[Street] [Materials] Creating materials to distribute
Ravi Mishra
ravi at occupyboston.org
Sat Nov 12 13:09:30 EST 2011
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> 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>
> 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> 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>
> >> 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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