The best of non-profit advertising and marketing for social causes

Operation W.A.N.T.: Iraq War Veterans Raid Gas Station

Posted by Marc | 13-11-2008 23:28 | Category: Activism, Politics, War & conflicts

Guerilla advertising war scene! Seven members from the Iraq Veterans Against the War’s (IVAW) LA Chapter active on a early morning action on October 11th, placing 4,200 miniature soldiers around a gas station along with posters declaring “The Price of Gas: 4171 US SOLDIERS”.

Two of the participants in the Operation W.A.N.T. (We Are Not Toys), designer Andrew Wilcox and photographer Jonas Lara, said their goal was to show average Americans what 4,171 US Soldiers looks like and to connect the deaths of US troops to this country’s dependence on foreign oil.

Comments

This action is incredible! I think the terrorist stylings will be off-putting to many, though. PR decisions excepting, this is a positive, innovative, and attention-grabbing intervention. Did they use their “Support GI Resistance” t-shirts for masks? Even better!

Posted by James David | 14-11-2008 16:29

Che photo in one of the photos, but don’t question their patriotism…

Posted by Raoul | 15-11-2008 04:03

Some rights reserved 2005-2012 Osocio/Houtlust.
Disclaimer. Terms of use. Privacy statement.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Advanced search

Recent in Academy

Interview: Kathryn Bolkovac - The Whistleblower - One Woman’s Fight for Justice

Human trafficking – it is the new slave trade, an action many of us thought be extinct after the US Civil War. But it is worse than ever, not least because many of the victims hand themselves over to get out of economic and political peril. They want to…

Making A Do-Ference at The Design Ethos Conference 2012

I recently had the privilege of being invited to speak and participate in the 2012 Design Ethos Conference/Do-ference at Savannah College of Art and Design. The creator of the conference, Scott Boylston, is a longtime friend in the relatively small socially conscious design community and I was delighted that…

Support us

Do you like our blog? Support us with a donation.
We're non-commercial. We all make Osocio pro bono in our spare time and we can use some support.

Search the non-profit web

Search through Osocio selected websites about social advertising, marketing, fundraising, ngo's and other on topic resources.

From the Osocio archive: For thousands of people this is the size of their home

See this post from the Osocio archive

About Osocio

Osocio is dedicated to social advertising and non-profit campaigns. It’s the place where marketing and activism collide. Formerly known as the Houtlust Blog, Osocio is the central online hub for advertisers, ad agencies, grassroots, activists, social entrepreneurs, and good Samaritans from around the globe.