For reasons of situation, this high-risk fund has tremendous potential yields. The Media Fund is managed by Andrei Codrescu, who has consistently produced oppositional cultural dividends in various contexts, from the poetic to the cinematic. His current position as commentator for National Public Radio completes his exceptional qualifications for this position.

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View BKWR list	media	US$500	workers	"Distribute devices (such as these) that let you turn any bicycle into a printing, street writing device that prints as you ride. This project needs investment to transform more bikes, and print and distribute plans."
View LNAD list	media magx corp	0	workers funds	"Make insane ads for companies, out of enthusiasm--'Dow is the best! I heart-heart-heart chemical industry giant!' Xerox them and put them up everywhere, thus associating the brands with insane ravings."
View FLAG list	intel media magx corp	0	workers funds	"Deliver cease-and-desist letters to retail outlets which sell clothing made from the American flag, claiming you represent estate of Abbie Hoffman and hold the copyright."
View BUSH list	media	US$200	workers funds	"Hack any mainstream news website and paste in an article by Michael Moore about George W. Bush (www.michaelmoore.com/2002_0129.html)."
View CRDT list	media	0	workers funds	"Set up a system like RTMark, but that accepts credit cards."
View ACT2 list	media net comm	0	workers funds	"Develop and release an open-source, p2p code base that would provide 'next-generation' multi-language security, user-authentication, and distributed file serving for the Indymedia network and its allies."
View PRET list	media labor	US$1700	workers funds	"Create 'prêt a revolter' clothing for protesters. The clothing should be colorful fashions which look funny for the media but have functional protection against police baton blows, and miniature video cameras to transmit footage of police attacks."
View NSDS list	media comm	US$150	workers funds	"Make and place sound playback devices in newspaper dispensers. When the door is opened, the machine can deliver commentary you may only find between the lines in the print."
View POST list	media war	0	workers funds	"It is possible to print newsprint in large quantities inexpensively. Make newsprint inserts and place in tabloids such as The New York Post or USA Today en masse. The inserts should be in the tabloid's style, but discuss the war's real costs--the civilian casualties, for example--or other news or background that doesn't get coverage. To get media attention, include real journalists' e-mails or work phone numbers on the inserts. Best to have ten or more journalists listed; one option is to have one journalist listed on a hundred, another on another hundred, etc. (See this project, for example.)"
View DNRM list	media war enviro	0	workers funds	"De-normalize outdoor ad space by purchasing ad-space on bus shelters, billboards, etc. and posting giant ads saying simply 'AD FOR ALCOHOL AIMED AT WOMEN,' 'OBSTRUCTED VIEW,' 'VISUAL POLLUTION,' 'LOCAL CHILDREN'S MURAL COMING SOON?' etc."
View MIKY list	media magx	0	workers funds	"Record the music for the Teutonic version of the Mickey Mouse Club anthem. Minor key, lots of heraldic trumpets, marching storm troopers, etc. Make an Mp3 of the song, and start distributing it under the Mickey Mouse Club name on Napster, Gnutella, etc."
View CCAT list	media net labor	0	workers funds	"Use and develop this software that turns the Cuecat, the freely available barcode scanner meant to aid shopping from home and to keep messy information away from 'consumers', into a tool for learning about corporate behavior."
View TOYB list	media war	0	workers funds	"Put up a fake online store pretending to retail toy land mines, cluster bombs (CBU-87 clusterbombs contain bright yellow bomblets 'wearing' parachutes, some of which do not explode on impact and are picked up by children) and other menacing objects used in warfare. Should anyone place an order, they automatically get mail with info about the weapon and the damage it has caused in the world."
View CHIK list	media quick	0	workers funds	"Chick Tracts are those funny little comic books that Christian evangelizers hand out on street corners. The Jack Chick Museum of Fine Art has all of the Chick Tracts online, as well as links to parody sites. Alter chick tracts to make them anti-corporate, and hand out at street corners."
View FCCA list	media magx	0	workers funds	"Replace a frequently aired commercial on a major market radio station with an announcement from 'station management' that the FCC has pronounced the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as being 'in poor taste. (The station's corporate owner) has been ordered to turn the station over to the public interest effective the first of the following month. Anyone with suggestions as to what to do with the station should call (the corporate owner's CEO) at (his or her private number).'"
View GWBB list	media magx	US$350	workers funds	"Successfully get George W. Bush's alleged cochlear implant 'prompter' mentioned with some possible credibility in major media. Bonus for the publication of a New York Times-style diagram of this type of technology."
View POTV list	media labor	0	workers funds	"I will document my life for one whole year while I live on $6,000 dollars, and show the results on TV."
