How To Win - A Solarpunk Flyer for the Nationwide US Protest Tomorrow on July 17th ☀️ (Second Page inside)
How To Win - A Solarpunk Flyer for the Nationwide US Protest Tomorrow on July 17th ☀️ (Second Page inside)
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/24783048
I put together a quick flyer for us to print out for tomorrow's Good Trouble Again protest. (Find events near you on the map at their website!)
It was made in Krita (Scribus probably would've been better, but I didn't have time to learn it), using graphics from old IWW pamphlets.
It recommends:
- Collective action and Unionizing with the IWW
- What a General Strike is
- Building community with a link to the Food Not Bombs website (probably the weakest section)
- A section on Solarpunk with text from the manifesto, along with a link to slrpnk.net!
- Ends with imploring readers to talk to the people around them at the protest and form connections.
The flyer is 2 pages designed to fit on a standard US Letter in landscape orientation to enable 2 flyers per page, and intended to be printed double-sided in long-edge mode.
You can create a PDF of the 2 pages for easier printing in Libreoffice Draw (go to Page > Page Properties > Enable Landscape Orientation, and reduce margins to 0.25")
Page 1 Double Flyer:
Page 2 Double Flyer:
If the double flyers aren't working out for you, I also have a single page version. (without the section imploring reader to talk to the people around them)
Page 1 Single Page:
https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/48eb821d-c3c7-481f-8cbb-029989fb18c8.png
Page 2 Single Page:
This is awesome! For anyone planning to attend protests, don't forget portable power for your phones/cameras. Having a reliable power source can be crucial during long events. I've been checking out some LFP-based options on gearscouts.com/power-stations lately - they have great $/Wh comparisons for compact options that won't weigh you down.
I'd noticed your comments advertising that site in past, but since you regularly engaged with lemmy outside of advertising your battery deals site, I didn't feel the need to step in. But astroturfing your site as though you're a random activist who 'just so happened to be looking at this cool site that's totally not mine™' is a step too far, treading into scummy territory.
I don't want to see any more links to gearscouts on slrpnk.net communities from this point forward. And if you decide to continue to advertise on other instances; for gods sake man, just own that it's yours.
"How to win" is not "Just Do The Thing".
Building community and local organising is a pre-requisite to any sort of collective action. The idea that that somehow comes after a general strike is mad.
All resistance starts between people who know each other. Talking to your neighbours, helping each other out, sharing tools and skills, etc, are all required before you can be all "join the one big union and go on perpetual strike".
If you, as a person, cannot organise a community garden, you cannot organise a general strike.
Ah, I realize now that, at least on voyager, cross posts don't seem to show the post body contents.
If you click through, you'll be able to see the second page (that is supposed to be on the reverse side) that briefly covers community building as well.
I have the general strike as step two since it made sense to explain what it is immediately after mentioning it, and how it goes hand in hand with unionizing.
At least in my area both unions and a general strike are completely unknown concepts to most people I mention it to, so I wanted it to be clear what they are, though I wrote it while fairly sleep deprived, so I'm sure it could've been done better.
Ultimately this flyer is intended to just get people started down a good path. I could only fit so much without it likely becoming overwhelming and not read, and still fitting on a double sided page.
If you know of a pamphlet that would guide people on these topics better than this one, I would welcome changing mine out for that.
If the intent is to get people started down a good path, then it should focus on first steps, which is community organising.
The people who are already open to unions are already in them. Because of 50 years of neo-liberal shite people do not understand class consciousness and view themselves simply as isolated, powerless, consumers.
You can break that view of themselves through community efforts - like gardens, allotments, etc - because they demonstrate their own abilities to themselves, and how working together benefits us all.
And then, you can start pushing for more official efforts and organisation.
Voyager shows the original post you crossposted for me.
Generally, great stuff, keep ongoing.
Still, the map of the "Industrial Workers of the World" makes me go XD
Clicking on the find a branch button brings you to a zoomed out map showing chapters around the globe, but I get what you mean where the preview is zoomed in on the US by default :p