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AdBusters

Adbusters Media Foundation
Founded 1989
Founder Kalle Lasn; Bill Schmalz
Location
Key people
  • Kalle Lasn "Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief"
  • Bill Schmalz "Co-Founder & Co-Publisher"
  • Darren Fleet "Senior Editor"
  • Stefanie Krasnow "Senior Editor"
Website Adbusters.org
Adbusters
(the foundation's magazine)
Adbusters 98 American Autumn cover.jpg
Cover of Issue # 98 (Nov/Dec 2011) of Adbusters
Founder Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz
Frequency Bi-monthly
First issue 1989
Country Canada
Language English
Website Adbusters.org
ISSN 0847-9097

The Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, anti-consumerist, pro-environment organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia. Adbusters describes itself as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age."

Characterized by some as anti-capitalist or opposed to capitalism, it publishes the reader-supported, advertising-free Adbusters, an activist magazine with an international circulation of 120,000 by the late 2000s devoted to challenging consumerism. Past and present contributors to the magazine include Jonathan Barnbrook, Morris Berman, Simon Critchley, David Graeber, Michael Hardt, Chris Hedges, Bill McKibben, Jim Munroe, David Orrell, Douglas Rushkoff, Matt Taibbi, Slavoj Žižek, and others.

Adbusters has launched numerous international campaigns, including Buy Nothing Day, TV Turnoff Week and Occupy Wall Street, and is known for their "subvertisements" that spoof popular advertisements. In English, Adbusters has bi-monthly American, Canadian, Australian, UK and International editions of each issue. Adbusters's sister organizations include Résistance à l'Aggression Publicitaire and Casseurs de Pub in France, Adbusters Norge in Norway, Adbusters Sverige in Sweden and Culture Jammers in Japan.


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