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I honestly think you might make some headway by making things in the style of zines and leaving them in friendly establishments where such things are usually found. Something fun with graphics and a bit of humour might be attractive to a crowd usually inundated with anarchist vegan manifestos. The format also gives you a bit of room to breathe so you can pack in a fair bit of info without it just being walls of text. Ganbatte
#82
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no, i refuse, my pamphlets will be poorly formatted and overly long works on the nature of imperialism in default fonts distributed to 4 people or they will be bullshit
#83
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Petrol posted:

I honestly think you might make some headway by making things in the style of zines



i don't

#84
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i wrote readsettlers.org on a bathroom stall wall, don't tell me about your so called "praxis"
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#86
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glomper_stomper posted:

also start an org or a reading group. it's weird to just have pamphlets


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cars posted:

probably the easiest way to appeal to most of the people in the English-speaking West who would ever read a pamphlet is to use a font that makes it look like a broadside written by a cobbler with gout in the 18th century, like Double Pica or w/e for the headers at least. or if you're just trying to get Communists to read it use fat face fonts so it looks like it's announcing a 19th c. riot over no potatoes



on this same note literally typing your pamphlet on a typewriter is another way to draw the eye, for the same reason, as long as you write a couple drafts before you print it up, people don't see it much nowadays and it lends cheap gravitas

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the main thing to remember is that anyone who reads a pamphlet is a huge Nerd so either set out to appeal to that type or put your energy elsewhere
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cars posted:

the main thing to remember is that anyone who reads a pamphlet is a huge Nerd so either set out to appeal to that type or put your energy elsewhere


thats the whole point of going for a zine format, its casting the net a little wider and can actually yield results. i mean when i suggested it i assumed he would be including contact details for an org or something. but thanks for your flippant response earlier. so much for posting pals. the world is a vampire

#90
mt.real
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"people don't read pamphlets, you're right, that's why i will make zines, an entirely different thing"
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Petrol posted:

cars posted:


the main thing to remember is that anyone who reads a pamphlet is a huge Nerd so either set out to appeal to that type or put your energy elsewhere


thats the whole point of going for a zine format, its casting the net a little wider and can actually yield results. i mean when i suggested it i assumed he would be including contact details for an org or something. but thanks for your flippant response earlier. so much for posting pals. the world is a vampire


in my experience the zine demographic isnt less nerdy than the pamphlet one

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Petrol posted:

thats the whole point of going for a zine format, its casting the net a little wider and can actually yield results. i mean when i suggested it i assumed he would be including contact details for an org or something. but thanks for your flippant response earlier. so much for posting pals. the world is a vampire



thats my former anarcho alarm going off at that word, nothing personal. ive been triggered

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should also point out that nerds in the working class is a necessary if not sufficient condition for socialist politics and it's one reason why i'm so pollyanna about people turning proletarianization & the recent depressing spread of un/underemployment in the Western core into something good
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Whatever do you mean, the news man says unemployment is at all time lows!

All you have to do to get a job working 16 hours of night shifts a week at a UPS warehouse is complete a bachelor's degree in actuarial science

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#95
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On that note, somebody linked this website before and it was very eye-opening to me, leaving it here for anyone who has ever thought "unemployment is at 6%? No way" http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts

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Belphegor posted:

On that note, somebody linked this website before and it was very eye-opening to me, leaving it here for anyone who has ever thought "unemployment is at 6%? No way" http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts



British government's best trick to date was redefining unemployment to mean "in receipt of unemployment benefits without any other conditions"

i.e if you're sent on a mandatory patronising "training course" to learn how to write a resume better or w/e, you're officially counted as employed. same goes for if they force you to stack shelves in a supermarket for "work experience". you're even counted as employed when the bureaucracy decides you're 6 minutes late for an appointment and so withholds money for a month

they also successfully eliminated poverty by changing how it's measured, so that's nice

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@tears

this link in the OP gives a 404 now

Gotfred Appel's parasite state theory and the situation in denmark ,1971

pamphlet pdf - http://docdro.id/QOE3DbP
reading pdf - http://docdro.id/7MoxFui



what are thoughts on canva for making covers?
personally i've found it very easy, and visual design is not something i've worked with much
http://canva.com/

#98
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maybe we should have a documents section on der frontpage for stuff like this. and host it permanently on here
#99
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*logging into the ftp to make live changes to the code again*
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#101
Black Belt
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im reading some p good pamphlets made up of excerpts from Negros With Guns distributed by some local anarchists.
#102
Black Belt
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Designing pamphlet covers but the ones I'm basing my shit off of are so aesthetic my graphically-challenged ass has no idea how to emulate them. Sad.
#103
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Anarchists and the less vindictive Maoist orgs are actually really good at putting out concise "pamphlets" on community issues, the best of which feature histories of the issue within the community and adjacent areas. The problem is that these are usually meant for and appeal the most to people who are already r a d i c a l to some degree, and are either new to the area or just recently getting into the organizing scene (they also sometimes work to convert the Brothers of Bernard). Most people aren't really interested in your meatspace blogposts unless it's somehow connected to what you and your org are doing at the time.
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Would anyone like to share some images of or links to their favorite pamphlets? Or maybe even zines. I'm thinking of producing something for stuff relevant to me but looking for inspiration in terms of design and how to present information in a concise way that does not, as said earlier, make people think you're jehovah's witnesses.
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mediumpig posted:

Would anyone like to share some images of or links to their favorite pamphlets? Or maybe even zines. I'm thinking of producing something for stuff relevant to me but looking for inspiration in terms of design and how to present information in a concise way that does not, as said earlier, make people think you're jehovah's witnesses.



long but sane, looks pretty schway (i am told by my informants this is the anarchist term for "the masses")

a bit radlib influenced, but sound and appropriately concise in the material