Analog anonymous direct civil action.
The Underwing Dispatch creates disruption in plain sight. Turning everyday spaces into platforms for connection, expression, and resistance with no Wi-Fi required.
Welcome to The Underwing Dispatch, an analog system for offline organizing in an age of rising surveillance. Found in cities across the country, each vending machine dispenses wheat-pasteable stickers and a map pointing users toward overlooked urban surfaces. Offering a low-tech alternative for safe, decentralized communication beyond algorithmic control.
The Dispatch is designed to be accessible to all. It invites broad participation through tactile, subversive engagement, gamifying advocacy. By placing tools directly into the hands of the public, this project helps reclaim public space and reintroduces activism into daily life.
You’ll find us in cities everywhere, inviting you to pick up a map, grab a sticker, and engage with the streets around you.
Build One on Your Bock
Attached are the plans to build one yourself. With the estimated material budget and tech drawings, we invite you to bring another bird onto your block.
Tech Drawings
Material Budget
Placement and Strategey
Assembly Guide
How to get around is important, and where to go too. See existing circulation maps and routes through The Underwing.
Existing Routes
The Instructions
Means of Distributing
Local Organizations and News
The archive of free downloadable graphics as they pass through the machine.
Anti-Fascism
Environmental Advocacy + Action
Boycotts, Campaigns, + Collective Organizing
No Borders on Stolen Land
Want to speak through the machine?
Put your thoughts into the old news deposit in the machines, and when the papers run out we’ll see them.
We also print on recycled newsprint here at The Underwing, so feel free to feed the machine here too. ;)
