Pamphlets play an important part in social and political activism. The low-cost production and ease of distribution allows the medium to flourish, by allowing information to reach a wide range of people giving them access to material, as to why the protest is being carried out and what the issues are, as well as the goals activists want to establish.
As a group we decided to make a leaflet on global warming which is a prominent issue today with recent protests happening in London with three key demands:
.The government must declare an “emergency” and work with “other institutions” to make changes
.The UK must enact legally binding policies to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2025
.A citizens’ assembly must be formed to “oversee the changes” needed to achieve this goal
In our leaflet we highlighted global warming facts and figures using a colour scheme that reflected that of the planet.
Bibliography
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Library.pitt.edu. (n.d.). Exhibit: Small Press Activism: The Pamphlet as an Agent for Social and Political Change | University Library System (ULS). [online] Available at: https://www.library.pitt.edu/faculty-focus/exhibit-small-press-activism-pamphlet-agent-social-and-political-change [Accessed 26 May 2019].
Eve Smith: SAB935 Creative Dissent 