Buy Canadian Tar Sands

Watch this petroleum industry funded ad that just debuted on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

127 comments Adbusters, 20 December 2011

If your jaw is still gaping, it’s completely understandable. Propaganda at its most base level can do that. Take a moment … ask yourself, who are these people? Where are their offices? How much political favor has their crude cash purchased?

Over the holidays let’s put our heads together: how can we make the people who made this ad pay a price.

What would be a tactical response of equal spectacle?

127 comments on the article “Buy Canadian Tar Sands”

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Anonymous

27 December 2011 at 01:21 pm

I'm a little surprised at the outrage. The notion that you can affect the world by where you choose to spend your money is at the root of a great deal of social activism. All things being equal, I would rather my money go to Ottawa than to Riyadh.

Anonymous

29 December 2011 at 09:40 am

your point omits the fact that we don't live on separate planets (although one might be forgiven forthinking so) and the mess that is being created in alberta, and it is a mess, will affect not just albertans or the economy, it will affect us all and will seep into other areas of our lives, the environment being the main problem.

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Anonymous

01 January 2012 at 02:16 pm

@union member who works in the oil sands, I don't know if the good living you seek includes raising children, but if you DO have children, you clearly don't care about them as much as I care about my three daughters. I'm pissed that you want to deprive them of the right to live a good life anywhere on this planet.