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DESCRIPTION (click here for help)
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corp
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US$2000
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workers
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to "the first U.S. court to imprison a corporation under a 'three strikes you're out' law. Funds may be used for courthouse renovations."
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magx
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0
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workers
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"The Biotic Baking Brigade seeks funds to subpoena Milton Friedman, Robert Shapiro, and Mayor Brown in their upcoming trial on charges of hurling pies at those august faces, and for other worthy purposes. Please write either to ®™ark, or to the BBB directly, to contribute funds."
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etoy
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workers
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"Hold parties to file grievance forms against eToys lawyers en masse. Forms can be obtained from the California State Bar Association's special line for complaints against attorneys: (800)843-9053 in CA; (213)765-1200 outside CA."
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quick
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0
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workers
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"Write and distribute an e-mail message containing real recent quotes about the global economic crisis from major financial publications, selected to horrify individual investors. Examples: 'I have never seen anything like this in my entire life!' (Alan Greenspan) 'Today, there are 60 trillion dollars of borrowed funds invested in world markets. Even in 1929, markets were not this leveraged.' (Financial Times) The message must be shocking, convincing, and easy to understand, and it must reach at least 100,000 people and be noticed by mainstream financial media."
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corp
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workers
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"Determine which corporations would NOT be in jail today, if corporations were jailed for offenses just like individuals. Plot the results in various ways, and publicize the result in the media."
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workers
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"Replace advertising space for a multi-national corporation that has direct connections to the WTO in a major lifestyle magazine (such as Elle or vogue or people) with images of the peaceful protests in Seattle (or elsewhere)."
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media
magx
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US$1000
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workers
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for "a worker at a film editing house or video duplication outfit to insert other scenes of a shockingly educational nature into popular movies or videos. Viewers must see the scenes, and it must be reported in the media."
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magx
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0
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funds
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"To highlight the cynical merchandising of rebellion and solidarity to disaffected youth (examples: grunge, rave, etc.), create a 'tribe' from arbitrary elements--manners, items of clothing, etc.--and establish it as a 'real' media presence. When revealing the plan, also reveal some secondary meanings of the distinguishing elements...."
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comm
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workers
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"Start company or inventors' collective which designs and markets gadgets and electronics to disrupt all manner of electronic device. (One product might be a short-radius EM jammer to disrupt cell phones, radios etc. within an immediate area.) Market the devices to teenagers. Use funds generated for more devices with the same purpose." (NOTE: One such device already exists, and requires only marketing for it to be fully effective. Sponsors are encouraged to visit www.eiu.org/experiments/i-bomb/ to offer support.)
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media
corp
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US$400
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workers
funds
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for "a television reporter to consistently compare the punishment corporations receive for actual violations with the punishment individuals would receive for similar offenses."
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corp
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US$2000
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workers
funds
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for "the first U.S. court to condemn a corporation to death. The sentence must be carried out. Funds may be used for courthouse renovations."
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0
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workers
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"Issue a mirror copy of the 'Barbie Super Sports' CDROM wherein instead of shopping to accessorize her cute sports look, Barbie wins the ability to do various other things that break the Barbie stereotypes. Place CDs in original packaging and on store shelves."
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net
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workers
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"Purchase e-mail lists and subscribe to bulk-mailing services (usually about $150). Use these lists to send messages informing recipients where their addresses were bought, how the messages were sent, and urging them to complain. Provide real contact for the companies that you want to receive complaints, as well as legislators' contact info and other anti-spam resources."
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high
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US$50
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workers
funds
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"Charlton Heston is currently on tour with a new play. Point out flaws in current gun control policy by attending this play and shooting Heston with a paintball gun, proving how easy it is to commit a murder under current weapons laws."
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etoy
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0
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workers
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"There are numerous investor communities on the web with thousands of forums. Enter a forum and explain to the investors the problems in the eToys/etoy case, strategically releasing information to lower investor confidence." (Click here for forum URLs and sample letters.)
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0
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workers
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"In a nod to the Yippies action of the 1960's, a floor-runner should empty a suitcase full of realistic counterfeit money over the floor of the NYSE (or another large stock exchange). The chaos that ensues should be videotaped."
