*[Enwl-eng] New Peace Billboards and How to Use Them

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                        Here is our new guide to using billboards to 
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 campaigns have a new 
argument to demand that funding be taken out of nukes, and our campaigns to 
close bases have 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.

                        Click here and chip in what you can.

                        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




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            From: David, World BEYOND War
            Sent: Friday, November 06, 2020 8:01 PM
            Subject: New Peace Billboards and How to Use Them





 
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