Leaflets about, against and from Scientology

• How to spread leaflets

Leaflets for you to use

• Roland's flyers page
• Colette's Flyers for Books page
• Operation Clambake's Quick-and-Dirty Leaflet Project - lots of ideas here
• Kristi Wachter's flyer page - including several in PDF format
• Ethercat's ARSCC Atlanta leaflets page
• Wulfen's Toronto leaflets page
• Kwantem Mekanik's leaflets page

Doing lynx -dump [URL] also works quite well with Lynx versions 2.5 or later.

You will need to adapt some of these for local circumstances and dates. The best way to do this is to download the file to your machine, then edit your copy (e.g. in Notepad or Netscape Gold) and load it in Netscape for printing. Alternately, you can just white-out the date-specific and locality-specific bits and stick your own local information in place.

• Lisa McPherson Memorial Protest - remember to change name, date and location. This one works well with the list of URLs on the back.

• Who Is Xemu? (MS Word .DOC file, 128k) - the famous Xemu leaflet by Roland Rashleigh-Berry. See below for ideas on spreading this one.
  • Other versions of this leaflet are available from Xemu's Page.

• LRH's Birthday leaflet by Gerry Armstrong - text for you to work with. Directed at the abuses of the organisation, particularly the 'Fair Game' policy.

• War on the Internet (front and back) - a version of the leaflet I normally use. Front is a press-release - change the name if you're outside Australia - and the back is a list of good URLs - this is ready for general use. (Note: when printing from Netscape onto A4, use Arial 9pt or so.)

• Kristi Wachter: Postcard Tech - pre-printed postcards to the Californian Attorney General. Here are the cards, plus supporting documents on investigations and convictions.

• To Those Here To Protest At The Church of Scientology - a leaflet to give to fellow demonstrators (and Scientologists and police) on how to behave nicely at a demo. Useful for those who show up without prior warning. (Remember to change my name at the bottom to yours!)
  • Here's the version used in Toronto by Gregg Hagglund.

• Blow The Org - ideas for a leaflet to hand to agitated CoS staff at the heavier-duty pickets. Also suitable for enclosing with CoS reader-response forms.

• L. Ron Hubbard In His Own Words - A selection from Padre Martini's juicy list of LRH quotes. They really do speak for themselves. This one is ready for general use.

• Is Scientology a Confidence Trick? - the leaflet Tony McClelland usually uses in Sydney. If you are not in Sydney, the local references will need to be changed.

• Why we picket - by Fier, used in Canberra at the Thu 12 Aug 1999 and Fri 17 Sep 1999 demos.

• Melbourne, September 1995 leaflets - the leaflets handed out by the Internet demonstrators. If you want to write your own leaflet, you should be able to get some useful material out of this.

• Sydney, March 1995 leaflet - the leaflet used by Tony McClelland for the March '95 demo.

• Pssst ... Wanna Buy A Bridge? - rough outline for a general leaflet, by Arnie Lerma.

• Cognitions of a Liberated Scientologist - one to hit the members with.

• Scientology Homophobia - useful if your local CoS is in a gay area (e.g. the Washington DC org).

• Nice Town, Shame About The Cult - Roland's Poole flyer, a general flyer to be adapted to wherever you might happen to be.

• Lisa McPherson: False Data Stripping - by Deana Holmes - "This flyer is just a reformatted version of a post by Rod Keller. It's suitable for handing to staff at pickets or giving to your favourite Scientologist." Also available as a Word document.

• What Does Scientology Want From You? - by Roland. "The answer to the above question is simple. They want MONEY. They want all the money you have. That is just for starters."

• Vancouver leaflets - as handed out by Martin Hunt and Gerry Armstrong at the March 1999 pickets of the Vancouver org.

Leaflets handed out by the Scientologists

• The Facts That Are Not Included In Reports Of Lisa McPhersons Death - photocopied fax, single-sided, handed out at December 1997 picket in Brisbane.
  • A scan of the leaflet.

• Church Denounces Outrageous Account of Scientologists' Death - photocopied fax, double-sided, handed out at December 1997 picket in Melbourne.

