One Word: "Plastics"

[Miguel]

(The Idols) reunited recently. Not for another concert, but to inspire fans to refuse disposable plastic -- according to the Plastic Pollution Coalition, the greatest source of plastic pollution on our planet.

The "Idols" ask us to take the 4 R's pledge: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.



Director/producer Kate Miller and Mirror Films created the video. Along with the PSA there will be a Facebook Causes' Wish Campaign launching this week, spearheaded by Haley Reinhart and the rest of the "Idol" top 11. The goal is to raise $50,000 for the REFUSE campaign and -- bonus -- one lucky fan who donates will win a one of a kind, autographed guitar signed by all 11 finalists.

http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2011/10/am...astic.html

[midnightblues]

get rid of plastic surgery------------------------------------------sick

[kristie]

get rid of plastic surgery------------------------------------------sick

yeah.

[Miguel]

This longer version of the video has an introduction by Haley:

[midnightblues]

If you look at this vid and the one she did about her in west Hollywood,she has on the same earings. and the same top.Also she is on a balcony overlooking the hills of West AL.Must have bin shot the same day.She was talking about shooting vids.

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Both shot on the balcony of what seems to be the top of a high rise

[Miguel]

'American Idol' Producer Demanded Anti-Plastic Pollution PSA Be Pulled, Group Alleges

...After posting the video at the end of October, the Plastic Pollution Coalition says it received a letter from the parent company of "American Idol" producer 19 Entertainment, demanding that the PSA be removed on the ground that the coalition lacked the appropriate permission. The coalition also says that the parent company threatened to contact YouTube directly, which might lead to the coalition's losing its YouTube channel, if it didn't comply.

The Plastic Pollution Coalition calls 19 Entertainment's reaction to the video an about-face, saying the company was previously on board with the project and, in fact, contributed to the PSA over the past eight months. Daniella Russo, the coalition's co-founder and executive director, explained that there was never a question of getting permission and that 19 Entertainment helped film part of the PSA.

Russo wrote in an email, "Plastic Pollution Coalition was not the driving force behind this PSA. This was made in collaboration with American Idol but it was ultimately created by others and then donated."

The coalition suggests that the change of heart from the "American Idol" producer might be attributed to one of the program's sponsors. Russo wrote that she spoke with a 19 Entertainment executive who "was seemingly too intimidated to outright name Coca-Cola as the sponsor that put the pressure on them, but went out of his way to insinuate it." She said the executive told her that "you didn't hear it from me" when she asked if Coke was behind the demand to pull the video.

Coca-Cola, however, flatly denies the allegation. Susan Stribling, a spokeswoman for Coca-Cola Refreshments USA, told HuffPost, "We did not have any role in that. We did not express any sort of desire for 'American Idol' to take action."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/15...83829.html

[John Brown]

The Plastic Pollution Coalition is a radical leftwing anti-capitalist environmental wacko group with the goal of putting out of business the use of all fossil fuels in America along with the millions of jobs those industries provide. Indeed, fossil fuels is the lifeblood of the American economy. Without fossil fuel, there is no America. The long term goal of the Plastic Pollution Coalition is a one world government under the auspices of the UN. Hence, they would also like to see America destroyed as well.

Obviously, because of youth the American Idols didn't have a clue what the Plastic Pollution Coalition's real agenda is and probably participated because they were advised to do so by 19 Entertainment. Anyway, I'm pleased to see 19 Entertainment realizing the blunder it made and I hope it is successful in halting the Plastic Pollution Coalition's PSA propaganda campaign.

[Miguel]

I was surprised when the PSA rolled out because freshly minted Idols being advocates for a cause seemed unusual. I thought it might be a situation where one of them knew someone and they agreed on their own to do it. So I'm even more surprised that 19 Entertainment was involved.

That said, I have a rule for the "Other Topics" forum that should apply to all: "No Politics."