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Velvet Revolution

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Sun Apr 19, 2015, 09:16 AM Apr 2015

JTMP.org: Earth Day DC 2015 Goes Corporate

Bloggers and Small Orgs Left Out of Corporate “Greenwashing”

April 19, 2015 – JTMP always attends every Earth Day rally and concert event that comes to town here in DC ever since it was launched, and this year we applied for media passes and headed down with our video cameras and equipment just like we always did. Unfortunately, when we got to the event, we were told by that we could not film any video, we were not allowed on the risers, we couldn’t get near the stage for the first song for any pictures, there would be no interviews, and we could just roam amongst the crowd like anybody else and that’s it. It seems that this Earth Day 2015 event was completely taken over by corporations, and turned out to be one big infomercial for the corporations various supposedly “green” products, like the actor from “Frozen” pitching Neutrogena’s new “Natural’s” disposal makeup remover to the Twittering masses...

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http://www.jtmp.org/2015/04/19/earth-day-dc-2015-goes-corporate/

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JTMP.org: Earth Day DC 2015 Goes Corporate (Original Post) Velvet Revolution Apr 2015 OP
this is so hypocritical and odious TimeToEvolve Apr 2015 #1
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