[Peakoil] Syriana leafletting

[David Price]

Alex P wrote:
> 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.

One thing that he said to me that I forgot to mention before was 
something along the lines of "we recognise that certain political 
movements will mesh with some of our movies and we're prepared to work 
with you in this regard, provided you let us know".

> 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".

Sorry about that, I didn't realy think about the fact that I was 
comparing the two, but I guess that what I wrote did sort of imply that. 
  I guess I just had the whole pro-life movement on my mind after seeing 
a documentary on it a couple of weeks ago.

It sounds like you managed to get some information out to a good number 
of willing recipients.  Well done to all of you :)

David