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	Encyclopedia: Kalle Lasn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kalle Lasn: I think that most people areÂ—whether they like to believe it or notÂ—they are caught in a kind of media consumer trance and the only way to break that trance is to go cold turkey every now and again.
		Kalle Lasn: Yes indeed it is, I think yes, and it comes from the realisation that we are losing clarity of mind, that we now live in a mental environment that has all kinds of pollutants in it from noise to hype and various info-toxins and weÂ’re losing cultural and information diversity.
		Kalle Lasn: Exactly, and we would be able to give clues to mothers about where they want to bring up their children perhaps and I think this is a budding new science that I hope really takes off and starts teaching us something.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kalle_Lasn (487 words)

	Kalle Lasn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kalle Lasn is the founder of Adbusters magazine and author of the book Culture Jam.
		Lasn was born in Tallinn, Estonia in 1942.
		Lasn produced a number of documentaries and commericals including one a 30-second television ad about the disappearing old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kalle_Lasn (222 words)

	Thunderbird Magazine
		Kalle Lasn, founder of Adbusters magazine and corporate provocateur par excellence, isn’t out to just throw interesting facts about corporate deviousness at a postmodern audience already jaded by the marketing techniques of Machiavellian corporations.
		Lasn is uninterested in the usual forms of protest, he doesn’t care to add his voice to those of other pundits and to shrilly whine against the corporate monolith.
		Lasn writes:"The unofficial history of America, which continues to be written, is not a story of rugged individualism and heroic personal sacrifice in the pursuit of a dream.
	www.journalism.ubc.ca /thunderbird/archives/2000.01/jam.html (820 words)

	Untitled Document
		This evening my guest is Kalle Lasn, publisher and editor of the Canadian magazine, Ad Busters, published by the media foundation, a global network of writers, artists, educators and others who want to build the new social activist movement of the information age.
		Kalle: So, I would dearly love to see a sufficiently functioning marketplace of ideas where, you know, I was allowed on with my anti-car spots and then I could run them right next to a Nissan or a Toyota or a Ford ad if I felt like it.
		Kalle: Sure, and the cult with three-thousand marketing messages a day coming at you every day of your life from the moment you are crawling around the TV set as a baby right down to the time you are an eighty year old person in an old folks home.
	www.leftgatekeepers.com /articles/MaureenPrimeranoInterviewTranscriptOfKalleLassen.htm (4725 words)

	Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America by Kalle Lasn
		Such was the case with Kalle Lasn, a man whose background (born in Estonia, raised in Germany, worked in Austarlia and Japan) and skill set (market research and maker of documentary films seen on PBS and CBC) make him intimately aware of the role media and advertising play in shaping our disillusioned consumer culture.
		Lasn believes that what we talk about, eat, buy, and do every day is strongly controlled by a small minority of corporations (1/2 in Canada, Murdoch) page 186 lists the few co.s) who sell us their products and control our media.
		Lasn also places Culture Jamming in the context of a long legacy of freedom-seekers and practitioners of civil disobedience, relating today's fight to free ourselves from corporate and media control to that of the American revolutionaries who fought off British corporations, the civil rights and womens' rights movements and evironmentalism.
	www.disenchantmentville.com /books/culturejam.shtml (5043 words)

	Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - and Why We Must Only £7.21 , Paperback, Kalle ...
		Kalle Lasn's 'Culture Jam' is indeed a call to arms for a 21st century generation that seems more distracted than ever by the pervasive power of mindless consumption.
		Lasn seems to suffer from the same illusions as his heros the situationists, that somehow, in the West at least, basic human needs have all been satisfied i.e.
		Lasn's difficulty in getting airtime elsewhere for his Adbustes' commercials shows an open ideological bias at work within media conglomerates, whose primary function is not to provide news but to sell advertising space.
	www.scifind.co.uk /details-0688178057.html (1362 words)

