[Street] [Materials] Creating materials to distribute
Ravi Mishra
ravi at occupyboston.org
Sun Nov 13 13:58:39 EST 2011
It will hopefully be confirmed for 12/3 tonight.
--
Ravi
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Robin Jacks <robin.jacks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wait, is the date really not confirmed yet?
>
>
> On Nov 12, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Ravi Mishra <ravi at occupyboston.org> wrote:
>
> No website as of now. We're still waiting on confirmation about the date.
>
> --
> Ravi
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Rachel < <spookeriffic at gmail.com>
> spookeriffic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there a website to disseminate info about the march as it's
>> agreed-upon? I can put together a simple flier for awareness for ppl
>> to reach out to other groups. Is 12/3 the firm date?
>>
>> RB
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Ravi Mishra < <ravi at occupyboston.org>
>> ravi at occupyboston.org> wrote:
>> > Love the ideas and enthusiasm. Remember contributing is as easy as this
>> > (written mostly for example):
>> > The Scam of High Finance
>> > - Banks packaged junk loans and gave them the highest rating possible
>> > - They sold these packages to unsuspecting buyers and then proceeded to
>> bet
>> > against them
>> > - Despite their blatant fraud, banks got bailed out, and we got
>> foreclosed
>> > on
>> > That was awful. Hopefully you get the point. Please do better. :)
>> > Also re: Rachel's email - nice! Stoked we have some designers on here.
>> > --
>> > Ravi
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Rachel < <spookeriffic at gmail.com>
>> spookeriffic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi There! I'm an amateur designy person and I would love to help out,
>> >> please send along some content so I can make it pretty! What size
>> >> fliers are we all thinking - I think probably half-sheets that can be
>> >> printed in B&W on 8.5"x11 might work nicely especially for the "ad"
>> >> type fliers- or do you want to pack more info on them? Personally I
>> >> am more likely to give fridge real-estate to smaller fliers - larger
>> >> ones often end up folded into wads in my pocket & tossed accidently.
>> >>
>> >> I feel like the best fliers I receive have *short *sweet *directly
>> >> informative messages, with clean graphics and URLS or the like so I
>> >> can explore them later. If we have access to two-sided printing we
>> >> could combine advertisement & informative fliers maybe, one side to
>> >> draw them in and another side that they can peruse on their next T
>> >> ride. Just some ideas.
>> >>
>> >> TFC!!
>> >>
>> >> R "The fire" B
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Ravi Mishra < <ravi at occupyboston.org>
>> ravi at occupyboston.org>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Hi all,
>> >> > This thread is about what flyers/handouts we can give members of the
>> >> > public
>> >> > we engage with when we are doing this march (or generally doing any
>> sort
>> >> > of
>> >> > flyering or canvasing). This involves a few elements: writing the
>> >> > content,
>> >> > designing the flyers/handouts, and actually printing them and having
>> >> > them
>> >> > available.
>> >> > We discussed two types of flyers: issues (information about the
>> various
>> >> > injustices going on) and advertising (recruiting members to learn
>> more
>> >> > about
>> >> > and/or join the occupations). We brainstormed a list of
>> >> > issues: environment,
>> >> > finance, healthcare, military, deindustriaization, corporate crime,
>> >> > animal
>> >> > rights, women's rights, prison reform, homelessness, campaign
>> finance,
>> >> > education, immigration, offshoring. This list is not all-inclusive -
>> if
>> >> > you
>> >> > want to write about something else, go for it. If you'd like to
>> >> > contribute
>> >> > in this category, write up a short, formatted piece (something that
>> can
>> >> > fit
>> >> > on a flyer or a piece of paper) of something that we'd want to hand
>> out,
>> >> > and
>> >> > send it out to the list.
>> >> > Design is another major category - we need to find designers who can
>> >> > make
>> >> > this stuff visually appealing. This is a lower priority than content,
>> >> > but if
>> >> > you are a designer or know one, please speak up! Likewise for
>> printing -
>> >> > if
>> >> > you know where we can print, please chime in.
>> >> > So far, people committed to this are Nicole, Bobby, Colin, Mike, Ron,
>> >> > and
>> >> > myself, but anyone can join in by just responding to this thread.
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Ravi
>> >> >
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