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
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?
Please avoid posting up on private businesses or properties as this can easily end up being dubbed as vandalism. 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