by Crimethinc. Workers' Collective
Available in 284 free installments
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The aluminum sticker is tried and true for postering on certain surfaces: painted metal. Hints plastic, painted wood, polished concrete, aluminum, glass. It will not be as reliable on raw wood surfaces like phone poles or siding. You can experiment with rough concrete surfaces, so long as they are fairly dry.
The most difficult aspect of using these stickers is transporting them to installation stickering sites. The wax paper method described above leaves much to be desired, as it can be 523
quite difficult to separate the aluminum from the wax paper. If you can avoid this step, things will be much easier. If you have a vehicle available, build a shelf like a drying rack where glue-coated posters can rest without sliding into other posters. If you are going on foot, use a pizza box or other fiat box. Perhaps there are materials more freely available than Teflon that have slicker surfaces than wax paper. Brainstorm, experiment, and let us know what you find!
If you're really coordinated and you want to avoid the difficulties of transporting stickers with glue on them, involve two teams for a long night of decorating. Plot routes that pass by a few dozen deserving installation sites. Have one team set out cleaning each site, then coating it with the appropriately sized area of glue. A few hours later, the second team heads out with foil posters to apply to the dry glue.
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Supporting Suivhors of Domestic Violence
Womyn exist in a "domesticated" combat zone. On any given day in the United States, an average of 480 womyn will be raped, 5,760 womyn vrill be assaulted, and 4 will be murdered by a male partner. Domestic violence is an assault on womyn's bodies and minds by those who claim to love them and love to claim them. The success of this violence depends on the complicity of community. If we intend to bring about true liberation, we must foster explicitly antiauthoritarian behavior in both personal and political life. No hierarchy is acceptable and no domination is justifiable?not even "behind closed doors." Because one in four womyn will be assaulted (likely including someone you love), we must wage war on domestic violence. We serve to empower our communities best by fighting the violence and hierarchy closest to home ... or in the home.
Helping Womyn and Society Escape Violent Relationships
Outreach materials Shelter Childcare
Basic safety materials ? pepper
spray, whistles, deadbolts, phone
Knowledge of local resources
a network of safe communities/
spaces for womyn Personal dedication to the
COMPLETE annihilation OF
authority
Ingredients
stage One: Helping Her Educate yourself. Domestic violence (DV) is rarely a single instance of battery, but instead a pattern of power and control. It may involve sexual or physical violence, or it may be a complex web of threats, property destruction, isolation, and emotional, financial, and mental abuse. Understanding this will help you recognize abuse if it comes without physical bruises.
If you are truly ready to have your mother, friend, or daughter tell you what is happening in her private life, invite her to come to you. If you are speaking against violence and rape, she will know you are ready. Wheatpaste neighborhoods with posters about domestic violence, hold street fairs against violence in residential neighborhoods, plaster infoshops and collective homes with signs that invite womyn into a safe space. If she, her children, or her animals are in immediate danger, however, you may need to approach her. Never approach the abuser: most abusers are paranoid and will quickly assume their victims have exposed them, and may retaliate against them.
Follow her lead. The most important thing you will do is be there for her, even if you feel useless. Trying to be a hero can only undermine her autonomy. Let her make her ovra decisions, even bad ones, and never tell her what to do. Give her back control: refuse to dominate her and recreate the abuse.
Give her a phone number or a way to contact you or someone in the community. Best is a cell phone that will always be on, or a collective house's number where someone is usually awake.
Let her talk. Don't wince or gasp: tales of sodomy and strangulation are not easy to listen to, but they are harder to tell. Survivors are often terrified of either tainting someone else's world with their trauma or not being believed. Tell her you believe her. You Supporting Surviwrs of Domestic Violence ^^ ^^ changed by what you hear; thank her for that. Confirm what may seem obvious.