	Newcity Chicago feature
		This extended essay by Kalle Lasn, the supremely disgruntled Canadian publisher of Adbusters magazine, is more of a multi-festo, a many-festo: You name the aspect of our fin de siecle existence, and Lasn will tell you what's corroded about it.
		Lasn lashes out against the psychic effects of ubiquitous background noise (negative), the policy ramifications of neo-classical economics (very, very negative), the massive role that the massive corporations are playing in modern life (massively negative).
		Lasn is the Magellan of wrath: Not content to direct his anger at one facet of our cultural geography, he ranges over the whole bleak landscape, planting flags of pissed-offedness wherever he comes to port.
	www.newcitychicago.com /home/daily/feature/culure_121499.html (409 words)

	People's Weekly World - Consumerism run amok
		Lasn Kalle, who “started a market research company made a lot of money [and] traveled the world,” like many well-to-do reformers, has one key to his prose — arrogance.
		Kalle is way of the mark when he assumes that working class people have the luxuries he mentions.
		Though Kalle does acknowledge that the corporate-controlled media and globalization are the main obstacles in the way of a more democratic society, he does very little to initiate a plan of action, aside from spontaneous individual acts of “billboard liberation” or buying time on CNN for “Buy Nothing Day” commercials.
	www.pww.org /article/articleprint/383 (504 words)

	TIME Europe \| Fast Forward - People To Watch
		As Kalle Lasn watched young people protesting at the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, he felt paternal pride and, for the first time in 20 years, optimism.
		The spoofs are small, Lasn says, compared with Big Tobacco's "multibillion dollar effort over the past 30 or 40 years." His crusade may be driven less by a desire for something new than a wish for a return to a simpler age.
		Yet Lasn remembers those early years as some of the happiest of his life, marked by simple pleasures like swimming in rivers and cooking dinner with his mother.
	www.time.com /time/europe/specials/ff/trip1/ptw/3.html (437 words)

	Reason magazine -- May 2000, Rebel Without Applause by Jacob Sullum
		Lasn is not embarrassed by this petulant act of sabotage.
		Lasn describes his mission as "culture jamming," which involves "demarketing" or "unselling" the products that the corporations want us to buy, revealing the hollowness of the cool images they condition us to pursue.
		Lasn's treatment of environmental issues, which he links to a way of life that generates pollution and depletes resources through excessive production and consumption, is similarly impressionistic.
	www.reason.com /0005/bk.js.rebel.shtml (1988 words)

	Book (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lasn parts company with more traditional populism, however, in his attention to advertising and media culture — not surprising, since he’s also the founder of Adbusters magazine.
		Lasn scores his most dramatic successes by making audiences feel that the gross national product really is gross.
		That is, Lasn is so outraged at overconsumption and conspicuous displays of wealth that he forgets that this actually isn’t the rule, even in America.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/review.asp?id=36173 (749 words)

	Salon.com Technology \| Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kalle Lasn's decision to shift gears in addressing corporate gluttony may be a brave departure from the usual left-wing strategies of boycotting and "whining." However, I question how well Lasn and his team have thought out the long-term effects of his Black Spot shoe-marketing campaign.
		Lasn's main beef with corporate giants, such as Nike, is that they encourage people to see themselves only as consumers.
		Lasn's campaign may indeed be a wake-up call to the corporate giants and the buying public they depend on.
	www.salon.com /tech/letters/2003/10/13/adbusters/print.html (929 words)

	ihaveanidea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kalle’s incredible life has taken him from a German refugee camp in Australia, to his own market research firm in Tokyo, to producing PBS documentaries, and finally to Adbusters where he has fought for 15 years for what he believes in.
		Kalle: Absolutely, even though our magazine has a worldwide circulation of 120 thousand, 75 thousand of that is coming from the U.S. We are 50% driven by the sales of our magazines and Blackfoot sneakers in the United States, and more than half our writers come from the U.S. as well.
		Kalle: We're driven by passion, we believe in a number of causes, we are very powerful environmental people who think that consumer culture has gotten out of hand and it is killing nature, so we're trying to get everyone to think environmentally.
	ihaveanidea.org /creatives/entries/00000079.htm (3748 words)

