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Physics | 08.11.2012 21:55 | Public sector cuts | Workers' Movements

Tell your grand-kids what YOU did during the war!

 http://www.demo2012.org.uk/

Click to enlarge - A4 sheet cuts horizontally into 3 stickers
Click to enlarge - A4 sheet cuts horizontally into 3 stickers


NHS cuts and hospital privatisations, A&E depts and Fire Stations closing, MPs expenses, Tory paedos, sky-high rents, pensions robbery, bank bail-outs, wanker bonuses, nurses forced off wards to clean toilets, tax-scamming billionaires and multinationals, liar politicians, Fat Cats, jobs-for-the-boys, the Bullingdon Club, the glass ceiling, Virgin Healthcare, Plebgate, short-term rolling contracts, employment black-lists, Hillsborough, phone-hacking, police brutality, bent coppers, redundancies, spiraling inequality and broken promises...

Tell your grand-kids what YOU did during the war!

 http://www.demo2012.org.uk/

#Demo2012 #AnonUK #UKuncut #KONP #38degrees #TUC #Austerity

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How to use this graphic - your message to 150,000 people for less than a score!

08.11.2012 22:02

If you laser-print the design above onto A4 sticky-back sheets, even onto an expensive product like Ryman's 25-sheet packs of P1 Universal Labels (where each whole A4 sheet is one sticky label), then cut the A4 sheets horizontally, along the cut marks, with a ruler and craft-knife, so you get 3 stickers from each sheet, the cost comes out at £6.50 for 75 stickers - less than 9p per sticker (and it's quick and easy). If you can afford / club together for a pack of 100 P1 Labels you can make 300 of these stickers for £18 - just 6p each.

If you put the stickers up (best late at night) on prominent shopping streets, on phone boxes and similar locations (for this demo its probably best to stick 'em up near University buildings and student accommodation), and say on average (for the sake of illustration) each sticker is seen by 50 people per day and stays up for 10 days, that means you've taken your message to potentially 150,000 people!

Compare that figure to the 300 readers recently said to form the circulation of the Anarchist magazine Freedom, or to the 3,000 people said to attend the Anarchist Bookfair, then factor-in the advantage that by stickering in public you're preaching to the un-converted (resources like Indymedia reach many people, but mostly reach those already involved in activism). Just an idea like... and if anyone can recommend cheaper sticky labels, please post-up the info.

I'm putting the hoody on and going out to walk the dog...

DIY political PR


Lets kick out the Tories!

09.11.2012 17:09

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqRtFqoVW6k
Lets kick out the Tories
the rulers of this land
for they are the enemies
of the British working man
and it shows,while that bastard is in unemployment grows
and it shows,in hospitals,factories and
the schools that they've closed.

Evil will triumph,if good men say nothing
evil will triumph, if good men do nothing
and it shows, while that bastard is in unemployment grows
and it shows, from Toxteth down to the Crumlin Road.

Lets overthrow them soon
cant you see what they're trying to do
we'll all be frying soon
Cant you see what they're trying to do
lets overthrow them soon
cant you see what they're trying to do
they just abuse their power
both black and white are being screwed.

Don't believe every thing that you read in the press
don't believe what you read

Activist


Good stickers

09.11.2012 20:30

These stickers are too wide to put up on anything but the thickest lamp-posts, they're really good for sticking on larger, flat surfaces like aluminium street signs or the windows of phone boxes etc - really big clear lettering so you can read the message easily from quite a distance

Rub them down hard to make it difficult for any passing Tories to try to scratch them off

C100


much cheaper stickers

09.11.2012 22:57

much cheaper stickers:
 http://www.euroffice.co.uk/i/9yk/5-Star-Addressing-Labels-Laser-1-per-Sheet-1996x2891mm-White-100-Labels
...although it involves paying online hence linking with your credit/debit card.

Which personally I wouldn't normally worry about for something as minor as stickering, but now I've mentioned those specific stickers on indymedia, who knows, the authorities might bother monitoring it. Maybe not a big deal. Up to you.

anon


@much cheaper stickers

09.11.2012 23:37

Those labels you link to...are they sticky?

Check-sum.


Tips re - stickering

10.11.2012 12:14

Euro Office website says "The labels use a water based adhesive", which might mean they're cheap because you have to moisten them first, which might mean they're more likely to peel off in the rain. VERY unlikely the cops would try to track web sales over an issue as trivial as stickering (however if you're worried about that buy from a stationery shop, away from the place you're stickering, and pay in cash)

Speaking of rain, stickers survive ALOT longer if you put them on vertical surfaces (where rain drains off quick), on horizontal surfaces (where water lingers) they weather away much faster. You can buy plastic labels off e-bay - much more waterproof but more expensive (and probably easier for our opponents to peel off)

Finally big shout goes out for BIG labels - Typically political stickers are very small and feature over-complex graphics (which successfully "brand" the campaign group or Trades Union, but which in doing so help obscure the political message). We need strong, clear, instantly legible messages, which get people's attention and which put the point across without any room for misunderstanding. In terms of graphic design - think in terms of the style of TABLOID NEWSPAPER HEADLINES

Slogans need to be short, catchy, relevant and their meaning needs to be totally unambiguous. Obviously you know what message you're trying to put across, but also think seriously about how people are likely to read, or mis-read, the actual words you use. Thinking up a really good short slogan is harder than writing a long text - it's worth putting a few HOURS into thinking about different messages and wordings, to make absolutely certain your slogan hits the spot

moonlight sonata


Importance of clear messages

10.11.2012 12:33

Stickers for shopping streets - click to enlarge
Stickers for shopping streets - click to enlarge

As an illustration of how well-intentioned slogans can be misunderstood, at the last anti-EDL demo down in London, protestors chanted "there are many, many more of us than you"

That slogan would work well if the people hearing it had been opposing EDL supporters, but since no EDL showed-up, in fact the people hearing it were local shoppers

A bunch of lefties telling local people "there are many, many more of us than you" sent a message that was (in context) factually false, irrelevant, confusing and politically alienating

Unfortunately the political effect of any communication is not the message you intend to send out, but the message that is perceived (or misperceived) and (most importantly) then REMEMBERED by the people that encounter it

As a case-in-point, stickers that talk about "EMA" are irrelevant to non-student audiences, because few ordinary people know what the Educational Maintenance Allowance was. For ordinary high-streets, stickers like this (see graphic) are best

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