I like it - the idea behind the ad, that is, not the ad itself.
Today the company pulled it because cranky u.s.ers hate thinking about their violent history and theft of land. I guess people don’t care that the map looked like that a little more than a century and a half ago (1848).
Nevertheless, it was just an ad - meant to capitalize on a popular sentiment.
Categories: capitalism · culture · humor · society · war
Tagged: ads, california, history, media, mexico, vodka
Source: Reuters
Three pro-Tibet activists scale the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to hang huge banners in protest the coming Olympic torch and China’s violent repression of the Tibetan uprising.
Now that’s how you do a banner drop.
Categories: activism · power · society
Tagged: activists, banner drop, golden gate bridge, protest, protestors, san francisco, tibet
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