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John Key gets punked
1 Comment Published November 3rd, 2008 in Activism Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | ScoopitIN two days of action in New Zealand Greenpeace locked down a dirty dairy land conversiona and then the very next morning, as the sun rose over sleepy Helensville, unfurled a truckload of Ready-Lawn around the outside of National Party leader John Key’s electorate office. Then came some pine trees, some two-dimensional cows and a […]
Carrotmob: Carrotmob Makes It Rain
0 Comments Published August 20th, 2008 in Musings, climate change, Activism Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | ScoopitCarrotmob: Carrotmob Makes It Rain
Carrotmob Makes It Rain
Check out the first ever Carrotmob campaign!
Carrotmob Makes It Rain from carrotmob on Vimeo.
Blogger arrested - blog him out of jail!!
0 Comments Published June 22nd, 2008 in Activism Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | ScoopitJunichi Sato is not only a whale activist in Japan (and there ain’t many people who can put THAT on their business card), he’s also a blogger. And he’s been arrested for the crime of exposing the truth.
Greenpeace is asking bloggers around the world to band together and ‘blog him out of jail’. There’s a […]
Searching for John McCain
2 Comments Published June 10th, 2008 in Musings, Activism Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | ScoopitWant to influence the US elections? If you take part in this great example of Google activism you can.
I’ve grabbed this in its entirety from OpenLeft:
Searching for John McCain is a massive, online activism campaign designed to make at least ten million non-partisan, poll-tested, on-message voter contacts that reveal the damning truth about John McCain […]
Guerrilla Gardeners attack urban eyesores
0 Comments Published June 6th, 2008 in Musings, Activism Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | ScoopitThey work under the cover of night, armed with seed bombs, chemical weapons and pitchforks. Their tactics are anarchistic, their attitude revolutionary. Their aim: to beautify.
An army of self-styled Guerrilla Gardeners is growing across the world, fighting to transform urban wastelands into horticultural havens. To document and encourage their victories, one of the movement’s top […]
Anarchists oppose China trade deal
0 Comments Published May 23rd, 2008 in Activism Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | ScoopitThe Wildcat Anarchist Group presented its submission on the China-NZ free trade agreement to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee today as an intepretive dance.
After a brief dance depicting trying to fly with one wing, fast footwork, a strangled worker and a collapsed economy, the group’s representative answered several questions from the committee.
The […]
Ploughshares penetrate Waihopai spy base and deflate dome
0 Comments Published April 30th, 2008 in Activism Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | ScoopitThe US spy base in Blenheim, New Zealand has been the target of protesters and pranksters before.
This morning, 30 April 2008, a group of Ploughshares activists entered the base an actually managed to deflate one of the domes.
Here’s their press release:
At 6am we cut through three security fences surrounding the domes - these […]
The New Zealand Flat Earth Society
0 Comments Published April 30th, 2008 in Activism Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | ScoopitFor 450 years, the world has colluded against us to hide the truth from the public. We have been downtrodden by an extraordinarily complex conspiracy run by governments who have coerced their scientific cohorts at institutions like NASA to do things like fabricate photographs of the earth. They have even hidden all evidence of the giant Ice Wall which encircles our crepe shaped home from the public. It’s incredibly depressing; we are looking for support as well as offering it!
Budwieser Wassup with your beer?
0 Comments Published October 9th, 2007 in Activism Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | ScoopitGreat spoof from Greenpeace USA …
The corporate braumeisters of Anheuser-Busch have let genetically engineered rice contaminate their Budweiser beer, independent laboratory testing has revealed. Tests show rice used in Anheuser-Busch’s east coast US breweries is contaminated with genetically engineered rice varieties outlawed in most of the world.
Sign the petition
YouTube - Wassup with your beer?
Blog Action Day
2 Comments Published September 22nd, 2007 in Geekery, Activism Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | ScoopitOn October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. The aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future.
Blog Action Day is about MASS participation. […]
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