Adbusters
Sign in to saveThe Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, pro-environment organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia. Adbusters describes itself as "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."
Key facts
- Organization.name
- Adbusters Media Foundation
- Organization.founder
- Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz
- Organization.location
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Organization.key_people
- Kalle Lasn, co-founder and editor-in-chief Bill Schmalz, co-Founder and co-publisher Darren Fleet, senior editor Stefanie Krasnow, senior editor Douglas Haddow, senior editor
- Organization.homepage
- Adbusters.org
- Magazine.title
- Adbusters
- Magazine.image_file
- Adbusters 98 American Autumn cover.jpg
- Magazine.image_size
- 244px
- Magazine.image_caption
- Cover of Issue # 98 (Nov/Dec 2011) of Adbusters
- Magazine.frequency
- Bi-monthly
- Magazine.language
- English
- Magazine.editor
- Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz
- Magazine.editor_title
- Founder
- Magazine.firstdate
- 1989
- Magazine.country
- Canada
- Magazine.website
- Adbusters.org
- Magazine.issn
- 0847-9097
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Article
22 sectionsContents
- History
- Mental environmentalism
- Issues
- Anti-advertising
- Media Carta
- Legal action
- Campaigns
- Culture jamming
- Blackspot Shoes campaign
- Reception
- Occupy Wall Street
- Criticisms
- Criminal Mischief
- Commercial [[Style (visual arts)|style]]
- Legal issues
- Alleged antisemitism
- Ineffective activism
- Awards
- See also
- References
- External links
- Academic and news sites
The Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, pro-environment organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia. Adbusters describes itself as "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."
As anti-capitalist or opposed to capitalism, it publishes the reader-supported, advertising-free Adbusters, an activist magazine devoted to challenging consumerism. The magazine has an international circulation peaking at 120,000 in the late 2000s with circulation of 60,000 in 2022. Past and present contributors to the magazine include Jonathan Barnbrook, Morris Berman, Brendan Connell, Simon Critchley, David Graeber, Michael Hardt, Chris Hedges, Bill McKibben, Jim Munroe, David Orrell, Douglas Rushkoff, Matt Taibbi, Slavoj Žižek, and others.
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