by Crimethinc. Workers' Collective
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Don't forget doctors' and dentists' offices, as well as beauty salons, bank lobbies, and car repair shops. People like to read things while ffiey're waiting, and it might as well be your 'zine instead of Glamor. Of course, if you have a reason to be in one of these places
and slide it into the stack nonchalantly, it's liable to remain longer than if you just bust in, toss it down, and leave. After all, it could have anthrax on it.
We threw a film festival in Olympia and one of the three days consisted solely of free activities. Free movies, free workshops, free food, free vnll. One of us went to the soup kitchen and shelter and made sure that everyone there knew they were invited. I carried fliers everywhere I went. "Yes, you can have my spare change?and come to these free movies, by the way."
You can broadcast from alleys and bus stops and under bridges. When Benjamin decided to create a punk rock Midsummer Night's Dream, he posted the casting call on all the dumpsters. They performed it on Mayday and the result was phenomenal.
For more information, see: Graffiti, pg. 258; Stenciling, pg. 51S; Wheatpasting, pg. 598; Stickering, pg. 520; Asphalt Mosaics, pg. 66; and so on.
You can start a discussion group with friends in order to get more out of just about an)fthing you might read or think about; you may find it easier to learn and give voice to your thoughts in this environment than in traditional classroom settings.
You're in the bookstore. Are you going to pick up the novel your friend told you was really good, or the one you saw in an advertisement? Human interaction is simply more memorable than a remote printed message. If you need to choose where to invest your energy, make a hundred photocopies instead of a million and talk to everyone you can. One common approach is to attend events that have something in common with your idea, where the people are likely to be interested in your music/art/cause/revolution, and set up a table.
Tabling is simple: take some literature and/or other material to a public place and set it up on a table, blanket, etc. Do this at punk shows. Food Not Bombs servings, hip hop concerts, showings of radical documentaries or action movies intended to cash in on dissent, speaking engagements by left-vring politicians and authors and artists, gun shows, political rallies, underground dance parties, street fairs, science fiction and comic book and technology conventions, activist conferences, college cafeterias, the park on
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Distribution, Tabling, and Infoshops
If you can rent videos under a fake
identity, tape your own radical movie
previews onto them advertising
adventures that can take place in real
life; failing this, use a powerful magnet
to erase tapes on display in desen/ing
corporate movie rental outlets.
You can soak the ink off some
cancelled stamps with alcohol. Better,
cover stamps with a thin layer of soap
or water-soluble glue before mailing;
the addressee can soak off the soap or
glue, and with it the cancellation ink.
If your hand has been cramping up
from adding all those speech bubbles
to the paper money that passes
through your hands, get rubber
stamps made; if you are a clerk or
know someone who is, you can do
entire registers of bills.
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a sunny day. If you know they wouldn't otherwise give you permission (or free entry) to table, act like you're doing something official and enter with no questions asked or answered {except, perhaps, "oh, me? I'm here to run the table"); if they won't let you table inside, table outside.
