Editor’s note: We’re sharing this experience and encourage YOU to send your experiences, suggestions and ideas for taking the message of Refuse Fascism everywhere. PS: Don’t forget to raise funds! It makes all our work possible and helps focus people on the reality that nothing less than driving this regime from power is commensurate with the danger it poses to humanity.
I am sending this in because I want to show that there are things one person can do, in like one or two hours, that are effective, yet simple.
I was in a situation where I was available to go on campus the day before the state of the union protest but no one else was. So while we generally go out in at least 2’s, I felt it was important, especially then, to get the word out on campus about the demo. But this is one of those places where there are so many people around that there are many who have your back if some asshole tries to pull some bs.
So I packed up a rolling cooler with materials inside. In a big plastic bag took the display. I set up on a busy walkway between buildings:
On one side of the display is the prisoner Donald in chains, on the other, the poster, “Fascism Cannot Be Voted Out, The People Must drive it from Power.” They were bungeed, back to back, to the extended handle of the cooler so they are self-standing*.
The visual got a lot of attention–overwhelmingly positive.
In two class changes I got out several hundred flyers and cards, and a bunch of stickers, and several students signed up. I asked some of them to take this pic so it could be posted.
If you wanna replicate:
I am enclosing the file of the Trump graphic. Obviously it needs to be printed larger than its pdf size. The graphic is mounted on a piece of corrugated plastic, and covered with transparent contact paper.
There are metal handcuffs on his hands, he has plastic chains around his waist, hands and legs, and his fingers are sort of outlined with a Sharpie. (Also it would’ve been better to have a “RefuseFascism.org” or the hashtag sign on the front side of the cooler also.
And BTW Trump has accumulated more chains–now also around his neck–since this photo.