MTV Boycott and Protest - June 6, Los Angeles

[educatedindian]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/19/dudesons-cowboys-and-find_n_651221.html
MTV has removed an episode of "The Dudesons" from its website in response to complaints from the American Indian Movement of Santa Barbara, reports the NY Post.

In the episode, the Finnish cast of four dons ridiculous costumes and performs stunts to earn "honorary Indian" status.

One Dudeson's crotch was slammed by a totem pole, reports the Post.

"In response to concerns raised by viewers and out of sensitivity to the Aboriginal community, we will not be repeating the episode of 'The Dudesons' in question," an MTV rep informed AIM in an e-mail.

The network has scrubbed the show's website of photos and video from the episode.

[Defend the Sacred]

What they didn't make clear there is that it is MTV-Canada that has pulled the episode. And it's been pulled from the website. US MTV just said, "we didn't mean to be offensive." and kept running it.

There are commercials for the show running on MTV-owned stations in Europe now.

There are also a number of photos still up.