[Street] [Materials] Creating materials to distribute
Rachel
spookeriffic at gmail.com
Fri Nov 11 01:20:52 EST 2011
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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