happy to hear it dingus.
street level.... thats something i spend alot of time thinking about but not much time coming up with any good ideas, and even less acting on it.
i mean... if you go for the obvious...flyer campaigns... how many people will take it? and then how many of those who do throw it away almost imediatly?
i'm solid on the internet activism, because i feel it has the potential to reach far more people. like if i were to tell you about this site here....
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/petition/index.php?id=5 ... that will stay up there for ages, and it only took 3 seconds to post. how many people could potentially see that? compair that to the actual physical activity of getting the word out there... sorry, i dont mean to sound such a pessimist.. i've just not yet found a truely effective way of reaching people. ya cant just walk around with a microphone and sandwich board.... well.. you can... but we've all seen those guys and what do we all think? "NUTTER!" lol.
but like you say... just keep on telling as many people as you can, and that basically means everyone you have contact with, starting with family, friends, workmates and colleuges (fukd if i kno how to spell that), even clients/customers! and that last one is really good, cos if u manage to spark just enough interest in one person, you never know, it might be enough for them to start spreading the word in a completely different social circle.
and my advise to everyone....
try not to sound like me, and be all "preachy" (especially if you're being preachy with a bitter slant) it doesnt help. i just cant help myself. hehe.
...DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO! lololoolol
said the libertarian lefty. hehehe.
woops, tangent after tangent, and i now get back to what i was gonna write after the first paragraph but now seems it wouldnt fit anywhere, lol.
Geurilla advertising.
handing out flyers doesnt work and is time consuming.
so get with the espionage infomercial. lol. try to keep things eye catching and sensationalist from a distance, and remember everyone else who advertises tries this to an extent too, so yours need to be better and bolder. keep to places where people are likely to see it... and better yet, where people will see it, yet no one else has any advertising. this helps your message stand out way better.
i dont particularly like this kind of tactic, but stronger action needs to be taken than everyone just sitting around saying things like "if we all just stood up together..." and "when our generation are in power it'll be different"... we're not ever gonna get so coordinated that we stand up together! We're stoners! when our generation get into power it will be the same type of power hungry assholes who are in power now, it was true of the original hippy generation and its true now. time we each took our own little slice of responsability and started ACTING for our freedom. look at dingusus' example people, look at sad panda... cmon... you can do your part too!
see what i mean? "preachy". lol. doh.