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  • From: Carrie McLaren <carrie AT stayfreemagazine.org>
  • To: stayfree AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Stay Free! | 21 January 2004
  • Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:08:15 -0500

Howdy, here are a few recent items of interest at Stay Free! headquarters:


NOT FOOLING ANYBODY: A CHRONICLE OF BAD CONVERSIONS AND STOREFRONTS PAST
http://www.notfoolinganybody.com/

While it is often said that somewhere in America a new McDonalds is opening every 30 minutes, you never hear about them closing. But thanks to my friend Liz Clayton, we now have a outlet for documenting yet another ill of our fast food nation: crimes against architecture and design.

Liz compiled this nifty photo archive of businesses housed in what were formerly fast food restaurants and other chains. A Taco Bell transformed into local middle-eastern restaurant,
a KFC morphed into a liquor store, a Chinese Hut that bears an uncanny resemblance to Pizza Hut: it's all here. Some conversions are clearly more successful than others. Quality Properties Real Estate, for example, is barely recognizable as a former Burger King. But Best of Philly Cheesesteaks didn't even remove the Taco Bell logo from its street sign!

Liz is always looking for more photos for her archives so if you've got any good (bad) examples in your town, email submissions AT notfoolinganybody.com



NO FREE LUNCH

No Free Lunch is a small organization devoted to getting doctors to turn away drug sales reps. Under the group's Pen Amnesty Program, medical students and doctors can exchange pharmaceutical promotional pens for ones that advocate "No Free Lunch." (Get some for your doctor... maybe she'll give you some free drugs!)
http://www.nofreelunch.org



WAL-MART LOCKS IN NIGHT WORKERS

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/18/national/18WALM.html
Yet more proof that Wal-Mart is a plague on this earth and must be eliminated: The New York Times reports that the company has a policy of locking employees who work overnight inside the store and refusing to let them leave. If these employees cut or maim themselves on the job, they often have to sit and wait it out until morning. Wal-Mart's PR department claims the policy aims to "protect workers and the store from intruders" -- as if the thought of locking people OUT but not IN hadn't occurred to them. The real reason for the policy is to prevent employees from stealing and taking breaks.



UPCOMING EVENTS

If you're in the New York City area, you don't want to miss:

NYC Grassroots Media Conference
February 27-29 at the New School
www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org

Register now:
http://www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org

I'm organizing a panel for this conference on using pranks and parody for social change (details TBA). Speakers will include: Carrie Moyer and Sue Schaffner from Dyke Action Machine (http://www.dykeactionmachine.com), who you may remember from the Illegal Art Exhibit; Jonah Peretti (Nike sweatshop prankster and co-creator of BlackPeopleLoveUs.com); and the Yes Men (http://www.theyesmen.org), whose projects include masquerading as members of the WTO and promoting the benfits of slavery at world trade conferences. Stay Free! will also be tabling throughout the conference so be sure to drop by and say hi.



PRESIDENT MATCH

A handy chart of where the different presidential candidates stand on major issues. Trés convenient!
http://www.presidentmatch.com/Main.jsp2?cp=main



thanks,
carrie



  • Stay Free! | 21 January 2004, Carrie McLaren, 01/21/2004

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