75 Things You Can Do To Free Marc Emery
By Cannabis Culture - Thursday, October 22 2009
CANNABIS CULTURE - Want to help get Marc Emery out of prison and end cannabis prohibition, but don't know what to do? Here is a list of 75 things you can do to help Marc get out of jail – ideas that can also be used to end the war on drugs!
The chart below includes 75 ways to help, with ratings on effectiveness, risk, and cost. Please ad your own ways in the comments section!
Marc Emery is a marijuana activist currently imprisoned at North Fraser Pretrial Centre in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, while he awaits extradition to the United States. Marc is expected to serve a five-year sentence after being targeted by the US government for selling marijuana seeds over the Internet and using the money to fund activist organizations.
Go to www.NoExtradition.net for more information about Marc Emery
| Way To Help | Effectiveness | Risk | Cost |
Make an appointment with your MP's office to speak to him or her for 15 minutes (Click here to find your MP) |
5-10 | 0 | $10 |
Engage in civil disobedience, such as blocking a main road or chaining yourself to a bridge and throwing a huge banner over the side -- be sure to plan it all properly and safely, and have someone contact the media right before you do it (Click here for a website about civil disobedience) |
5-10 | 9 | 1-60 days in jail |
Send letter to Minister of Justice (Click here to get the addresses at NoExtradition.net) |
3 | 0 | 52 cents |
Phone office of Minister of Justice (Click here to get the phone numbers at NoExtradition.net) |
1 | 0 | $1 |
Send email to Minister of Justice (Click here to get the email address at NoExtradition.net) |
1 | 0 | 0 |
Wear Free Marc Emery button everyday (Click here to buy a button from the CC Store) |
3 | 1 | $2 |
Wear Free Marc Emery shirt 3 days a week (Click here to buy a shirt from the CC Store) |
5 | 1 | $25 |
Use Free Marc Emery stencil to spray paint on construction walls, poles, etc. (Click here for a website to order from, or make your own) |
4 | 3 | Possible Mischief fine $50-$200 |
Give $100 to an active anti-prohibition politician |
4 | 0 | $25-$100 (tax credits lower actual costs) |
Vote in the next federal election for Liberal, Bloc, NDP or Green |
4 | 0 | 0 |
Get letter published in newspaper print edition (Click here to find contact information for your newspapers) |
1-2 | 0 | $0 |
Put comment on online media story about Marc |
1 | 0 | $0 |
Demonstrate with good sign in front of Rob Nicholson’s office (Click here to get the address from NoExtradition.net) |
3 | 0 | $25 for a good sign |
Demonstrate at Marc's prison vigil (Click here to find a link to the prison vigil information and address) |
3 | 0 | $0 |
Demonstrate at your own MP'S constituency office chanting "This voter's Canada includes Marc Emery" or "Free Marc Emery" |
4 | 0 | $0 |
Demonstrate with a good sign on Parliament Hill, Ottawa Ontario |
3 | 0 | $25 for a good sign |
Call the Howard Stern radio show and say "Free Marc Emery Prince of Pot" Live on air (Click here for Howard Stern's website) |
6 | 0 | $10 long distance |
Write a letter to Barack Obama requesting a pardon for Marc Emery (Click here for Obama's contact information at NoExtradition.net) |
1 | 0 | 52 cents |
Run as candidate in next Canadian or US federal elections and make freeing Marc Emery part of your campaign |
2-6 | 1-2 | $500-$1000 or more |
Get your favorite bands to wear free Marc Emery t-shirts |
1-4 | 0 | $25-$100 |
Write and perform a song about Marc Emery and put it on YouTube (Click here for a list of songs about Marc Emery) |
1-5 | 0 | $0 |
Paint Free Marc Emery on your nude or topless body and visit busy places |
1-5 | 3 | Up to $500 fine or arrest |
Organize a rally at a main intersection or a DEA office in your hometown. (Click here for a list of Rally Tools and Click here for a "How To Protest" article) |
1-4 | 1 | $200 for signs and info handouts |
Give out Free Marc Emery pamphlets to students at your High school, collage, or University (Click here for links to handouts at NoExtradition.net) |
3 | 1 | $50 for 250 post cards |
