Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:50:37 -0600 (CST)
From: FringeWare News Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: CORP - USA Phone In Sick Day
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 17, 1998
Contacts: RTMARK ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Decadent Action ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RTMARK SPONSORS USA PHONE IN SICK DAY, APRIL 6
Event has enjoyed wide publicity in Britain
The British are coming--this time not to impose their tea but to wean
us from it. Join NPR commentator and poet ANDREI CODRESCU, other
celebrities, and millions more in resisting corporate rule by phoning
in sick April 6, and be part of the first ever USA Phone In Sick Day.
World Phone In Sick Day has enjoyed immense popularity in Britain.
For last year's event, over two thousand British Airways employees
phoned in sick to protest airline policies, and countless others
joined them in a more general protest. The "consumer terrorists"
known as Decadent Action have been credited with inspiring these
actions. The avowed purpose of Decadent Action is "the destruction of
capitalism via hyper-inflation caused by excessive spending and
employee disobedience," according to their press release.
RTMARK's stated goals are more modest. "We want to remind Americans of
their history," an RTMARK spokesperson said. "The American Revolution
was in large part a revolt against corporations, which are bodies
formed to allow rich people to shirk responsiblity for abuses--they
allow exploitation without representation. The Founding Fathers
thought corporations immoral, and they were illegal here during the
first fifty years of the Republic. Superfresh would have been
banned." (Superfresh, by the way, used to be the Great Atlantic and
Pacific Tea Company, or A&P.)
RTMARK's activities will include sponsorship of performances in the
USA and England, networking support, and public relations. ANDREI
CODRESCU has agreed to join in the festivities in exchange for an
undisclosed RTMARK commission, contributed by an anonymous donor.
Andrei will be calling in sick on the air.
RTMARK was established in 1991 to further intelligent subversion, in
some cases by channelling funds from donors to workers for sabotage of
corporate products. Recent and upcoming acts of RTMARK-aided
subversion are documented on RTMARK's web site,
http://www.paranoia.com/~rtmark.
Decadent Action's press release can be found at
http://www.paranoia.com/~rtmark/daphoneinsick.html.
(Note: a short update will follow shortly before April 6.)
USA PHONE IN SICK DAY SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
* phone in sick (as Andrei says, "What's the point of going in if you're
NOT sick?");
* if you must go to work, secretly do something pesky (see RTMARK's
projects list for ideas);
* dress up your pet with a tie (this works!);
* buy tons of ridiculous products (but also buy a Codrescu book);
* print newspaper articles or fliers declaring the low unemployment rate
a great tragedy;
* subscribe your boss or your company to a dozen munitions and
white-supremacy magazines;
* workers of the World-Wide Web unite in spamming notes that workplace
viruses have destroyed your machines;
* speak in a bad English accent all day;
* resist according to your wont and pleasure.
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