Inevitably, somebody had a cell phone camera running as Thomas Friedman took a pie to the face and body at Brown University on Tuesday. A group calling themselves the Greenwash Guerillas then promptly issued a press release to explain their actions. No, for realz. It's below.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Colonel Custard (aka the corporate criminal creamer)
Greenwash Guerrillas
Footage available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv6nvMUq10U
greenwashguerrillas@gmail.com
Greenwash Guerrillas Pie Thomas Friedman on Earth Day
…and challenge him to a debate duel!
Providence, RI – April 23, 2008 – On Earth Day, we pied Thomas Friedman at the start
of his keynote speech: “Green is the New Red White and Blue.” The goal was not simply
to disrupt his talk and stain his ego, but to disrupt and expose all that he stands for and the
university’s corporate greenwashing of its image.
In the spirit of true debate and free speech:
We hereby challenge Thomas Friedman and all other green capitalists to a duel.
This duel is about the debate over the future of life on this planet, and the ways in which
corporate powers have hijacked this debate to make it the realm of “experts”, policymakers,
and consumers buying an array of “green” products. In exposing what Friedman
supports, we open this debate to the public by questioning certain key elements.
Carbon Trading and Carbon Markets, enshrined in the Kyoto Protocol and the
Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2007, is the foundation behind green
capitalism. In privatizing the atmosphere, the earth’s carbon cycling capacity is handed
over as property to the same corporate criminals that caused the problem.
“Biofuels,” the much-touted alternative to oil, not only increase petroleum dependence,
but are themselves a global humanitarian and environmental disaster in the making.
Biofuels come at the expense of land for food, and from Indonesia to Columbia,
traditional populations are being forced off their land for destructive plantations that are
dependent on toxic chemicals, biotech seeds, and large petroleum-burning machinery.
The list of false solutions goes on, while the planetary clock is ticking. If there are to be
truly real solutions to the many problems we face, it will come out of transformative
social movements and not corporate boardrooms. For these reasons, we challenge
Thomas Friedman and all other green capitalists to a duel, in which we will continue to
expose their shams while pointing towards the social movements that are already creating
solutions and transforming society towards a liveable, healthy, and non-corporate future.
For information:
http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/category/false-solutions-campaign/
Contact: greenwashguerrillas@gmail.com
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