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	Barbie Liberation Organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Barbie Liberation Organization, later known as The Yes Men, are pranksters who style themselves as anti-corporate activists.
		The organization, consisting of Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, drew press attention in the 1990s when they swapped the electronics of talking Barbie and GI Joe toys and then returned them to the store.
		The pair later set up a mock web site claiming to be that of the World Trade Organization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barbie_Liberation_Organization (131 words)

	Enlaces : Society : Activism : Media : Culture_Jamming : ®TMark : Barbie_Liberation_Organization :: 100cia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Barbie Liberation - Summary of the BLO hack..
		Brillo Magazine: Hacking Barbie with the Barbie Liberation Organization - Interview with the BLO about boy games, media and intervention, one-liners, fear, and some lessons and tactics they've learned that could be of help to other activists..
		Unit Circle: The BLO Strikes - "Made up of more than 50 concerned parents, feminists and other activists, the BLO claims to have surreptitiously switched the voice boxes on 300 G.I. Joe and Barbie dolls across the United States this holiday season." AP story by Brigitte Greenberg..
	www.100cia.com /recursos/enlaces/Society/Activism/Media/Culture_Jamming/%c2%aeTMark/Barbie_Liberation_Organization (199 words)

	TerritorioScuola OpenDirectoryProject > Society> Activism> Media> Culture Jamming> ®TMark> Barbie Liberation ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Barbie Liberation - - Summary of the BLO hack.
		Brillo Magazine: Hacking Barbie with the Barbie Liberation Organization - - Interview with the BLO about boy games, media and intervention, one-liners, fear, and some lessons and tactics they've learned that could be of help to other activists.
		Unit Circle: The BLO Strikes - - "Made up of more than 50 concerned parents, feminists and other activists, the BLO claims to have surreptitiously switched the voice boxes on 300 G.I. Joe and Barbie dolls across the United States this holiday season." AP story by Brigitte Greenberg.
	www.territorioscuola.com /dmoz.php3/Society/Activism/Media/Culture_Jamming/%c2%aeTMark/Barbie_Liberation_Organization (187 words)

	Sandy Wiegand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		With her skates flat on the floor, Barbie was tilted 45 degrees backward — a pretty uncomfortable skating position, you’d have to think.
		It was then that I noticed that Barbie — in addition to all of her other much noted abnormalities — was constructed so as to spend the entirety of her otherwise dreamlike life … on tiptoes.
		The Barbie Liberation Organization was a group of performance artists in Manhattan who bought 300 talking Barbie and G.I. Joe dolls and switched their voice boxes.
	www.oaoa.com /columns/sandy030399.htm (496 words)

	Directory - Society: Activism: Media: Culture Jamming: ®TMark: Barbie Liberation Organization
		Actually not just for the Barbie Liberation Organization (who swapped the voiceboxes of talking Barbies and GI Joes), but also for all the subversive and political activists that deal with Barbies.
		Unit Circle: The BLO Strikes · cached · "Made up of more than 50 concerned parents, feminists and other activists, the BLO claims to have surreptitiously switched the voice boxes on 300 G.I. Joe and Barbie dolls across the United States this holiday season." AP story by Brigitte Greenberg.
		Brillo Magazine: Hacking Barbie with the Barbie Liberation Organization · cached · Interview with the BLO about boy games, media and intervention, one-liners, fear, and some lessons and tactics they've learned that could be of help to other activists.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=106498 (177 words)

	Alamo - Show Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Don't you?" and "Let's sing with the band tonight." The "liberated" Barbie said, and I particularly like this one, "Dead men tell no lies." The mainstream media, after some prodding, latched on and a legend was born that continues to be retold, recreated and augmented to this day.
		With Barbie dolls as the principal actors, Far From Heaven director Todd Haynes' Superstar portrays the life of Karen Carpenter and her battle with anorexia.
		At the center of this colorful story is Ruth Handler, the woman who invented Barbie and with her husband Elliot founded Mattel, Inc. Woven throughout are interviews with Ruth, Elliot and their daughter Barbara, Barbie's namesake, who reveal the history and fantasy behind this 20th century icon.
	www.drafthouse.com /online_tix/show_details.asp?show_id=1744 (319 words)