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enviro
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US$200
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workers
funds
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for "the successful circulation of rumors that eating shark fin soup causes men to develop breasts because it contains a hormone similar to estrogen" or "that the ingestion of rhinocerous horn causes cancer of the testes."
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high
enviro
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US$5000
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workers
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to anyone who can "find and administer a substance to a great number of cattle that will make their beef unfit for consumption, without harming either the cattle's health or that of potential consumers--perhaps by discoloring it."
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labor
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US$120
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workers
funds
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"Insert realistic collector cards into cereal boxes, each with a photo and description of one of the many workers that has been killed or maimed at the cereal manufacturer's factory."
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0
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workers
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"Stage a new trend in which the upward rise of housing costs in major cities leads corporations to lease office cubicles to workers who then live in them. Set up residences in an office building with personal belongings, cots, etc. Get the story on national news, use it as a way to talk about increasing dependence on large corporations."
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high
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US$3000
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workers
funds
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to "rename a major chemical weapons incineration plant after Ronald Reagan."
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etoy
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0
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workers
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"The attempt by the corporation eToys to forcibly take over the domain name etoy.com is threatening to set a precedent whereby it would be easy for corporations or parties with political interest to deprive individuals or art and activist groups of their domain names, if the name is apt to be confused with that of said corporations or parties. Help preserve freedom of expression on the Worldwide Web by studying the issues and lobbying ICANN, Congress, and public-interest groups like the EFF (thanks to EFF!) against domain-name censorship and reverse domain name hijacking."
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magx
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US$100
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workers
funds
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"A Hispanic person claiming to be a representative of a group of refugees should request asylum from Cuba--and also the United States and the State of Florida--at Walt Disney World. Written statement issued to press should highlight Disney's quasi-governmental powers in Florida. Statement should also avow that in exchange for asylum, the refugees are willing to work at the park for less than minimum wage. Written statement must appear either on a (Disney-owned) ABC news broadcast, or on the local broadcasts of a substantial number of ABC affiliates."
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0
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workers
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"Collect several hundred pounds of viable hemp (both psychoactive and not) and aerial broadcast these seeds over a large enough landmass to where profiteering or eradication become absolutely impossible. Alternately, do this with genetically modified, weedkiller-resistant weeds."
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magx
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0
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workers
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"Using any hamburger fast food chain's cartoon characters, create a small booklet or sheet explaining with bright smiling faces, with graphic photos, and in vivid detail, how cows are drugged, abused, and slaughtered to make hamburgers. Add it to the food bag or, better, in the special toy package. If necessary, stage angry parent reactions so that the media covers the story."
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quick
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workers
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"In museums and wherever 'audiotours' are available, borrow cassettes, record new text with interesting social messages, and return the cassettes to their players. Do this all over the world; eventually, it will be noticed."
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etoy
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0
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workers
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"Every time you see an eToys e-mail address in a news group or on a mailing list, use the opportunity to e-mail the owner about what type of company he or she is working for."
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quick
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0
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workers
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"Study the dress code at your workplace and dress outrageously, but within the dress code limits. If you are reprimanded, politely explain that you are within the dress code. If you are fired or encounter other difficulties, most states will allow you to sue; there are examples of large settlements in California."
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high
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US$3000
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workers
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for a "worker at one of the five biggest mailing and parcel delivery services who can cause several thousand large packages, addressed from one corporation to another, to be delivered instead to social welfare agencies that work with children, during a holiday like Easter or Christmas, with the name and address of the social welfare agencies replacing the originals on the packages."
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health
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US$120
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workers
funds
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"Devise coupon stickers for free packs of cigarettes and glue them onto boxes of children's cereal (and other products) manufactured by tobacco companies. Do this in such a way as to obtain wide coverage in the media for the fact that some tobacco companies are also trying to sell to children noxious or unhealthy products other than cigarettes."
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edu
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workers
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"Create a website to show the effects of the corporatization of education by making explicit a large corporation's unspoken policies. The website should highlight the way in which corporations pervert education for their own purposes, until it is no longer recognizable as such. Done! See microsoftedu.com!"
