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Leafletting is a tactic.  Campaigning is a strategy. 
A Just and Sustainable Future is our Goal.

Parties exist to Campaign! 

A Party is an organization created to campaign. 

A Campaign is a collective effort to educate a group of people and engage them in collective action. 

Sometimes we participate in campaigns to elect our candidates like Charles Sumblin, 1999 candidate for Mayor of Wrightsville or Hugh Lovel, 1998 candidate for Georgia Agriculture Commissioner.  Sometimes we campaign to organize a new local, or build our membership, raise money  for the Party's efforts, or get on the ballot.  Sometimes we campaign to have our supporters and members come hear a speaker or a great band.  Sometimes we campaign to improve our kids schools, win a speedbump on the block, or democratize the election process. 

But whatever the intention of our campaigning, it shares the potential always to build this Party's capacity to meaningfully impact the future of this planet. 

We urge all Party supporters to join us in the work of leafletting. 

To leaflet is to share literature about the Party, your invitation to get involved and take action and your sense of hope that our efforts can and will make a difference with the people you encounter.  You can leaflet with the folks you meet in your daily travels or with people whom you specifically reached out to at an event, meeting, festival, concert or at a shopping center. 

The conversation is the thing.
When people have an opportunity to share in your enthusiasm for the action you ask of them, the possibility of the Green Party and for the joy of life itself, they will be moved to action by it. 

That action might be buying a ticket to a fundraiser, attending a local meeting, volunteering on an issue campaign of the Party or on a campaign to elect a Green to public office. 

Whatever the action, they are all designed to move us closer to having the capacity to set the agenda and make the policy that can, in tandem with organizing at the economic and cultural level, help us transform this crisis into the Green future our children deserve. 

So that's how to approach the activity of leafletting. 

Here is how to use the pdf files on this web site to build the party.

1)  Let us know you are on board.  We'll keep you up to date on new literature you can use to help us build the party in your community. 

2)  Give yourself a budget for this work.  Determine how much time and money you will invest in this tactic.  Can you spend two hours and $3.00 a month or a week or are you up for a six to eight hour shift at a festival or mall some or most Saturdays? 

3)  Determine what campaign you want to support.  We have several of them.  They are not exclusive.  When asking someone to attend a fundraiser, they might be interested in joining the Party or in participating with one of our issue campaigns. 

4)  Get a glue-stick, a bottle of white-out and access to an affordable photocopy service. 

5)  Download, print and duplicate our Party's literature. 

If you don't have a copy of Acrobat Reader, download it here.  It will allow you to view and print our Party's literature. 

Get to know the features of your neighborhood copy machine.  There are exposure controls, enlargement and reduction controls and settings that allow you to print double-sided, multipage and collated documents.  Reducing your lettersize original to 64% of its size allows you to create a half sheet leaflet, yielding two leaflets for every page you print.  Reduce it again and you can create an original for a quarter sheet (if the type is not too small).  You can enlarge a letter size flyer into an 11x17 (or at a Kinkos or blueprint shop, an even larger) poster.  Experiment with the exposure setting to learn how to yield clean copies that maintain sufficient contrast in the photos to be readable. 

7)  Build a list of people you meet who are supportive of the Party. 

8)  Stay in touch with our Leafletting Team to learn of new Party literature available, share experiences and discuss strategies for helping people to navigate the obstacles they see between themselves and active involvement. 

9)  Every step of the way, make sure you are having fun.  No one will get involved if you are not enjoying the process of inviting them to do so. 

We look forward to hearing from you. 

-- The Georgia Green Party

Printing a Quarter Sheet: 

To print a quarter sheet or a half sheet, take a sheet of paper and fold it in half being very careful to square the corners before creasing the paper.  If you are makning a quarter sheet, do this again. 

Cut out and arrange the copy from the pdf file on the quarter sheet so that the words are parallel with and centered between the edges of the paper. 

If you are printing a double-sided leaflet, use one page with both sides of the final leaflet pasted down right next to each other, right side up.  If you are printing a double-sided quarter sheet, use one page with both sides of the final leaflet pasted down side-by-side, on both the top and the bottom, with the top of each block of copy aligned with the outside edge of the paper. 

Place the original on the photocopy machine.  Run your copies through the machine, turn them over and run them through again to print the second side without touching your original. 

Be very careful in operating a paper cutter.  Cut the printed papers into 5.5" by 8.5" half sheets, or 5.5" by 4.25" quarter-sheets.  If you are printing more than 100 copies, consider asking the copy shop you use if they can cut your print job down for you.  Kinko's charges $1.00 per cut (for the entire stack of papers cut at one time). 

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