Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, anti-consumerist, pro-environment 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."
Characterized by some as
anti-capitalist or opposed to capitalism,
[3] it publishes the reader-supported, advertising-free
Adbusters, an activist magazine.
Adbusters has launched numerous international campaigns, including
Buy Nothing Day,
TV Turnoff Week and
Occupy Wall Street, and is known for their "
subvertisements" that spoof popular
advertisements.
