[Street] [Materials] Creating materials to distribute
Maureen White
maureenclairewhite at gmail.com
Fri Nov 11 20:08:42 EST 2011
Regarding language- what about 'decentralized march"? Kinda gets at the spirit of horizontal democracy. Swarm makes me think of angry bees and scattered makes me think disorganized... Just my two cents : )
Maureen
On Nov 11, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Linda Jenkins <lindajenkins177 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Good point & ideas of alternate wordings. Helpful as this gels...
> Linda
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Nov 11, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Morrigan Phillips <morrigan.phillips at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That's a great graphic. In terms of language in the past (at other mobilizations and such) marches like this have been called cluster marches, swarms and scattered marches. Distributed march sounds a bit clunky. Not sure if there was a process around the wording though - I work late on week days so I couldn't make the meeting.
>>
>> Morrigan
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Rachel <spookeriffic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all, I made this up, we can add more info i you'd like, or feel
>> free to use elements for other fliers.
>>
>> http://stringeth.me/graphics/dist_march_basic.png
>>
>> RB
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Linda Jenkins
>> <lindajenkins177 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks Rachel & all. Great to see it shaping up!
>> > Linda
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPhone
>> >
>> > On 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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