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comm
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US$300
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workers
funds
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"$1000 needed to build new 'robotic objectors' that will paint slogans automatically. Click here for full details, including pictures and video of a prototype.."
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media
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0
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workers
funds
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for "a print journalist who can use the Language Crystal to create two or three simultaneous readings of a story, or make it possible to read the story in another language (see Zukofsky's translation of 'Catullus,' which reads simultaneously in English and Latin)."
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intel
media
quick
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0
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workers
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"Blockbuster edits the content of many of the videos they rent. Rent edited tapes and record the original versions onto them--the object being to get caught, so that Blockbuster presses charges (perhaps for vandalism)."
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corp
comm
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0
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workers
funds
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"Create and distribute a product scanner that accesses a database and shows instantly the terrible practices involved in making the product scanned. In addition, the machine prints out a label customized to the product, that can be glued to the product's packaging on the spot."
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US$1000
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workers
funds
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"A worker at a paper-cup manufacturer must cause a shipment of cups to bear one of two things, prominently: the likeness of any widely despised historical figure, or extremely off-color jokes. The cups must reach store shelves before being discovered, so it would be best to alter cups that are already adorned with something not entirely different, say a likeness of a baseball player or weak jokes."
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0
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workers
funds
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to "alter an ad for a trendy, major-name clothing brand so that it shows a model smoking or peddling crack cocaine, or, alternately, shows a model being killed for their clothing. Preferably, all models in the ad should be white. The ad should appear in a major magazine and reach store shelves."
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intel
high
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US$500
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workers
funds
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to "alter the bootup splash screen of a popular computer operating system so that the logo of a rival company, or a rock, is displayed smashing through it instead. A worker in the assembly or testing departments of DELL, Gateway, Compaq, etc. could, after testing, overwrite the existing splash screen file with a new one, which can be provided by RTMARK upon request. A number of the computer/operating system must be sold thus, and it must be reported in the press."
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quick
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0
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workers
funds
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"Use the Tagamatic developed in project ETCH to permanently etch the words 'void where prohibited by law' on that glass case that holds the United States' most sacred document."
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edu
media
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0
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workers
funds
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"$1000 needed to subvert an audiobook leasing company (they distribute latest bestsellers, including a heavy list of corporate/conservative titles to hundreds of truckstops and public libraries across the country) by recording over every cassette of a certain highly anticipated right-wing title with Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, or Michael Parenti, etc. Worker will keep log of where these tapes are going, and local monitoring of infected racks can be administered. Get media attention in all cities where 'discoveries' are reported, and interview the 'victims'."
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net
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0
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workers
funds
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"If you buy things or simply request information from many web sites, they will put your name on a list and sell it to other e-commerce interests without your knowledge. Set up a website that tracks the sale of personal email accounts by submitting unique email addresses to suspect sites. When you receive unsolicited mail from 3rd parties with the unique address, you will know who originally sold the name. Heavily publicize your findings on your site and in the media."
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media
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0
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workers
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"Remake of Pinocchio, in which he goes to Disney Land, and rather than being transformed into a pack animal, he becomes a real, live boy... who just happens to be from a Third-World country. He and several other kids are then taken to factually accurate animated representations of Disney's Third- World sweatshops. In the end Pinocchio is beaten to death by the guards for attempting to take one of the shirts he was forced to manufacture."
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edu
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0
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workers
funds
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"We will produce a series of anti-souvenirs that will educate tourists to Hawaii about social injustice here and raise funds for Hawaiian activists. We will need about $2,000 to replicate the prototypes which are already made. We could also use more volunteers to help assemble the product, and more souvenir dealers who might be interested in purchasing them."
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0
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workers
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Put together a 8 1/2' x 11' flyer featuring the Kinko's logo (click link to download) with a message of 'Thank you for your patronage' or the like - all on the background of a gay porn photo or something equally obscene to the business world. Make many copies of it and insert them upsidedown into the paper trays of their self-serve machines. Shocked patrons will find their self-serve copies having a nice Kinko's thank you on the reverse side. Kinko's can subvert itself for 6 cents a copy."
