Speculative newspaper

This qualifies as speculative fiction: as you may have heard, a 'special edition' of the New York Times was released yesterday. Hundreds of thousands of copies were handed out in New York and Los Angeles, and an online version has been put up. Readers were astonished to discover that American troops would be pulling out of Iraq immediately, that the "United States National Health Insurance Act" had been passed, and so forth.

Of course, none of these things are actually true - at least, not yet. The paper and website were put out by a large alliance of activists, spearheaded by those infamous pranksters The Yes Men (I believe Gawker.com was the first to offer evidence of this). The fake Times is something like the Google News good news page, except that it offers (indirectly) more concrete proposals as to how the changes described might actually be achieved (usually grassroots organizing is involved.)
To tie this speculative newspaper into the theme of this blog, here's an article with a religious connection:

American Evangelical Churches Announce New Policy of Sanctuary for Iraqi Refugees

The author? One "W. Wilberforce!" Well, William Wilberforce, the devout Evangelical politician, is long dead, but his fame as a mighty and tireless campaigner for abolition, animal welfare, and other social causes still lives on. I imagine most of the by-lines in the newspaper are of this nature. One public statement about the special edition came from a "Bertha Suttner," who is also a long-dead activist.

The "ads" in the online version are also worth a close inspection: apparently ExxonMobil is adopting bold new environmental and social policies, American Apparel is unionizing its half-naked waifish models, and GM is bringing back its electric car, the EV1. I particularly liked the ad for a dermatologist who is putting aside his 'superficial services' in order to collect donations for rebuilding Iraqi schools. The slogans: "Be beautiful on the inside as well as on the outside!!!" and "Now you can have... A BEAUTIFUL CLEAR CONSCIENCE."