R.I.P.: Adbusters

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 03:45 PM 10/31/00 -0500, 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.

Another possibility which I overheard through the grape vine is a fake bomb
threat - e.g. by chaining an old suitcase to a handrail and then calling
mall security with a bomb threat.  The beauty of it is a rather small
number of people required to do the stunt and creating a real possibility
of Stealing Something for all mall goers.

wojtek