Category: Creative Activism

Submitted by Andrew Boyd:

We lowly activists have done shit like this before, but this is the second richest person in the world and geek-in-chief doing it…

Bill Gates releases swarm of mosquitoes on TED audience
by Georgina Robinson
theage.com.au
February 5, 2009

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has released a swarm of mosquitoes into an audience at a technology and design conference in California.

High profile members of online networking service Twitter reported the incident on Wednesday (US time), which reportedly occurred during Gates’s talk on malaria eradication, a cause the entrepreneur is pushing through his philanthropic foundation.

“Bill Gates just released mosquitos into the audience at TED and said ‘Not only poor people should experience this’,” Facebook manager Dave Morin wrote on Twitter. Continue reading “Billionaire Activism”

Americans to Boot President Bush Out of the White House

WHEN: Monday, January 19th at 11:00 a.m. ET

WHERE: Rally begins at DuPont Circle, followed by a march to the White House with shoes and combat boots

On President Bush’s last day in office, people will gather at DuPont Circle in Washington, D.C., for an event entitled “Shoes for Bush.” The rally will feature David Swanson, the author of the forthcoming book “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union.” He is also the creator of the progressive blog After Downing Street. Other speakers include Iraq veteran Adam Kokesh, who is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Debra Sweet, anti-war leader and director of the organization World Can’t Wait, Tim Carpenter, President of Progressive Democrats for America; Poet /Activist Lori Perdue from Indianapolis, Indiana; Ann Wright, retired U.S. Army Colonel; Gael Murphy, co-founder of Code Pink; and the “Yes We Can Can” dancers. EMCEE- Jamilla El-Shafei, organizer from Kennebunk, Maine.

After the rally participants will march to the White House with footwear to hurl. This action will be in the spirit of Iraqi Journalist Mutadhar Al-Zaidi who threw his shoes at President Bush during a press conference, and in solidarity with the people in Iraq and Afghanistan.

thanks Deb

Carrotmob, which recently begat Virgance, organizes consumers to make purchases that give financial rewards to those businesses who agree to make socially beneficial choices.

Carrotmob Makes It Rain from carrotmob on Vimeo.

From the Carrotmob Web site:

…groups of Carrotmob organizers are springing up all around the world… one crew recently tried out a campaign in London (see an article in the Guardian here), and there’s another one in Helsinki this Saturday (RSVP here if you speak Finnish)! There are more people looking into organizing Carrotmobs all over, from Kansas City to New York to Shanghai…. We will let you all know as these ideas start evolving into more official Carrotmob events….

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