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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Greenwash Guerrillas Pie Thomas Freedman on Earth Day
  • Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:52:16 -0600


Greenwash Guerrillas Pie Thomas Freedman on Earth Day
Providence, RI - Earth Day, 2008.
Footage available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv6nvMUq10U
Press release attached


Thomas Friedman, the author and NY Times columnist, was invited to Brown
University to give a keynote speech on Earth Day, before a packed
auditorium. His talk, titled "Green is the new Red White and Blue" was
about how corporate environmentalism (based on putting a price on the
atmosphere, and investing in biofuels and techno-fixes) can restore
America to its "natural place in the global order." Luckily, this
outrageous neoliberal capitalist propaganda was interrupted with a
surprise visit from the Greenwash Guerrillas. After splattering him with
two green cream pies, leaflets were thrown to the crowd, stating:

Thomas Friedman deserves a pie in the face...

* because of his sickeningly cheery applaud for free market capitalism's
conquest of the planet

* for telling the world that the free market and techno fixes can save us
from climate change. From carbon trading to biofuels, these distractions
are dangerous in and of themselves, while encouraging inaction with
respect to the true problems at hand.

* for helping turn environmentalism into a fake plastic consumer product
for the privileged

* for his pure arrogance.

* as the only way to compensate for the ridiculousness of having this fool
speak on Earth Day.

On behalf of the earth and all true environmentalists -- we, the Greenwash
Guerrillas, declare Thomas Friedman's "Green" as fake and toxic to human
and planetary health as the cool-whip covering his face.





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