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"How To..." brings a number of projects together that represent actions and frameworks at their simplest levels. "How To..." projects are meant, through simple actions, to illuminate larger concerns. Anyone can do them, and we encourage anyone who cares to enact one of these projects to do just that. As well, they can be used as starting points for future actions.
Protest Song Karaoke involves participants going to a karaoke bar and appropriating songs as having been originally written with a political meaning in mind. This is done by a process of pre-song prefaces. or asides during, say, really long guitar solos. These asides are intended to be as subtle as possible so as to be as believable as can be within the situation.

Some Examples of possible appropriations;

- "Private Eyes" by Hall and Oates is a song about governmental surveillance and the immanent loss of privacy in Reagan era 80's America.

- "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond is a song about anti-Semitism concerning a teenage love affair Diamond had with a catholic girl which ended abruptly when her parents found out he was Jewish.

We have noticed that it seems most plausible when these prefaces are not over done. Though this leaves out some friends from pulling out some real great twists to old songs, there's always next time. May we suggest prefacing a song or two and then singing some actual protest songs for a while. This really throws people off kilter.