Editing Adbusters (section)

{{Short description|Canadian nonprofit organization}}
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| founder           = [[Kalle Lasn]] and Bill Schmalz
| location          = [[Vancouver]], British Columbia, Canada
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* Kalle Lasn, co-founder and editor-in-chief
* Bill Schmalz, co-Founder and co-publisher
* Darren Fleet, senior editor
* Stefanie Krasnow, senior editor
* Douglas Haddow, senior editor
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| homepage          = [https://www.adbusters.org/ Adbusters.org]
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{{Infobox magazine
| title            = Adbusters<br />{{noitalics|{{small|(the foundation's magazine)}}}}
| image_file       = Adbusters 98 American Autumn cover.jpg
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| image_caption    = Cover of Issue # 98 (Nov/Dec 2011) of ''Adbusters''
| frequency        = Bi-monthly
| language         = English
| editor           = [[Kalle Lasn]] and Bill Schmalz
| editor_title     = Founder
| firstdate        = 1989
| country          = Canada
| website          = [http://www.adbusters.org/ Adbusters.org]
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The '''Adbusters Media Foundation''' is a Canadian-based [[not-for-profit organization|not-for-profit]], [[Environmentalism|pro-environment]]<ref>[http://www.adbusters.org/about/adbusters "About"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111031172500/http://www.adbusters.org/about/adbusters |date=31 October 2011 }}. Adbusters Media Foundation. Retrieved 3 October 2011.</ref> organization founded in 1989 by [[Kalle Lasn]] and Bill Schmalz in [[Vancouver]], British Columbia. Adbusters describes itself as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age."<ref>"[http://www.adbusters.org/about/adbusters About Adbusters] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111031172500/http://www.adbusters.org/about/adbusters |date=31 October 2011 }}." Adbusters Media Foundation. Retrieved 19 December 2010.</ref>

As [[anti-capitalist]] or opposed to capitalism,<ref>Eric Pfanner. [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/business/worldbusiness/15iht-ad15_ed3__0.html Fighting guerrilla graffiti], ''[[The New York Times]]'', 15 March 2004</ref> it publishes the reader-supported, advertising-free ''Adbusters'', an activist magazine devoted to challenging [[consumerism]]. The magazine has an international circulation peaking at 120,000 in the late 2000s<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j118AgAAQBAJ|title=Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication|last1=Hackett|first1=Robert|last2=Carroll|first2=William|date=29 July 2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134159369|language=en}}</ref> with circulation of 60,000<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adbusters Jan/Feb 2022 - Magdogs Marketplace |url=https://magdogs.com/product/adbusters-jan-feb-2022/ |access-date=2022-04-12 |language=en}}</ref> in 2022. Past and present contributors to the magazine include [[Jonathan Barnbrook]], [[Morris Berman]], [[Brendan Connell]], [[Simon Critchley]], [[David Graeber]], [[Michael Hardt]], [[Chris Hedges]], [[Bill McKibben]], [[Jim Munroe]], [[David Orrell]], [[Douglas Rushkoff]], [[Matt Taibbi]], [[Slavoj Žižek]], and others.

Adbusters has launched numerous international campaigns, including [[Buy Nothing Day]], [[TV turnoff|TV Turnoff Week]] and [[Occupy Wall Street]],<ref name=branding>{{cite news|last=Yardsley|first=William|title=The Branding of the Occupy Movement|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/business/media/the-branding-of-the-occupy-movement.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|access-date=5 April 2012|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=28 November 2011}}</ref> and is known for their "[[subvertising|subvertisements]]" that spoof popular [[Advertising|advertisements]]. In English, Adbusters has bi-monthly American, Canadian, Australian, UK and International editions of each issue. Adbusters's sister organizations include ''Résistance à l'Aggression Publicitaire''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.antipub.org/ |title=Résistance à l'Aggression Publicitaire |language=fr |publisher=Antipub.org |date=13 February 2014 |access-date=29 March 2014}}</ref> and ''Casseurs de Pub''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.casseursdepub.org/ |title=Casseurs de Pub |language=fr |publisher=Casseurs de Pub |access-date=29 March 2014}}</ref> in France, ''Adbusters Norge'' in Norway, ''Adbusters Sverige'' in Sweden and ''Culture Jammers'' in Japan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bndjapan.org |title=Buy Nothing Day Japan - Fight Pollution of Culture and Nature |website=Bndjapan.org |access-date=3 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://adbusters.cool.ne.jp/ |title=Infoseek[インフォシーク&#93; - 楽天が運営するポータルサイト |website=Adbusters.cool.ne.jp |date=1 January 2000 |access-date=3 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120529041847/http://adbusters.cool.ne.jp/ |archive-date=29 May 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>