Publicity
A group for people who want to help promote Lose the Label.
That means lots of Facebook posts.
Police Brutality (or, Sometimes the World Makes Me Want to Purge)
So this is probably getting around by now, but I want to post this anyways.
Very recently, a UF student-Andrew Meyer, was arrested and tasered by UF police at a John Kerry speech in Gainesville, FLorida. After having his mic cut, Meyer was dragged from the mic by the police, while yelling "why am I being arrested?!" and "help me!". As the police dragged him from the auditorium, he began to resist the officers (All 5 of them) and so they threw him to the ground and tasered him. I linked two videos below, and you can hear the taser go off, as well as Meyer's screams of pain.
Flyers Are Up
Alright, so for the past few days or so I've been tinkering with some flyer ideas. Right now I've got three uploaded. Anyone feel free to download these, tinker with them to your heart's desire, change them radicially, print them, post them, hand them out, etc. Obviously these are more visiually direct flyers that do more "advertising" than explain what the site is, but feel free to make flyers that are descriptive, wordy, purely pictoral, or even just plain evokative. Be creative!
Re: Generation Gap -- jakethorn's Offspring post
Okay, so I've been struggling with these things for a long time. The generation gap of the 60's, the generation gap today, activism, etc. My parents used to be major hippies, and whereas I feel my mother has kind of lost touch (yay mercedes! marble bathrooms for all!) my pop is really still in tune with it, and understands my frustration with the current 'way of the world.' I spoke to him at length about the 60's. The few things that hit me (and that I wrote down) went as follows:
caution
so facebook has gotten wise to spammers after all the crazy spamming following the news feed thing, and they don't tolerate it the way they used to. i only posted ONCE on each groups wall, and i haven't posted on any new walls since this morning, but i got reported as a spammer (even though my message on each wall was different, and specific to that group). i was always polite, but that doesn't matter...the fact that i was posting a link was all that mattered. so, i can't post any more today (i got a warning), and you all will have to cover for me. but be careful! if we all get blocked that would be bad. maybe look to see if other people are spamming the wall, if so you're less likely to take heat for your post.~Delia
Facebook publicity
Any ideas for a brief advertisement to put on the walls of various groups on Facebook. It should be descriptive, concise, and intriguing. Respond to this if you have any good ideas.