GDay World 391 – Jon Dee, Founder of Planet Ark and Do Something
Posted on 24. Aug, 2009 by Cameron Reilly in activism, climate change, environment, future makers, Podcast, social activism, social responsibility
A few days ago I had a chance to chat with Jon Dee, founder of Planet Ark and the new Do Something! initiative, about his life and goals. We talked about everything from his involvement in Rock Aid Armenia (where he pulled together a list of top Brit Rockers to perform a charity concert and record a new version of Deep Purple’s “Smoke On The Water” to raise funds for earthquake victims in Armenia) to deciding, with friend Aussie tennis pro Pat Cash, to start Planet Ark, and his new venture Do Something!, which aims to create positive social and environmental change.
Here’s the version of Smoke On The Water that Jon produced back in 1992!
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GDay World 375 – Dr Philip Nitschke on Euthanasia
Posted on 04. May, 2009 by Cameron Reilly in activism, euthanasia, Podcast
Dr Philip Nitschke, PhD, MBBS, BSc (Hons) is the Founder and Director of Exit International, the world’s leading Voluntary Euthanasia and end-of-life choices information and advocacy organisation.
A few days after recording this interview, Philip and his wife were detained at London’s Heathrow airport for nine hours and denied access to a lawyer. During the interview he mentioned spending more time in the UK – after this week’s experience, he is reconsidering.
GDay World 373 – Kalle Lasn, Adbusters
Posted on 22. Apr, 2009 by Cameron Reilly in Culture Jamming, Podcast
Every now and again I get to chat with someone who has been an inspiration to me for many years – Noam Chomsky, Ray Kurzweil, Doc Searls, Leo Sayer, John Romero, Vint Cerf – and this is another of those episodes.
Kalle Lasn is the founder of Adbusters magazine and author of the books Culture Jam and Design Anarchy. He is the CEO of the Blackspot Anticorporation. For 20 years, Kalle has been trying to buy space on TV networks around the world to show Adbusters’ anti-consumerism commercials such as these:
He is continually rejected by the networks who refuse to take his money and show his ads on the ground that it will offend their larger advertisers. So Kalle has been fighting them in the courts to try to get equal access to the airwaves and, after 20 years of the cases being dismissed by the courts, he’s finally had a win. He joined me recently to talk about it.
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Adbusters are the folks behind “Buy Nothing Day”. I shot some video of folks promoting BND in Melbourne back in 2006:
Adbusters Wins Legal victory
Posted on 11. Apr, 2009 by Cameron Reilly in activism, Culture Jamming
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