{"id":1062,"date":"2009-04-24T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T14:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/04\/24\/with-jesus-on-our-side\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T14:04:09","slug":"with-jesus-on-our-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/04\/24\/with-jesus-on-our-side\/","title":{"rendered":"with Jesus on our side&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Home | Greenpeace International\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/\">Greenpeace International&#8217;s<\/a> Earth Day video looks like a <a href=\"http:\/\/mediacology.com\/2009\/04\/23\/every-day-is-gaia-day\/\">recruitment ad <\/a>for an army of media-guerrilla climate warriors. From the techno-martial drumming, rapid-fire camera movement, shots of the troops in action, eco-doomsday imagery (including an image of the sun rising over the Earth looking like a mushroom cloud), and Christ the Redeemer flying over Rio de Janeiro draped in a Greenpeace poster by GI&#8217;s (?) culture jammers &#8212; it touches on all the buttons that have been attracting working-class American youth to the US army, and more. And what is that shot of naked humans who look like they&#8217;ve risen out of their graves on the day of the Rapture&#8230; on a melting glacier? Brilliant. Now if they can get their recruiters to American campuses the way the US army does, and offer scholarships too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zVu9eawb1QY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/mediacology.com\/\">Mediacology <\/a>for sharing this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenpeace International&#8217;s Earth Day video looks like a recruitment ad for an army of media-guerrilla climate warriors. From the techno-martial drumming, rapid-fire camera movement, shots of the troops in action, eco-doomsday imagery (including an image of the sun rising over the Earth looking like a mushroom cloud), and Christ the Redeemer flying over Rio de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[196,689701,689354],"tags":[4412,292],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecoculture","category-media_ecology","category-image_nation","tag-ecomedia","tag-environmental-communication"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-h8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8394,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2015\/09\/18\/eco-humanities-glossolalia\/","url_meta":{"origin":1062,"position":0},"title":"Eco-humanities glossolalia","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"September 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I've just come across the earliest outline I wrote for the course I'm currently teaching (in its third incarnation), \"Environmental Literature, Arts, and Media.\" The course has also turned into a book project I'm working on, which will be a thematic primer to the environmental arts and humanities.\u00a0Both course and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academe&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academe","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/academe\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1088,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/06\/11\/will-the-21st-century-be-foucauldian-pollanian\/","url_meta":{"origin":1062,"position":1},"title":"Will the 21st century be Foucauldian-Pollanian?","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"June 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Shaka Freeman's photo posts asking the question \"Michael Pollan or Michel Foucault?\" are hilarious, because the two Mickeys really do look alike and are sometimes difficult to tell apart. 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