Fix the World Challenge

Create a humongous, ridiculous spectacle celebrating your least favorite corporate entity (or entities). Document extensively.

Set up a website with a url similar to that of your target, emulating their style and content, but more truthful and honest about their dealings. For extra points, choose a target that is actively hurting your local community, and promote awareness of the issue beyond your community by involving the URL in a local impersonation event that's likely to get wider coverage.

Sometimes they just leave the microphone on. If you look the part, you can probably grab the mic. At a Heritage society luncheon, the Yes Men simply took the stage, tapped on the wine glass for attention, and made a speech drafting Edwin Meese for president (instead of the republican candidate George W. Bush).

Buy an Exxonmobil shirt on the internet, and stand at the local filling station. When people stop for gas,talk to them! For example, "The money from your gas today is going towards helping us defeat the indigenous people of Alaska and exterminate the violent polar bear of the Far North. Thank you!"

Or, for example, become a Wal-Mart greeter. Introduce shoppers to some really weird products....

Pose as someone else and embarrass a very high-profile target, perhaps by getting them to say something they normally wouldn't.

British Comedian and noted Activist Mark Thomas posed as a public relations specialist at an arms fair, offering to help improve the image of governments and companies who abused human rights. As various high-ranking officials visited the stand, Thomas videotaped their discussions. He devised a hilarious mock workshop on "winning the war of words" in which he convinced an Indonesian general to admit to the use of torture - an admission he would not normally have made....