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enviro
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0
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workers
funds
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"Nuclear weapons accidents occurred with disturbing frequency in the heart of the American landscape, yet little is commonly known about them due to Cold War security restrictions and corporate disinformation campaigns. To counter this silence a series of interactive markers will be placed in weapons accident zones."
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labor
front
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US$300
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workers
funds
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"Place 'Sally Struthers'-style leaflets, detailing the poor working conditions that exist for those who assemble athletic footwear, in major-brand athletic shoes, their shoeboxes, or the shoppings bags containing them, before or as they are being sold. Workers in many cities are being sought to plant the leaflets on an agreed-upon day, especially in 'flagship' stores. A press release will be issued by RTMARK to call attention to the event."
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quick
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0
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"Go into a store or fast-food chain, and attempt to barter for goods/services. Offer to trade livestock--best if you actually bring something like a live chicken into the store."
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etoy
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0
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workers
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"Picket eToys, Inc., headquarters in Santa Monica, California, carrying banners decrying eToy's corporate tactics against etoy, and distributing leaflets to eToys employees and passers-by. Turn away delivery trucks. Ensure coverage in local media."
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0
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workers
funds
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"Change famous McDonalds signs, possibly all in one city, all in one day, to read 'Billions and billions SLAVED'."
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net
quick
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0
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workers
funds
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"Create hilarious or stupid/offensive ad-banners for corporate websites. Try to place them in link-exchange or likewise. ('I've never gotten fucked like in the new Audi TT!') One strategy might be to first create some nice average homepage banner and after a while change the motif and the destination."
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high
magx
enviro
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US$2500
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workers
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for "an employee of one of the three largest car manufacturers in the U.S. who causes at least hundreds of cars to be shipped with gas tanks that have a capacity of between half a gallon and a gallon of gas only (the cars should be able to go about eighteen miles before refueling). At least some of the cars must be sold, and the media must report on it."
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etoy
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0
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workers
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"Successful! Click for info. eToys are nothing without their website. Bring down that website (and those of eToys' subsidiaries) periodically by using the Virtual Sit-In tool. eToys shares will fall tremendously. A good time to start might be during the ten days before Christmas. (Watch this page for updates.)"
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edu
magx
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0
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funds
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"During the Republican National Convention, a horse carriage driver will give conventioneers narrated tours from hell. Choice of tours: God in Colonial Times; Sex, Drugs & Violence in the 18th Century; Homeless in Philadelphia; Bill of Rights; Death & Dying: Hospitals Then & Now; Ethnic America in Colonial Times; The Real Ben Franklin; and Crime & Prisons in America. Some tours include visit to a church, sex shop, corrugated cardboard box village, hospital, or a gallop around the new prison. Investors will receive free video, 'The Best Horse Carriage Tours of the Republican National Convention in the Year of Our Lord 2000.'"
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quick
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0
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workers
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"Subvert the whole meaning and concept of money whilst using it in its true sense. In UK, bank notes carry a promise that who ever owns that note will be paid that amount in sterling at the head bank. Get as many people as possible to demand this sterling and then send them out to high street shops to try and purchase items with the sterling. Would need high press coverage (perhaps a comedy show) and if you got an exceptional amount of people could pose financial problems for banks to lose so much sterling. May have interesting outcomes in that selling back £5 of sterling may only get you £1.70 in return cash."
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high
corp
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US$200
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workers
funds
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"Since U.S. corporations are by law U.S. citizens, it should be possible to marry one. Successfully marry an actual corporation, so that the marriage is legally binding; the event must be reported in the media."
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magx
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0
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workers
funds
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"Create a social movement whose ultimate goal it will be to manifest, through the power of popular will, genital warts on George W. Bush. The would-be president will be infected with this unpleasant condition through mass mailings, a web site, and the creation of art depicting Bush with the condition. In this age of plutocracy our aim is to point out the uselessness of the voting booth in actualizing real, material changes, and to explore new possibilities for democracy."
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labor
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US$500
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workers
funds
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"Get rich white guys in sports bars to pick oranges and pay for it by inventing a video game that activates telepresent robotic labor. Disguise the fact that game players are engaging in labor by camouflaging the game as a first person shoot-em-up. Donate video game profits to the UFW. This project could be accomplished by staging it for the media, but in that case the investment capital goes directly to the UFW."
