Tag archive for ‘consumer activism’

back to the bush

Hunter-gatherer bushmen who had been forced out of Botswana’s Kalahari Desert found their way onto the Web before winning back the right to return to their tribal lands.
Displaced to settlement camps over the last decade, allegedly so Botswana could preserve the land and its wildlife within the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, many of the bushmen [...]

Product (RED)

You’ve seen the campaign. It features a slew of celebrities, each one artfully shot wearing pieces from the GAP’s RED line— a format that has become a Gap advertising trademark. This time around the cast includes Chris Rock, Steven Spielberg, Penelope Cruz, Jennifer Garner, supermodel Christi Turlington, Dakota Fanning, Mary J. Blidge and Don Cheadle. [...]

Colbert: Operation Humble Kanye
SNL: Obama Plays It Cool
G. McInnes: Help Sophie Walk