Billboard Liberation

One chooses to read a magazine, watch television, or attend a football match. One does not "choose" to travel the streets, ride the subway, or wait at a bus stop. Unfortunately, human brains can no more refrain from seeing a smirking billboard camel than from hearing a blaring streetcorner loudspeaker. Whether perpetrated aurally or visually, mental trespassing violates human rights.

Rather than wait for a ban on outdoor advertising, the "Billboard Liberation Front has been successfully improving outdoor advertising since 1977." Their how-to manual is entertaining reading, and, for those more venturesome than I, a practical guide to taking back public space and defending the right to privacy. According to "Billboard Liberation Front Manual", Processed World, #25, Summer/Fall 1990, pp. 23-26:

The prankster undermines confidence and security in everyday belief systems, sabotages the official reality by moving objects, letters, words, using chemicals, solvents, adhesives to manipulate media in such a way as to bring into sharp relief the true agenda hidden between the lines, the clenched fists of closed captioned commentary for the being-impaired.

For more information on the BLF visit the following link: The Billboard Commandos.