“Smart and responsible activism” – YouTube
Inspired by a long continuum, from the Evading Standards of Reclaim the Streets to The Yes Men’s New York Times special edition [which also spawned this, this, this and this], I decided last December to publish a spoof Financial Times.
It took three months, mostly spent laying out the print edition, and designing a website. Not enough time was devoted to fund-raising, or recruiting volunteers, but a hundred or so kindly turned out.
An anonymous couple of activists, one a web designer, lent valuable support with preparations, and The Curmudgeonly Philip Challinor supplied the funny bits.
All the stories in the paper can be read here, and a copy downloaded here. Or you can hear all about it in this video:
Not the FT, by Raoul Djukanovic (a 2020 action film).
