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| Adbusters' Occupy Wall Street Poster |
The October 25, 2011, edition of Tell Somebody featured Amy Goodman visiting Occupy KC, and a 2005 interview with Adbusters' Kalle Lasn.
Ian October 17 piece on MotherJones.com titled How Occupy Wall Street Really Got Started, Andy Kroll writes about a group of international activists meeting in a New York City General Assembly (NYGCA) and goes on to say: "In other words, if Adbusters provided the inspiration, the NYCGA and other community groups provided the ground game that made Occupy Wall Street a reality."
An NPR Morning Edition segment on October 20, was called Exploring Occupy Wall Street's 'Adbuster' Origins and says: 'The man behind all this is Kalle Lasn, a puckish, Estonian-born former adman who still considers himself to be, in the language of the industry, a "creative."'
And in the October 31, 2011, edition of The Nation, Nathan Schneider writes: "It all started with an e-mail. On July 13 Adbusters magazine sent out a call to its 90,000-strong list proclaiming a Twitter hashtag (#OccupyWallStreet) and a date, September 17. It quickly spread among the mostly young, tech-savvy radical set, along with an especially alluring poster the magazine put together of a ballerina atop the Charging Bull statue, the financial district’s totem to testosterone."
Kalle Lasn was the very first guest on Tell Somebody when I put together a proposal for the show, and this seemed a good time to re-air that interview that was first broadcast on KKFI in October 2005.
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