Attach a Free Marc sign to the side or top of your car, truck or vehicle (Click here for links to signs at NoExtradition.net) |
3-5 | 1 | $100 |
Attach a red sticker with white text that reads "the prosecution of Marc Emery" under the "STOP" on a stop sign, so it says "STOP the prosecution of Marc Emery" -- or "STOP the Drug War" |
2 | 1-3 | Possible mischief |
Make a Free Marc Emery banner or large sign and bring it to a sporting event or concert (Click here for links to signs at NoExtradition.net) |
4 | 1 | $100-$200 |
Give out 300 Free Marc Emery pamphlets at your next pot rally (Click here for links to handouts at NoExtradition.net) |
3 | 0 | $50 |
Tattoo "Free Marc Emery" on your arm leg or somewhere it can be casually seen |
5 | 0 | $200 |
Have a "Help Free Marc Emery" meeting with friends or activists and determine a course of action |
2 | 0 | $0 |
Rent or obtain an auto-dialer to leave a Free Marc Emery phone message for tens of thousands of numbers in a local area (no long distance charges). Messages should invite recipient to visit FreeMarc.ca |
5 | 0 | $250-$1000 |
Hire a local aviation company to have a Free Marc Emery banner flown over your city |
5 | 0 | $500 and up |
Arrange for a media interview with Marc from prison (Contact Jodie@CannabisCulture.com for information) |
7 | 0 | $0 |
Buy a Free Marc Emery ad on your local TV listings channel |
5 | 0 | $150 and up |
Ask your teacher or professor in your politics, history or any other class to discuss Marc Emery and prohibition with the class. Offer to make a 5-20 minute presentation |
2 | 0 | 0 |
Mail 100 Free Marc Emery postcards to Congressmen, members of Parliament, media organizations, Cabinet Ministers in Parliament or the White House |
3 | 0 | $50 for 250 post cards (no postage required) |
Invite Jodie Emery to speak at a event you organize, and get media to attend (must provide Jodie's costs) |
2-4 | 0 | $100-$1000 |
Arrange an interview with your local or familiar media for Jodie Emery to speak about Marc Emery and prohibition |
4 | 0 | 0 |
Donate $25-$500 to Jodie Emery's Green Party campaign in Vancouver, as the ampaign will focus primarily on exposing the failed prohibition policies of the Conservative government and adopting Green Party policies (Stay tuned for website launch) |
5 | 0 | After tax credits for donation isn't as high |
Stamp "Free Marc Emery" on currency |
3 | 2 - it's illegal | $25.50 for rubber stamp |
Announce to police and media that you will hold a 2.5 gram marijuana bud, (wearing a Free Marc t-shirt) inviting arrest as a protest (Click here to read about Andrew Carroll's marijuana possession protest in New Hampshire) |
6 | 4 | $50-$500 fine |
Write a guest editorial on "Why we must free Marc Emery" in a local or student newspaper |
2 | 0 | $0 |
Write a Free Marc Emery note or bulletin and blast it to your Facebook or Myspace friends |
2 | 0 | $0 |
Mention "Free Marc Emery" in your Twitter tweets |
1 | 0 | $0 |
Contact the major media like John Stossel (Fox) CNN, 60 Minutes, New York Times, owners to cover Marc's situation |
2 | 0 | $0 |
Establish a Free Marc Emery thread on blogs or social networks concerned with cannabis, law reform, libertarianism, green politics, progressive politics or anything else |
2 | 0 | 0 |
Hand out Free Marc Emery leaflets to fellow travelers on buses, trains, ferries and other transit (Click here to get handouts from NoExtradition.net) |
2 | 0 | 0 |
Stand outside rock concerts or sports events with Free Marc Emery signs and hand out pamphlets. Better yet, get 10 people to stand at different doors (Click here to get handouts and signs from NoExtradition.net) |
3 | 1 | $50-$100 |
If you belong to a unique cultural or ethic group, write a pamplet in your native language and give it out at cultural events related to your ethnicity |
4 | 0 | $50-$200 |
Hold a neat and ledgeable Free Marc Emery sign at the busiest intersection in your town or city for a few hours. Do it once a week. (Click here to get handouts from NoExtradition.net) |
3 | 0 | $0 |
Ask your local hemp store or head shop what they are doing to support the Free Marc campaign. Suggest they carry the Free Marc Emery t-shirts, buttons, to sell and put up a poster up in the store |
