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With the Obama administration already waffling, it's time to start a serious push to get the Federal government to fund only sex education that actually works, that meets the actual needs of our young people rather than the needs of religious fanatics and is appropriate to the separation of Church and State as clarified by the First Amendment.
If you feel that abstinence-only sex education is appropriate, then it's time for you to start talking to your kids at home and developing community programs funded by something other than taxes to push your message.
Promoting Abstinence = Promoting Teen Pregnancy
Please don't let your religious beliefs continue to ruin the lives of our youth and violate the basic tenets of a relatively free society.
This Public Service Announcement brought to you by Clyde Smith, a man sick of oppression in all forms and manifestations.
Winnipeg is launching a drug prevention program featuring an anti-meth PSA with rapper Fresh I.E. and some graphic imagery:
"A 12-year-old boy strapped to a chair chokes as battery acid is forced down his throat, winces in pain as his teeth are drilled until they pour blood and worms are dumped all over him."
No, that's not what happens to street salesmen when captured by their rivals. It's a dramatic illustration of the negative effects of crystal meth on users created by Original Pictures Inc.
The video is part of the Adapt Campaign by In Fuse Group Inc.
Official Site:
Original Pictures Inc
Life's Real Get Smart PSA f/Swizz Beats
Here are two Stay In School Campaign PSA's featuring Swizz Beats and Yung Berg that WoooHa.com tells us are from Street Science, a "school supply maker with an urban focus".
Street Science PSA f/Yung Berg
Street Science doesn't seem to have a website, which couldn't be true, right?
Here's an example of their school supplies which appear to focus on colorful skins for notebooks such as "Beat Street", a skin that "pays tribute to hip hop's influence on pop culture and today's trends."
Saint Snoop Dogg is featured in an ad commissioned by Marie Claire for the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day.
So is this intended to help the Catholic power structure turn around its image problem based on their well documented history of facilitating child abuse?
It's not working and I doubt that power structure will appreciate the effort but I think the youth of the world should take the whole thing as a slap in the face.
On a Related Note from El-P:
no problem, big guy!
"Bee-Boy dance crew drops dead"
Playing off the fact that honey bees do a little nectar dance to tell their comrades where the goods are stashed, the above hip hop honey bee dance psa is Haagen-Dazs' way of encouraging you to "Help the Honey Bees".
Diddy in Drive Safe Commercial
E! and Ciroc are the sponsors of this Drive Safe commercial featuring Diddy with a bit of a fantasy theme as some random white guy's designated driver.
Not a bad commercial and a bit more fitting than the Burger King commercial I saw recently with Diddy saying, "tell them Diddy says BK is open late". It's one of those "slap Diddy on it and it well sell" commercials that goes somewhat meta to remind us that Diddy and Burger King have absolutely no organic connection.
MediaWeek has more:
As part of the Comcast network's Drive Safe initiative, a roster of celebrities like Sean "Diddy" Combs, Eva Longoria, Gabrielle Union and the stars of E!'s The Girls Next Door will appear in 30-second PSAs urging viewers to stay off the road if they've been drinking.
Related ProHipHop Coverage:
Diddy's First Ciroc Vodka Commercial
Diddy In Portrait Of Sean Combs, The New Burger King, Press Play
Vote For It! '08 PSA
Though Vote For It! '08's website has yet to launch, they already have a PSA available including an appearance by George Lucas, though I have to say I find the video a bit grating.
Vote For It! '08 is a joint initiative between the Hip Hop Summit Action Network and CPX Interactive, an online ad network and marketing company.
Access to Care PSA Featuring MIKE-E
Press Release:
American Cancer Society Launches Access to Care PSA With International Recording Sensation MIKE-E
An anti-Semitism PSA starring Jay-Z and Russell Simmons, a Russell Simmons concept shot in 2006, has led to a related effort concerning Jewish/Muslim relations starring six rabbis and six imams.
Beanie Sigel gets great coverage on a FOX affiliate for his anti-violence PSA and his new album, The Solution. He could not have gotten that positive coverage without the PSA.
On the one hand, artists that make art glorifying violence saying that you shouldn't do violence just in time for a relatively violent album release is pretty f*cking ridiculous.
On the other, Beanie's come a long way from the dumb-seeming thug with serious flow on Backstage.
So it's good he's speaking out about violence no matter how bizarre it might seem. And it's nice to see Sigel turn out to be something other than an idiot savant which was my initial assumption. Seriously.
Idiot savant isn't quite right. A generally belligerent, potentially dangerous, mentally/emotionally disturbed street poet would be more accurate regarding my first impressions of Beanie Sigel.
Update:
On a related note, Tupac's Thug outsells Life and Rizoh is right on all counts, they should have released it as a double cd and thug love has led to a "proliferation of pseudo gangstas in the game".
MDA Senior Management Rap
From the Singapore Media Development Authority via TechCrunch.
I'm not sure what to think.
Keep Miami Gardens Beautiful
This is a fun little PSA and the storyline actually turned out like I was hoping while I was watching the first part.
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