoff Week. Adbusters is not-for-profit, and is reader-supported.

Adbusters has affiliation with sister organisations such as L'association Résistance à l'Aggression Publicitaire in France, Adbusters Norge in Norway, Adbusters Sverige in Sweden and Culture Jammers in Japan.

The Adbusters mission statement:

We are a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Our aim is to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century.
Adbusters is at essence an ecological magazine, examining the relationship between people and the environment, both the material environment and the mental environment.

Adbusters makes commentary on the social trends in developed nations, and their primary aim is to reduce the influence and prevalence of advertising and consumerism.

We will change the way information flows, the way institutions wield powers, the way the food, fashion, car and culture industries set their agendas. Above all, we will change the way we interact with the mass media and we will reclaim the way in which meaning is produced in society.

Adbusters intellectual position parallels that of the situationists, being concerned with "living by proxy". It can also be compared with Marxism, due to ideas of a placated public and revolution, and Freudianism due to thoughts about modern man being unsatisfied and out-of-place in current society. It describes principals of egalitarianism, and its political position seems close to that of socialism.

The mission of the Adbusters Media Foundation can also be identified with organizations such as Indymedia, Downhill Battle and CNUK. It also holds some common beliefs with Creative Commons Free Culture, No Logo, Green Peace and even PETA.

Information taken from http://www.wikipedia.org



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El Da-wei said…
Nothing is impossible


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Eduardo said…
mas tarde leo el post, pinta bueno por el afiche. malditas maquilas, malditos consumidores, malditas corporaciones, malditos somos todos.
2:19 AM
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