• PUBLIC WARNING - Second leaflet from 'Victims of CultAware'; the CoS's most recent favourite leaflet, intended to defame Tony McClelland, Stuart Riley and myself. They seemed to have stopped distributing this one, then pulled it out again at the December 1997 pickets ...

• December 1996 demo leaflets - These were handed out at all December 1996 demos:
  • Lies, Lies and More Lies: The careful twisting of truth by Tony McClelland - the conspiracy of the 'Internet cronies'
  • Do We Need 2 Pauline Hansons? - Pauline Hanson is an Australian politician
  • What The Devil Is CultAware? - CultAware as loony conspiracy theorists

• Cultaware: Serpent of Fear and Death - First leaflet from 'Victims of CultAware', substantially identical to an article on CultAware from the Australian edition of Freedom. Scientology is mentioned nowhere on the leaflet, of course. They also turned the front of this one into a T-shirt for the September '96 Sydney demo. This leaflet was handed out at that demo and has been put into letterboxes in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.

• Sydney, September 1996 - The Scientologists were handing out all sorts of weird stuff to try to obscure the purpose of the demo.

• Melbourne, September 1995 - A very hasty and scrappy leaflet handed out by CoS staff: three typo-laden typewritten sheets, photocopied and stapled in one corner.

How to spread leaflets

• Steve A on how to hand out leaflets - "I'm not saying that this is the only way, but it was getting 4-500 leaflets out in an afternoon's picketing."

• Neil Muspratt on how to spread leaflets far and wide in the non-Net world, particularly ones with great big lists of URLs on them.

• Bev on titles of leaflets for org and mission eradication. "The one that I saw got people totally unfamiliar with the Co$ curiosity up the most was one title: 'What the Church of Scientology Doesn't Want You To Know' ... it is a natural instinct for people to want to know something that someone or some group is trying to hide from their knowledge."

• Put leaflets into Scientology-related books - then tell the Org about it, to use up their time a little less destructively.

• You want to get ten thousand Xemu leaflets printed up? Don't forget to send a sample to a WISE printer for a quote.

• Roland Rashleigh-Berry came up with a leaflet about Xemu, the Galactic Emperor.
  • He's getting really quite good results from the leaflet - after all, if OSA wants you to stop doing something ...

  • How to get the Xemu leaflet into orgs - including just walking in with it - ask if it's a late April Fool's joke.
    • The Xemu Dare - softening up the org pre-picket (or whenever!) by letting yourself be body-routed in with a 'Scientology Kills' or similar T-shirt.

  • The importance of getting leaflets into orgs. "I helped blow a young man (aged 21 years) from the Birmingham org a few months back ... He has his life back because here in the UK we picketers did something about it."

  • If you want to post it to an Org, Roland has a suitable framework for a cover letter, and 'Mr. Ex-CMO' has a handy list of positions within the Org to send it to. Don't forget to do a followup every few months.

  • It is also good for picket conversation with the Scientologist counter-demonstrators.

  • Roland on the time-bomb nature of the Xemu leaflet. "The point is that a good gossip leaflet will do the rounds in a town. Everybody will get to hear about it. The Xemu leaflet is ideal for that."

  • Johnny Xemuseed: ideas on spreading the new version of the Xemu leaflet (MS Word 6 .DOC file, 128k) around:
    • the Orgs themselves - brighten up the staff's day!
    • your local café strip, bookshops, gay-scene shops and venues and any other arty or subcultural areas;
    • the cinema - well, it's sci-fi, isn't it?
    • putting it in newspapers;
    • your local library;
    • Tilman Hausherr on what to do with a Xemu leaflet and a bottle of wine;
    • print up a pile and shove 'em in letterboxes (be sure to check local laws/conventions - in Australia, only do letterboxes that don't say 'No Junk Mail'; in the US, don't do it at all) - spread Xemu and keep in shape!
    • 'Coltice Warrior' goes for the big effort: mailing leaflets to over one thousand addresses near the Cedars Complex in Hollywood! Just imagine everyone for a four-block radius around your Org being so informed ...

  • See the Demo Hints'n'Tips for more ideas on Xemu-related paraphernalia.