Anthony Freda and the Use of Art to Promote Human Rights and Peace

My career began in advertising and moved into mainstream editorial illustration and fine art. Looking back, I now feel that my skills were being used to manufacture consent to agendas that I am morally and ethically opposed to. As a young man I worked on the infamous Joe Camel ad campaigns which were pulled for using cartoons to target children, and I worked on Op-Ed pieces for the New York Times when they were feverishly cheerleading the Invasion of Iraq. I have since repented and now dedicate my work to “sell” the causes of peace and freedom by volunteering my services to like-minded alternative, independent media outlets, with one foot still in the mainstream media…