Earth Activism

Protesting Pooch Portraits - The Buzzfeed 'Dogs of Occupy Wall Street' Snaps are Animal Outcries (TrendHunter.com)

(TrendHunter.com) If you haven't seen enough heartfelt signage in the rowdy crowds of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Buzzfeed's collection of the 'Dogs of Occupy Wall Street' are the most adorable in activist animals....
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Comforting Disaster Kits - The iBousai Evacuee Kit Will Provide Everything You Need in an Emergency (TrendHunter.com)

(TrendHunter.com) With memories of the Tohoku Earthquake fading in Japan's rearview mirror, the country's engineers and designers are doing their best to remain vigilant in the face of apathy and the iBousai Evacuee Kit...
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Concentration Challenges - Focus Pocus is a Mind-Controlled Game That Alleviates ADHD in Children (TrendHunter.com)

(TrendHunter.com) Controllers and gamepads are old news according to the new video game Focus Pocus, which opts for an electroencephalography (EEG) in favor of analog controls. The developer NeuroCog Solutions hopes to...
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Animal Experimentation Campaigns - The Deutscher Tierschutz 2011 Ad is Horrifying (TrendHunter.com)

(TrendHunter.com) As much as PETA and other animal rights groups are trying to stop horrendous activities that endanger these helpless creatures, the Deutscher Tierschutz 2011 ad campaign shows these efforts are still falling...
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Provocative Protesting Pictorials - 'Rebels, Always Rebel' is aleXsandro Palombo's Latest Editorial (TrendHunter.com)

(TrendHunter.com) Despite a cartoony, colorful look that begs for attention, 'Rebels, Always Rebel' is an artwork editorial that calls for serious dialogue concerning Spain's (and the world's) crippling social issues. Unemployment,...
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Female Protester Tributes - 'Hot Chicks of Occupy Wall Street' is Surprisingly Inspiring (TrendHunter.com)

(TrendHunter.com) In times of economic crisis, the urge to participate in demonstrations like Occupy Wall Street spreads over a wide spectrum of demographics, including young, passionate, driven, and yes, attractive, females...
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Conceptual Poverty Prints - The Marussiac 'Food For The Poor' Art Project Raises Awareness (TrendHunter.com)

(TrendHunter.com) In the summer of 2011, Marussiac created a series of art prints called 'Lost Supper' where the main idea is that global poverty is only becoming a deeper problem. A series of the graphic art is now complemented...
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Wisconsin Legislature Holds Hearings on Affirmative Action: Students Criticize Priorities

MADISON -- Wisconsin legislators heard Monday from the president of a group alleging the University of Wisconsin's admissions policies discriminates against whites. Students had protested when the group's report was first released in September, but on Monday they stayed out of the Assembly hearing to communicate to legislators there are more important issues facing the state.

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Protest Currency Campaigns - Occupy George Involves Circulating Fake Bills with Infographics on Them (TrendHunter.com)

(TrendHunter.com) It may be illegal, bold and even considered a felony, but Occupy George is potentially one of the smartest information campaigns I've ever seen! For the uninitiated, Occupy Wall Street is a worldwide...
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European Eco Expeditions - The TransEurope 2011 Event Hopes to Raise Awareness Worldwide (TrendHunter.com)

(TrendHunter.com) After cycling across North America with a group of environmental activists, Todd Miller felt the uncontrollable desire to continue his trek beyond the shores of the Atlantic and so began preparation for...
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Satirical Sociopolitical Comics - 'After the Barbarians' Gives Insight into Post-Apartheid Culture (TrendHunter.com)

(TrendHunter.com) As with many things in life, once something is out of sight, it usually becomes out of mind; the After The Barbarians solo exhibit, however, strives to bring South Africa's post-apartheid culture back...
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Moving Minority Blogs - The 'We are the 1 Percent' Tumblr is a Heartwarming Boost for Humanity (TrendHunter.com)

(TrendHunter.com) Now that the tax tension has seriously escalated with cases like the Occupy Wall Street movement, the fight for the overwhelmed masses gets a bit of support from the 'We are the 1 Percent' Tumblr. As...
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Group Pushes Major League Baseball to Drop Glenn Beck

A group called Americans United for Change has started a campaign to pressure Major League Baseball (MLB) to end its relationship with demagogue Glenn Beck. Beck left the Fox News Channel earlier this year amid a citizen campaign that succeeded in pressuring nearly 400 advertisers to boycott his show. After leaving Fox, he started his own online television network, GBTV, which charges subscribers $9.95 a month. the interactive branch of the Major League Baseball empire, MLB Advanced Media, agreed to provide Beck's new TV platform with streaming video of sports shows, including baseball games. In response, Americans United for Change launched a website called StrikeOutBeck.com, where viewers can sign a petition asking the corporation that manages America's "favorite pasttime" to cut its ties to Beck. The site features a "Glenn Beck Hall of Hate," with clips of some of Beck's many inflammatory or absurd assertions, like when he said God "punished Japan" with a massive earthquake. Americans United is also running a Facebook ad campaign in major league baseball cities like St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Oakland, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and Milwaukee to make people aware of the website and invite them to visit it and sign the petition. A second phase of the campaign is also in the works, which will include more paid ads, probably on sports radio, and urge people to write letters to baseball team owners asking them to end MLB's relationship with Beck. [Updated Oct. 15, 2011]

