Peace Outreach on Election Day

October 24, 2009 by Dale Everett
Filed under: Anarchy in Your Head, Announcement, Outreach, Video

In many places, there will be an elaborate ritual known as an election which is used as a rather contrived justification for committing violence against innocent people. November 3rd is the date chosen by those who partake in this rather disturbing religious practice. If you’re apolitical like myself, you may feel like this day is nothing special. You’re right, but knowing that many people will be using this day to reinforce their deadly delusions, I think it’s an excellent opportunity to present them with a peaceful and rational alternative that they’ve been sheltered from for most of their lives.

I’ll be handing out fliers at one of my local polling places and I encourage others to do the same. Please feel free to download and print them out using the links provided. Also feel free to modify them to suit your particular message. There is a list of websites on the last page to go to for more information. You may have a different list in mind. I like to say “Peaceful alternatives to politics” to people as they approach and I try not to shove the flier at them in an aggressive way but rather hold it up to inspire their curiosity. Your methods may differ.

I’ve also added a new design to the Anarchy In Your Head store if you’d like to have a shirt to wear for the occasion. Just click the “Peace Not Politics” image in this post to visit the store.

The Peaceful Evolution for Word (Windows / Mac)

The Peaceful Evolution for Open Office (Linux)

The Peaceful Evolution PDF Format

UPDATE 2009/10/27: I’ve uploaded a video in hopes of getting the message out via YouTubers.
UPDATE 2009/11/2: Fliers have been modified and there is now a PDF version available for download.

Comments

7 Comments on Peace Outreach on Election Day

Adam on Sun, 25th Oct 2009 1:31 pm

Can we get a PDF of this? The formatting looks incorrect on my mac since I don’t have Office and I’d rather not download the massive Open Office just to open this.

elee3 on Sun, 25th Oct 2009 5:39 pm

I’m using office 2007 and this flyer looks screwed up. Help?

bigmike on Sun, 25th Oct 2009 10:19 pm

Thanks for the suggestion Dale. I think this a great idea and am going to see if any Manchester Porcs want to help do this with me.

xrazorwirex on Sun, 25th Oct 2009 10:35 pm

The Word file is just a converted file from the open source file, so it’s buggy. Just use the open office file; you can open that in word anyways.

thinkliberty on Mon, 26th Oct 2009 7:53 am

I am using linux and the flyer looks messed up. I think I don’t have the font you used to make the flyer installed on my PC.

Can someone export to pdf and post the link?

dalebert on Tue, 27th Oct 2009 11:05 am

Sorry guys. I’m planning to update this soon anyway and I will try to work out the bugs then. If it’s a font issue, I may be able to track down what font is needed and a link where you can DL it free. I’m sure I didn’t use any proprietary fonts that you have to pay for.

xrazorwirex on Thu, 29th Oct 2009 2:02 pm

PDF converted directly from the open office file:

http://xrindustries.com/xR_Industries/wp-content/uploads/anti_vote_brochure-1.pdf

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