RTMark: All projects | The Mutual Funds

Project WALM: Be very friendly at Wal-Mart


	New projects / The Mutual Funds / All projects

To workshop a project, click on its VIEW button.

VIEW	FUNDS	US$	NEED	DESCRIPTION
View ALKY list	health altmark	0	workers funds	"Alcohol manufacturers have long sponsored alcoholism among gays, and have encouraged the near-monopolization of gay culture by bars. At a gay event sponsored by an alcohol manufacturer, dress as a representative of the sponsoring corporation, wear a big sign saying e.g. 'Coors loves gays', and as a corporate public service distribute useful alcohol-related information, e.g. ways to alleviate immediate effects of alcohol poisoning while awaiting an ambulance, how to arrange your insurance policy so that likely eventual liver damage will be properly covered, chemical ways to counter momentary or chronic impotence brought on by alcohol use, etc."
View LABL list	bio quick	0	workers funds	"Add honest labels to food products in supermarkets across the country, stating 'Genetically altered to be tastier,' 'Genetically modified to be redder,' etc."
View MYAM list	health france	0	workers funds	"In a McDonald's, make and serve real hamburgers, made with fresh meat from the butchers, vegetables from the market, and good bread. This education in taste should be geared especially to children."
View BKWR list	media	US$500	workers	"Distribute devices (such as these) that let you turn any bicycle into a printing, street writing device that prints as you ride. This project needs investment to transform more bikes, and print and distribute plans."
View LACR list	high enviro labor	US$200	workers funds	"A reward is being offered to any lacrosse, tennis, or jai alai team that defends people's right to gather at major protest events by catching and returning tear gas canisters before they even hit the ground. Must be reported in the media."
View PRGY list	altmark	0	workers funds	"We would like to create a video describing how gay liberation has also had a negative impact on 'financially challenged' gays. Before gay lib, gay bars were to be found only in poor neighborhoods, providing these with infusions of cash; this resource of course vanished when bars could be located openly in other areas. Furthermore, the windfall that gay lib has represented for marketing entrepreneurs, big discos, etc. has made coming out a potentially expensive experience. The intention is to place a responsibility on gay institutions (and government) to concern themselves with those gays (and others) who do not benefit from corporate desires."
View LNAD list	media magx corp	0	workers funds	"Make insane ads for companies, out of enthusiasm--'Dow is the best! I heart-heart-heart chemical industry giant!' Xerox them and put them up everywhere, thus associating the brands with insane ravings."
View ETCH list	comm quick	0	workers funds	"Glass etching cream may be screenprinted onto glass, leaving behind an image that cannot be removed. Design a small device that contains a screen, a squeegee, and glass etching cream, then print intricate and beautiful anti-corporate messages on expensive plate glass windows. Owner will have to decide whether to spend huge to replace glass, or leave message up." (Sample design here.)
View VICT list	war	0	workers funds	"Commission the construction of a bronze statue of George W. Bush holding up the decapitated head of Saddam Hussein. Mount this statue at a prominent tourist area in Washington DC along with enormous (Saddam-like) images of Mr. Bush. Then orchestrate and videotape crowds cheering as the authorities remove the statue reminiscent of the fall of Saddam's statue in central Bagdad. Provide this footage to foriegn and domestic, corporate and independent media."
View TAGA list	quick	0	workers funds	"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."
View SPWB list	war		workers	"Operation Spiderweb: Shut down intersections or sections of streets by attaching duct tape and/or yellow 'caution' tape to lampposts and traffic lights and stretching the tape across the street back and forth. Use a broom handle to unspool the tape as you run or bike. (You'll need several rolls of tape per section of road.) Could be coordinated with Operation Duct Shield."
View MRSP list	enviro corp		workers	"Make a marijuana solution by washing residue from pot seeds or rinsing plastic bags that have held weed. Go to a metro station, or other place where drug sniffing dogs are being used, and spray doors. Spray police officers. Wander past police stations and spray cars. Spray, spray, spray... to cause false 'hits' by the dogs."
View SWTT list	labor	0	workers funds	"Attach fake tags to garments explaining the various ways that sweatshop labor saves the consumer money."
View LBRT list	war labor		workers	"The Bush administration claims it is liberating the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein. Some country or other body should announce military plans to invade the US in order to liberate the American people (and the rest of the world) from the Bush coup. Justifications could include not only corrupt seizure of power, but also human rights violations, domestic policy that forces increasing numbers of people to live in impoverished and dangerous conditions, etc."
View FLAG list	intel media magx corp	0	workers funds	"Deliver cease-and-desist letters to retail outlets which sell clothing made from the American flag, claiming you represent estate of Abbie Hoffman and hold the copyright."
View WRAP list	net	0	workers funds	"Grab Microsoft and AOL promotional CD's, bring them home and burn new ones, chock full of viruses, bugs, flaws; then put them back, shrink wrapped and ready to go. 'Hello, Microsoft? I just installed this XP promo and every time I boot up it invokes the name of Satan.'"
