Where do Muscovites—the happy owners of cars—live? That’s right: they live in traffic jams. And since we live in traffic jams, why not use such a powerful campaign tool as a bumper sticker or a sticker on the rear window? All over the world, this is used very actively in election campaigns. The bumper or rear window of your car is seen by thousands of people every day. A sticker always catches their attention. After all, think about it—you always read what’s written on the rear window of the car in front of you. What will someone think when they read “Navalny” on your car? Of course, they’ll think: wow, so there really are people willing to stick “Navalny” on their own personal car! Then Navalny must have a great platform explaining what to do about housing and utilities, traffic jams, migration, and all our other problems. I guess I’ll vote for this Navalny, bring my whole family to the polls, and put a “Navalny” sticker on my bumper too. So you simply drive your usual route and, at the same time, add hundreds of voters to our piggy bank. Where can you get a sticker? We’ve got this trendy thing called auto-cubes:
On the cube map at http://cube.navalny.ru, they’re marked with a little car icon.
There you can get a sticker and campaign right in a Sobyanin traffic jam (a reference to Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin), so to speak, without taking time off from your main activity.
As of today, we’ve already held 67 auto-cubes. At each cube, an average of 30–50 stickers are put on cars, and around 80 more are handed out directly.
More than 3,000 stickers have already been put on cars, and more than 5,000 have been handed out. Car stickers are available at all cubes: white rear-window stickers reading “For Navalny” and “Navalny,” bumper stickers reading “Navalny” and “For Navalny,” and red vinyl stickers reading “Navalny. Change Russia. Start with Moscow.”
One important thing. In fact, the most important thing. By putting a “Navalny” sticker on your car, you become him in a certain sense. Don’t park on the sidewalk. A passerby will say, “What a jerk, this Navalny.” You should never park where you’re not supposed to or act like a jerk on the road—and with the sticker, all the more so. It’s like a Young Pioneer’s red neckerchief. Will someone scratch something nasty onto my car because of a sticker like this? A couple of unpleasant photos on this subject are making the rounds on the internet:
It’s very unpleasant, of course. However, such cases are isolated. Our campaign headquarters compensated for all the damage. The same thing happened at the height of the “United Russia — the Party of Crooks and Thieves” campaign. A few people out of the thousands who put on those stickers had their windows smashed. It happens. Crooks and thieves don’t like being called by their real name. I drove around with one of these stickers myself, and I can say I got nothing but positive reactions: people honk happily, give me a thumbs-up, and ask, “Where can I get one?” Right now, the sticker on my car looks like this:
(yes, yes, winter tires—how ужасно) Look for an auto-cube here, and they’ll give you one just like it there (not the tires—the sticker). http://cube.navalny.ru Also: Become a campaign volunteer—get involved in real politics. “Navalny in Every Home.” What to do if you have 15 free minutes to fight the regime. MosVpiska. For those who don’t live in Moscow but want to come and help. Hang our banner from your balcony.