cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/24783048
I put together a quick flyer for us to print out for tomorrow’s Good Trouble Again protest. (Find events near you on the map at their website!)
It was made in Krita (Scribus probably would’ve been better, but I didn’t have time to learn it), using graphics from old IWW pamphlets.
It recommends:
- Collective action and Unionizing with the IWW
- What a General Strike is
- Building community with a link to the Food Not Bombs website (probably the weakest section)
- A section on Solarpunk with text from the manifesto, along with a link to slrpnk.net!
- Ends with imploring readers to talk to the people around them at the protest and form connections.
The flyer is 2 pages designed to fit on a standard US Letter in landscape orientation to enable 2 flyers per page, and intended to be printed double-sided in long-edge mode.
You can create a PDF of the 2 pages for easier printing in Libreoffice Draw (go to Page > Page Properties > Enable Landscape Orientation, and reduce margins to 0.25")
Page 1 Double Flyer:
Page 2 Double Flyer:
If the double flyers aren’t working out for you, I also have a single page version. (without the section imploring reader to talk to the people around them)
Page 1 Single Page:
https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/48eb821d-c3c7-481f-8cbb-029989fb18c8.png
Page 2 Single Page:
Why have a general strike planned to happen in 3 years? I don’t know much about the US labor laws, but it seems weird to have such far away dates planned…? How can you exert any power if they know you’re willing to be screwed over for 3 more years, and they will be able to plan in all scabs?
That’s when the UAW’s (a large union) contract ends, so the plan is for all unions to plan the ends of their contracts for the same date.
It is admittedly a long time to wait, but due to how little of the US workforce is unionized, I assume it’s to give time to build up more unions and gain momentum?