How about an Intactivist Challenge?

[pdx.mothernurture]

I had an idea, that maybe some of you would like to participate in. My idea is to motivate myself and encourage others to distribute information/literature EVERY day. At least one card or pamphlet.

My son and I have been going to the park a lot lately, to the mall, to the store, on walks, and pregnant women are EVERYWHERE. I am a pretty non-confrontational person, so ideally I'd love to be able to sneak a pamphlet under a windshield wiper or something like that...but like anything, practice makes perfect and the more you do something, the easier it gets.

WDYT?

What if we each committed to distributing---either by slipping into a (pregnancy) book or magazine, under the windshield wiper of an expectant parent, or handing directly---a certain number (1? 3? 5? 10?) of cards or pamphlets EVERY day that we are out of our homes and in the community?

For those that want to participate, we could share ideas for how to approach people and also our experiences here in this thread.

I can hear my thoughts now, "Uh...can't go home yet, we've got one pamphlet left!" LOL

Jen

[ani'smommy]

That is a great idea! Can you recommend any pamphlets? Maybe postcard size?

[mamamillet]

I would be up for this. I have nice printers at work. It would be great to be able to get 4 things on one sheet though. Or something double sided--just imagine getting into your car and right in front of you under the winsheild wiper is a picture of a circumcision--turn it over the facts about why it needs to stop!!!

[DahliaRW]

I would be interested - I need to be more courageous!

[pdx.mothernurture]

Here's some links to printables:

http://www.nocirc.org/publish/

http://www.luckystiff.org/

http://www.coloradonocirc.org/pamphlets.php

http://www.catholicsagainstcircumcis...c_download.htm

http://www.circumstitions.com/ (Printables are located in grey boxes.)

What do you think would be a good number to start with? 1? 3?

Maybe we can make Sunday our 'start date', and then post updates to share our experiences/how things are going. I need to fiddle around with our printer or stop by my parent's house to print some literature out. :-)

Jen

[mamamillet]

My vote is for two a day.

[Zamber]

I wonder....is it ok to mail flyers? As in gather addresses of EVERYONE in your neighborhood and send out the information. Granted, it would cost postage, so I don't know if that would be economical. My only concern with leaving flyers on cars is that many times when I see flyers of any kind distributed I see them littered everywhere.

[paquerette]

The lucky stiff cards are great for this! You can do them double sided, pick two of the designs, and you get 6 to a sheet. I distributed a bunch of htem yesterday in Target's pregnancy book section. *grin* I also tack them up on community bulletin board things in places where you can just walk up and stick on whatever.