View BTNO list	media bio health	0	workers funds	"Put on a big genetics art show very critical of the biotech industry and not funded by biotech companies, or a big eco-arts show not funded by polluters."
View DUBM list	media magx labor quick	0	workers funds	"Dub this hilarious filmstrip about the racism of US drug laws over the previews of rented movies before returning the tapes to the store. To get filmstrip for dubbing, download and output file from above URL or order tape."
View SPRA list	media	0	workers funds	"Construct a car-mounted hi-res projection unit and pirate unused billboards with your favorite pookalicious slogans."
View OBIT list	media war net	US$400	workers funds	"Hack the NY Times World Trade Center victims obituaries page and add the names of the innocent Iraqis and Afghanis who have been slaughtered by US bombing. Iraqi and Afghan obits must be real, i.e. photos and descriptions of actual bombing victims."
View SIXD list	edu media france	0	workers funds	"Create an interactive Web site that can reveal ownership of the media. For example, someone watching a CNN news program might spy a personality piece about Rosie O'Donnell and decide to research a possible connection between them. The SIXD Web site could respond: CNN is owned by Turner Broadcasting, which is a division of Time Warner, which owns a majority of Time Warner Entertainment Company LP, a division of which is Warner Bros. TV, which produces the Rosie O'Donnell show. The Web site should graphically depict the hierarchy of the connections it finds." (See this site for inspiration.)
View RYPE list	media war	0	workers funds	"Since 9/11 the use of public surveillance has skyrocketed. Reclaim your privacy by stickering over surveillance cameras with the message 'Smile - you're no longer being monitored.'"
View BAGS list	media	0	workers funds	"Owner of a small gift store in New York's East Village will distribute culture-jammming messages on shopping bags. Investment needed for printing, and suggestions/design ideas needed for the messages."
View PLCM list	media	0	workers funds	See recent coverage of this project. "Lobby for a rating system which ranks films and TV shows by the extent of their product placement. Require labels for VHS and DVD packages indicating amount of product placement ranging from '0-PP: Zero Product Placement -- Suitable for the entire Family' to '5-PP: Contains scenes of explicit corporate advertising.' If lobbying is unsuccessful, videotape warnings onto the beginning of rented VHS tapes and affix warning labels to packages."
View STFT list	media	0	workers funds	"In the same vein as Bum Fights comes the new home video sensation, Stockbroker Fights. Pay stockbrokers, investment bankers, etc. to beat each other up, smoke crack, and do all manner of stupid dangerous things for the pleasure of the home viewer. This could actually make more money than it costs, the profits going to other, less lucrative projects."
View GWBC list	media magx	0	workers funds	"After George W. Bush says something weird, claim you hacked into the cochlear implant transceiver that Dubya's handlers use to prompt him, and that you were able to override their pre-fabricated sound-bytes with something of your own. Your story must be covered in the media."
View CHUK list	media magx	US$50	workers funds	"Draw a Family Circus cartoon where Billy sits on front porch with family members all dead in the yard from gunshot wounds. Cop asks Billy, Who did it? Billy says, Chuck. Ghostlike Charlton Heston is seen running away with smoking gun. Get this faux cartoon to run in a major newspaper."
View BSTR list	intel media quick	0	workers	"Blockbuster edits the content of many of the videos they rent. Rent edited tapes and record the original versions onto them--the object being to get caught, so that Blockbuster presses charges (perhaps for vandalism)."
View FOBO list	media war health	US$300	workers funds	"To replicate successful US foreign aid on the home front, create and drop food bombs on impoverished areas of the United States. Here is the brochure that will be pre-dropped to explain a food bomb's use. This project seeks private pilots as well as investors."
View CRYS list	media	0	workers funds	for "a print journalist who can use the Language Crystal to create two or three simultaneous readings of a story, or make it possible to read the story in another language (see Zukofsky's translation of 'Catullus,' which reads simultaneously in English and Latin)."
View IBMM list	media	0	workers funds	"Alter IBM advertisements by transposing their content with Hitler's acquisition of new territories and their separation and counting of the Jews. Run the ad on television." (Background here.)
View MOVI list	media	0	workers funds	"Create a newspaper ad that looks exactly like the ad for a current blockbuster, but quotes from bad reviews of the film. Place it in the movies section of a major newspaper."
View PDIS list	media	0	workers funds	"Establish a grant for television and movie makers who do negative product placement, or 'product displacement.' Examples: The FedEx package arrives late and mangled; someone throws up after eating at McDonald's; someone spits out their Starbucks coffee and says it tastes like shit; cameo of Rev. Billy being thrown out of a Disney store as characters walk by; characters cursing at their Microsoft software or AOL, etc."
