FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 17, 1998
Contacts: RTMark (info@rtmark.com)
Decadent Action
(decadent@underbelly.demon.co.uk,
http://www.underbelly.demon.co.uk/decadent/)
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 countless 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 part a revolt against corporations, which are
bodies formed to allow rich people to shirk responsiblity for abuses--they allow
exploitation without representation. Some of the Founding Fathers thought corporations
immoral, and few were chartered during the first fifty years of the Republic.
Superfresh might 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, www.rtmark.com.
Decadent Action's press release can be found at http://www.rtmark.com/daphoneinsick.html.
USA PHONE IN SICK DAY SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
- phone in sick (see illustration; 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 project lists 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.