[ ]( # ) [
If you are unable to view this email, click here to view in browser. ]( [link removed] )
[ ]( # )
Weekly transmissions from [ Adbusters ]( [link removed] ), the journal of the mental environment
[ ]( # )
[ ]( [link removed] )
[ ]( # )
Hey Jammer,
Harper's Magazine recently published "[ A Letter on Justice and Open Debate ]( [link removed] ),” which was signed by 132 well-known people including Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Gary Kasparov, Malcom Gladwell, Gloria Steinem, J.K. Rowling, Noam Chomsky, and Wynton Marsalis.
"Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts," according to its 132 signatories. "But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity."
The response has been strident. "The signatories, many of them white, wealthy, and endowed with massive platforms, argue that they are afraid of being silenced," in the words of [ one response ]( [link removed] ), "that so-called cancel culture is out of control, and that they fear for their jobs and free exchange of ideas, even as they speak from one of the most prestigious magazines in the country."
Where do you stand? Let us know . . . drop us a line on social media or at
[email protected], or give us a call at the number below.
[ ]( # ) [ Visit Adbusters.org ]( [link removed] )
[ ]( # )
[ ]( [link removed] )
[ ]( # )
Looking back in Anger
In the wake of the Great Recession, members of "Generation Left" faced lower wages, greater debt, higher property prices, and a more precarious job-market. More likely than their elders to be drawn to radical alternatives, they were not as inclined to cling to the past, nor were they as adverse to risk, having less to lose. They were more sympathetic to the notion of, say, occupying Zuccotti Park, not only to decry the Fed’s handling of the financial crisis but to call for a total restructuring of an unjust and broken “system.”
[ ]( # ) [ Read More... ]( [link removed] )
[ ]( # )
[ ]( [link removed] )
[ ]( # )
Will we end our affair with the automobile?
Ah, the open road, a thrumming engine, the wind in our hair — was it all worth it? Or might it have been a Faustian bargain? An exciting new way of living — traded, unwittingly, for a living hell down the road?
[ ]( # ) [ Read More... ]( [link removed] )
[ ]( # )
[ ]( [link removed] )
Join us on our hunt for big ideas, bold alternatives, and radical solutions.
[ ]( [link removed] )
As a non-profit, we use your every dollar to produce Adbusters. Feeling flush? Please consider donating.
[ ]( # )
For the Wild,
[ ]( # )
[ ]( # )
Join The Blackspot Collective [ here ]( [link removed] )
Subscribe to our magazine [ here ]( [link removed] )
Visit our Culture Shop [ here ]( [link removed] )
Donate to our movement [ here ]( [link removed] )
[ ]( # )
[ ]( [link removed] )
Adbusters Media Foundation
1243 West 7th Avenue,
Vancouver, BC, V6H 1B7, Canada
+1(604)-736-9401
[
[email protected] ]( mailto:
[email protected] )
[ [link removed] ]( [link removed] )
[ ]( [link removed] )
[ ]( [link removed] )
[ ]( [link removed] )
[ ]( [link removed] )
[ ]( # )
This email was sent to
[email protected]
You received this email because you are subscribed to
Adbusters or Blackspot Collective newsletter updates.
[
Unsubscribe newsletter updates here ]( [link removed] )
[ ]( # )
© 2020 Adbusters Media Foundation
