June 19, 2012

Pattison Outdoor has denied Greenpeace Canada the space on one of its billboards in downtown Edmonton – and handed the activist group a much bigger free PR opportunity.

On Friday, the company, which owns billboards and other ad space on public transit and in malls and airports, advised Greenpeace Canada that it had rejected its ad about oil spills in Alberta.

Greenpeace had booked the billboard space earlier in the week and submitted the design on Wednesday. Pattison rejected it two days later without giving the organization its reasons for doing so.

More here.

Here is the ad in question:

Via.

Making money by controlling public space.

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Filed under: Greenpeace propganda censorship corporate Canada oil tar sands Alberta public space 
March 30, 2012
nprfreshair: The NPR review of Bully: “Bully is a wrenching, intensely moral film, and so potentially useful to children who are either being bullied, or doing the bullying, that the MPAA’s Victorian prudery about a few instances of schoolyard language can’t help but seem boneheaded.” — Bob Mondello (via Movie Review - ‘Bully’ - A Provocative And Essential Documentary : NPR)

nprfreshair:

The NPR review of Bully:

“Bully is a wrenching, intensely moral film, and so potentially useful to children who are either being bullied, or doing the bullying, that the MPAA’s Victorian prudery about a few instances of schoolyard language can’t help but seem boneheaded.” — Bob Mondello

(via Movie Review - ‘Bully’ - A Provocative And Essential Documentary : NPR)

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Filed under: Bully movie review NPR MPAA censorship morality 
October 18, 2011
utnereader: Tim DeChristopher is the only person to have been named an Utne Reader visionary while in prison: He’s serving a two-year sentence for disrupting a federal oil and gas lease auction in Utah in an act of environmental protest. One reason we nominated DeChristopher as a visionary is because he became a hugely inspirational figure to other environmentalists as he wrote and spoke about his principled act of civil disobedience right up until he was led to his cell. But make no mistake: He is in prison mainly because he dared to continue speaking out. Keep reading …

utnereader:

Tim DeChristopher is the only person to have been named an Utne Reader visionary while in prison: He’s serving a two-year sentence for disrupting a federal oil and gas lease auction in Utah in an act of environmental protest.

One reason we nominated DeChristopher as a visionary is because he became a hugely inspirational figure to other environmentalists as he wrote and spoke about his principled act of civil disobedience right up until he was led to his cell. But make no mistake: He is in prison mainly because he dared to continue speaking out.

Keep reading …

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Filed under: Tim DeChristopher oil capitalism protest principle environmental civil disobedience speaking out censor censorship 
September 3, 2011
futurejournalismproject: China Censors Newsweek Article of Prominent Dissident Via Voice of America: Censors in China have attempted to purge an essay written by prominent artist and dissident Ai Weiwei by manually tearing the pages of the article from a weekly news magazine. The essay, which appears in the September 5 issue of Newsweek, urges Chinese citizens to speak out against what he says is the government’s denial of “basic rights.” He also blasts the Chinese judicial system as being untrustworthy. However, the article was still accessible online to English speakers as of Friday afternoon local time, despite China’s vigilant online censorship. Ai was understood to be barred from speaking to media or leaving Beijing after being released from jail in June. The internationally renowned artist was detained for almost three months after being charged with tax evasion. In 2009, Ai was brutally beaten by police because of his work on a project that attempted to accurately count the number of children killed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. He later underwent brain surgery in Germany because of it. Image: Ai Weiwei greets reporters after his June 2011 release from jail.

futurejournalismproject:

China Censors Newsweek Article of Prominent Dissident

Via Voice of America:

Censors in China have attempted to purge an essay written by prominent artist and dissident Ai Weiwei by manually tearing the pages of the article from a weekly news magazine.

The essay, which appears in the September 5 issue of Newsweek, urges Chinese citizens to speak out against what he says is the government’s denial of “basic rights.” He also blasts the Chinese judicial system as being untrustworthy.

However, the article was still accessible online to English speakers as of Friday afternoon local time, despite China’s vigilant online censorship.

Ai was understood to be barred from speaking to media or leaving Beijing after being released from jail in June. The internationally renowned artist was detained for almost three months after being charged with tax evasion.

In 2009, Ai was brutally beaten by police because of his work on a project that attempted to accurately count the number of children killed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. He later underwent brain surgery in Germany because of it.

Image: Ai Weiwei greets reporters after his June 2011 release from jail.

(Source: futurejournalismproject)

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Filed under: ai weiwei censorship china news power authority discipline freedom artist essay