…Exploring the role of the prankster as artist, activist and social observer and the significance of the prank in society.
Submitted by Andrew Boyd of Agit-Pop.com:
In January, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations can spend unlimited $$ in our elections. In July, Target gave $150,000 to the anti-gay, anti-worker candidate for Gov. of MN. Last week, a quarter million people pledged to boycott Target.
Yesterday . . .
Learn more — Take Action — Sign the Petition at www.targetboycott.org
Submitted by Andrew Boyd of Agit-Pop:
People generally find it notable when the Founding Fathers show up at your rallies.
And when Agit-Pop and the Campaign for Fair Elections sent Benjamin Franklin and friends to razz BP’s major lobbying firm, the Washington Post stood up and took notice.
In one of the cooler Agit-Pop actions in a while, the framers stood guard at the biggest fundraising hot spots in DC – and caught more than a few Congressmen taking their cues from Big Money, getting major press attention along the way.
Take part in more delicious Fair Elections Now hijinks – learn about July 4th events happening in your community.
– Andrew Boyd, Chairman of the Blurb, & John Sellers, Chief Existential Officer, Agit-Pop
photo: Fair Elections Now
Submitted by Andrew Boyd of Agit-Pop Communications:
Last Tuesday March 9th Agit-Pop and Health Care for America Now conducted a Mass Citizen’s Arrest of the insurance industry’s lobbying arm AHIP at the Ritz-Carlton in DC. We Deputized 4,000 reform-warriors and collared some insurance criminals to tell Congress to end their support of a broken health care system.
Get yourself deputized at http://citizensposse.org
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From Agit-Pop Communications:
On friday, Agit-Pop and the Billionaires for Wealthcare carried the rising tide of support for the Public Option into the very heart of the insurance industry – in song!
In the latest Agit-Pop – Billionaires collaboration, we infiltrated the closing keynote of the AHIP insurance industry conference and serenaded their leading pollster.
The guerrilla musical, set to ‘Tomorrow’ from the musical Annie, immediately went viral, appearing on the front page of Huffington Post, CBS.com and Rachel Maddow called it “the single most unexpected turn of events yet in the fight over health reform.”
Watch the 2 min video with lyrics here:
Yesterday it hit #2 on YouTube’s most Most Popular Videos, was shown on CNN’s Situation Room last night, and even Ashton Kutcher tweeted us. 🙂
Stay tuned for more from the Billionaires and Agit-Pop!
–John, Andrew, Andy, Avery, Duncan and the whole Agit-Pop! team.
ps. a huge shoutout is owed to all (singers, lyricists, name tag hackers, grass-roots advocates, video editors, secret camerapeople, crash-pad hosters, and the lady who waived our restocking fee at the Best Buy, as well as Pollster Bill McInturf himself) who made this action possible.
From Andrew Boyd:
The latest incarnation of the “Billionaire” meme, “Billionaires for Wealthcare” struck again this weekend, as Healthcare Inc. CEOs in tuxedos and gowns “thanked” Tea-baggers for coming out for Glenn Beck’s March on Washington this past Saturday.
Tea-baggers eagerly joined in on Billionaire chants of “Bring Back Bush!” and “Fight Socialism! Abolish Medicare Now!”, but the greatest crowd pleaser (and provoker) of the day, was a stirring rendition of their original song “Let’s Save the Status Quo” sung to the tune of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and memorably captured in this piece by Rachel Maddow.
Watch as we thank our confused Tea-bagger friends for protecting ‘our’ right to deny their claims.