>Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:29:14 -0800 >Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> > Smell a rat? Culture Jammers Network <[log in to unmask]> Culture Jammers Network <[log in to unmask]> > >Have your activities come under increased scrutiny in the aftermath of S11? > >Ours have. > >Recently, our Corporate America Flag billboard in Times Square, New >York, attracted the attention of the federal Department of Defense, >and a visit by an agent who asked a lot of pointed questions about >our motivations and intent. We wondered: What gives? > >"Just following up a lead from a tip line," the agent admitted. > >That's the kind of fourth quarter it's been for many social >activists. Any campaign that dares to question U.S. economic, >military or foreign policy in these delicate times, any critical >appraisal of the handling of the "War on terrorism," risks casting >the critic as a kind of enemy of the state, if not an outright >terrorist. > >Vigilance we can live with. Intimidation that amounts to persecution >is another bucket of fish. According to some of the emails and phone >calls we've received lately, many other groups have also found >themselves under investigation in a political climate that's starting >to take on shades of McCarthyism. > >Our response to all of this is to set up our own "rat line." If you >know of social marketing campaigns or protest actions that are being >suppressed, or if you come across any other story of overzealous >government "information management," please tell us your story. Go to ><http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/flag/nyc.html>. > > > > > >If you do not want to continue receiving these updates, send an email >to [log in to unmask] > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Adbusters Magazine The Media Foundation >1243 West 7th Ave Vancouver BC Canada V6H 1B7 >p. 604.736.9401 >f. 604.737.6021 >www.adbusters.org >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>Have your activities come under >increased scrutiny in the aftermath of S11? > > >Ours have. > > >Recently, our Corporate America Flag billboard in Times Square, New >York, attracted the attention of the federal Department of Defense, and >a visit by an agent who asked a lot of pointed questions about our >motivations and intent. We wondered: What gives? > > >"Just following up a lead from a tip line," the agent admitted. > > >That's the kind of fourth quarter it's been for many social activists. >Any campaign that dares to question U.S. economic, military or foreign >policy in these delicate times, any critical appraisal of the handling >of the "War on terrorism," risks casting the critic as a kind of enemy >of the state, if not an outright terrorist. > > >Vigilance we can live with. Intimidation that amounts to persecution is >another bucket of fish. According to some of the emails and phone calls >we've received lately, many other groups have also found themselves >under investigation in a political climate that's starting to take on >shades of McCarthyism. > > >Our response to all of this is to set up our own "rat line." If you >know of social marketing campaigns or protest actions that are being >suppressed, or if you come across any other story of overzealous >government "information management," please tell us your story. Go to ><<http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/flag/nyc.html>. > > > ></fontfamily> > > > > ><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param><bigger>If you do not want to continue receiving these updates, send an email to [log in to unmask] > > > ></bigger></fontfamily>----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Adbusters Magazine The Media Foundation > >1243 West 7th Ave Vancouver BC Canada V6H 1B7 > >p. 604.736.9401 > >f. 604.737.6021 > >www.adbusters.org > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Loneliness, estrangement, isolation describe the vast distance between man and man today. These dominant tendencies cannot be overcome by better personal managment, nor by improved gadgets but only when a love of man overcomes the idolatrous worship of things by man. (From the Port Huron Statement) ------------------------------------------------------------ the cry! arts and humanities http://www.thecry.com