Black Dot - the anti-brand 2002-07-09, 6:20 p.m. Sick of seeing corporate logos everywhere you look? Start spreading the Black Dot. It's appearing in graffiti, on protest banners, stuck onto newspaper dispensers, billboards and bus ads, and cops around North America are already puzzling about what it means. The answer? It's the people's sign, a blend between progressive politics and anarchism, a way of reclaiming the streets and our ad-weary public places from the corporate onslaught. No one owns it. No one has a neat definition for it. It's just a black dot, sometimes on its own, sometimes on a white background - a sticker, a banner, a wall. Scrawl it on plain address labels, or print it neatly. Spray paint it on the sidewalk or the wall of the Gap or Niketown or Starbucks. Scribble it with a black marker. Photocopy it on the middle of a blank page and tape it to windows, bus stops. Spread it until it's as impossible to avoid as McDonalds. Share your black dot sighting. previous entries: Anyone? - 2008-01-24 Saturday Film Series at The Free Speech Zone - 2005-12-30 SLC? - 2005-12-21 Please Post - 2005-07-24 From ImpeachBush.org - 2005-06-20 New: Fill out the survey!

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