View PINO list	media labor	0	workers	"Remake the story of Pinocchio so that he goes to Disney Land, and rather than being transformed into a pack animal, he becomes a real, live boy... who just happens to be from a Third-World country. He and several other kids are then taken to factually accurate animated representations of Disney's Third- World sweatshops. In the end Pinocchio is beaten to death by the guards for attempting to take one of the shirts he was forced to manufacture."
View BDAD list	media		workers	"BadAds.org will buy up billboard space on major highways to place billboards with the text 'Enjoy This Ad-Free Moment.' For this project, the org needs funds to buy the billboard space and people to design the ads."
View TMSQ list	media magx	US$600	workers funds	to "rent two top floor rooms each in three Times Square hotels on a busy weekend night at the height of tourist season in New York. From the hotel windows, hang giant banners which read: 'New York welcomes Saddam Hussein'. The banner must display prominently several logos of large companies or municipal entities. Alternatives would be to rent a plane trailing a similar banner, lay down an enormous Welcome Saddam doormat which could be unfurled next to football stadia (where the news helicopter could see it), project the image on the moon or on huge white buildings, etc."
View PRIV list	media war corp	US$200	workers funds	"Start a movement to further privatize the Federal Government of the United States. Get high-profile politicians to endorse your movement. Must receive media attention."
View FLMF list	media magx	US$1000	workers funds	for "a worker at a film editing house or video duplication outfit to insert scenes of a shockingly educational nature into popular movies or videos. Viewers must see the scenes, and it must be reported in the media."
View SABO list	media war corp	0	workers funds	"Reproduce the CIA's guide to sabotage produced for Nicaraguan anti-Sandinista forces, with the text redirected against corporate workplaces."
View CPRN list	intel media	US$125	workers funds	"Plant enticing pornographic videotapes in porn stores everywhere, with models such as (a super-well-hung) Ronald MacDonald, (a dementedly horny) Barbie, etc.--in other words, any trademark character which depends on its assumed virtue."
View GWBA list	media magx	0	workers funds	"For a medical worker who leaks x-rays of George W. Bush's cochlear implant. (Why does he pause so long between phrases and words? Could that mole removal operation have been... something else?)"
View PATA list	media magx	0	workers funds	for "a news-wire worker who can successfully invent irrefutable pataphysical stories, or substitute amateur film (or stock footage) for news footage"
View GLOB list	media magx front comm	US$200	workers funds	"Reward offered for any journalist or producer who invites an impostor onto their live television program to represent the World Trade Organization."
View NEWS list	media high magx	US$1000	workers	for "a worker at a major metropolitan newspaper who significantly alters an issue (e.g. changes most of the article text) in an interesting way. A good number of issues must see the light of day, and the media must report on it."
View CKSC list	media net	0	workers funds	"The Internet Cookie-Scrambler will be a mesh of proxies that cross-refer requests for banners so that information passed through to this information gathering firms is just scrambled. The principle is by having many users using such a mesh these companies will get a lot of incorrect data into their databases, which has the effect of actually devaluating their product."
View CMEX list	media	0	workers funds	"The Center for Media Exploitation (or C.M.E.) will be an archive for culture jammers, full of downloadable and accessible tools for tactical media intervention. Investment is needed to pay for server space, and workers are needed to start contributing useful files of all types."
View SVNP list	media		workers	"On the 20-ounce bottles of 7-Up, the labels says 'Look under specially marked caps to see if you have won. No purchase necessary.' Nothing states you have to buy the soda. If taken literally, consumers have the right to open up 7-Up bottles in the store looking for winning game pieces, so long as they don't drink any (that would be stealing). See how many bottles you and a group of friends can open before being stopped. Coordinate with friends to call local media to the store parking lot, especially if the police are called. Plausible denial is crucial, so activists will have to be convincingly surprised that this is not what 7-Up intended. If successful, 7-UP will be forced to accept returns on large quantities of opened product, grocery stores will be featured in the news leading hapless victims out in cuffs. If led out of the store in front of cameras, the activist should look directly into the lens and say 'Make 7 Up-Yours' with the emphasis on the 'Up Yours,' just like the ads."
View CNAD list	media	0	workers funds	"In one of Michael Moore's Awful Truth shows, ex-cons tout Coke and Windows. Actually make and place these ads. Other variants: a homeless woman saying 'I don't have a home, but I'd disinfect with Lysol if I did.'"
View FAIR list	media	0	workers funds	"Create a website that will catalog companies that rip off their customers and contractors/employees (inverting how TRW and Equifax tell any story about you to businesses). Such a website could catalog corporate misconduct and show patterns of fraud indicating corporate policy."
View PROD list	media	0	workers funds	"Produce a preview-length video that touts the benefits of product placement in major motion pictures. Dub it onto the beginnings of high volume rentals."
