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IN 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
Carrotmob Makes It Rain
Check out the first ever Carrotmob campaign!

Carrotmob Makes It Rain from carrotmob on Vimeo.

Junichi 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 […]

Want 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 […]

They 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 […]

The 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 […]

The 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 […]

For 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!

Great 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.
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YouTube - Wassup with your beer?

On 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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