	Unit Circle #3 - The BLO Strikes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Made up of more than 50 concerned parents, feminists and other activists, the BLO claims to have surreptitiously switched the voice boxes on 300 G.I. Joe and Barbie dolls across the United States this holiday season.
		Don't you?" and "Let's sing with the band tonight." In a deep voice, the altered Barbie says, among other things, "Dead men tell no lies." The BLO claims a few other doll voices were reversed in Canada, France and England.
		The group contends Barbie teaches sexism and passivity in girls, and G.I. Joe influences boys to act violently.
	www.etext.org /Zines/UnitCircle/uc3/page10.html (416 words)

	Igor Vamos
		Throughout the documentary, the members of the BLO remain anonymous through technical subterfuges (scrambling certain parts of the image, using actors as spokesmen, voice-overs, etc).
		The inanimate object thus becomes the spokesperson for her own liberation, a rhetorical tool by which the commodity loses its reified nature to underscore the cultural strategies (and, by extension, the capitalist system) which ensure its reproduction.
		A research organization involved in exploring, examining and understanding landscape issues, the Center employs a variety of methods to sensitize the American public to environmental problems and the recent socio-political history of defined geographic areas.
	www.fondation-langlois.org /html/e/page.php?NumPage=37 (1064 words)

	The Art Store - Barbie Posters and Prints
		Dyslexic young girls might unscramble the letters of her last name and get the right idea of what the WNBA is really about.
		Barbie Culvertson of Georgetown, with her daughter and an umbrella in tow, said the rain didn't bother her and is nothing new for Harborwalk.
		In 1969 she bought a Barbie doll as a model and began making clothes for it to give to a friend's daughter.
	www.albanyhost.us /art-store/7899.htm (175 words)

	Jacket 27 - April 2005 - Alan Gilbert: Anne Waldman Changing the Frequency
		The Barbie Liberation Organization was funded by a shadowy project that has since become fairly famous as ®™ark. At ®™ark’s website, “investors” can buy “stock” in similar culture-jamming projects (http://www.rtmark.com).
		A cashier’s check for $10,000 given to the Barbie Liberation Organization by ®™ark investors helped the group purchase the Barbies and G.I. Joes they used to swap the voice boxes before returning the dolls to store shelves, later to be bought by unwitting customers (Frauenfelder 1997: n.p.).
		Between the Barbie Liberation Organization, the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, the globalization protests in Seattle, and countless other interventions, the 1990s were a very good decade for creative dissent.
	jacketmagazine.com /27/w-gilb.html (3505 words)

	Brillo Magazine, Number 1, "Armed and Dangerous". Extra Abrasive. Brillo's Interview with the Barbie ...
		The Barbie Liberation Organization is an amorphous group of activists and media intervention superstars, whose most famous action involved switching the voice boxes in 300 Talking Barbie dolls and Talking G.I. Joe dolls during the Christmas season of 1989.
		Don't you?" and "Let's sing with the band tonight." The "liberated" Barbie said, and I particularly like this one, "Dead men tell no lies." The mainstream media, after some prodding, latched on and a legend was born which continues to be retold, recreated and augmented to this day.
		So, say you had tons of time, the BLO was looking for a project, and you decided you were going to do something about the gender and racial imbalances on the WWW.
	www.brillomag.net /No1/blo.htm (1997 words)

	Barbie Disiformation Orginization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		By now everyone who would possibly care has heard of the Barbie Liberation Organization: a presumably wacky collective of Californian culture jammers who buy talking Barbie and GI Joe dolls, swap the voice boxes, and then replace the dolls on store shelves.
		Calling themselves the Barbie Disinformation Organization, the group strikes not at the dolls themselves, but at the packaging that envelops and contextualizes them.
		I fear that in the future the BDO may lean towards Act-Up-style stridnecy in their tactics; I hope they stay on the high road paved by The Simpsons and continue to saturation bomb the minds of America's toy buying and consuming public with paradoy and sarcasm.
	www-2.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs/user/jthomas/SurReview/reviews-html/bdo.html (598 words)