View COP2 list	media	0	funds	"Subvert the 'Cops' TV show by issuing a free net-based legal commentary (by a constitutional law expert) that points out all the instances on the show when cops violate the Constitution. We're doing this now, but need some funding to sustain it. Combat cop-culture and transform trash-TV...while learning your rights."
View AUDB list	edu media	0	workers funds	"$1000 needed to subvert an audiobook leasing company (they distribute latest bestsellers, including a heavy list of corporate/conservative titles to hundreds of truckstops and public libraries across the country) by recording over every cassette of a certain highly anticipated right-wing title with Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, or Michael Parenti, etc. Worker will keep log of where these tapes are going, and local monitoring of infected racks can be administered. Get media attention in all cities where 'discoveries' are reported, and interview the 'victims'."
View BSDD list	media		workers	"Run Prescott Bush for office (posthumously, of course) with dynamic, exciting graphics that draw attention to his varied business experience. Keep it well-documented to avoid lawsuits."
View CRPE list	media france corp	US$400	workers funds	for "a television reporter to consistently compare the punishment corporations receive for actual violations with the punishment individuals would receive for similar offenses."
View BBFM list	media	0	funds	"We are seeking $500 to pay for screening our film on prominently located billboards. Our film consists of a series of TV commercials, so slick and entertaining they could be mistaken for real, but questioning a buying/selling culture. We have gotten permission to use several billboards for this purpose. See http://www.enjoythesign.com/ for more details."
View REMX list	media magx	US$100	funds	"Major radio stations and department stores only play and sell censored music. An alternative to this is a CD containing 'Inverse Radio Remixes': songs with all lyrics removed except those removed from censored radio remixes. The listener hears just the music track punctuated by the occasional 'that's bullshit' or 'so he shoots up his school.' Investment needed to press the already created remix CD for placement on store shelves."
View PIRT list	media comm	US$150	workers funds	"Build, or use an existing, 'pirate' radio transmitter and use it to broadcast homemade and seemingly sincere advertisements for the major corporation of your choice onto existing radio signals."
View NEWZ list	media quick	0	workers funds	"Any time there is an anti-globalization protest, participate locally in breaking the press blackouts about these events (or poor coverage of them) by monitoring Indymedia, printing out the best stories, and inserting them into newspaper dispensers and newsstands in your area."
View SURR list	media	0	workers funds	for "a worker at a metropolitan newspaper who places a major story in a surreal or metaphysical context that is now consistently ignored."
View OILS list	media war enviro		workers	"Create a website for the 'Trans-Afghan Pipeline Sweepstakes' that allows contestants to guess ownerships of the speculative Trans-Afghan Gas and Oil Pipelines. The site should serve as a clearing house for dirt on the companies involved. Winners of the sweepstakes will receive a bike."
View FLMC list	media labor quick	0	workers funds	"Make a video segment about how copyrights protect the rich and record it over the anti-piracy message at the start of videos." (This image was sent in and could be used for such taping.)
View WHAK list	edu media magx	US$100	workers funds	"Hack digital whack-a-mole by adding the faces of Bush and his cabinet. Distribute it!"
View SITC list	media high magx	US$1000	workers	for "a worker at a news bureau to substitute several minutes of old sitcom clips for news clips during a prime-time news hour. The clips must be shown, must be seen by a large number of television viewers, and must be extensively reported on."
View CMPB list	media france	0	workers funds	"Make a publicity campaign around a completely fictional brand. The advertising, like Nike's or Apple's, should communicate that the brand is indispensible to the modern urban human. Articles and ads should appear in the hippest magazines. A website would also be useful."
View PASS list	media	0	workers funds	"Generate a legitimate 'news' entity whose real purpose is to issue press credentials to Indy media reporters and others blacklisted from entry to events."
View REFU list	media war enviro	US$150	workers funds	"Establish a refugee camp in Cabo San Lucas complete with an SUV caravan, expedition weight Gore-Tex six-man tents, gas barbeques, ATV's, Volleyball net, etc."
View BUYS list	media altmark	0	workers funds	"Launch a convincing e-commerce parody website that allows consumers to 'click-and-buy' a huge variety of absurd, politically charged, or spiritually abstract goods, such as gay liberation, unconditional love, the soul of Rupert Murdoch, blind complacency, or the revolutionary potential of the Internet. Ideal would be a 'sticky' site, which encourages consumer trance. Must receive media coverage."
View MIRR list	media front comm	US$1000	workers funds	"Distribute at least 1000 mirrors to activists in Genoa. Use them to reflect blinding sun on the the police and the G8 to re-enact Archimedes' burning of the Roman fleet." Done!