*[Enwl-eng] New Peace Billboards and How to Use Them
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Here is our new guide
to using billboardsto generate media,
membership, and activism — as put together by our
Organizing Director Greta Zarro. Billboards are powerful
tools for reaching people, but they can be made much
more powerful with the right organizing around them.
This new guide (PDF)
is aimed at helping you to maximize media coverage (even
of billboards rejected by billboard companies). There
are lots of kinds of media that can piggyback on
billboard exposure. The organizing guide also offers
tips and examples for planning events, signing up new
activists, and building activist campaigns for
particular goals using the billboard as a starting
point.
We've just put up a new billboard in St.
Louis and are considering various options for more. We
can put up as many as you fund. Make
a donation for billboards here.
Thanks to the
persistent and committed work of peace activists around
the world, the Treaty on the Prohibition of
Nuclear Weapons has reached 50 country
ratifications. This means that in January the treaty
will be law.
Now our local
divestment campaignshave a new argument to
demand that funding be taken out of nukes, and our campaigns
to close baseshave a new
argument to demand the closure of bases occupied by a
military still using nuclear weapons. Contact us to get
involved in either of those efforts.
The treaty success has also given us new
ideas for billboards.Thanks
to your funding and ideas, we've put up powerful
billboards in various parts of the world that have
generated media attention and been used to organize
events and activism. Help
us put up more by clicking
here.
Keep reading below for new billboard
ideas.
Here's one of our new billboard
ideas. The U.S. military illegally keeps
nuclear weapons in five European nations
(Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy,
Turkey) and maintains bases over which it has
complete control in countries that have (to their great
credit) ratified the new treaty, such as
Honduras and Thailand,
not to mention Cuba which already wants
the U.S. base there closed, as well as maintaining
unimpeded use of airports in countries that have
ratified the treaty, such as Ireland.
Other countries, such as Samoa and
Palestine, have ratified the treaty,
despite parts of their land being occupied by
nuclear-armed governments. We could put up billboards in
Europe along these lines:
Anything we do depends entirely on your
funding and your ideas.
When you do, let us know any ideas you have for the
best billboard messages and locations.
Even small donations add up and can go a long
way, especially if you check the box to make them recur
monthly.
We're also always happy to partner and share the
costs of billboards with other organizations. Just let
us know.
Thanks for all you do!
—David Swanson,
Executive Director, World BEYOND War
World BEYOND War is a
global network of volunteers, activists, and allied
organizations advocating for the abolition of the very
institution of war. Our success is driven by a
people-powered movement – support our work for a
culture of peace.
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