The Corporation (33)
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 22, 2006 | 0 Comments
We were overwhelmed by one question during the first year of The Corporation's launch: Everyone asked us : "What can I do?" Now we're right backatcha asking: What have you done? In order to develop the Campaign 4 Corporate Harm Reduction, we want to collect your stories about what the film inspired you to do, and what the result was. And if you've heard of things other people have done let us know too.
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