3 | 0 | $50 for a good sign |
Try and convince your political party leader to speak out on Marc's behalf |
2 | 0 | $0 |
Have a Free Marc Emery pavilion or kiosk in a major park or square |
4 | 1 | $350 for signs and pavilion rentals |
Design and organize a Free Marc Emery float for a parade |
5 | 0 | $500 |
Make Free Marc Emery stickers and put them on everything |
3 | 1 | $100 |
Contact famous cannabis and hemp users and activists on their websites and urge them to speak out on Marc Emery's behalf. (Rob Van Dam, Billie Joe Armstrong, Willy Nelson, Sean Paul, Tommy Chong, Daryl Hannah, etc.) |
2 | 0 | $0 |
Contact major cannabis law reform advocates and urge them to officially state their support for the Free Marc Campaign. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: www.leap.cc – Marijuana Policy Project: www.MMP.org – NORML: www.norml.org |
1 | 0 | $0 |
If you live outside Canada, hold a "Free Marc Emery" sign and demonstrate in front of the US Embassy, US Consulate, Canadian Embassy or Canadian Consulate (Click here to get handouts and signs from NoExtradition.net) |
4 | 1-2 depending on country. | $50 for a good sign |
Hold a sign and demonstrate in front of the ministry of Justice in Ottawa or the US attorney Generals office in Washington D.C. (Click here to get handouts and signs from NoExtradition.net) |
3 | 0 | $50 for a good sign |
Set up your own Free Marc Emery information booth in your front yard |
0 | 0 | $0 |
Wear a "Free Marc" t-shirt during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics for tourists and athletes to see. Try to get on TV or radio, as media will be everywhere. Display banners when you know TV is recording or broadcasting |
5 | 0 | $25 for shirt, $2 button, $50 sign, $150 for big banner |
Play the "Prince of Pot" or "The Union" DVD to friends, family, fellow students, or work (Click here to get the DVDs from the CC Store) |
3 | 0 | $20 for DVD |
Put a huge "Free Marc Emery" poster in the window of your house |
1 | 0 | $10-$50 |
Donate $25-$100 to assist paying for Marc's 4 lawyers: US, Canadian prison transfer, personal and business, and Vancouver extradition lawyers (Click here to donate at the CC Store) |
5 | 0 | $25-$100 |
Change your computer screensaver or desktop to "Free Marc Emery" |
1 | 0 | $0 |
Circulate to your Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and YouTube friends, the videos about Marc's imprisonment (Click here for Jodie Emery's YouTube and Click here for Pot TV's YouTube) |
2 | 0 | $0 |
Draw or paint a unique Free Marc Emery poster, stencil, bottom of your own design and send it to Jodie@cannabisculture.com and Jeremiah@cannabisculture.com |
2 | 0 | $25 |
Go to CannabisCulture.com everyday to see the latest "Free Marc" news and redistribute new info to your social networking sites |
3 | 0 | $0 |
Buy Free Marc shirts for your friends and family to wear (Click here to get shirts at the CC Store) |
2 | 0 | $75-$150 |
Send Marc a letter in prison and include photocopies of letters you send on his behalf. Also include a photo of you wearing a Free Marc t-shirt, hoodie or button or at a Free Marc rally, demonstration, parade or vigil (Click here to get the mailing address at NoExtradition.net) |
2 | 0 | $3.00 for postage |
Check FreeMarc.ca and find out if Marc needs a book that you could send him in jail from Amazon or Chapters. Be sure he has not already recieved the book you chose (Book list will be not be posted until Marc is imprisoned in the USA) |
2 | 0 | $15-$60 |
Put a Free Marc flag on your car aerial or bicycle basket |
2 | 0 | $15 for a flag |
Make a Free Marc Emery pumpkin for Halloween |
2 | 0 | $5-$10 |
Make a video about Marc and upload it to YouTube and other video sharing sites |
0-9 | 0 | $0 and up |
Replace your profile picture on Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites with the "Free Marc" logo (Click here to get the logo from NoExtradition.net) |
2 | 0 | $0 |
All these tactics would be
All these tactics would be useful against Bill C-15 which in some ways is a far more pressing concern. Although Marc needs to be set free it is more important to stop Bill C-15 before many more innocents are sent to jail.
