The top ice cream company in the US has already taken time to raise funds to aid Occupy groups.
Now they're going beyond that and initiating their own campaign against the government and corporations.
Ben Cohen, one of the two founders of the company, is helping start a campaign that would see Ben & Jerry's locations pass out rubber stamps, with Occupy messages on them.
The goal would be for customers to then stamp any and all currency, they come upon, with anti corporate slogans.
Some of the slogans would be; "Corporations are not people", "Money is not free speech", and "Not to be used for bribing politicians".
In the US defacing money is an illegal act, though it is rarely enforced.
A company such as Ben & Jerry's to purposefully be part of a conspiracy to do so, could easily be grounds for the government to take legal action against the company as a whole.
So far the government has not made a response to the company's plans, but it is clearly a direct challenge to them, and a response is necessary.
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