Seting Up a Stall; How-to For Activist!

A Masters student in Journalism from Nigeria showed interest in our activity

It was last Thursday that I had my first practical experience as an activist. It's not that bad, to be honest, and quite interesting! Here are some basic tips on how to set up a stall:

1. Do request for a permission from your Student Union. If they allow you to do so without notifying them, that's great!
2. Borrow a convertible table from your friends in some other active society. They might have them in their storage.
3. Choose an appropriate day and time. I reckon that you do it during lunch breaks. You'll get more traffic that way.
4. Have all the literatures and freebies ready the day before. Put them aside.
5. Find a simple tablecloth to cover, or even decorate, your table.
6. Do bring your radio or ipod for background music (entertainment purpose. also quite helpful when you're extremely bored).
7. Arrange your stuff in order. Always prepare a bag and a notebook to keep record on any sales made. Put the freebies on the other side to enable flexibility for people to wander around your stall.
8. Lastly, put up a smile and start promoting your stuff to them!

There were loads of interesting moments while I was distributing flyers on the Palestine issue. One of them was a pair of girls who came to us and snatched the literature rudely and spoke Hebrew between themselves!

Ghaith (President) and I posed before we packed up and go for lectures (aktivis aktivis jugak...study gua jaga!)

Will plan to put up a stall in town some other time before the winter holiday.