i want to help
hello my name is mike petersen, i am a us resident that will admit that the us sucks comepletly. If i could of ben born a bit north lol i would of. I have ben following all the cannabis news and watching the war on drugs very tightly and basicly i want to help free marc and help the word of legalization, and i know that im one person but one person is always alble do tons. i just dont know what more to do other then what im currently working on. i just care about about what he is doing and what he has done. I WANT TO HELP
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I'm guessing I am not the
I'm guessing I am not the only one in agreement that aside from the everyday affects of the drug war and it being seen first hand (obviously) on a marijuana activist site, the only thing truly depressing are the rediculous comments that some people feel inclined to leave lately, most of which hardly represent the marijuana culture as a whole.
The site is depressing now that the founder of the site is in jail after giving his life and millions of dollars for something I am waaay to chickenshit to even mention in most social settings. Lets go back to just fun articles, oh and other people get locked up too so somehow that justifies anything..
OH MY GOD, I CANT BELIEVE YOU ARE PROPOSING ACTS OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE!!! Yeah, like that has ever been historically proven to be a useful tool to destroying oppression, from every thing to womens rights to gays rights to blacks rights etc...
Oh, I cant believe that last guy wrote something I didn't like...so.... Ill come back with calling him names 100 times and further undermine the good name of responsible people for sensible policy and end to prohibition...
Or any of the other random shitty comments I've seen macking on Jodie at a very hard part of her life.
People that will never walk a mile, now that's depressing.
Believe it
Marc has sacrificed a lot. For him to ask these things of us, it’s the least we can do. He may be in prison for now. But look at what has been accomplished. Cannabis literature is now freely sold in Canada, which it wasn’t at one time. Not to mention the legal changes made in Canada for medical use which has brought some help and hope to those who are suffering and find this a better treatment for their bodies.
Since when has being compliant, obedient, and NOT doing something proven to be a useful tool to fight oppression? Did you not learn anything about Americas forebears and the American Revolution? Not to mention the Civil Rights Movement. YOU can lay down and do what you‘re told if you so please. But don’t ever dare to knock those who have the guts to truly fight for freedom on the front line or call their actions basically historically ‘useless.’ I’m sure those American forebears looked pretty funny dressed as Indians too!
It all helps in the end. Peaceful civil disobedience is VERY much a useful tool.
"Injustice anywhere is a
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
"One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Deletions
See what happens when Big Brother deletes posts? You look silly because you're referring to posts that nobody can see anymore. Marc got the drug literature laws struck down but he couldn't prevent his own website from banning any opinions other than "Marc is such a nice boy". The website is a mockery of human liberties and is actively suppressing any original opinions. CC is dead against any sort of independent thought. What other conclusion can be reached? Watch how fast they delete this post. As you can see, there's nothing in any way offensive in it. It will disappear with no explanation within a few hours. What would that mean? You tell me.
What suppression???
Your comments were posted on Oct 27th, this is Fri Oct 30th .........your point was???????? P.S anyone feel free to chime in here, but I dont think much interest exsists in listining to anything BUT "Marc is such a nice boy" especialy given the present situation. As far as anyone who DOES wish to present negative opinions about Marc then I for one do not wish to hear them and I have been reading the mag from day one!! (Just point me to the Delete button and I will push it for the greater good of us all........
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Marc Emery is a braying ass.
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