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quick
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US$200
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workers
funds
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to "take the book of any major pulp writer and, keeping the jacket the same, replace the entire inside text with the Koran or the Zohar. This might be accomplished by some skilled bookbinders and a cadre of volunteers in different cities."
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intel
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0
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workers
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"Create and distribute a computer war-game in such a way that purchasers believe it is just another violent entertainment. The game-play must resemble that of a 'normal' war-game, but must unexpectedly and shockingly convey the connection of commercial video game technology to actual war."
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magx
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0
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workers
funds
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to each policeman in a major city no smaller than Chicago who "for at least five days, between the hours of six and eight oíclock, at least ten times each day asks a businessman in a suit and tie for his identity papers and then informs the businessman that there is a curfew of 6 p.m. for affluent men. The policeman must say, ëSo why arenít you home with your wife?í"
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0
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workers
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"Hack into conservative radio talk show host 'Dr.' Laura Schlessinger's website and place nude photos of her (readily available on the web) on the site. Bonus points to anyone who can get on her show, live, and ask her about the nude photos (1-800-375-2872 between 12:00 noon and 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time)."
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0
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workers
funds
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"Religious iconography, perhaps more than any other visual input, determines our sexual tastes, even today. In the interest of societal psychoanalysis, create and maintain a website which makes this fact manifest by means of still images of erotically charged religious art (old and new), live erotic performances (visitor can play St. Sebastian's ex-lover and shoot the arrow, or Pontius Pilate can wash virtual hands), etc. Site must be respectful and in no way derogatory of any religion."
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etoy
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0
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workers
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"Since the etoy/eToys lawsuit endangers eToys and hence its employees' jobs, and directly endangers the jobs of etoy.AGENTS, secure union backing to fight against the loss of jobs created by the lawsuit."
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magx
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0
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workers
funds
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"Rent a neighborhood grocery store that is going out of business, and offer to purchase his remaining goods and clear out his store for him. Announce 'New Owner--New Policy--Big Get Acquainted sale' and sell everything at ridiculous prices: six pack of Coke for a quarter, dozen eggs or loaf of bread for a dime, etc. Give advance notice to the media, as the store will be cleaned out within a few hours. Switch signs--'Moved To New Location'--and repeat."
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net
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0
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workers
funds
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"Launch a website dedicated to making fun in an entertaining way of a seemingly omnipotent corporate figure (Bill Gates?). Get the figure angry enough to sue, generating massive media coverage. (See Virtual Bill Clinton for an example, at http://www.protocomix.com/)."
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workers
funds
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"Create a level or version of the video game Doom set in Littleton High. You're the guard at Littleton, or you're Darryl Klebold. Or, in the networked version, you're up against the world... Can you make it out alive? Do you want to? Widely distribute the game."
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media
magx
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0
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workers
funds
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"Replace a frequently aired commercial on a major market radio station with an announcement from 'station management' that the FCC has pronounced the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as being 'in poor taste. (The station's corporate owner) has been ordered to turn the station over to the public interest effective the first of the following month. Anyone with suggestions as to what to do with the station should call (the corporate owner's CEO) at (his or her private number).'"
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0
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workers
funds
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"Get corporations to sponsor patients within the health care system, using the patient's progress as a form of advertising."
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magx
quick
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US$180
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workers
funds
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to "alter ordinary supermarket greeting card displays to reflect concerns that are never reflected in such displays (e.g. the virtues of eating free-range pork meat, the marriage of one's non-native boyfriend, or the execution of one's soulmate). Amount offered will depend upon specific project. (Cards may also simply be added to displays rather than altered in manufacturing.)"
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etoy
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0
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workers
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"Start a website 'Parents Against eToys' to communicate widely that the company is proactively anticultural. Do you want your children to live in a world without culture, fun, education, art and irony? The aim of the website should be to make clear that the eToys vs. etoy case is not about art-world solidarity or the international law of domain names, but about the balance of power in the emergent virtual world culture, which will determine the character of the world of our children. If the electronic vandalism of eToys triumphs, the WWW will become a totalitarian consumerist anticulture instead of the powerhouse of ideas it still to some extent is."
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