Dove Viral Draws Heat From Critics

The beauty industry is in the eye of the beholder.  Behold the blowback...""Onslaught," from Ogilvy, Toronto, has amassed about 1 million views on YouTube since its Oct. 1 debut, still well under the 12...

Buy Everything Day

this is not how buy nothing day was supposed to go down."NEW YORK - Shoppers — shrugging off a spate of lead-tainted toy recalls and higher prices for food and gas — jammed stores before dawn Friday to grab discounted TVs, toys and the hard-to-find Nintendo Wii, for the...

NACO Bows to activists` pressure on AIDS treatment in India, says AHF

"Bowing to an increasing need for more effective AIDS treatments in India and recent high-profile public advocacy from a broad coalition of AIDS activists, India's National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) and Health Minister A. Ramadoss will announce the rollout of...

Buy Nothing Day aims to cut consumption rates

"Buy Nothing Day is an informal day of protest against consumerism observed by social activists. In 2007, Buy Nothing Day falls on November 23rd in North America and November 24th internationally.[1] It was...

Buy Nothing Day - Adbusters

"Buy Nothing Day Press Release 2007 2007-11-02 14:22:41 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BUY NOTHING DAY IS COMING – NO PURCHASE NECESSARY (November 23 in the USA and Canada, November 24 internationally) STOP SHOPPING TO GO GREEN: This November, environmentalists, social activists and...

Greenpeace blocks CPO tanker in Dumai waters

"The tanker, MT Westama, loaded with 30,000 tons of CPO, was leaving Dumai port when it was intercepted by Rainbow Warrior of Greenpeace.A giant poster reading "Palm Oil Kills Forests and Climate" was attached to...

United Nations investigator, Miloon Kothari October 16, 2007

October 16, 2007 Miloon Kothari, Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing for the United Nations Human Rights Council, met with people in Vancouver, British Columbia. People spoke who have been homeless and people...

Deregulating the Dream

"Deregulating the Dream America is close to being a 3rd world country when it comes to class and wealth. My take: Americans (mostly republican) constantly brag about how we are the BEST at everything, the problem is that we are not. Its time we faced facts and started...

Deregulating the Dream

"Deregulating the Dream America is close to being a 3rd world country when it comes to class and wealth. My take: Americans (mostly republican) constantly brag about how we are the BEST at everything, the problem is that we are not. Its time we faced facts and started...

Troops Attack Protesters in Pakistan

See all of NowPublic's Pakistan coverage here.(Note to our Pakistani members: Feel free to add comments, photos, videos and anything else to this story. And tell your friends!)Riot troops swept through Pakistan...

Thousands face down Pakistani police

"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Police fired tear gas and clubbed thousands of lawyers protesting President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's decision to impose emergency rule, as Western allies threatened to review aid to the troubled Muslim nation. More than 1,500 people have been arrested in...

Activists opposed to plan for reforestation fund

"Some of the demonstrators carried posters which among others read "One hectare is equal to Rp50,000 plus sin. No way". Agung Wardana, the rally`s coordinator, said the activity was part of campaigns to make the people aware of the danger of global warming. "Unless we take...

Not a good week for Mexico's former president

The LATimes blog here in Mexico City explains what has been a bad week for former president Vicente Fox.[ url="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2007/10/foxs-meltdown-f.html"]Fox's meltdown fascinates Mexico It's been a very bad week in Mexico for Vicente Fox, the...

UN envoy to visit Indonesia to discuss Myanmar crisis

"Gambari, who has already met with the prime ministers of Thailand and Malaysia, was expected to meet with Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda and possibly President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during his...

Miss Universe says no to wearing fur

""She refused even though she was kind of pressured to wear fur." People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) last week encouraged its members to write Mori and demand that she stop wearing fur. Ligron, a...

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