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Telcos are rarely public favorites, but I've never seen them protested in the streets. 'Art as Crime, Crime as Art' burn down phone booths and sabotage cables as a political statement. Too much, perhaps?

"Greetings from Mexico:" begins the letter  "We know very well the atrocities that Telmex commits as an earth-destroying company and as a sponsor of bullfighting. Because we are conscious and do not want to stay passive before such a situation, we have sabotaged different Telmex booths, but in a different, imaginative way and with the end being to make known to the people who cooperate with Telmex what goes on behind the scenes at that company.

Our actions were:

+ The handset of a phone booth was sabotaged, a little object made of almost-dry bamboo plant was left in a battered bottle filled with dirty water, beneath it a small writing was also left:

The seas are covered in filth
Colors deserted ...

+ A telephone cable was sabotaged, and a phone booth was sabotaged with fire. A little message was left:

Trees cut down
Hills altered
Ecosystems damaged
A planet destroyed

That is what Telmex leaves in its wake
For civilization to expand"

Polical action in ICT is usually incredibly boring, and would be more effective if we understood street theater. Care is crucial: innocent employees can be hurt and an anti-nazi group in New York defaced the wrong home when they mixed up the Queens street system.

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