As protestors get creative with their continued attacks on Wal-Mart, it pays to look back in American history at protest campaigns with like-minded goals. Ben Price of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), has written eloquently on the anti-chain store campaigns of the 1920s and 1930s. With Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward corporations trying to squeeze local merchants with their mail-order version …
I Know, Let’s Order Up Some Bananas
Bruce Nussbaum: Michael Bierut of Pentagram fame has cut through the blather to raise a really fascinating--and funny-- issue in Corporate America. Everyone loves design but no one wants to call it design. Top CEOs and managers want to call design something else--innovation. Innovation, that they are comfortable with. Design, well, its a little too wild and crazy for them. So they call it innovation. I've been seeing …
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Honda And W+K Define “Aspirational”
On Friday, W+K London rolled out a new 120-second spot for Honda. Directed by Stink’s Ivan Zacharias, the spot follows a Honda test-driver (who lip-syncs the song “The Impossible Dream” by Andy Morris) as he gets on a Honda Monkey bike that morphs into other Honda vehicles, including the 1965 Formula 1 Grand Prix-winning car, the new BAR F1 automobile, and a powerboat. As the spot wraps and the song ends, Garrison …
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Calacanis Throws Jarvis To Mat
On NPR last week, Jeff Jarvis was asked whether, like radio and TV before us, the internet and blogs are naturally forming into networks. He said, “The internet kills networks.” Jarvis is the director of the new media program the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism. Professors like to make sweeping pronouncements. Big whoop. But Jason Calacanis begs to differ. For him--the co-king of blog …
Ai Miyazato Earns Tour Card (Big Money To Follow)
NYT: Ai Miyazato, known as Ai-chan earned her 2006 L.P.G.A. Tour card with a record 12-stroke victory over Libby Smith and Lee Ann Walker Cooper at the L.P.G.A.'s Qualifying School at the Legends Course in Daytona Beach, Florida. The L.P.G.A., enjoying an influx of young talent with global appeal, can now look at Miyazato as another potential star and as a future rival for Annika Sorenstam, Paula Creamer, Michelle …
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Yum! Shows The Way
Associated Press: A coalition of American churches joined farmworker advocates Thursday to urge McDonald's Corp. to pay more for its tomatoes to help boost the wages of tomato pickers. The National Council of Churches request comes after the Florida-based Coalition of Immokalee Workers announced their campaign last month to pressure the fast-food giant to pay more for the fruit. "Every so often there comes a moment …
Film Producer, Soft Drink Marketer, It’s All The Same Street
Newsweek: In "First Descent," a new snowboarding documentary that opens in limited release this week, mountains are everywhere. You'll have to look a little harder to spot the Mountain Dew. But not too hard. Mountain Dew, after all, didn't just pay to have the soft drink in the movie. It financed the entire project, which follows five snowboarding icons. (A rep won't comment on the budget.) Experts call it "branded …
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BellSouth To New Orleans: Drop Dead
According to this story in the Washington Post, BellSouth was none too pleased with the city's idea to offer free Wi-Fi throughout the city. Hours after New Orleans officials announced Tuesday that they would deploy a city-owned, wireless Internet network in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, regional phone giant BellSouth Corp. withdrew an offer to donate one of its damaged buildings that would have housed new police …
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