---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <[email protected]> Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:54 PM Subject: 2 min video - (Astro)Turf Wars: How Corporate America is Faking a Grassroots Revolution To: [email protected] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8k66kB4Zn8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing *Astroturfing* is a form of advocacy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocacy> often in support of a political <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics> or corporate agenda designed to give the appearance of a "grassroots<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassroots>" movement. The goal of such campaigns is to disguise the efforts of a political and/or <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And/or> commercial entity<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_personality> as an independent public reaction to some political entity—a politician, political group, product, service or event. The term is a derivation of AstroTurf <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AstroTurf>, a brand of synthetic carpeting designed to look like natural grass. Astroturfers attempt to orchestrate the actions of apparently diverse and geographically distributed individuals, by both overt ("outreach", "awareness", etc.) and covert (disinformation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation>) means. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens