WATCH: Guerrilla Marketing – #SolutionsWatch

The options for public communication outside the incrementally diminishing options of THE SYSTEM are infinite. All one has to do is to forget all previous preconceived notions about protocol and DO IT. As a longtime visual art activist, i can list some of the common ways i’ve found with hundreds more possible actions untried. For any public action that pops the info and behavior bubble of normies, expect to feel like an public annoyance. Adapting, understanding, fielding and exchanging with the inevitable peer’s questioning or condemning/destroying your efforts is just par for the course. Once over the initial embarrassment, your skin toughens and acceptance makes action easy. Plus there are people genuinely pleased and affected by the messaging. They will talk and discuss issues. Consciousness is a gradual process with epiphanies along the way to accelerate the process. In any event, communicating and popping the sleeper’s bubble, is a rewarding experience gathering momentum to a liberated Humanity.

Protest signs are of course the initial entry. Public messaging, simple, on point, understandable, visually powerful. Postering. Handouts, fliers, post cards, business card sized flyers can be handed out, placed in public places, posted on street corners, placed in public transit ad spaces. Shopdropping was a mini-movement around the early 2000’s. Go into any retail establishment. Drop visuals or an art experience in retail packaging of your creation and drop them on the store’s rack or shelves, with or without price. Customers will buy them, counter staff are baffled, but transaction made and intimate communication with a member of the public has been made. A simple application of this strategy is to get cans of beans, wrap your own label, and place on shelf. More elaborate is to package an art object of some kind in a rack hanging bag with label.

Send postcards instead of letters or email to government offices. A letter will be seen by only one person after opening. An email can vaporize at anytime. A visual postcard with text on the other side will be seen by postal staff and staff in the gov’t or corporate office all the way to the recipient. Just imagine postcards going to every legislator at your State House or Congress. The amount of visibility to staff, facility and employees is beyond measure. And the recipient will wonder how many others have seen this and are stirred to interest. No secrets allowed in a liberated world. Put posters in your car, magnets on your car, bumper stickers. Be creative. We have one friend who constructed a giant hypodermic needle on top of her vehicle. It’s still there 3 years later. She carries a purse she made out of a gasoline can. Wear buttons. I know they are obnoxious, but that’s the name of the game and getting civilians to wake up to the communication possibilities in this truth starved world is the goal and scoring action.

Bannering freeway overpasses can get you thousands of views in just an hour or so. Make them two-sided to double communication. Honks and thumbs up make it all worthwhile. Sale yardage or canvas hall runner drop cloths lettered with roller width, 2-4″, lettering packs a wallop on overpasses or street marches. Stray signs placed in public view give the public signs of life outside the cell. Set up a sidewalk info booth at your local farmers market or street fair. The US Circuit Courts have multiple rulings establishing the sidewalk, a public place for free speech and assembly as long as one does not stop the flow of pedestrian traffic. Remember Lucy’s Psychiatrists booth? Yes you can!

Wear t-shirts. Sell t-shirts with great visuals and messages at your street booth. Sticker everywhere. Spray can and stencils are quick and powerful. Lawn signs are super cheap and powerful as the number of cars and passengers going by is incredible over time. Popup pickets. Teach others how to do these. This merely scratches the surface of possible actions. If you remain in the digital screen prisons, options are few and diminishing as we speak. Go out into reality and interact as humanity has done for hundreds of thousands of years. Smash you stupid-phone, park your car and get public!

Another point. Understand your rights. The First Amendment is freedom of speech, assembly and redress. Don’t let cops tell you you can’t. Know your rights and cite them. research the laws and let them know YOU KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. You say anything you want to a cop except threaten them. That’s assault. Be firm and calm and state your right. On freeway overpasses that are usually State property you cannot attach a sign to a structure so handhold it together strapped on yard stakes. Cops will always try to get you to believe they can order you to stop demonstrating through your obedience. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS and DO NOT CONSENT.