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Flashback: What If You Had to Ask Permission to Get Married?
Sometimes empathy is the most powerful way of moving civil rights forward, which is why this PSA from 2005 is so effective. It depicts what it must feel like for gay people who are barred from legally marrying by showing a man walking from house to house asking strangers if can have his girlfriend's hand in marriage. Wow.
The Shelter Pet Project Gives Images a Makeover
It's a sad fact we know to be true, but pets in shelters are often overlooked. Not only are there preconceived notions about these animals, but the reality is that some people just don't check out the lonely furballs in these locations. In order to draw attention to their plight, the Shelter Pet Project created some clever PSAs.
Bus Shelters to Milwaukee Teens: Pregnancy Stinks
It’s back to school for teens all across the nation. In Milwaukee, they’re taking this opportunity to make bus shelters bear the awful truth to teenagers: teen pregnancy stinks. How exactly?
New York Warns: Don't Drink Yourself Fat
New York City is taking a bold stand against empty calories with its Don't Drink Yourself Fat ad campaign. Recognizing that liquid calories can be a diet saboteur, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is advising residents to avoid soda and other sugary beverages.
The campaign implicitly acknowledges that diet soda isn't necessarily healthier — just lower in calories — by recommending water, seltzer, or lowfat milk.
Ewww! Anti-Drinking PSA Works Hard to Gross Us Out
This Belgian anti-drinking PSA tells young people not to delude themselves into thinking that drinking too much is going to give them the night of their lives. Warning: it's gross. Don't say I didn't warn you!
PSAs as Music Videos: Good For Message, or the Band?
Stereogum says this antisex-trafficking PSA will do more for the band behind it, The Killers, than promote awareness of the crime. A collaboration between UNICEF, MTV EXIT (End Exploitation and Trafficking), and the US Agency for International Development, the video began airing yesterday on MTV stations around the world. Guess MTV does play videos!
Très Bizarre: Japanese Company Cares About Global Warming
How do they express this? By featuring a young girl shaving a hot bear in the forest in places he can't reach. If you shave a bear in the forest and no one's around.
PSA From a Vagina's Point of View
Time was, vagina was a word you didn't hear often, unlike the word penis. (Where did this come from — vagina phobia? Dislike of the actual word vagina?)
Now, vaginas are having monologues, ads imagine boys having vaginas, and in this PSA for cervical cancer, a vagina has what film theorists call a "point of view."
PSA Asks: Would You Do This Sober?
UK public service announcements sure like to use their shock value as an educational tactic. First we were treated to the teen pregnancy prevention ad that had us watching a screaming schoolgirl give birth on a playground filled with students, and now we have a new one discouraging binge drinking by exposing a sober nation to the disgusting antics of their drunken selves.
In the ad, a bloke demonstrates vomiting, fighting, urinating in public, going home with strangers, and yelling insults at women.
Scared Sexless: Ad Shows Teen Giving Birth on Playground
A new advertisement, produced by the UK's National Health Service, realistically depicts a screaming schoolgirl giving birth on a playground amid a chaotic crowd of students. Before you watch, beware: the content is graphic.
Government officials behind the spot explain that pamphlets and posters have been ineffective in getting the message out about teen pregnancy prevention.
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