Passing this interesting repression story on to the list (in case folks
don't know, Culture Jammers is the anti-corporate, anti-consumer culture
project run by AdBusters, out of Vancouver, BC).
Note the web site for repression reports.
Ted
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Smell a rat?
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:43:40 -0800
From: Culture Jammers Network <jammers@lists.adbusters.org>
Reply-To: <campaigns@adbusters.org>
To: Culture Jammers Network <jammers@lists.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>.
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