Maybe ..
I've been thinking about boycotting things, and how Sam doesn't like it. And Sam has good reasons for not liking boycotting things, like that students should make up their own minds about that kind of thing. But I do like to think that the SU should inspire students to take action about injustices.
So I know this is only a little idea, but wouldn't it be nice to have a poster space outside the SU shop where we could have, say, a poster with a big bottle of Coke in the middle with the debate about whether or not we should boycott Coke all around it? Then people could make up their own minds about whether or not they want to buy the product. Underneath perhaps there could be a letter to Coke, and anyone who felt suitably inspired could sign their name to the letter.
Apart from anything else, it'd be quite fun designing the posters.
3 comments:
THAT'S the boycotting I DO like...
Let people make informed decisions, don't take that freedom away from them.
(and this was my argument about the Nestle boycott - it's simply not an organisation's place to do these things. Your ideal situation is to have the product and something else, inform people about whatever alleged transgressances there are, and let them make the choice. It's empowering, it's not patronising.)
good luck with any sort of graphic design next year.
by the time you've put 2 languages on it no one can read it so no one really looks at it.
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