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AAAFFF Award Ceremony Coverage

By Steve Lambert | Published: October 1, 2008

Announcing the winner of the Anti-Advertising Agency Foundation For Freedom Award; Sarah Gibble! Read Sarah’s tale of how she was sucked into the advertising industry vortex and how she escaped!

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AAAFFF Award Ceremony Tonight!

By Steve Lambert | Published: September 19, 2008

Other Options: Panel discussion + AAAFFF Awards Ceremony Eyebeam September 19, 7PM 540 W. 21st St. Panelists: Josh Greene, Service-Works; Geraldine Juárez, Tanda Foundation; Joanna Spitzner, JS Foundation. Moderated by Abigail Satinsky and Ben Schaafsma of InCUBATE and Sunday Soup Granting Fund. Followed by the Anti-Advertising Agency (Anne Elizabeth Moore and Eyebeam senior fellow Steve [...]

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Announcing: One Lucky Former Ad Pro to Take Home Giant Check from 2008 AAAFFF Awards Celebration

By Anne Elizabeth Moore | Published: September 12, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 Official Foundation for Freedom Press Release
 September 12, 2008 Contact: Anne Elizabeth Moore and Steve Lambert – FFF (at) antiadvertisingagency.com ANNOUNCING: ONE LUCKY FORMER AD PRO TO TAKE HOME GIANT CHECK FROM THE 2008 ANTI-ADVERTISING AGENCY FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM AWARD CELEBRATION Gala Event on September 19 to Grant One Lucky Ad Industry [...]

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FAQ of the 2008 AAAFFFA

By Anne Elizabeth Moore | Published: August 23, 2008

Advertisers! Marketers! And PR People! We here at AAAFFF HQ have received many late-coming queries as regards the 2008 Anti-Advertising Agency Foundation For Freedom Award—and our deadline is only one week away! Therefore, I, the Executive Director of the AAAFFF, will attempt to answer the most frequent of these asked questions, to save you necessary [...]

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Two Weeks Notice

By Anne Elizabeth Moore | Published: August 16, 2008

We know you’re probably thinking it’s better to stick with your cushy job in advertising, marketing, or PR. Sure, you’re saying to yourself, there’s more you’d like to do with your life, more you had hoped for, but advertising pays the bills. There’s a retirement program, and they have a fridge with free sodas. We [...]

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Announcing: The 2008 AAAFFF Awards Celebration

By Anne Elizabeth Moore | Published: July 29, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Official Foundation for Freedom Press Release July 29, 2008 Contact: Anne Elizabeth Moore and Steve Lambert – FFF (at) antiadvertisingagency.com ANNOUNCING THE 2008 ANTI-ADVERTISING AGENCY FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM AWARD CELEBRATION September 19 Soiree to Celebrate One Lucky Ad Industry Creative Freedom, Giant Check CHICAGO—The long-awaited Anti-Advertising Agency Foundation For Freedom (AAAFFF) Award [...]

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AAAFFF On Chicago Public Radio

By Emily Gallagher | Published: July 28, 2008

This morning Chicago Public Radio’s show Eight Forty Eight did a piece on the Anti-Advertising Agency’s Foundation for Freedom. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The promise of cable TV all those years ago was that by paying for the service, you could avoid the commercials. That promise has faded, with most cable and [...]

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OFFFice Fire Sale!

By Anne Elizabeth Moore | Published: July 16, 2008

OK, really there is nothing for sale–we’re a noncommercial enterprise in a noncommercial space!–but, sadly, the Foundation For Freedom Temporary World Headquarters at Mess Hall is coming to a close. We’d like to thank you for your dedicated support and attendance during the last month. You’ve helped us accomplish: An 11% raise in funds over [...]

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The AAAFFF Presents: The Cut-n-Paste Ad Offer Responder!

By Anne Elizabeth Moore | Published: July 7, 2008

If you run a website or blog, chances are your email inbox is filled to brimmin’ with offers from friendly advertisers willing to allow you a once- (or maybe twice!) in-a-lifetime opportunity to display their content on your site. Sometimes, sure, they offer to pay for the marketing work you’re doing on their behalf, but [...]

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Weekend of Independence Workshops: Saturday July 5, Chicago oFFFice

By Anne Elizabeth Moore | Published: July 2, 2008

The co-founders of the Anti-Advertising Agency Foundation For Freedom, Steve Lambert, CEO of the Anti-Advertising Agency, and Anne Elizabeth Moore, Executive Director of the Foundation For Freedom, present four FREE workshops this weekend at our oFFFices to celebrate your personal independence from oppressive working conditions! The Workshops 1:00pm Redefining Your Skillset: Putting Together a Great [...]

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A Little Less Advertising in the World

By Anne Elizabeth Moore | Published: June 20, 2008

Our first AAAFFF action was a smashing success! Forgoing the Frisbee for a better-matching RWB football, AAAFFF consultant Sarah Kavage and ED Anne Elizabeth Moore spent sometime getting to know our constituency with a rousing game of catch in front of Leo Burnett in downtown Chicago. (More photos here.)

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oFFFice hours

By Anne Elizabeth Moore | Published: June 16, 2008

The Anti-Advertising Agency Foundation For Freedom’s Temporary World Headquarters is now open and ready for you to come on by! The Foundation For Freedom is thrilled to announce our new temporary world headquarters at 6932 North Glenwood Avenue in Chicago, IL.

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I’m Doing This to Win Your Heart: June 21 Chgo film fest

By Anne Elizabeth Moore | Published: June 12, 2008

Join AAAFFF Executive Director Anne Elizabeth Moore and filmmaker Franklin Lopez at the Hideout on the Solstice to watch a charming and hilarious batch of brilliant little anticorporate films*. It’s all designed to bring you, dear reader, back into the fold of independent cultural production. Won’t you join us? It’s just one night. i’m doing [...]

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first hand knowledge

By Steve Lambert | Published: June 7, 2008

A guy came by my desk at Eyebeam the other day and we started talking about the Foundation For Freedom. Coincidentally, he had just quit the advertising industry to start an ecard company called someecards. I came across this today: This kind of insight comes from years of experience. Congratulations man who’s name I can [...]

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Minneapolis Events

By Anne Elizabeth Moore | Published: June 6, 2008

The National Conference on Media Reform is in Minneapolis this weekend, and I’m all over it. Come say hi, or if you’re not going to the conference, stop by Arise! bookstore on Sunday night for a Foundation For Freedom PowerPoint Presentation (FFFPPP). (And yes, no real column again. Next week, devoted readers!) June 7: Panel [...]

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