The Anti-Corporate Ideas Newsletter, Issue 1

This is online edition #1.

Its rough. Its posted in a blog. It has little structure and is written by two people on too much coffee but you are looking at the beginning of something we believe might become something big. Enjoy.


(thanks to Ani for this photo)

First off, drop in and check out the Adbusters group here on myspace as well as the website adbusters.org. Great resources and great people.

"I'm just another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak."
-Calvin from Bill Watterson's "Calvin & Hobbes"
(you'll hear a lot from Calvin...)

Today in the world we get to see the suffering of the poor on the Gulf Cost while companies such as Stone Energy (a "small" Gulf Cost oil producer) do flyovers of their rigs to assess damage while over half of the city of New Orleans was still under water. People starve, the rich check out their money making assets (from afar, they're sitting in their plush offices several states away) with resources that could be used to deliver goods to the victims of Katrina. Good job there guys, great job. (for contact info for Stone Energy check out the bottom of the page). I can't find any reference to them donating any money but even if they had there was still a massive need for aid that could have been supplied by a redirection of their flyover and a few crates of easily affordable food. (Check out James H. Stone's profile)

Next up we're doing a music review of The Bad Antix. We asked them their thoughts on the consumer culture and this is what we got back:
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[Our] thoughts on corporate America are this, the many work hard for money just to be able to claim a suburban lifestyle and keep thier kids in schools in which they are opressed and taught skewed history on this supposed "great country". America is the land of the free, and by land of the free, they mean land of the free for those who can afford it. Halliburton either directly or indirectly kills thousands of people without a thought and write it off as "needed casualties" in thier war for oil and are rewarded for it.
In a land where Mickey Mouse is god, we have lost all sense of our goals and desires in the hope to pursue a fucked-up dream of living in white suburbia and shitting out 2.5 kids.
"you work so hard just to get out of school/ to become the perfect corporate tool/ working so hard at your 9 to 5/ thinking a night of prime-time TV is being alive" (The Bad Antix "Hell No!")

Thanks again,
tXd

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If you're looking for something loud and in your face on what's going on in this world these are your guys. From Tomball Texas, The Bad Antix.

A great article in Wired Magazine. Check it out.

A piece of art by one of the guys who's up too late drinking too much coffee having too much fun: America

The magazine Scientific American has a great special issue entitled Crossroads for Planet Earth that goes over where we are and what is around the corner. On the website you can access most of the articles. Check them out.

"Destroy all the land
And kill what you can
Just to make the profits rise
Sell you from birth
For all that you're worth
The money spreads like lies
And how do they know
What's good for you?"

- From Open Your Eyes by Goldfinger

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Notes:
This post will be updated for the first couple of days it is up to take in some late submissions we've heard are going to be in. Send in your stuff quick to make this edition.
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We've been e-mailed about 20 websites and We're in the process of looking at them now. They will be posted up soon.
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Stuff we need help with:
- We're still looking for anyone to do single panel comics/art
- We need a logo. Help us out. Send us your ideas
- We need your writings. Don't worry, this isn't going to be a full time job where we call you out of bed at 3 am to write (though if you'd like that we can work something out, heh). Just write your opinions and send them in. We'll link them to you.
- Another type of story we want to cover is people sharing the point where they realized they didn't fit with the consumer lifestyle.
- Also, we don't want to come across as a cynical doomsday like paper. We want to come up with meaningful ways to change the world to be something that we can all be proud of, something we'll all love. Help us with that message.
- We need poets. We need writers. We need you!
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Stone Energy is an independent oil and gas company headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana, and is engaged in the acquisition and subsequent exploration, development and operation of oil and gas properties located in the conventional GOM shelf, GOM deep shelf, GOM deep water and Rocky Mountains. For additional information, contact James H. Prince, Chief Financial Officer, at 337-237-0410-phone, 337-237-0426-fax or via e-mail at princejh@StoneEnergy.com