"We are a movement founded in 2007 by a small group of young people to combat globalization and the surveillance culture in the UK primarily but we also support other movements internationally with similar aims.

Our primary aims are simple - to move against the following trends:

• the disappearence of small local businesses in favour of global monsters including but not limited to supermarket, restaurant, coffee shop and clothing retail chains.
• the prevalence of surveillance measures including but not limited to video cameras, travel cards containing personal details, DNA databases.

We are called Lazy Revolution. We are about working against globalization and the surveillance society in much the same spirit as we allowed it to spread in the first place, passivity and complacence. We are not radical activists, all we ask of our adherents is therefore that they do what is manageable for them to help us achieve our goals.
We simply ask supporters to stop buying in to this machine. It relies on our apathy, our preference of comfort, convenience, and security over freedom. We don't want our supporters to go all out - we know that this is not possible, so far ingrained into our culture has it become to choose the path of least resistance. We simply ask that if you agree with us you make the conscious decision to become a defective cog in the machine.

Here are some ridiculously simple starter ideas:

• If you have viable alternatives near you: grocery shops, markets, chemists, butchers, bakeries etc. even if there is less variety and it is a bit more expensive / less convenient, do not shop at your local supermarket.
• If you want to go out for a meal or a coffee simply choose to go to a small family owned restaurant/cafe rather than a chain.
• If you have them nearby, take advantage of clothing markets, vintage clothing shops, second hand shops and street traders rather than buying from chain retailers.
• Promote these small but effective gestures to friends, the only way this can work is if enough people get on board and start making these minor lifestyle changes.

We also want to actively support some of the people who provide alternative services to the ones provided by big business - we hope to help promote these services so that people will start using them more often so that we start seeing supermarkets closing down to make way for yet another small enterprise rather than the other way round. Please see our interest list for a list of types of service we support.

This is the beginning for us and we are still trying to work on ways to combat these trends which we object to. The matter of surveillance is still more difficult to work on because any small scale action against it will inevitably be ineffective or illegal or both. We welcome ideas from supporters and hope to develop with their help."