If you are a fan of what Howard and Nelson are doing to Australian Education please disregard this. If you have had enough, please help us to spread the word of www.dearjohn.org by forwarding this page to other academic and letting students know about this site.

Dear John was initiated by young Australian designers interested in how, in these post-political times, they could motivate their peers to defeat Howard in the upcoming elections. From the beginning the site set out to explore new communication strategies for engaging young people in conversations about politics. Although united by a common agenda to defeat Howard, the designers do not push which party to vote for, but use free downloads of t-shirt transfers, screen savers, badges and stickers to get young people sharing and talking about socio-political issues.

Central to the idea behind Dear John is the notion that networked communities will use the internet, email and mobile phones to pass on material they like. So although the downloads are critical to getting people talking (we have already had amazing responses from people seen out wearing the t-shirts), we need traffic to the site in the first instance to link the community around Australia.

At the site there is also a media kit and further announcement postcards if you have contacts that might want to help us dump slippery John.

Best, Lisa