OUTCRY Conference Report:
The Kiss It Campaign

Aidan Shingler

In 2002 I initiated the ‘have a heart’ campaign which involved sending 3000 cards to psychiatrists, ministers, head of trusts and MPs. This consisted of a card with a heart with an arrow through it, which, when opened up was turned upside down to look like a backside. Inside it read ‘stop the torture, have a heart’

Today I launch the ‘Kiss It’ campaign, which will take place on Valentines Day 2005. Here we attached plasters to trousers [visually shows the audience the plasters formed into cross shapes and attached to his backside]. We assemble and then walk to, or near, parliament and give a mass gesture defiance against compulsory depots.

We will generate press and media coverage on both a national and international level

We have a steering group and a website on this will be running next year

So, lets stop the pricks, spread the word and ‘kiss it’!

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