Yomango

Yomango is a shoplifting movement that originated in Barcelona (Spain) in 2002. It is billed as an anti-consumer lifestyle.

It gained publicity when clothes were stolen from a store, put on and worn back to the store in a "fashion show". Some people claim that it is intended to be a parody of the [http://www.mango.com/paises.htm Mango] clothing line popular in Europe. Actually Yomango consider themselves as an informal community aimed at diffusing practices of social desobedience. The kind of shoplifting promoted by Yomango may even be a tactics of direct reappropriation and redistribution of wealth. Yomango is connected with the European movement against labor and social 'precarity'.In Spanish slang, "yo mango" means "I steal".

Actions are co-ordinated and publicised online. "Franchises" of the movement have recently sprung up in countries including Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Germany.

External links

* [http://yomango.net Yomango website]
* [http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/1/yomango/ The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest]
* [http://www.unia.es/arteypensamiento03/ezine02/ezine06/sept03.html Summary of "ora et colabora", a polidric debate on Collabora Art]
* http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/605966.html
* [http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,68609,00.html? Shoplifting as social commentary]