Word: leafleting
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...took a month before the pot began to boil. On Thursday, July 23, leaflets began circulating around the Square urging people to celebrate the anniversary of Fidel Castro's July 25 attack on the Moncada Barracks by holding a "block party" on the Common that Saturday night. Although it did not say so explicitly, the leaflet clearly implied that those who came should be prepared to celebrate violently...
...leaflet became an object of heated debate on Saturday and Sunday. Bread and Roses circulated a counter-leaflet warning that the original leaflet bore the mark of a provocateur: it was male chauvinist, addressing its readers as "Brothers"; it also said "you have to fight," not " we have to fight" as a real movement group would have. In addition, it was unsigned, and contained a rather condescending invitation to Panthers to join in the block party...
...after the explosion, leaflets entitled "Why the Bombing" appeared on buildings and billboards in Madison. Signed "Life Above the Trees," the leaf lets claimed that the center's "role is to solve military problems, to design triggers for others to pull. Their research has killed literally thousands of innocent people and has developed instruments for delivery of nuclear and chemical-biological bombs." The message pointed out that the bombers had chosen a time when the building was least likely to be occupied-early morning, between scholastic terms-and had phoned a warning to police. Furthermore, the radicals complained rather...
...discouraged the tactic, stating in a leaflet that trashing was an act of provocateurs which would be "stopped." No such outbreak occurred...
...LEAFLET DISTRIBUTION is not littering as long as it is done on public streets for political purposes. Even so, recipients can be fined or arrested for discarding leaflets carelessly...