WE Protect Freedom!/Branding developments
(photo by Ryan Pimiskern, Flickr).
Wikipedia: Monarch butterfly
WikiMedia Commons: Danaus plexippus.
WE Defend Freedom! may be a comprehensive way to organize, clarify fundamentals, brand (or rebrand), engage our members, better grow our numbers, and visibly and/or financially support our freedom groups.
First draft
This is just a first draft pitch by Jason Carswell that will be presented to our communities for consideration, further input, development, improvements, tweaking, and hopefully for wider acceptance and implementation.
This living document may evolve and change over time, yet include an immutable development history - and perhaps we can draft a strong cornerstone constitution (that may be amended). Currently this page documents the branding conceptual development, community fundamentals, and analysis for promotion and growth - all of which can be moved off to a more specific brand-development page if necessity requires this page title.
Brand identity
In order to effectively develop our brand identity we must know what we don't want, drill down to our core purpose, outline our fundamental goals, determine
Unfocused, negative, limited
"Fuck Trudeau" flags merely state an opinion, crudely, and whether you are for or against Trudeau, the flag and flyer neither offer actions nor productive solutions, while saying nothing about our freedom communities and goals. Yet to be proven, it's been alleged that the "Fuck Trudeau" design is owned by a series of shell corporations that trace back to Justin Trudeau himself, preemptively controlling his own opposition.
The term "freedom fighters" confusingly may mean fighting for freedom as well as fighting against freedom, and all confusions and negatives should be avoided, including all associations with violent fighting.
Clarity, motivation, action
"Defend Freedom!" and "WE Defend Freedom!" (WE = Windsor & Essex County) remain peaceful positive actionable statements of resistance and opposition to the mafia government puppet "leadership" as well as the status quo establishment of banksters, corporate monopolies, the ruling class and their deep state, their matrix of rigged systems of deception, manipulation, exploitation, oppression, and extermination, and all orders of authoritarian overreach, corruption, and tyranny - from local to global.
Other regions
Other regions, groups, and individuals are welcome to modify these open-source ideas. Examples: Canada Defends Freedom!, Canadians Defend Freedom!.
Endless tyranny
During this pleasant summer of 2023, many folks may not realize that the wicked never sleep and are always orchestrating greater evils, perpetual propaganda, more lockdowns, medical tyranny, bigger psychological warfare, global institutional theft, global economic transformation, world wide starvation, and endless war - including ongoing fifth generation warfare and culture wars distracting from cataclysmic economic warfare for centralized control.
Perpetual war
Thus our resistance work must never tire and never end, even in calm periods. Realize it or not, we are in the perpetual war that George Orwell outlined in 1984. And I cannot think of anything more alarming.
Warning tape motif
Therefore I cannot think of a more appropriate attention-getting motif than warning tape with diagonal bars of black/yellow (like honey bees, voluntaryist, anarchist, and libertarian flags, designs, and motifs) or in other colours like red/white, green/white, red/yellow, or the various warning stripe colour motifs on emergency vehicles of different regions (some may have exclusive claims to colour combinations, such as UK police cars with fluorescent yellow hoods, yellow/blue checked sides, and rear yellow/orange warning chevron stripes). Easily found and purchased, the majority of warning tape comes on adhesive rolls of vinyl tape, duct tape, reflective tape, etc., cheap to expensive. (By my definitions to clarify in a world of confusing labels and mislabels, warning tape should not be confused with caution tape, which is typically non-adhesive strung up in the air. Phrasing may repeat "caution", "biohazard", "danger", "police line do not cross", etc.)
Practical
Easily available, economic, highly identifiable, and pragmatically useful, to continue the group identity branding and motif we may use warning tape to post professionally printed and self-printed material, decorate protest signs, costumes, or whatever. We may also embrace other yellow/black hazard signs, symbols, and motifs as well as striped mascots like the honey bee, wasp, hornet, or bumble bee.
Or orange?
Optionally we could embrace a colour shift to orange/black to be distinctly different, employ the poisonous Monarch butterfly rather than honey bees, and embrace the Halloween aesthetic.
Communicative signaling
Warning stripes in coded colours and designs may convey messages. For example, if organizers at a rally had printed clipboards, or protestors had printed cards, they could communicate different concepts individually or as a group across a loud crowd by holding it up a certain way. The four edges may each have different coloured warning stripe combinations. The clipboard or card would have two sides, 4 edges, and 4 corners providing 16 orientations (plus on end sideways) to simply hold it, with more communication options available by bobbing, flapping, waving, rotation, frequencies, speeds, patterns, etc. Signal communications may range from simple to complex, including some basics like: emergency, distress, attention, warning, volume up, volume down, repeat message, come here, go there, etc. The printed cards or clipboards could even list the signals. Among many distracting protest signs, the specially coloured warning stripes might have a chance to stand out, even among a sea of yellow/black stripes.
Brand usage
Accessibility
From amateurs to professionals, anyone can apply, design, draw, make, paint, and/or purchase warning stripes to decorate for any design purpose to defend freedom.
Stripe design utility
Good graphic designers embrace pros and cons of design limitations. For example, the 45 degree diagonal warning stripes may feature diagonal text, one way or the other, interactively inviting observers to tilt heads to read. Or each stripe may contain separate compartmentalized fields of information, alone or in a series. Prominent titles, critical information, and graphics may be overlayed without diagonal tilts.
