Hello Cool World (105)
By Katherine Dodds On November 29, 2008 | 0 Comments
When I started Good Company Communications eight years ago I had a vision for what the web could do for social causes that came out of my previous 20 years of activism. It really started with Manufacturing Consent* -- the film that pulled me from my "separatist" world of no TV, no computer, and the attempt to exist without plastic, into the realization that we need to BE the media, it's too powerful to leave alone.
I was already working with Mark Achbar during the early days of The Corporation when I started all this, so as to have a way to not only promote the film's launch, but to work on sustaining the desire it produced in so many people -- to get involved, to shape change and to prevent profit over people from prevailing.
As we prepare to send out an e'Zine next week to all our HCW members, I am thinking about the projects we take on and how they interconnect.
Katherine Dodds AKA "Kat" is the founder of Good Company Communications and HelloCoolWorld.com. Trained in renegade advertising & branding through her work with Adbusters in the '90s, Kat's early induction into the possibilities of the web-world was inspired by the term hypertext, which she immediately found comforting. She is dedicated to cause-related communication and to the development and use of tools that promote democratic processes.
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By Katherine Dodds On November 25, 2008 | 0 Comments
What's new at HelloCoolWorld? We are getting ready to close our webstore for the annual BUY NOTHING DAY event. (Created many years ago by Vancouver artist and activist Ted Dave and taken up by Adbusters, now an international out of control anti-consumer activism day!) It happens when Americans traditionally start their post-thanksgiving shopping orgy that lasts until Christmas.
In these times, it does seem that unfettered consumption as a way of life has reached it's own bottom line. The day after BND we are going to be urging you to do a little more "Think-Buying" as now, it's more important then ever to support the progressive people, organizations, and causes that are also feeling the crunch as the financial crisis trickles down to their funders and donors making fund-raising more precarious.
We're thrilled to be working with Inter Pares this year on their alternative giving campaign -- Give Something Big! We're making it part of our Campaign 4 Corporate Harm Reduction.
By Katherine Dodds On November 12, 2008 | 0 Comments
THIS SATURDAY VANCOUVER HEADS TO THE POLLS -- HOMELESSNESS ON THE TOP OF MAYORAL CANDIDATE GREGOR ROBERTSON'S PLATFORM (VISIONVANCOUVER.CA) At the Same time we at HelloCoolWorld are starting to do outreach work with the film BEVEL UP: DRUGS, USERS & OUTREACH NURSING. To stay in touch join our mail list.
BEVEL UP follows street nurses in Vancouver's Downtown East Side (DTES) working with anyone who needs their care. Many of these people are homeless. Watch this blog for details of our ongoing work with the film and the issues it represents.
By Katherine Dodds On October 24, 2008 | 0 Comments
I'll be partying tonight in Vancouver with Mark Achbar and Siobhan Flannagan celebrate (we hope) our US friends and Obama's victory. For an international look at how US elections work check out the BBC online.
I'd also like to encourage those in the US to go see the powerful film Trouble The Water— a true story about a remarkable couple in New Orleans — including a raw first-person video account of the hurricane as it hit them. The film documents them surviving not only deadly hurricanes, breached levees and armed soldiers, but reflecting after the fact on a government that has repeatedly failed them a powerful testament to why we need change NOW.
To find out where the film is playing now go to: www.troublethewaterfilm.com
By Katherine Dodds On October 07, 2008 | 0 Comments
Watching the new feature film of Battle in Seattle brought me right back there, I could almost smell the tear gas. The feature film depicting the real events in Seattle in 1999 comes out on Friday October 17 in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Check out the trailer. Battle in Seattle dramatizes real events with some high profile actors, but all the footage that isn't acted is actual footage from the WTO protest, collected from the many film crews that were there including the makers of The Corporation. It was the early days and Mark Achbar had three different camera crews running around Seattle.
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