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Greenpeace has a new flag! We asked folks to submit their designs, made a selection, and then put the final contestents out to a vote at our discussion forum, Louder than Words.

It was a tough decision. As with our competition to name the ship “Esperanza,” we were spoiled for choice — our online activists are a creative bunch. (If you want to join this fun-loving bunch of ship-naming, flag-designing, campaign-winning, future-greening folks, sign up here.)

Congratulations to Danielle Brandt of Denmark for submitting the winning design! Danielle won a goody bag of Greenpeace gear and the 5 minutes of fame that being featured here on Making Waves, the Greenpeace blog, brings. But she describes the best reward as knowing that a piece of her work will be there on board the ships as they expose environmental crimes, confront the criminals, and drive the solutions we need for a green and peaceful world.

We asked Danielle to tell us a little bit about how she got with the flag design competition, and this is what she wrote:

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The Yesmen, corporate pranksters (with a conscience) par excellence, have done it again with their unique and often hilarious brand of identity correction – this time nailing climate criminal numero uno ExxonMobil. They sneaked in to an oil industry conference to announce ExxonMobil plans to turn billions of climate-change victims into a brand-new fuel called Vivoleum.

Now the Yesmen have claimed some notable scalps in the past including announcing the closure of the WTO and Dow’s clean up of Bhopal. But Exxon immediately rolled out scary sounding legal notices (also nothing new for the Yesmen) but often internet providers get very scared by expensive corporate lawyers writing nasty letters. Despite the fact that the right of parody is legally protected, their provider immediately took down their site. Here’s the Yesmen’s newsletter – if you’re interested in free speech on the internet, or happen to be a friendly hosting service these great folks need your help! And their film is really good watch too.

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(Posted by David Zaks in News and Views at 10:51 PM)