Open Source Resistance...sort of.

With a rallying cry of "Wake up and give a shit" Open Source Resistance, whose striking graphics have been appearing in newspapers across the country, seems like a potentially cool new grassroots activist organization, but in actuality it's just one component in a complex marketing campaign developed as part of Nine Inch Nails new album Year Zero. Unlike other ad campaigns that co-opt activist imagery however, I don't find myself upset with this, not just because I enjoy the music of Nine Inch Nails, but because the album, which is set in a dystopian future, is actually political in nature, like most good science fiction.

OSR even staged a secret meeting where a small number of folks were taken to an undisclosed location and treated to a talking to by a revolutionary followed by a mini-NIN show, which was subsequently shut down by the "police". You can watch it all happen here.

You're also invited to join in at ArtIsResistance.com.