No Main Source:  Huffington Post - Politics, October 13, 2011

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Nature-Harming Humans - The Alerj 2011 Ad Campaign is Disturbingly Futuristic (TrendHunter.com)

(TrendHunter.com) Slowly but surely, awareness of the human species' impact on the planet is sinking in thanks to global efforts by individuals, organizations and even governments as proven by the Alerj 2011 ad campaign....
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Meme-Mocking Marketing - The PETA AutoCorrect Ads Use Familiar Humor for a Great Cause (TrendHunter.com)

(TrendHunter.com) The PETA AutoCorrect campaign by BBDO, New York aims to educate other advertisers and agencies to stop using real apes in their commercials. Thanks to the contribution of Toygar Bazarkaya, the executive...
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Heart-Wrenching Children Canvases - The Jonathan Darby Artworks Have a Strong Cultural Message (TrendHunter.com)

(TrendHunter.com) Some artists are able to move you emotionally with just a glance, and the Jonathan Darby artworks achieve this feat. His vulnerable and child-like captures are drawn along the lines of socio-political...
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Chicago to Wall Street: Pay US Back!

While the Occupy Wall Street movement is sweeping the country and peaceful arrests are mounting, Chicagoans took to the streets this week to hold the big banks accountable for crashing the economy and to demand city, state and federal policies that work for working families.

For many, the goal was stopping the foreclosure mill and telling the big banks it was time to Pay US Back! for the $4.7 trillion bailout. For others, the demands focused on the fallout from the financial crisis including contentious contract negotiations with the administration of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel.

For most, the range of issues were inextricably linked.

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"Occupy Wall Street" Should Protest Wall Street Takeover of Health Care

The lobbyists for U.S. health insurers surely have to be feeling a little uneasy knowing that thousands of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators who have been marching and protesting in Washington as well as New York and other cities might target them in the days ahead. After all, the headquarters of the insurers' biggest lobbying and PR group, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), at 601 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., is just blocks away from Freedom Plaza, where the demonstrators have set up camp -- and problems with health insurers appear to be near the top of the list of protesters' concerns.

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Crime-Tackling Creative Projects - The Art Against Knives 'Focused Young Individuals' Exhibition (TrendHunter.com)

(TrendHunter.com) When it comes to governments, art and culture are often left on the back-burner in terms of funding, but Art Against Knives knows the value of creative projects and the impact it can have on positive social...
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"Occupy" Movement Comes to Madison, Wisconsin

By Emily Osborne

MADISON – The energy from Wisconsinites protesting Governor Scott Walker's attack on working people in early spring may have inspired Occupy Wall Street, and on Friday, Occupy Wall Street inspired demonstrations in Wisconsin. Around 150 people gathered in Madison's Reynolds Park Friday night for the first in a series of Occupy Madison demonstrations.

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Artistic Seaside Maintenance Methods - One Beach is an Eco Initiative to Keep Sands Safe (TrendHunter.com)

(TrendHunter.com) One Beach is a marine conservation movement that calls on the clout, culture and convincing power of artists around the world to achieve an increasingly rare feat: a barefoot-friendly beach. Most of...
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The Occupation Is On The Move, Find a Big Bank Protest Near You

U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone used to say "sometimes you have to pick a fight to win one."

Now Occupy Wall Street has picked one, right in Jamie Dimon's backyard.

But it won't stay contained in Zuccotti Park. While Brookfield Properties called the park a "public sanctuary" in 2005, they have apparently changed their minds. Mr. Zuccotti wants his park back and the police are preparing to clear it with new rules barring camping, sleeping and breathing.

They are too late. The train has left the station and the Occupation is on the move. From Manhattan to Hawaii big bank protests are planned. Everyone who cares about creating an economy that works for working people should get on board.

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Chilling Conservation Campaigns - The WWF's 'Horrifying' Campaign is To-the-Point (TrendHunter.com)

(TrendHunter.com) The message behind the World Wildlife Foundation 'Horrifying' campaign is simple and concise: although sharks may seem scary, a world devoid of them would genuinely be frightening. Those unconvinced...
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Price-Slashed Slates - The Aakash is a $75 Tablet PC Meant to Modernize the Indian Countryside (TrendHunter.com)

(TrendHunter.com) Holding the multitouch, shock-proof Aakash triumphantly above his head, India's Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal exclaimed, “To every child in India I carry this message: Aim for the sky...
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Poverty Puppets - Sesame Street Hungry Muppet Helps Children Understand Issue of Hunger (TrendHunter.com)

(TrendHunter.com) Sesame Street will soon be introducing to children a "hungry muppet" in a one-hour special called "Growing Hope Against Hunger" that will be aired on Oct. 9. This special program aims to teach children...
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