LOL. We at Gap corporate branding love free publicity! Thanks!!! And thanks for the great idea. We should be sponsoring "underground" raves in the suburbs.

Luv,
corporatedic@gap.com

P.S. The idea really is funny though. Like the notion of a mobile dance troupe crashing any event w/ loud beats. Club Kids for the 00's.

THE REAL YOMANGO PRESENTATION

Talk about desires. Enjoy our desires in a place that is not our place. MANGO is a big corporation a fashion brand. YOMANGO means 'to steal' in Spanish slang, or rather 'I love shoplifting'. To force what capitalism really means. What the capitalism really needs that they can exploit our all-day creativity and subjectivity. Making profit of our love. We had to find a place of freedom. We created a brand. Not to sell a thing but to sell a way of life: the way of joyfully stealing from multinational corporation. YO means me the typeface is identical with the MANGO brand. Started to organise workshops. First an investigation group, then a tool research group, then a legal stuff group, then a civil disobedience theory group. So the first group did find out about the systems of shoplifting protection.

First we found out that Coca-Cola cans cancel the anti-shoplifting system. So that you can but things inside tin cans. All the corporations have a trick against them. A little ashtray to put over the protecting chip. The fashion idea became very important. We became fashion designers. To involve everyday fashion in social disobedience. One of the first idea is to leave the whole that the alarm leaves when you rip it off. We desided that it was cool. Demonstration.

YOMANGO TOOLS
1. big troursers with extra big pockets
2. the magic bag with secret pocket
3. the danish cookie box bag - blocking
4. the yomango hundred-pocket jacket with interconnected pockets and the "public pocket" from where anyone can take things while you walk in the street
5. the skirt which changes color according to the stolen CD-s in it

Video of the first inauguration of the brand "Yomango". The intro of the braind in Barcelona. July 5th 2002. 5:30pm. Commerce imprisons desires YOMANGO liberates the desire. Public: "there should be more stealing." They stole a dress from a fashion shop and presented it the next day in a gallery as a work of art.

www.yomango.net

All the newspapers published about it but didn't know if it was art or politics pages content.
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We wanted to have a community experience. A dinner every two weeks. Writing YOMANGO songs started there, from stolen samples. We did a Dinner in Florence. The police took all the city. That's why we decided on a workshop to send out small groups and then gather for the great dinner. Inside the HUBproject. We did parties in the day and also invited the press to have fun with us. 2002.nov.08. MegaDinner TransEuropea.
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From that moment YOMANGO became a net. The HUB was the medium for creating this. YOMANGO Tango was the next project with Argentinian people for the celebration of the revolt. We wanted to create a new dance when you dance tango while you are stealing things. So first we learned tango which was fun. Two day action. 19th&20th. There was a great American store. First we took champagne for the celebration. 20th we went to Banco Saint Andreas to open the champagne and celebrate the uprising. This was part of the two day global actions for Argentina. All actions were about stealing. In London they gave food free stolen to the people. There were 22 actions streamed back and forth. A man in Argentina starling theings. December. Champion: Carrefour chaning. 7 couples. "manguismo" The bank financing the crisis of A.
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The YOMANGO library is on the way. YOMANGO - you got it! So basicly in South America people are analysing their own everyday life to adapt to the local circumstances. Communication facilities they have to get for themselves. Argentinian developments. 'Grab and Connect' is the project.
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Coordination is through the web page with open publishing.
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This was the objective that YOMANGO should get out of control. We have been to Cancun and the Zapatistas were doing a YOMANGO dinner. We just received communication that there is the first SQUAT in Mexiko and they started doing YOMANGO dinners. Shoplifting was a practice in the past as well, what we did was to politicise it and raise media attention. After this there will be a workshop at the PolyMedia Lab. Tomorrow night there is a YOMANGO dinner and party. There are already YOMANGO boxes there.
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QUESTION SESSION
What about the repression?

The lawyers of the MANGO corp talked to the museum. We encoureged it but they didn't do it because they didn't want to give us such a great media attention. Every time we have more and more police at the actions. Last weekend small workshop in order to make a cocktail for another organisation. 15 police coming. Stand to the wall, open the bags, give ID. Looking for shoplifters. They stopped us before we could steal. We had a walk into the supermarket but didn't buy or steal anything.

What about the repression internationally? Is the press a tool of protection?

You have those kind of problems when you are alone in your daily life. YOMANGO have to deal with these cases as well. At the actions it is no problem. We always steal below the limit of 'stolen article'. We pass things around so that nobody is responsible. We would like to raise attention because everybody is doing it but they don't want to talk about it in public. Many of us has legal processes but no money to pay for the process. We would like to beer or something to raise money. We didn't started that yet. YOMANGO legal support via the net. Raising money internationally to pay for the legal process. Let's go to the Polymedia to discuss practical actions.
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