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Robbie Conal's Guerrilla Postering and Etiquette Guide
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• Guerrilla Etiquette + Postering Techniques •
WHAT WE WANT
1. Mass distribution of our message.
The most direct form of unmediated expression available--cheap--to underfolks like us. "Get the Shiznit to the Public", as the Chocolate Sunflower would put it.
2. Counter-infotainment
A surprise for people on their way to work in the morning. Critical ideas where people least expect them. To tickle the general public into thinking along with us about issues we think are important to the health of American democracy, the Constitution, our First Amendment rights, and the future of Rock'n'Roll.
3. Empowerment To take direct cooperative action on an issue that concerns us.
For the general public who feel they have no avenues of resistance to the dominant power structure, no community support system, no ability to change their situation. To change apathy and cynicism to optimism.
WHAT WE DON'T WANT
1. Don't Get Arrested!
Be polite to everyone on the streets at night. Especially the police! Going to jail could ruin your evening. If you're hassling with the cops, you're not distributing our message. The PoPo are just doing their job out there. The Guerrilla etiquette definition of conversation with the police is: They talk, we listen. Do what they tell you. Get off their beat. Go to another neighborhood. They'll ask you what you're doing. Tell them it's an "ART PROJECT"- Nothing else. If they want you to stop, take the posters down, whatever--just say OK, do it and leave quietly. Then go to another part of town (easy in LA, it's a big town) and continue your good work! *PS- This goes for "Rent a Cops" as well. They'll lose their jobs if posters are found on property they're guarding--jobs are scarce; postering sites are plentiful.
2. Don't alienate our audience
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This includes merchants, private property owners and people on the streets. Don't poster on store windows, walls, surfaces. Don't poster on city property (though the posters were originally scaled to the size of LA traffic light switching boxes--hint hint), church property or federal property (mailboxes). Discuss the poster and the issues with pedestrians if they ask, but don't talk too long and don't argue. If people want a poster give them one. If they want two then--give them one. If cars roll up and drivers or passengers want a poster, give them one. They're our audience--our people. Treat 'em right! [anecdotal evidence; "Lenny Lambchop" was getting up on telephone boxes in NYC lower east side around 2 am; the bars were letting out. Two beautiful working girls wobbled over to him and asked if they could have posters. "What are you gonna do with 'em?,"he asked. One of the ladies, wearing a too short spandex something, replied, "I'm gonna put "MEN WITH NO LIPS" up in my room." Concerned, L.L. said, "But we want lots of people to see them." The other woman winked, "Oh they will, honey, at least twenty people a night!" Good enough.]