	Culture Jam - Your Money Or Your Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kalle Lasn is challenging the mental stranglehold of advertising culture.
		Kalle Lasn is an internationally known, award-winning documentarist.
		Lasn has dedicated himself to launching social marketing campaigns such as Buy Nothing Day and TV Turnoff Week and to fighting legal campaigns for the right to access the public airwaves.
	www.simpleliving.net /ymoyl/resource-fom.asp?sku=bcj&mexp=related (2272 words)

	Gadfly Online. Last Week. Kalle Lasn Interview.
		Part of this is done through mindset and part is done by acts of non-violent resistance; culture jamming, as evidenced by manipulated billboards, the hacking of corporate websites to reveal the truth about their real goings-on and protesting it all with public service announcements.
		Lasn, angry at the plenitude of Americans and our spoiled sense of materialism, created a protest against our consumerism: "Buy Nothing Day," which falls on the biggest shopping day of the year, the day after Thanksgiving.
		Lasn writes of his movement as one that unites people on the left as well as the right; it isn't bound by any ideology besides its own.
	www.gadflyonline.com /lastweek/kalle%20lasn.html (1959 words)

	All in the Mind: 12 March 2005 - Activism for the Mind: Reclaiming Our Cerebral Commons
		Kalle Lasn: Yes, yes, this is one of the most dangerous developments and I think it’s the issue of issues in my mind.
		Kalle Lasn: Exactly, the culture versus biology and I firmly believe that when somebody is depressed that there is some brain chemistry going on that can be linked to that depression.
		Kalle Lasn: Yes, in part it works but I think it is treating the symptom and not the cause in so many cases.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/mind/stories/s1318358.htm (3661 words)

	The No Sweat Sneaker and the Town of Decent
		Kalle Lasn said that sample is from China; that he got it independently.
		When I hear Kalle Lasn talking about a $60 or $70 shoe, it seems to me there must be a market out there with people willing to pay that much for an ethically-made shoe.
		Lasn strikes me as someone who speaks with big concepts in mind, but who is a bit hesitant to speak in terms of details.
	www.nosweatapparel.com /news/spring_04/interview.html (2973 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Book Reviews
		Lasn is a documentary filmmaker and publisher of Adbusters magazine, as well as founder of the Adbusters Media Foundation.
		The first half of Lasn's book sets out his thesis for where we are -- too much information, suffering caused by plenitude, wide-scale emotional depression, loss of empathy for one another, global media control.
		Lasn isn't wrong; huge corporations, which serve their own interests, dominate the airwaves.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/1999-12-10/books_vsbr2.html (791 words)

	Challenging the mental stranglehold of American consumer culture
		Lasn asks readers to seek out and experience these "moments of truth," and then reconsider their own lifestyles and complicities.
		The cure for this malady is what Lasn terms "culture jamming," an activists’ strategy that he believes will result in "the uncooling of America" and allow people to get back to living their lives.
		Lasn is iconoclastic in every sense of the word, and he constantly seeks to find ways of thinking and acting outside habitual patterns of analysis and resistance.
	www.muslimedia.com /archives/book00/culjambk.htm (746 words)

	Truth In Advertising
		Lasn was born in Estonia, a republic of the former Soviet Union, in 1942.
		Lasn: More than ten years ago, when we first started the Media Foundation, we had a feeling that all the old political movements had run out of steam, and many activists had burned out.
		Lasn: Many ad-industry people feel disenchanted with the work they do and with the ethical neutrality that reigns in their profession.
	www.thesunmagazine.org /truthad.html (1669 words)

	SadtomatOnline
		It is this metaphor that spurred Canadian-based activist Kalle Lasn to christen his magazine Adbusters: Journal of the Mental Environment.
		And when Lasn discusses the current scope of the movement, his ideas are firmly rooted.
		That day was important to Lasn and the movement, he says, for other reasons as well.
	www.unc.edu /~fiore/html/published/kalle_lasn.html (1091 words)