View BUSH list	media	US$200	workers funds	"Hack any mainstream news website and paste in an article by Michael Moore about George W. Bush (www.michaelmoore.com/2002_0129.html)."
View JAMJ list	comm	0	workers funds	"Jam the transceiver used on the Jacobs Family during a press conference for demonstration."
View ADBS list		US$w		"Sit in the Barnes and Noble or Borders cafe with fashion magazines. alter the advertisements, and replace them on the shelf to be bought be unsuspecting customers."
View CRDT list	media	0	workers funds	"Set up a system like RTMark, but that accepts credit cards."
View FGSL list	war		workers	"Operation Forgetful Sloth: Find a crosswalk that is in a main intersection with no traffic light. With a group of 8-10 people (or more depending on size of intersection). cross very slowly one at a time, spacing yourselves a few feet from each other, but close enough so that cars cannot drive through. Upon reaching the other side of the crosswalk, turn around and walk back. Pass out materials at either curb. Repeat ad infitum, making sure you stay in the crosswalks. (As always before organizing a protest, have everyone involved call the news media to make sure it gets coverage. This has been increasingly difficult, for various reasons."
View AMKG list	war corp		workers	"Near the start of the U.S. Republic, there were attempts to make George Washington king. Since George W. Bush is acting just like a monarch--he is even taking drastic measures to insure his political line's continuity--launch a movement to find the rightful heir to the American throne among George Washington's descendants, and install him or her with all due pomp and circumstance as a relatively benign alternative to the current de facto monarchy."
View FKFR list	war france		workers	"Patriotic Americans are focusing their frustration with the French in the wrong way. The birthplace of french fries is arguable, but every American knows that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France. Set up a website petition/movement to destroy the Statue of Liberty or give it back to France." Note: this has already been done, twice--once without a trace of self-consciousness. (Here's the other one.)
View CFST list	war		workers	"If Reagan had not repealed Carter's fuel efficiency standards, we would not have been dependent on any Persian Gulf oil by 1986. (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.) Make ads similar to the 'drug money supports terrorism' ads, but geared towards U.S. consumerism. One quick way would be by editing the high budget drug ads with SUV commercials. (See TheAnti-Drug.com for a similar project.)
View BMPB list	edu	0	workers funds	"Go to the parking lot outside a parent-teacher meeting an elite private school and discreetly 'distribute' bumper stickers that say 'Exercise your ability to buy education.'"
View GMBL list	war		workers	"Along the lines of MarchToWar.com, create a national office gambling pool that raises money for war victims by allowing people to bet on various statistics in the campaign against Iraq. Possible betting objects: number of civilian casualties on a given day, time that next refugee convoy will be bombed, date that next 'discovery' of chemical weapons will occur, etc."
View KISB list	altmark	0	workers funds	"Switch the magnets in 'Kiss-Kiss' bears so that they only work as same-sex 'couples.' Replace on the store shelves. Publicize."
View ACT2 list	media net comm	0	workers funds	"Develop and release an open-source, p2p code base that would provide 'next-generation' multi-language security, user-authentication, and distributed file serving for the Indymedia network and its allies."
View PRET list	media labor	US$1700	workers funds	"Create 'pr�t a revolter' clothing for protesters. The clothing should be colorful fashions which look funny for the media but have functional protection against police baton blows, and miniature video cameras to transmit footage of police attacks."
View DBSE list	corp labor	0	workers funds	"Create a web database of cases where ordinary citizens have made a difference or have triumphed over Corporate America."
View NSDS list	media comm	US$150	workers funds	"Make and place sound playback devices in newspaper dispensers. When the door is opened, the machine can deliver commentary you may only find between the lines in the print."
View ADST list	corp	0	workers funds	"Show the link between American corporations and the rise of the Taliban (or Saddam) in a Superbowl Advertisement. The catch phrase at the end: 'Where do these regimes get their money? If you buy American products, it's definitely coming from you!'"
View DVRS list	bio enviro	0	workers funds	"We would like to develop a 'grassroots' seed repatriation program that will run, slowly but continuously, for as long as possible. The idea is to plant all manner of flora wherever project members go, regardless of how urban the surroundings. More urban settings are preferred, due to their high exposure. The primary focus of the repatriation will be ethnobotanicals of all kinds. For initial stages this would include (legal) hemps, herb and spice producing plants, annual flowers, and vegetables. $1000 is needed for minimal lab equipment to conduct more serious botanical research to develop strains better suited to city climates. A seed bank will be established that will consist entirely of heirloom seeds, from which anyone will be able to request, free of charge, any seed for their own local repatriation or research. A website will be maintained for the dissemination of information as the p.r. object continually evolves."
View ADSS list		0	workers funds	"Show the link between American tax dollars and the rise of the Taliban in a Superbowl Advertisement. The catch phrase at the end: 'Where do these regimes get their money? If you pay Federal Income Taxes, it's definitely coming from you!'"
