Human Rights Campaign Partners with Washington, D.C. Artist to Explore the Joy and Pain of Juneteenth

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, announced a collaboration with Black, queer artist, Nia Keturah Calhoun (she/they). Together, HRC and Calhoun are unveiling a new art piece ahead of Juneteenth, the annual commemoration of the emancipation of enslaved Black people in the U.S. Calhoun is featured in a video that explores the significance of Juneteenth through their intersectional lens as a Black, queer person, and dives into their artistic process for the collaboration with HRC. The final artistic…

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Leo Burnett Chicago “The Lost Class” Wins Black Cube For Best of Show in ADC 101st Annual Awards

Leo Burnett Chicago had a big night at the ADC 101st Annual Awards, winning Agency of the Year and the coveted Black Cube for Best of Show for “The Lost Class” on behalf of Change the Ref. The work, done with No. 6 New York and Hungry Man Los Angeles, also picked up Best of Disciplines in Advertising and Interactive, the Members’ Choice award, and the Designism Cube for the entry that best encourages positive societal and political change.  “The Lost Class” picked up a total of eight Gold Cubes,…

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Prevented Ocean Plastic And PET UK Halt More Than 100 Million Bottles From Entering The Ocean

Bantam Materials, the supplier of Prevented Ocean Plastic, have announced a milestone in its collaboration with leading plastic processor PET UK, having stopped more than 100 million bottles from ending up in the world’s oceans and waterways, the equivalent weight of 15 blue whales. Through the collaboration, Prevented Ocean Plastic is upgraded through the PET UK European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) approved process for the UK market. There are an estimated 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic waste in our oceans. If we carry on as we are now, the annual…

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Sodexo builds on its partnership with The Bread and Butter Thing to tackle food insecurity

The Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation is extending its work with food redistribution charity, The Bread and Butter Thing (TBBT), to help provide nutritious food for thousands of families in the North of England while at the same time significantly reducing food that would have been waste. The Bread and Butter Thing (TBBT) is an award-winning food redistribution charity. It runs over 60 mobile food clubs, taking affordable food into some of the UK’s most impoverished communities. But food is just the start. TBBT uses surplus food as a catalyst to…

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CAP – Live facial recognition: new technology, same rules

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Live facial recognition: new technology, same rules. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. In a 2021 Opinion, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) looked at the data protection requirements surrounding the use of live facial recognition (LFR) for a number of purposes, including for advertising. Although the use of LFR is not commonplace in advertising, this…

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