- If you don't feel comfortable giving live press briefings, why not send letters using fake headed paper from the same alter-egos, using similarly undermining or crass messages.
- Create a dodgy corporate video that was only intended for internal use, and post it on YouTube (and Wikileaks) as a "leak". Include information that is close enough to the truth to be credible, but edgy enough to cause a stir. Steal the introduction and ending from an existing corporate video using video capture software.
- Start referring to zoos as "animal prisons" and discourage children from attending anywhere that uses animals for profit. Take children on walks and show them real wildlife instead.
- Host a wild food dinner. Forage for food and ask guests to bring something wild of their own, or homegrown if that's not possible -- it will really make them think and if you can cook well then also maybe change their diets.
- Disrupt "legitimate" commercial activities by acting as a Rogue Trader, for instance by bidding on resources or land set aside for exploitation when you have no intention of buying (make sure there is a "cooling off" period). Use the resulting furore to publicise your reasons.
- Refuse to sign up to, or pledge alliegance to systems of authority, even when compulsory. Encourage others to do the same and make the most of your refusal in public, thus helping undermine the accepted top-down power relationship in civilized society.
- If you are web browsing, use Firefox along with Adblock Plus; an add-on that removes advertising from web sites. This effectively breaks the advertisers' business model and ability to brainwash, so is one good piece of software to recommend to others.
- Don't take out loans; discourage (and certainly never encourage) people from taking out loans. Discuss why loans exist as a way of keeping the economy growing, at the individual's expense, and why it is far better to share, lend, barter or borrow.
- Use the terms "wage slavery" in place of paid work, and "debt slavery" in place of loans or mortgages. Subvertise advertising with these phrases where appropriate, and when talking to friends, and especially in any public forum (radio, debates, hustings etc) where others might pick up these terms.
- In the lead up to school assessments (such as SATs), if you or your child goes to school, refuse to take part in coaching lessons or test practices -- they are nothing to do with education. Tell parents and students what you are doing: start a rebellion!
(Last Updated: 10 March 2010)
Thanks to the following for tips: Earth First!, Martin Sprouse (ed. "Sabotage in the American Workplace"), AdBusters, Aquila ka Hecate (http://aquilakahecate.blogspot.com), Richard Reynolds (http://www.guerrillagardening.org), The Yes Men (http://www.theyesmen.org), Dave Pollard (http://www.howtosavetheworld.ca), Guy McPherson (http://www.guymcpherson.com) and all my other great correspondents.
Originally published at http://earth-blog.bravejournal.com/entry/40952/ and http://earth-blog.bravejournal.com/entry/42068
Reprinted from originalearthblog.wordpress.com
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