	Kalle Lasn is Mad as Heck and Isn't Going to Take It Any More
		Adbusters was founded by Kalle Lasn and friends, many of them soul-sick dropouts from the advertising industry.
		Lasn, born Estonian, now Canadian, seems to run on a high-test mixture of humor, creativity and rage.
		Lasn is having fun and is deadly serious at the same time.
	www.commondreams.org /views/051100-107.htm (1045 words)

	Culture Jam Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lasn argues that consumerism has infected American culture to the point that the word "America" no longer signifies the name of a nation, but a multi-trillion dollar collection of brand names.
		Throughout his book, Lasn also deals with similarly related issues, addressing the ways in which corporations are repressing our freedom of speech, harming the environment, and a host of other problems.
		Beyond merely complaining about the effects of consumer culture like most college students do (myself included), Lasn examines the issues very closely, explaining how and why corporations are affecting our culture and the world in negative ways, and how they have come to wield as much power as they do.
	www.toolness.com /cj (387 words)

	'Culture Jamming: 21st Century Activism' by Star Jewel Smith - Get Underground Featured Article ...
		Lasn unwaveringly states, "There is no democracy on the airwaves." Since the inception of Adbusters, they’ve attempted to buy air time first in Canada and in the United States.
		Lasn strongly feels, "to give media democracy, one legal victory against the three big networks is necessary." In the meantime, Adbusters has used the internet to develop their internet TV channel,
		Kalle Lasn was born in Tallinn, Estonia, during the middle of World War II.
	www.getunderground.com /underground/features/article.cfm?Article_ID=701 (2896 words)

	Going After Nike
		Lasn wants to merge the marketplace of goods into the marketplace of ideas: The question is whether the Blackspot will live up to Lasn's lofty goals -- or whether those goals will end up sounding like the empty rhetoric of yet another pitchman.
		Born in Estonia, Lasn says that as a small child he lived in a German displaced persons camp during World War II; his parents then moved the family to Australia, and as a young man Lasn founded a market-research firm in Tokyo.
		Lasn is less interested in discussing the workings of sneaker factories than the antimarketing campaign he's planned.
	www.inc.com /magazine/20041001/adbusters.html (3596 words)

	Kalle Lasn - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Kalle Lasn - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Kalle wrote the following autobiography that is available at http://www.adbusters.org/network/kalle.html: "I was born in Tallinn, Estonia, during the middle of World War II.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Kalle Lasn contains research on
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Kalle_Lasn (368 words)

	Congregational Leaders \| Articles & News
		Adbusters Media Foundation, which publishes the Adbusters magazine and web site and which was founded by Lasn, produces slick, professional print and TV ads that wake us up to the ways we are lulled to submission by America™.
		Lasn's vision is a reclaimed America, free of its trademark symbolism: where the public airwaves are a forum for meaningful public discourse; where shareholders who are held personally accountable for the sins of the corporation focus on service rather than on dollars;and where sustainable growth replaces growth at all costs.
		Lasn is obviously a man of deep passion and zeal, a crusader devoted to saving America from its epidemic consumerism.
	www.gbod.org /congregational/articles.asp?act=reader&item_id=2472 (852 words)

	Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge-And Why We Must by Kalle Lasn, Search Cheap Books, ...
		Kalle Lasn brings forth challenging questions and revolutionary solutions to the issue of consumerism in Culture Jam.
		Lasn seems very activist-oriented and ready to lead this new revolution of people he termed "culture jammers." Culture jammers would fight to "uncool" and "depopularize" consumerism and mega-corporations around the world.
		In other words, Lasn is a proponent of returning to a simpler life when people weren't judged by what they drive, eat, and wear and corporations didn't modify unique cultures found across the globe.
	www.comparebookprices.ca /book_detail/0688178057 (2098 words)

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