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Flyposting

Check out XR’s Guide to Flyposting or this amazing website: Everything You Need to Know to Blanket the World in Posters

What materials do I need for fly-posting?

  • Buckets
  • Bags
  • Posters
  • Poster paste - wallpaper paste is most durable but not environmentally friendly. To make flour paste: Check out this video
  • Brushes
  • Rollers / & pins

How do I organise a fly-posting group?

Get together in an affinity group of 3-5 people and split into these roles:
  • Coordinators and Police liaison
  • Flyposters: 1 to roll on the paste, 1 to put up the posters, 1 to roll on more paste on top
  • Social media Rebel to take photos and put on #paintthestreets chats

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Action Tactics for flyposting:

  • Pick a few best locations to paint.
  • Pick some backup locations if you have to change plans.
  • Travel as light as possible.
  • Pick a meeting point, time and communicate these via Signal or other encrypted chats the night before, along with the arrestable end-point if this applies.
  • Use emergent strategy to move: avoid planning a travel route which could be snitched on (information leaked) or messed up by delays - instead, make the route up as you go along. Change location every 20-30min depending on how discreet your action is.
  • Always have a plan B.

What's a suitable target?

Avoid posting on private businesses or properties as it can easily end up being criticised as vandalism. Go for public walls where possible, unless the action plan specifically involves a target. Spaces to consider:

  • Billboards or temporary walls
  • Public transport - trains, back of buses, bus stops and stations
  • Busy central areas in cities: town squares, statues, pedestrian areas
  • Universities, colleges, schools
  • Places with high pollution levels
  • Locations with iconic backdrops for dramatic/symbolic effect, e.g. Eiffel Tower in background Government buildings
  • HQ’s of companies agreed as targets by XR strategy
  • Companies linked to fossil fuel industry and fracking e.g. HSBC, Barclays
  • On the floor in a place where lots of people get an aerial viewpoint e.g. a square surrounded by skyscrapers
  • Places people queue or areas of high footfall
  • Replacing ferry flags

Remember, you don’t only have to flypost. You can give posters away and put them up on school/university noticeboards, in windows of cafes and on flyer tables. People often like being given posters as gifts - use any available opportunity for outreach.

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