View POST list	media war	0	workers funds	"It is possible to print newsprint in large quantities inexpensively. Make newsprint inserts and place in tabloids such as The New York Post or USA Today en masse. The inserts should be in the tabloid's style, but discuss the war's real costs--the civilian casualties, for example--or other news or background that doesn't get coverage. To get media attention, include real journalists' e-mails or work phone numbers on the inserts. Best to have ten or more journalists listed; one option is to have one journalist listed on a hundred, another on another hundred, etc. (See this project, for example.)"
View CMPN list		US$100	workers funds	"Make satirical political campaign signs that say things like 'Don't Vote - It Only Encourages Them' and place them in suburbs."
View STKG list			workers	"Download the images at www.theglitch.org. Print them, post them, paste them, poster them, and otherwise disseminate them."
View VNST list	war		workers	"Make attractive stickers saying 'This war was brought to you by' and place them before appropriate corporate logos."
View GAYM list	altmark quick		workers	"In the tradition of stamping money with 'GAY MONEY' (as a way to show how much purchasing power gays have) stamp money with 'CORPORATE MONEY' or some other more apropos slogan." (See also Dollarhack.)
View MEAT list		0	workers funds	"A worker in a newsroom should consistently add gory slaughterhouse footage to any and all stories about animals on the news, especially the nice, heartwarming stories."
View VIVE list	bio magx	0	workers funds	"Human volunteers present themselves at labs where animal experiments are taking place, offering to change places with the animals. After all: you are a better test subject and model; You are the reason for the testing. If refused, alert the media, sue the laboratory for discrimination and misuse of taxpayer funds, perhaps change places with the animals overnight."
View WHAK list	edu media magx	US$100	workers funds	"Hack digital whack-a-mole by adding the faces of Bush and his cabinet. Distribute it!"
View REDS list	edu magx	0	workers funds	"Campaign for Student Council office in a public high school on the Communist Party platform. Establish a website where interested persons can learn more about your positions toward such vital issues as school lunch and senior parking. Plaster the school with your colorful campaign posters, and receive media coverage."
View ICAN list	net quick		workers	"Help defeat the corporate stranglehold on the 'root zone' of the Internet by switching your Domain Name Service over from Network Solutions or other corporate giants to independent namespaces. More info here."
View SPMG list	net	0	workers funds	"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."
View SUIC list	magx corp	0	workers funds	"Create a corporate suicide website precisely describing to CEOs how they can kill their own corporations (for whatever personal reasons they may have)."
View CHCK list		0	workers funds	"Manufacture mini-pamphlets containing useful information about the environment, corporations, and politics using the same format as chick tracts (Christian religious pamphlets). Distribute the 'think tracts' nation wide as they do."
View SPRM list	enviro	0	workers funds	"Create and widely distribute an automatically-updating banner that documents the lowering sperm count of humans in industrialized and polluted areas."
View NOTE list	france quick		workers	"Make a rubber stamp with the words 'SAMPLE. NOT VALID' Stamp these words in red ink over $20 notes (or your local currency) Obviously the notes are valid and you can use them to pay in automatic ticket machines like the ones found in tube stations, etc. Your money is accepted by the machine. The company owner of the machine will face several problems when trying to use that money, basically people will refuse to accept it (who would accept it, even if it is a real note...would you take the risk?) Summary: you'll be causing a great disrupt (change the notes, get new ones, etc.) with a minimum investment in money and/or time."
View DUBM list	media magx labor quick	0	workers funds	"Dub this hilarious filmstrip about the racism of US drug laws over the previews of rented movies before returning the tapes to the store. To get filmstrip for dubbing, download and output file from above URL or order tape."
View MIRR list	media front comm	US$1000	workers funds	"Distribute at least 1000 mirrors to activists in Genoa. Use them to reflect blinding sun on the the police and the G8 to re-enact Archimedes' burning of the Roman fleet." Done!
View REFU list	media war enviro	US$150	workers funds	"Establish a refugee camp in Cabo San Lucas complete with an SUV caravan, expedition weight Gore-Tex six-man tents, gas barbeques, ATV's, Volleyball net, etc."
View SPRA list	media	0	workers funds	"Construct a car-mounted hi-res projection unit and pirate unused billboards with your favorite pookalicious slogans."
View MAIL list	high	US$3000	workers	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."
View EXCH list		0	workers funds	"Organize a campaign in which many people each buy a few items from a targeted corporation, and then exchange them repeatedly over the next few weeks (often possible without a receipt, so the original clothes could be purchased from thrift stores)."
View PUMP list	war enviro quick		workers	"Gas station employees: hike gas prices at the pump to at least $10 a gallon. Modify the receipt thank you message to provide a statement like: 'This is a fraction of the cleanup costs created by your car.'"
View VSKT list	net	0	workers funds	"Make a 'data arsenal' website containing zipped computer viruses which the visitor can download and distribute by e-mail."
View CNDM list	war		workers