R.I.P.: Adbusters

[Chuck0]

kelley wrote:
> 
> >
> >Yup, the Second Annual Steal Something Day is happening at the end of
> >November.
> 
> maybe this has already happened but...   was trying to explain to my mom
> what a DDoS attack was so i compared it to everyone going to the mall but
> just jamming the entrances  to the parking lot and the mall so no one could
> park or get in.
> 
> then it occurred to me that instead of NOT shopping on the day after
> Thanksgiving, it would be nice if we had enough people to go to the mall,
> jam the parking lot with their biggest vehicles and swarm the mall and NOT
> buy a thing.
> 
> especially intriguing to me since one of the degradations of the mall is
> that, unlike other forms of consumption, the shopping mall has been
> aggressively built to kept it segregated from the rest of life and to keep
> politics absolutely away from its "private" space.

Sounds like a plausible idea, but how about making the mall a site of
"politics"?

Yeah, I know they have mall security, but how about making a surgical
strike and then leaving? Hand out some flyers (walking through the mall)
or spraypaint store windows. There's a whole realm of possibilities
because most people just don't expect this to happen.

Social hacking at the Mall.

Chuck0