Tools

Use Your Crossroads ID

When you use your Crossroads ID over and over, people start to remember it. If you go out on a scheduled day every week or every other week, people can lock the time into their calendars

How to Use the Logo.

Make the logo your own. You can download a 8.5”x11” poster here and print it out or download this smaller one for an email. There’s room enough on the white band in the center of the poster size to write in your crossroads ID and the date and time of your protest. Presto. You have a local poster.

The logo is simple. Draw it yourselves if you’d like! Use it anywhere.

How to Make a Protest Sign

A good size for a protest sign is about 16”X24”—big enough to be readable, and light enough to carry—but there are no rules. Cardboard works fine, so does heavy posterboard or foam core. Use felt tip markers, paint, crayons or charcoal; cut letters out of construction paper or newspaper, whatever you want. Your stick should go up to at least the middle of the board and extend about 15” below it. A dowel works; so does a stir stick for a gallon of paint. If you can find one, a nice old fashioned hardware store yardstick! Affix it to the back of the board with strong tape - packing tape is good; wide electrical and duct tape even better.

What to Take to the Crossroads

In most cases, all you need is a hat, a water bottle, your mobile phone if you have one, and an ID card. If it looks like the political street scene could get rough, think twice before going out.

How to Use Social Media

If you don’t use social media, no worry. You can skip it. But if you want to, click on these to sign up with Facebook, Instagram. They’ll ask for your name, email account, birthdate, and gender. You’ll have to invent a password. Most let you use an alias. Once registered, you look for magnifying glass icon at the top of the page, click it and enter Seniors at the Crossroads.

How to Work with the Press

The press depends on the community to tell them what’s happening. Our job is to tell them why our protests are important and interesting. We need to get acquainted with local reporters, and give them the who, what, when, where and how information. The more crossroads we populate, the more volunteers on the more street corners, the more likely we are to get one the news.