is the paper online ?

It would have been better to produce 200,000 lealfets which could have been done for the same price and easily delivered by around 200 people over a few days as leaflets are far lighter in weight than newspapers. It would also have covered a much large area and got the message out to far more people.

I find it amusing when people offer such helpful criticism. In reply I have to say, great, please do go ahead and fund and print 200,000 leaflets then assemble teams to deliver them.

Personally however, I disagree with your reasoning. The papers carry far more information than can be squeezed onto a leaflet and I believe people are more likely to read them than a leaflet which can quickly be discarded as either advertising or propoganda. Of course the papers are propaganda - just as the mainstream newspaper are - however people do treat newspapers differently from other mediums.

Weight is not the problem in distributing, it is time and people. We could have printed addition copies of the paper at very little additional cost (just 35 pounds for each additional thousand) but the difficulty to finding enough people to to the work of going door to door. We have a vehicle to provide a mobile pick up point so weight really has nothing to do with it. I can not conceive of managing to delivery 200,000 leaflets which the current level of active participation.

As for cost, as far as I can make out without getting a proper quote, 200,000 papers would have cost something like 6,000 pounds. That´s a per unit cost of around 3.5 pence per paper. I don't doubt that an A5 flyer could be cheaper but not massively so and in terms of cost per column inch, newsprint is by far the most economical.

So, as I said, I don't agree that leaflets would have been preferable for door to door delivery, I don't agree that weight is the issue, I don't agree that print 200,000 would be a good idea (have you ever actually done leafleting or door to door delivery?) and I don't find your suggestion constructive. That said, please don't let me put you off producing leaflets, the more diverse our attempts to inform and mobilise people on this issue the better and I sure most people would agree that there has been a significant lack of leaflets and leafleting around DSEi this year.

Meanwhile, if anyone would prefer to help distribute the papers that have already been paid for and printed then please do form group with friends and take on a few streets. A group of four people should be able to manage over 1,000 papers in just three hours. Call DISARM DSEi or email print2paper AT gmail DOT com.

well done everyone involved.

its really good to hear that you got it together. its a cool idea.
newspapers whether spoofed or not are a really good way to reach people. i just wish more people were on it and producing them more often for national stuff like this and locally too.

cheers people - activist is just another wanker ( obviously ) / troll ( probably ) - we all know he wouldn't ( yep its a he) deliver those leaflets ( let alone write one ) - furthermore - NOBODY stopped him producing his own leaflet and mailing his own leaflet aroiund Newham.

conclusion:- tosser
conclusion 2:- I have just wasted a few minutes responding to that shit.

I got hold of a copy of this the other night and it is excellent. Unsurprisingly, it's much more informative than a leaflet and contains a heap of good information. Congrats!

I saw the paper for the first tme today and it looks great. Well done to everyone for making it happen. I'll be getting off my lazy arse myself this afternoon and seeing about helping out with the deliverys. Some criticism, constructive I hope, is that the paper could have been thicker and contained for articles such as the history of polititians linked to the arms trade and why writting to MPs is a waste of time. I would have been up for contributing articles but the paper was anounced with such short notice that I didn't get it together in time. Sorry. Once again, fab job.