Billboard Liberation Front

The Billboard Liberation Front practices culture jamming by altering billboards by changing key words to radically alter the message, often to an anti-corporate message.[1] It started in San Francisco in 1977.[2]

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  1. ^ "Using urban guerrilla tactics, Billboard Liberation Front 'adjusts' ads". SF Gate. August 24, 2003. http://articles.sfgate.com/2003-08-24/living/17502956_1_mission-district-billboards-san-francisco-state. Retrieved 2010-12-09. "The Billboard Liberation Front -- a loosely knit Bay Area underground organization that for 23 years has "improved" billboards in San Francisco by changing advertising messages with a decidedly countercultural sensibility" 
  2. ^ Alexander Barley (May 21, 2001). "Battle of the image". New Statesman. http://www.newstatesman.com/200105210037. Retrieved 2010-12-09. "Subvertising is not a new idea - the Billboard Liberation Front, which started in San Francisco in 1977, is one milestone." 

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