	Barbie Disiformation Orginization? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		By now everyone has heard of the Barbie Liberation Organization: a group of Californian culture terrorists who buy talking Barbies and GI Joe dolls, swap the voice boxes, and then replace the dolls on store shelves, leading to some interesting Christmas surpises.
		They print up stickers, done in a style mimicing traditional Barbie packaging, and slap them on Barbie products on the shelves (front and back), effectively replacing Mattel's marketing packaging completely with their own.
		Where as the BLO needs $20 and 20 minutes per doll doctored, the INH could affect a gargantuan number of Barbies at a low marginal cost.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/jthomas/SurReview/reviews-html/legion-of-mental-health.html (373 words)

	Smart Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Barbie is the beguiler and Joe is the beholder in this typical audition ritual.
		In late 1993 the Barbie Liberation organization switched the voice boxes on hundreds of Teentalk Barbie and Talking GI Joe dolls, and then secretly placed the dolls back on store shelves across the United States.
		The BLO news documents the preparations and the resulting media event.
	www.undo.net /artinpress/1014505200.1014408309.html (1117 words)

	Barbie Liberation Organization: 3D View of the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Brillo Magazine: Hacking Barbie with the Barbie Liberation Organization - Brillo Magazine: Hacking Barbie with the Barbie Liberation Organization Interview with the BLO about boy games, media and intervention, one-liners,...
		Barbie Liberators - Barbie Liberators Illustrated directions for exchanging Barbie and G.I. Joe voice-boxes.
		Barbie Disinformation Organization - Barbie Disinformation Organization Article on the BDO, a group placing subversive stickers on Barbie boxes.
	www.resolve3d.com /Society/Activism/Media/CultureJamming/%C2%AETMark/BarbieLiberationOrganization (2097 words)

	Barbie Recreation, Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Barbie Doll Collector's Information Provides answers to frequently asked questions regarding the pink princess and friends including Ken, Teresa, Midge, and Allan.
		Barbies Old and New Personal page offers sale of the pink princess of fashion and friend, Ken, as well as sister, Kelly.
		Barbie Clothes Anyone Offers sale of high fashion doll designer clothing to fit variety of dolls including Gene, Skipper, Francie, and Midge.
	www.lovetolive.org /c3Rsb184NTc2.aspx (482 words)

	barbie liberation organization Resources
		In 1993, ® TM ark channel $8000 from a military veterans' group to the Barbie Liberation Organization, which used the investment to switch the voiceboxes of three hundred Barbie TM...
		The Story Behind the Organization Project Roots is a unique, humanitarian Detective Agency that helps find the long-lost Canadian fathers of British and European War...
		In 1989 the Barbie Liberation Organization was formed.
	barbie.researchmmmm.com /directory/barbie-liberation-organization.html (286 words)

	Mirago : Recreation: Collecting: Toys: Dolls: Barbie
		Barbie Clothes Anyone - Offers sale of high fashion doll designer clothing to fit variety of dolls including Gene, Skipper, Francie, and Midge.
		Barbie Doll Collector's Information - Provides answers to frequently asked questions regarding the pink princess and friends including Ken, Teresa, Midge, and Allan.
		Barbies Old and New - Personal page offers sale of the pink princess of fashion and friend, Ken, as well as sister, Kelly.
	www.miragorobot.com /scripts/dir.aspx?cat=Top/Recreation/Collecting/Toys/Dolls/Barbie (608 words)

	WTO \| World Trade Organization: WTO / GATT B.L.O. Script page
		The company came under fire from educators, however, when it was discovered that one of the ophrases the doll said was "Math is hard!" Opponents of the new doll complained that the doll gave a bad message to girls, and they publicly condemned the new toy.
		Now, BLO stands for the Barbie Liberation Organization and its members claim they have switched the voice boxes on 3000 Barbie’s and gi Joes this holiday SEASON.
		The Barbie liberation organization is declaring victory tonight in their skirmish with the toymakers...
	www.gatt.org /bloscript.html (2627 words)

