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The Frontier Fund
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DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, manager
This fund challenges naive, utopic visions of the "global
village," focussing on the implications of allowing corporations and other
multinational interests to operate free of social context. Many of these
projects concentrate on the role of the citizen, the worker, local
cultures, and ethnic groups in a world increasingly controlled by the
interests of unrestricted global free trade. This is a stable but
slow-moving international fund with the potential for very high long-term
yields.
To discuss or help with a project, click on its NAME button.
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DESCRIPTION (click here for help)
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labor
front
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US$300
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workers funds
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"Place 'Sally Struthers'-style leaflets, detailing the poor working conditions that exist for those who assemble athletic footwear, in major-brand athletic shoes, their shoeboxes, or the shoppings bags containing them, before or as they are being sold. Workers in many cities are being sought to plant the leaflets on an agreed-upon day, especially in 'flagship' stores. A press release will be issued by RTMARK to call attention to the event."
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front
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US$300
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workers funds
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"Argue that a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Certificate of Origin form can replace the lengthy and difficult immigration procedures for the United States. If products are able to move between Canada, the US, and Mexico with the reduced or eliminated duty allowed under the NAFTA regulations, people should be allowed to move across national boundaries with reduced or eliminated migration regulations as well. You can find a copy of the form here. Several people must make it across the US-Canada and US-Mexico borders with the document, and their actions must be widely reported in the media."
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edu
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workers funds
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"Create a new map or globe of the world that shows multinational corporate borders, vectors and free trade zones instead of national boundaries. Map must make it into a grade-school geography textbook, or globes must be sent to several elementary schools nation-wide; either event must be reported upon extensively in the mainstream press."
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front
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workers funds
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"Develop a 'virtual worker' system that allows populations normally engaged in migrant labor to work over the web instead. For example, develop a telepresent robot that picks oranges or strawberries while being controlled through the internet. Then, unionize both the robots and the telepresent workers."
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front
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US$50
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workers funds
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"Export strong encryption software to as many non-NATO countries as possible, concentrating especially on the Middle East, China, and the former USSR. Strong encryption (especially above 128-bit) is classified by the United States military as a munition; therefore, this act constitutes treason under US law."
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