We were sent a video showing a "zombobox hack" — a broadcast signal hijacking of RTR in the Rostov region.
http://youtu.be/MzUuY207R8c After examining it closely, we concluded that it is fake. But this is exactly what it ought to look like. Let’s make it happen — we’ve already been sent plenty of technical ideas on the subject. Slowly but surely, we are working on building the Good Machine of Truth. We’ve put together an initial list of “types of activity”; it’s below the cut, and we suggest adding anything we forgot or didn’t think of. The logic is this: good, honest, active people are sitting at home thinking: how can I help the GMT? I’m ready to spend half an hour a week, but tell me specifically what needs to be done. So let’s start with a list of what needs to/can be done at all. A “type of activity” is any action aimed at achieving the GMT’s goals: bringing our fellow citizens the truth about the Crooks and Thieves. The proposed list is arranged on the principle of “from simple to complex.” What is the easiest thing for you to do right now? That’s right: move the mouse and click like or plus. Then send the post to Twitter. Then repost it. Then write an email. Then send a text message. Then make a phone call. Then transfer 100 rubles. And so on, until we get to building a spaceship that will use a laser to write “Putin is a thief” across the sky over all of Russia. The list is highly provisional. Don’t criticize it,* add to it*. Some of these types of activity seem silly to me too (like mutual friending — a bit too Nashi-like (Nashi was a pro-Kremlin youth movement)), and some are funny. Treat this as a brainstorming session. We’re including everything that comes to mind. Collective intelligence. We’ll gather everything you write in the comments and send to the email address rusdmp @ gmail com, organize it, and then conduct a resource inventory. That is, we’ll ask everyone ready to join the GMT to fill out a mega-questionnaire and choose the types of activity they find comfortable and enjoyable. After all, some people are interested in painting graffiti, while others would rather call their grandmother. After that, we’ll have a rough idea of the GMT’s initial configuration. For example, if 30% of participants want to distribute leaflets, then we need content for leaflets and good layouts. If 15% are ready to donate money, then we’ll have at least some money. If 20% are ready to send text messages to acquaintances, then we need very short but very powerful campaign texts. If 2% are ready to hijack TV/radio signals, then we need detailed instructions. If 8% are ready to print and distribute a newspaper, then we need an editorial team for the paper. If 5% are ready to stage street theater, then we need King Lear costumes and shirtfronts. If 0% are ready to build a spaceship, then the spaceship idea is off the table. In other words, the movement will proceed based on what GMT members themselves want to do. So. Please go below the cut, remember (or invent) an activity type that isn’t listed, and write about it in the comments. Thank you. List of activity types from simple to complex (roughly): Click “like,” recommend a post on LiveJournal, retweet, repost, leave your own comment, join a discussion; Vote in an online poll; Use a social media avatar with campaign elements (“White Ribbon,” etc.); Add campaign elements to your forum signature; Put a permanent campaign banner on your website/blog; Make a donation; Rename your home Wi-Fi network (for example, “Putin - vor,” “EdRo – v vedro”); Arrange mutual friending on LiveJournal (this increases social capital in the rating calculation) and other social networks, as well as mutual following on Twitter; Join any GMT/Rospil/RosAgit group on any social network and invite friends; Monitor the implementation of an ongoing project within the GMT, leave feedback on it, and assess its effectiveness; Post something substantive on social media or a forum; Publish your photo with a campaign poster or a video address in your social media feed; Become an active participant in popular political forums in your region; Send friends/acquaintances/colleagues an email or SMS, call them on the phone, meet them in person, and do explanatory outreach work; Attach campaign symbols to your clothing; Put a campaign sticker on your car (or your door, mailbox, etc.); Take part in an opposition event (a rally, picket, conference, or seminar); Hand a leaflet/brochure/DVD with campaign material to an acquaintance; Send out campaign letters or postcards (paper ones, by regular mail); Tear down visual campaign materials for the crooks and thieves from notice boards, etc.; Recruit acquaintances/friends/colleagues into campaign activity; Put campaign messages on a banknote using a self-inking or embossed stamp, or simply with a pen (the banknote does not become invalid as a result); Distribute printed campaign materials into mailboxes, post them in apartment building entrances or elevators; Put stickers inside government buildings, courts, etc. (and photograph them and post the images online); Leave campaign materials in route minibuses, stick them in buses, trams, trolleybuses, and the metro, on lampposts and notice boards, or hand them out at a rally/picket; Hang a banner from a window or balcony; Make graffiti on asphalt or on a wall/fence (but not on a freshly painted surface); Conduct an analysis or statistical study on a current issue (for example, how much budget money the state spends annually on maintaining members of parliament); Make a stencil for applying graffiti; Come up with and lay out a leaflet, sticker, brochure, or newspaper; Distribute information to mobile phones in crowded places via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (the network name could be something like "BESPLATNIY WIFI"; a person on the street connects, and only a specific website is available there); Write a story (play, poem, anecdote, joke, etc.); Make a documentary film about corruption, crimes by officials, etc.; Record a music video, make a video clip (including a humorous one), or an animated film; Develop apps for iOS and Android; Create a promo site or Flash banner to promote one of the campaign projects; Hand out special memos to people whose jobs involve constant contact with the public — taxi drivers, doctors, police officers, etc.; Participate in centrally organized sociological surveys (including by phone); Provide free space for storing printed campaign materials — a hall, shed, warehouse, etc.; Provide a vehicle for the needs of a project; Organize a theater with creative political performances (possibly puppet theater); Organize discussion clubs in small towns and settlements where everyone dissatisfied with the authorities could gather, or a small “Hyde Park” — a place where campaign participants, in the absence of an office, could meet, share experience, news, and campaign materials; Organize a mass opposition event (a rally, picket, conference, or seminar on a particular issue); Make crop art, lay out phrases on rooftops from available materials (so that the words later show up on Google Maps), engage in cave painting, etc.; Find out how much money some government official spends, for example, per month, and the total value of the real and movable property at his disposal; Organize online television, or arrange for friendly online TV to be carried on a local cable television network or radio network; Place humorous videos as paid ads before films in movie theaters, on screens in route taxis and public transport, and in foreign hotels along popular vacation routes for Russian tourists; Launch a clothing line with opposition symbols, or make arrangements with designers and ensure that photos of models wearing such clothing are published in glossy magazines; Organize the production of pens, folders, pencils, keychains, calendars, etc. with opposition symbols. Umbrellas, student backpacks, caps, scarves, beach towels — and distribute them for free at various events. Create instructions for citizens on how to hijack TV and radio signals. Create a computer game or Flash game, or make an arrangement with a major company that produces computer games to use opposition content in the storyline or graphics.