Core functions and goals
For maximum efficacy this rebranding process requires revisiting and reconsidering our freedom groups' core functions and goals, including:
- organize, engage, and network our members, groups, actions, events, and resources
- clearly communicate and openly share our fundamental values, concerns, information, and ambitions
- expand growth of members, alliances, public awareness/visibility, community abilities, and community resources
Understanding and organization of these core functions can be shared (among members and the public) clearly outlining our mission, be printed in materials, documented online, referenced in press releases, and even be applied to fundraising merchandise and products to greater or lesser extents.
Initial brand usage ideas
This wish list may just be hopeful dreaming or only the beginning. Obvious top priority items to start with are business cards, flyers, stickers, T-shirts - and bandanas. Bandanas are small and easy to distribute, easy to hide/expose, easy to wear and self-identify (like boy scouts or the original red-necks), easy to tie on something, easy to wave high, easy to use as a flag/sign, etc.
Items may be professionally printed, downloadable to be self-printed, and/or hand-made.
Hopefully we may establish an online store and/or retail storefront to sell merchandise for fundraising (see #Support below).
- print
- banners & signs
- to identify the group
- to identify the event
- to share information
- book cover designs
- for Canadian Constitution (a free download PDF e-book) to mass-print collectable hardcopies to sell
- contact book, gardening guides, health guides, herb guides, walkie-talkie manuals, etc
- business cards
- flyers
- posters
- stickers
- banners & signs
- merchandise
- badge-patches
- detachable Velcro badge-patches
- bags
- backpacks, messenger bags, shopping bags
- bandanas
- beverage containers
- cozies, cups, mugs, shot glasses, thermoses, water bottles
- button-pins
- clipboards (see #Communicative signaling above)
- Faraday cage items (printed with motif)
- bandanas, boots, caps, gloves, hats, hoodies, overalls, phone pouches
- hats
- ball caps (Team Freedom!), cowboy hats, fedoras, knit caps, sun hats
- jackets
- casual, rain shells, windbreakers, winter jackets
- shirts
- bowling shirts, hoodies, polo shirts, sweatshirts, T-shirts
- umbrellas
- badge-patches
Business card proposal
The business card would feature rounded corners (for safety) with a thicker card stock (for impact, to keep, and remember). Being a more expensive card hopefully folks will respect and revere it more. And hopefully folks will appreciate the aesthetic design.
Card front
The entire card front is yellow/black warning 45 degree stripes with red accents including the rim around the card and the title box outline.
- Large line 1:
- Windsor & Essex
- Largest line 2:
- WE Demand Freedom!
- within the white title box, outlined in red
- WE Demand Freedom!
- Large line 3:
- Societies & Networks
- "Societies" need not be government-registered groups, according to what's been said about Common Law.
- Societies & Networks
- Perhaps minimal classy flourishes would be nice, or even bracketing rampant lions (as in the unfinished painting at left by Jason Carswell).
The above will occupy the top half of the card, and the bottom half is occupied by the following...
- Within three primary black diagonal stripes are these bold sub-group titles at 45 degrees:
- Action
- Communications
- Resources
- Within yellow diagonal stripes are sub-group details in much smaller print, also at 45 degrees:
- activism, aggregation, analysis, education, information sharing, communities, families, justice, local actions, organizing, networking, protests, rallies...
- arts, communities, content creation, creative expressions, email, lo-fi alternatives, media, networking, newsletters, original productions, podcasts, social media, websites...
- communities, economics, employment, food security (distribution networks, organic farms, gardening), health & wellness, housing, networking, prepping, trade, transportation
Card back
Most of the entire card back is yellow with red text and a red edge-outline-border so that folks may use black or blue ink to make notes.
- Line 1:
- We are all under attack!
- Line 1 alternative:
- Humanity is under attack by the globalist ruling class!
- Line 2:
- We must prepare for the worst, hope for the best,
- resist tyranny as hard, as long, and as much as possible,
- and survive, thrive, and strive for dignity, respect, and compassion.
- Line 3:
- [empty space, as large as possible, for notes]
- Line 4:
- Defend against fifth generation warfare. [Hopefully this curious term will inspire folks to look it up.]
- The bottom section features a black/white QR code in each bottom corner leading to the websites listed between them:
- ◄ https://Projex.Wiki [will be linked to a more specific introductory reference page for folks with this card]
- (226)770-0055
- Info@FreedomAllianceCanada.com
- https://FreedomAllianceCanada.com ► [arrow points to the QR code]
Only a link or two more may be added to the card if absolutely necessary, but the linked Projex.Wiki page will host as many links and information as we like. Similarly, it's okay if some of the proposed text above is not on the card because all of this and so much more may be included on the Projex.Wiki introductory page that will be updated, evolve, and be improved over time. Everyone is welcome to join Projex.Wiki to help curate this page's content and so much more.
More slogan ideas
- more coming
Body copy
- more coming
Fundamentals
- more coming
(See #Core functions and goals above.)
Organizing
- more coming
Engagement
- more coming
Growth
- more coming
Support
- more coming
Fundraising ideas
- more coming
(See #Initial brand usage ideas above.)