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A quick intro - I started a nonprofit called The S.W.A.P. Team in June 2009 to encourage the redistribution of clothing as a means of combatting overconsumption. Since we started, we have exchanged over 12,000 pieces of clothing, and have donated over half of that  to local charities.

Recently, we have embarked on a journey with another ( Read more... )

Please allow me to introduce myself... I'm a puppet with wrath and taste. (erm ( Read more... )

Hello!

I've just started a non-profit organization called The S.W.A.P. Team, and we organize large-scale clothing swaps to benefit local communities. We're looking for community-oriented activists  to help us bring our popular event to more cities!

Everyone who we work with is a volunteer and none of us are paid. However, since we do have some ( Read more... )

Check out this short clip from saturday night live: Don't Buy Stuff You Cannot Afford WARNING: there may be a commercial at the beginning.

I think the credit crisis and bailouts are putting some of the big dysfunctional elements of our system in the spotlight, and that can't be a bad thing.

"Terror marketing, or toxic marketing, is one area of negative psychological triggering that works when the target demographic has developed resistance to mass-marketing techniques. In some sense, all black metal relies on toxic marketing. Most horror films use toxic marketing, and a great example comes from the 1990 film Crazy People, in which an ( Read more... )

NATIONWIDE PROTEST NOVEMBER 22
39 STATES
PROTEST FOR THE REPEAL OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE ACT

http://endthefed.us

The rand corporation published this white-paper on the subject that I think many of you may find interesting. (Not surprisingly, many of these are ideas I played with liberally during the creation of my 2nd novel, Fallen Nation.)

"Editors’ abstract. As with other new modes of conflict, the practice of netwar is ahead of theory. In this concluding ( Read more... )

the context of my last post (http://community.livejournal.com/adbusters/464433.html) was that it was an email written to his family and it's true that it didn't have a lot of sources cited, but it's aim was to begin a discussion and to plant an over view of some things that would be useful ( Read more... )