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The Media Foundation
The mission of the non-profit Media Foundation is to redirect
our existing commercial media culture towards ecological and
social awareness. We want a new media environment, one without
a commercial heart and soul. Our goal is to galvanize resistance
against those who would destroy the environment, pollute our
minds and diminish our lives.We want to turn consumers back
into citizens, take the "consumer" out of consumer
culture, and shift the human experiment on Planet Earth back
onto a sustainable path.
To this end, the Media Foundation publishes Adbusters
magazine; operates this website; and offers its creative services
through PowerShift, our advocacy advertising agency.
Adbusters Magazine
Published out of Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada, Adbusters is a not-for-profit, reader-supported, 40,000-circulation
magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural
environments by commercial forces. Our work has been embraced
by organizations like Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, has
been featured on MTV and PBS, in the Wall Street Journal and
Wired, and in hundreds of other newspapers, magazines, and television
and radio shows around the world.
While two-thirds of Adbusters' readers reside
in the United States, the magazine has subscribers in 20 other
countries, with one of the most diverse readerships in all of
publishing. Our readers are professors and students; activists
and politicians; environmentalists and media professionals;
corporate watch dogs and industry insiders; kids who love our
slick ad parodies and parents who worry about their children
logging too many hours a day in the electronic environment.
Adbusters offers intelligent, incisive articles,
activist commentary from around the world, exposes of corporate
media manipulation, our annual social marketing campaigns like
Buy Nothing Day and TV Turnoff Week, and our famed spoof ads.
Ultimately, though, Adbusters is an ecological
magazine, dedicated to examining the relationship between human
beings and their physical and mental environment. We want a
world in which the economy and ecology resonate in balance.
We try to coax people from spectator to participant in this
quest. We want folks to get mad about corporate disinformation,
injustices in the global economy, and any industry that pollutes
our physical or mental commons.
Powershift Advocacy Advertising Agency
The folks at Adbusters delight in helping other
organizations deliver the messages the world needs to hear --
and these same folks at Adbusters all lend their talents to
PowerShift. If your communications are not-for-profit, consider
PowerShift when you call for agencies. We're a full-service
shop, ready to create your next campaign -- if the cause is
right.
Email an outline of your campaign's communications
objectives to powershift@adbusters.org
or fax us at 604.737.6021.
Culture Jammer's Headquarters
This site was designed to help you turn the drab number cruncher
you're staring at right now into the most versatile activist
tool ever reckoned with. From cyberpetitions to Critical Mass
tips, from disseminating corporate propaganda, to downshifting
your lifestyle and treading lightly on the planet, we hope this
site will inspire you to move -- upon your return to the real
world -- from spectator to participant.
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