I have been meaning to post these here for people who would rather download them themselves and have them printed locally rather than request me to mail them out. These are a bit different in design than the ones I had litho printed, to accommodate the digital printing that would be required.
Please respect the work of the authors and designers and do not make any changes to the wording or the layout.
Feel free to print the documents, or to save them to a USB drive and have them printed at a professional printing place like Office Depot or Kinkos.
(Note that the “Not Myths” document is intended to be a double-sided folded brochure, so the cover is on the right hand side of page 1.)
The need to get this information out to the Canadian public couldn’t be more urgent! So please try to blanket as many coffee shops, libraries, book stores and public light poles as possible. Another suggestion (something I have done and will continue to do) is to go door to door in my own neighbourhood and put them in peoples’ mailboxes.
Thanks,
GwEvil (Gwen’s new handle)
@GwEvil
I have given out to some friends. The librarian took them as well. Also a tax accountant I know. I am going to look up all the tax accountants and Lawyers around my way and deliver some to them. Going to drop off a package to the local paper too. I will be carrying them around now ready to hand out or post on mall bulletin boards.
Some of the focus needs to be on the banks themselves.
Perhaps a sticker that could be put on their front door doing the middle of the night –
WARNING
This bank is an IRS agent and will collect American taxes.
(put the IRS logo along with FATCA logo – maybe the one with the American flag behind it)
And put a website (for a mobile phone so people can access from the street side).
Anything that highlights banks being IRS agents and inhibit their ability to collect ‘retail’ money will help. Remember the banks can get by with commercial from the open markets, the Great Recession has turned them into old fashion banks with more bricks and mortar branches for retail depositors money.
This will counter somewhat the ‘good guy’ wholesome images banks try to pass off in the media. They helpful, kind, give out loans to small businesses, BUT also agents for the American IRS.
The banks would hate it. If you can tie together ‘Banks and American IRS’ together that would encourage more debate and bring the problem home.
These are great! I put links to them on the Protest/Publicity Materials permanent page. If you would like to upload to a jpeg to the library or e-mail me a jpeg, I can put a small picture of each on that page as well.
@Don that sounds like a very effective idea yet i wouldn’t advise someone to do it. There are cameras around every business these days especially banks. Even if you put a sticker on the door in the middle of the night you would be seen and liable should they wish to come after you.
However, stickers are a great idea for announcement options. We have several places here that serve that purpose up and down our main street. Being a university town there’s lots of event poles, event bulletin boards. Would be really easy to put a lot of these around almost anywhere.
And yes, if you want to post one near a bank there’s probably a way to do it. Almost all banks have shops next to them that would allow you to use their window to place a flyer.
stickers can be placed in the ATM stalls, where people handle lots of paper for paying bills
and other online tasks. you should be able to sneak a sticker where everyone that uses the
ATM will see it
Sadly no French versions for Quebec, I can talk about this in French but the printed word needs to be correct in every way or it will not be taken seriously
Stickers on stand alone ATMs sounds good. Even with camera what could a bank really do when their once or twice a week cash company comes to fill it up? Go through stacks of videos to pursue the minor charge of vandalism? Criminal damage? Or just put easily removable cards or stickers?
Not sure what the answer is? But I do know one thing? A busy ATM machine would ‘touch’ a lot of people everyday.
Another effective technique used in other countries has been to put small stickers on coins (perhaps use the loonie) and spend them. I once remember a club in England put stickers on pound coins and everyone knew about that club pretty quickly. Please click on – http://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/oct/06/tuitionfees.studentfinance
Putting stickers on coins may also attract a bigger news story from the CBC.
Great job !!!
I will be visiting Florida next week , i will print these flyers and put them on Canadian Cars that are plentiful in the Mall parking lots, these Canadians are Snowbirds . Every bit helps , thanks for these flyers .
If people want to submit copy for stickers, I can design them, but the “sticky” part is funding the printing. I can check to see what my trade printer can do but I will need funds to do it. Who’s willing to pitch in?
i would be willing to kick in some $$ esp. if they were of the size to be able to stick onto toonies to help get them out into circulation
Ok let me look into the cost. We need the copywriters to come up with eye-catching and alarming punchlines!
@ GwEvil
GwEN you are not Evil. You are GwEAT for doing this. Now about stickering the banks.
Just as a warning. Many years ago I did a solo campaign against the arrival of loyalty cards at a well known grocery chain. I could see the future implications of having a data bank full of a person’s grocery shopping habits and resented what amounted to a two-tier pricing system for the haves and the will nots. I put up notices on light poles next to the grocery store (always plastered with missing pet notices, etc.) but they were constantly removed by the end of the day. Once at 2 o’clock in the morning, determined to get my notices to stay up for longer than a few hours, I walked over to the store to try again. I ended up being chased all around the outside of the mall by a security guard but I eventually made my escape down a dark back alley and arrived home panting. I have never, to this day, bought anything at that chain but after my pole notice adventure I would frequently sneak into that store and deposit business card size notices on their shelves and then tape a clear plastic bag full of these cards near the mall entrance to the store. That, BTW, was before the arrival of surveillance cameras.
Em, you’ve led an adventurous life. No wonder you’re here helping to fight the fight. You be careful!
…and, yes, I agree, Gweat is the better description for GwEN.
Thanks guys…lol…brave Em!