The Frontier Fund

DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, manager

This fund challenges naive, utopic visions of the "global village," focussing on the implications of allowing corporations and other multinational interests to operate free of social context. Many of these projects concentrate on the role of the citizen, the worker, local cultures, and ethnic groups in a world increasingly controlled by the interests of unrestricted global free trade. This is a stable but slow-moving international fund with the potential for very high long-term yields.

JOIN	FUNDS	US$	NEED	DESCRIPTION
Join LUFT list	labor front	US$200	workers funds	"Place this brochure advertising 'Deportation Class' seating in airline seat pockets and airport waiting rooms to help show how commercial airlines are complicit in government deportation programs that treat people as inferior to trade goods. Download and print before you fly!" See also project AIRP.
Join ADP1 list	altmark front labor	0	workers funds	"Manufacture cards to be placed with sweatshop-produced apparel (in shoe boxes, shirt/pant pockets, etc.) in department stores. Cards can contain such phrases as 'Handmade just for you by Juan, your Honduran friend. 3.5 cents of your purchase will go towards feeding my family. Thank you!'"
Join MDVL list	enviro labor front	US$500	workers funds	"An WTO/GATT investor will pay US$500 to anyone who successfully deploys a full size Trojan Horse against the fortress that has been built to keep protesters out of sight and away from the power brokers of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) meeting in Quebec. US$200 is being offered by the same investor for anyone who can deploy a siege tower, catapult or 'Trojan Rabbit.'"
Join NAFT list	front	US$300	workers funds	"Argue that a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Certificate of Origin form can replace the lengthy and difficult immigration procedures for the United States. If products are able to move between Canada, the US, and Mexico with the reduced or eliminated duty allowed under the NAFTA regulations, people should be allowed to move across national boundaries with reduced or eliminated migration regulations as well. You can find a copy of the form here. Several people must make it across the US-Canada and US-Mexico borders with the document, and their actions must be widely reported in the media."
Join CODE list	front quick	US$50	workers funds	"Export strong encryption software to as many non-NATO countries as possible, concentrating especially on the Middle East, China, and the former USSR. Strong encryption (especially above 128-bit) is classified by the United States military as a munition; therefore, this act constitutes treason under US law."
Join VRWR list	front	0	workers funds	"Develop a 'virtual worker' system that allows populations normally engaged in migrant labor to work over the web instead. For example, develop a telepresent robot that picks oranges or strawberries while being controlled through the internet. Then, unionize both the robots and the telepresent workers."
Join NIKE list	labor front	US$300	workers funds	"Place 'Sally Struthers'-style leaflets, detailing the poor working conditions that exist for those who assemble athletic footwear, in major-brand athletic shoes, their shoeboxes, or the shoppings bags containing them, before or as they are being sold. Workers in many cities are being sought to plant the leaflets on an agreed-upon day, especially in 'flagship' stores. Media must report on it." Click here for a sample leaflet sent in by a NIKE subscriber (and here for high-res version of same).
Join 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."
Join DSLR list	labor front	0	workers funds	"The Department of Space and Land Reclamation is a campaign to reclaim all space, land and visuals of Chicago. Throughout the city, citizens will tactically intervene in streets, allies, parks, corporate atria, and other crevices of the Chicago urban landscape. Additionally, at a secret hub participants will lounge, eat food, attend discussions and plot the more sustained redistribution of all space and land."
Join DOHA list	front	0	workers funds	"Shut down the New York Stock Exchange, through a combination of street-level direct action and Electronic Civil Disobedience, in conjunction with the 4th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, taking place in Doha, Qatar, from 9 to 13 November 2001."
Join MAPS list	edu front	0	workers funds	"Create a new map or globe of the world that shows multinational corporate borders, vectors and free trade zones instead of national boundaries. Map must make it into a grade-school geography textbook, or globes must be sent to several elementary schools nation-wide; either event must be reported upon extensively in the mainstream press." (See this site for inspiration.)
Join SWWB list	front labor	0	workers funds	"Make a website that allows people to easily find out which clothing brands are produced, or conversely not produced, using sweatshop labor."
Join 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!