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 • The Freewayblogger - usual anti-war politics, but very effectively and cheaply spread

Posted by youngmarxist at 2007-04-06 02:24 AM
The Freewayblogger is about encouraging people to go and spread anti-war messages easily and cheaply.

Basically, you put a big sign - often just the word 'Impeach' - where people driving on a freeway can see it.

The anti-war politics of the site are the same old yawn, but we should pay close attention to this cheap way of getting a message out.
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Posted by arthur at 2007-04-06 06:03 AM
Some of the ones further down the page are quite cute.

"I'm tired of hearing what rich people think" struck a better note.

Big problem we've got is not having a position that can be expressed in short phrases and resonate with at least a section of people who see or hear those phrases.

It's not just a problem of how to get the message out, or even how to express it pithily, but what the message is - what we want people to do or even to think.
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Posted by youngmarxist at 2007-04-06 03:47 PM
How about:

Download Free Music

Support the Iraqi People

Kill Fascists In Iraq

It's Right To Rebel

www.lastsuperpower.net

Neither Labor nor Liberal
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 • Re: The Freewayblogger - usual anti-war politics, but very effectively and cheaply spread

Posted by arthur at 2007-04-06 06:07 PM
Am in a sour mood, sorry:

Download Free Music - ok but people just do it

Support the Iraqi People - will be read as "US Out Now"

Kill Fascists In Iraq - will be read as "Support the Iraqi Resistance"

It's Right To Rebel - ok but no context at the moment

www.lastsuperpower.net - only useful when attached to something else

Neither Labor nor Liberal - ok but will be read as "Vote Green". Another version should work though.
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 • Re: The Freewayblogger - usual anti-war politics, but very effectively and cheaply spread

Posted by youngmarxist at 2007-04-06 07:30 PM
arthur said:

 "Download Free Music" - ok but people just do it

Great! They'll be affirmed by something they see on a 'protest' banner - maybe for the first time ever. Makes them more likely to pay attention to the next one they see, in case that affirms them as well.



Not Labor, Not Liberal:
Vote Informal

or

Vote Informal, not Green


You can use a combination of 'Last Superpower' and other signs in the same go, so that people get used to seeing 'www.lastsuperpower.net' near our slogans.

Can't think of a decent Iraq slogan at the moment.
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 • Re: The Freewayblogger - usual anti-war politics, but very effectively and cheaply spread

Posted by byork at 2007-04-06 10:54 PM

I would like to suggest the following (not that I'll be painting them on any billboards in the near future!):


Download Free Music - what's radical about downloading the music if it's free? How about: Download more music!

Support the Iraqi People - how about 'Solidarity with Iraq' (The notion of international solidarity needs to be reasserted)

Kill Fascists In Iraq - maybe jst Smash Fascism or 'Give fascism the purple finger'

It's Right To Rebel

www.lastsuperpower.net

Neither Labor nor Liberal - I agree with the comments above by youngmarxist and arthur.

BUT, one new one could be: The future is bright. (Remember the dude who used to go around Sydney writing 'Eternity' everywhere? A pity we can't do that with 'The future is bright').

 

Also, off the top of my head, as a "sixties person" (no, not because i'm heading for my sixties!!), I reckon John Lennon's 'Imagine' has some significance: Imagine no religion and Imagine there's no countries.

 

Even plain old Rock on! sounds leftwing these gloomy days,

 

Barry

 

 
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 • Re: The Freewayblogger - usual anti-war politics, but very effectively and cheaply spread

Posted by youngmarxist at 2007-04-07 12:33 AM
byork, "Download More Music" could be just as good as "Download Free Music", and I especially like "The Future Is Bright".
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