AUT: Phone-In-Sick Day, April 6 (fwd)

[Chris <red@xxxxxxx>]

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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:18:54 -0800
From: scott figgins <figgins@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Phone-In-Sick Day, April 6

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 17, 1998

Contacts: RTMARK (rtmark@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
          Decadent Action (decadent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

            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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