FLYER CAMPAIGN: Need Flyers to Print & Ideas for Stuffing 'Em

[Dem Agog]

I had a thought the other day that I want to share with everyone. I work in a very red state and for a presumably very red company. (The financial industry as a whole is quite red, even though there are tides of blue.)

I'd like to start a flyer campaign, discreetly leaving flyers in common areas at work, in common areas at shops, and in common areas everywhere else.

Two things stop me:

1) Lack of professional flyers succinctly stating points (Fire Karl, Impeach Bush, Get rid of Tom DeLay, Facts about Katrina)

2) Ideas on how to best distribute these subtly.

Can people please help? Point me in the direction of such flyers? I know I have seen them before. I have a B&W laser printer so B&W ones would be best for me.

And give me suggestions where to put them? (Okay Freeps, up my ass is not an option, but thanks for playing.)

And please join me in starting this this week?

If we each try to place 20 flyers just this week alone (that's a small number, I'd love to place 100+ flyers) in subtle places, it could make a big difference!

Today is the anniversary of the Bush Administration's MIHOP event which enabled them to start marching forward with PNAC and other global takeover agendas.

This is a BIG week for BushCo. The momentum is on our side. Let's do it please!

Please keep kicked if possible too. I want a lot of participation on this across the nation. If you live in a red state, I really want your help!!!

[KharmaTrain]

1. I'm Part Of The Tides Of Blue...

My suggestion would be to network outside of the office. Get a bunch of co-workers together for some beers and subtly throw out the issues of the day. Don't talk...listen. Hear what's on their minds...see what their concerns are. Then when you can get a better picture of where they're coming from gently prod them to consider alternatives to the status quo. Let it be their idea...and make them feel good about questioning authority.

[Dem Agog]

2. I wish I could do this but I don't feel comfortable doing it yet...

A) Many coworkers don't drink. Seriously.

B) I am not full time yet. They brought me in first as a contractor. As such, I'm still in a slightly tenuous place and while they love my work I'm deliberately expendable for a time period.


Having said all of that - there is one woman who is my only true "friend" at work right now. (I make friends slowly unless I'm working among geeks.) Her husband is conservative, so is she, but she has a heart and thinks that N.O. is WRONG WRONG WRONG. She almost started crying when I was telling her about the Rafiki dog story on Oprah, which almost set ME off.

We talk during lunch once a week. I made it clear to her my views, and that I don't like * at all, and she didn't criticize me so I'm currently treading very gently with her. Don't want to offend her, as she's my one friend. She actually came up with some good comments in our last lunch together. I told her that I didn't want people abusing welfare any more than anyone else, but that the government MUST be a safety net at some point. (Like after a hurricane.)

She agreed and made the point, "You know Bob (her husband) goes off on welfare mothers, etc. but I can't help but think, ' What if that's what I grew up with? What if my mother was that way and I knew no differently how to live? I can't judge them!'

So she's got a heart. She's a christian conservative, but one who is more that way because she's a Christian, not because she's heartless.

[KharmaTrain]

6. One Step At A Time

Last year a couple of us worked on my sister-in-law's huband's family. They were lifelong country-club Repugnicans who voted for mr. boooosh in 2000, but started to see things weren't quite right. Slowly we pointed out some of the bigger lies of this regime and they saw a pattern develop. They voted for Kerry last year and, while I haven't checked in with Al & Ginny (the real conservatives), I suspect their disgust for all things booosh...that was still very much alive after the last election is still going good now.

Lately I've befriended a very nice lady. She's a self-described lifelong Repugnican and for the most part we never discussed politics. She knows I'm very outspoken in my views about the kleptcracy in Washington, and we've agreed to disagree on things and stick to business.

I noticed her attitude began to change with Schaivo...she felt very uncomfortable with the government deciding who is dead or not. Then came Cindy Sheehan and just how mr. boooosh was avoiding Cindy. She kept asking me why he just wouldn't spend 15 or 30 minutes, hear the lady out and this thing would be over. I just let her ask the questions...i knew she was starting to figure out the answers.

The dam (pardon the pun) broke with NOLA. She was/is outraged at the Federal lack of response...as I connected her with WDSU & WWL as well as NOLA.com and several other websites that were giving real-time information. Last night I forwarded her the story about the SF doctor who was kept from escaping NOLA...and she sent me a bunch of boooosh bashing pics. I sense the worm has turned.

My suggestion is just to be a good listener. If you can change just one mind or vote, you've done a great service to this country. I live in a predominately red area in a very blue state...i might as well have been in Kansas here, but I can remember when this was worse.

You're not going to be able to sweep away decades of distortion and misinformation. There's so much these people have been fed to feel good and important and their fall won't be easy or pretty. We're seeing the most rabid in "caged-tiger" mode where some of the most racist, sexist and intolerant verbage is passing as "civil discourse". But I think there's a soul of decency in the majority of this country and a new dynamic is beginning to develop. You and I are part of this change.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. In another thread we were discussing handbills with a list of

W's disasters and then the snippet of the Declaration that I have on my website. Pics of W's victims would make it more effective.

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[WePurrsevere]

4. It might be easier if they're small... similar to "Bible Tracts"...

They're small and rather discrete. You can tuck them into mags, newspapers, books, on shelves in stores, just about anywhere. You could make them up yourself using a "card" program perhaps and print them yourself.

Since you're dealing with Republicans I'd suggest going with verifiable FACTS to fight the spin they've been getting versus Bush and Republican bashing. IME they're more likely to not just tune out and throw them away and actually read them that way.

[Dem Agog]

5. I know I've seen PDF files of flyers with facts, etc. esp. designed to

educate people on what's going on. Does anyone know what web site those are at?