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DEAD BABIES AGAINST BUSH ACTION PACK ADVENTURE KIT #1 PHASE ONE: SEEN

DEAD BABIES AGAINST BUSH

Action Pack Adventure Kit # 1

Phase One: SEEN

Dead Babies Against Bush is a No Strings Revolution, without leaders, borders, or hierarchy, generated by PEACHCRACKER ARTPEACE. It's based on a simple but expansive three-phase plan. Each level of this plan is designed to heighten public awareness of the vast numbers of Iraqi babies and children our government has murdered, maimed, and driven insane.

The first part is Phase One: Seen. It's based entirely on printed images and words. This is a good place to discuss what's in this kit:

• 1. The introduction. You're soaking in it.
  
• 2. Equipment list: That which is essential, and things that may come in handy.
  
• 3. Web Links to useful photos and source data.
  
• 4. Suggestions on use of materials: What to make with the images and words.
  
• 5. Suggestions on placement: Where you can makes best use of what you make.
  
• 6. The E-Mail Address for Phase One: Seen (which is dbabphase1@fastmail.fm ) and your DEAD BABIES AGAINST BUSH Blog, which is http://tinyscreams.blogspot.com.
  
• 7. Future Phases - Watch List: Items to look out for, that'll be useful for phases two and three.

Ok, sounds... odd. How will we know when phase one is over? That's up to you. How will we know when phase two starts? You'll get the kit for it, or get word of it, maybe the same way you got this one. No one knows who wrote this, no one signed the first emailed copies, don't sign yours when you copy and paste this to others. Do send it around. Make sure people who feel strongly about this subject get a chance to get involved.

How exactly does phase one work? You collect the pictures and source data from the links, use them as you will, but try to limit use of dramatic effect with the photos. Let them stand on their own. No need to embellish the facts, no drama called for that's not right there in plain facts. Want to express yourself creatively? Do it in your layout, in your presentation, and your placement of it. What sort of printed material, do we mean posters, flyers, brochures, inserts, or what? Yup. We do, and just about anything else you can think of. Where do we want them put up or delivered? Everywhere! Because SEEN is a PEACHCRACKER ARTPEACE project, there's a variation on the theme you're encouraged to try... life size images of the children, placed to look real, or like ghosts. Feel free to haunt a nation who won't be able to turn away, the way we're haunted by these children. Ok, with us so far?

The intro is over. DING. You may turn the page.

2. Equipment List

You're gonna need access to a printer. Other wise it just doesn't work, unless you have your own source of photos. We're not going to tell you which ones to use - dead, dying, maimed, or just horrified and lost, but make sure they're children or babies, and that the photos come from Iraq. Since you need a printer, it goes without saying you'll need paper or poster stock. If you're going to paste the images up, you'll need something to do that with, like tacks, staples and a staple gun, or an adhesive like glue, chewing gum, or fluid and semi-solid bodily secretions. If you plan to compose something, you'll need either a computer program that does that sort of thing, like Photoshop, or you can use the old tried and true scissors and paste method.

Spread this e-mail around. Print it up, pass it around. Include as much or as little of it as you see fit. To qualify for any insane contests that crop up, be sure to include either the initials DBAB or the name DEAD BABIES AGAINST BUSH in/on your work.

3. Web Links To Useful Source Data and Photos:

Pictures:

http://irregulartimes.com/dead.html

http://www.progressiveaustin.org/iraqivic.htm

http://www.aztlan.net/iraqichildrenhorror.htm

http://www.robert-fisk.com/

Statistics:

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/database/

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7170.htm

http://www.seacoastpeaceresponse.org/w8.htm

http://www.occupationwatch.org/print_article.php?id=1632&print=1

Personal Accounts:

http://www.motherspeak.org/interviews.html

http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?list=type&type=21

http://www.mcc.org/areaserv/middleeast/iraq/interviews/index.html

http://www.allourchildren.org/stories/iraqichildren/photo_essay.html

http://www.operationiraqichildren.org/

Blogs in Iraq: (Please be considerate if asking for materials, these people have been through hell)

http://afamilyinbaghdad.blogspot.com/

http://www.friendsofdemocracy.info/

http://ayadrahimtriptoiraq.blogspot.com/

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

http://neurotic-iraqi-wife.blogspot.com/

http://rosebaghdad.blogspot.com/

http://www.roadstoiraq.com/

http://moslawi.blogspot.com/

http://iraquna.blogspot.com/

http://kurdo.blogspot.com/

http://hammorabi.blogspot.com/

4.Suggestions on Use of Materials:

You're the artist, all we're going to suggest is FOCUS. Target your material to the place you put it, and the people you're trying to reach. Your best underground punk zine style isn't going to appeal to the nice ladies at the seniors home any more than the doves and ivy trim will appeal to the club trade. Use text sparingly, let the images work for themselves. The higher the resolution, the more visceral and real it becomes for the viewer.

5. Suggestions on Placement:

Hey, as flyers in windshields at a specific car parking lot, giant murals plastered on a wall, single sheets stapled to telephone poles, inserts slipped into papers in a machine or into a free local paper, pamphlets handed out at a park or in a cafe, sheets stuffed in mailboxes in apartment buildings, life-sized cardboard figures nailed to wooden stands, transparencies stuck to windows.... and anywhere else you can think of.

Leave the material on transportation, in cabs and on buses, in doctors waiting rooms, and on campuses. Get permission to put them up in the windows of local businesses. Anywhere they'll be SEEN.

6. The E-Mail Address for DBAB PHASE 1 is dbabphase1@fastmail.fm; e-mail us with jpgs of your work, let us know how it's going! And hey, this just in, try http://tinyscreams.blogspot.com for the DEAD BABIES AGAINST BUSH BLOG!

7. Future Phases Watch List:

Phase two is audio, and you'll need sounds of war, children screaming, etc.... don't try to fake it with movie sound track, get it from news, radio, and the web when possible. You'll also be looking for echokillers and FX talkboy pens, that sort of thing. Phase three involves baby dolls, start collecting, you want as many as possible, and no, the condition of the dolls isn't important, we're going to do horrible things to them anyway.

FINAL NOTE, AND DICSLAMER (yeah, I know how to spell disclaimer)

Get expressive, have your work seen, but don't interpret that as encouragement towards illegal activity. We're not condoning it, and you shouldn't need to go that far. If you do, your art must be pretty weak. Don't stoop, SOAR! It ain't about fear of a repressive system, it's about respect for your neighbors and yourself.

ROCK DA WORLD, NO SHAME IN OUR GAME, WE CAME TO ACCUSE, AND WE KNOW WHO TO BLAME!

DEAD BABIES AGAINST BUSH, PEACHCRACKER ARTPEACE, WE THE PEOPLE WILL NOT BE SILENT! LOOK INTO THE FACES OF THE CHILDREN AND WEEP FOR YOUR IMMORTAL SOUL, AMERICA!

The rest, children of light and shadow, is entirely in your hands.

posted by ICEKNIFE at 1:09 AM