	Mark Dery's Pyrotechnic Insanitarium
		Some of the little girls whose hot-pink-and-turquoise-blue fantasies were filled with Barbie's dream dates and shopping sprees have grown into feminists who revile the bimbette as an embodiment of sexual stereotypes and air-headed consumerism.
		The Manhattan-based Barbie Liberation Organization claims to have performed corrective surgery on 300 Teen Talk Barbies and Talking Duke G.I. Joes---switching their sound chips, repackaging the toys, and returning them to store shelves.
		Intriguingly, the WELL's hacking conference features a topic started in 1992 called "Hacking Barbie: hardware challenge!" Software/hardware engineer Bob Bickford, who was an active participant, hazarded a technical explanation of the BLO hack.
	www.levity.com /markdery/barbie.html (379 words)

	Yochai Benkler, Lecture, 52 Duke L. J. 1245 (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The result was that most individuals lived their productive life as part of corporate organizations, with relatively limited control over how, what, or when they produced; and these organizations, in turn, interacted with each other largely through markets.
		The point here is that because of the low capital costs, a nonprofit organization is capable of providing information down to the level of city council elections that is richer than anything we have gotten from the commercial broadcast media.
		A central attribute of liberal theories of justice is that they treat differences in wealth as permissible, while providing some justification for redistribution in the form of compensating for undeserved wealth differentials.
	www.law.duke.edu /journals/dlj/articles/dlj52p1245.htm (11366 words)

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		Critics of the Barbie ideal in 1989 formed the Barbie Liberation Organization, a project of "culture-jamming" (r)(tm)ARK group ("art-mark"), to stage cultural events that mock the doll.
		The goal was to have unwitting consumers buy Barbies who would then yell, "Vengeance is mine!" and G.I. Joe's who would sigh, "Let's plan our dream wedding." Stickers on the packages advised consumers to call their local media to report the subterfuge.
		Mattel's protests about unsavory depictions of Barbie are hilariously ironic given the doll's origins in the 1950s as a German "street walker" doll, "Lilli," an adult novelty gift and collector's item, which itself was inspired by a cartoon character in the newspaper Bild.
	www.brandnamebullies.com /excerpts.html (3875 words)

	RTmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		RTMark is itself a registered corporation, which brings together activists who plan projects with donors who fund them.
		Famous RTmark stunts were gwbush.com (a faked campaign Website for George W. Bush), die Barbie Liberation Organization and voteauction.
		This page was last modified 04:11, 27 June 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RTmark (77 words)

	[No title]
		People who were already upset at Barbie's anorexic figure and her way of turning play into superficial consumerism couldn't believe their ears when Barbie's electric voice box giggled:
		Taking advantage of similarities in the voice hardware of Teen Talk Barbie and the Talking Duke G.I. Joe doll, er, “action figure,” they absconded with several hundred of each and performed a stereotype-change operation on the lot.
		One BLO member counted up the many benefits of their program: “The storekeepers make money twice, we stimulate the economy - the consumer gets a better product - and our message gets heard.”
	www.sniggle.net /barbie.php (226 words)

	Volume5: Subgenius Digest V5 #196
		switched the voices of talking Barbie and GI Joe dolls across the country.
		The Barbie Liberation Organization is now offering copies of their
		The BLO requests $20 per tape plus $5.00 shipping and handling.
	www.subgenius.com /subg-digest/v5/0196.html (972 words)

	Barbie Liberation Organization ®TMark Culture Jamming Media Activism Society English España
		"Made up of more than 50 concerned parents, feminists and other activists, the BLO claims to have surreptitiously switched the voice boxes on 300 G.I. Joe and Barbie dolls across the United States this holiday season." AP story by Brigitte Greenberg.
		Interview with the BLO about boy games, media and intervention, one-liners, fear, and some lessons and tactics they've learned that could be of help to other activists.
		Illustrated directions for exchanging Barbie and G.I. Joe voice-boxes.
	www.amigar.com /buscador/Top/1010106498-10000001 (151 words)

	'The Yes Men' - Film Review - Elites TV - Your Elite News Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Satire is the choice of weapon for the Yes Men, a group of sincere pranksters with a conscious.
		This amiable documentary follows Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno (founder of the Barbie Liberation Organization) on three worldwide stunts.
		And in their most outlandish trick (nine months in the planning), the Yes Men propose to a class of indignant college students a method for McDonald's to recycle the world's resources.
	www.elitestv.com /pub/2004/Sep/EEN415742ee32391.html (328 words)

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