[Peakoil] Syriana leafletting

[Adrian Whitehead]

Really enjoyed the movie, sorry I missed out on the drama but I was
distracted by a Liz.

Adrian :)


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Subject: [Peakoil] Syriana leafletting

Hi folks,

http://www.postcarbon.org/syriana

suggests handing out leaflets at the cinema, and that's what Leigh and I
did. It cannot have escaped the notice of Greater Union that Syriana is an
inherently political film about very important matters. The film poster
suggests people visit a website to engage on the issue. In addition to going
to a website in the US, people might also be interested in a Peak Oil group
in the ACT.

There is no comparison between blowing up buildings and handing out bits of
paper at the end of a film which would be attended by people with an
interest in current events. There is also no way in which merely querying
why we could not hand out bits of paper constitutes being abusive. In
politics people often react like political engagement is abuse, particularly
if they are responsible in some official capacity and feel they have to keep
politics from intruding. However ordinary cinema goers were quite happy to
take the leaflet. One man joked with me about wheat sales and another wanted
the leaflet in the car park, both having witnessed the "abuse".

In retrospect it would have been better to hand out on the pavement at the
cinema exits but it was easier to do it as people left the theatre itself.

Previously Leigh and I have handed out leaflets at other events. We handed
out at the Jared Diamond talk with much success. I was briefly asked what we
were doing by someone who I believe was from the ANU. You can see there is
some level of paranoia here in our supposedly free society. In my
experience, organisations, no matter how supposedly tolerant of intellectual
debate, are always paranoid about these things. In a grass roots campaign we
need to leverage off the events which bring receptive people together. I
don't know if asking permission beforehand would get us anywhere.

Alex
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