Simarron

Game : (week recommendation 2h min)
During an activist event, load this page, find the first person who 
has a randomized sign below, remove your phone battery, and 
engage in a conversation following the rules to win
points


During an activist event, you must find the first person who has a 


The rules are then to engage a conversation in which you should 
 exchange for 5 min to 15 min
 do not exchange more than twice in 1h
 do not include the person in a plan/dispositive/organisation without his/her asking 
 avoid name dropping (many authors refs)
 avoid insinuating your expectations
 avoid to ghost if there contact again
 avoid triangulation to have a message passed
 avoid to create link through secrecy or emotional coercion
 understand and behave with "common decency"

Signing up in a union or an ngo or a local media makes you win 500 points

You should ask 1 to 5 questions about :
 his/her favourite political personality/influencer
 his/her local news
 his/her activist horoscope/weather
 his/her library
 his/her browser bookmarks

The goal of the first contact/conversation is to guess what animates him/her and 
 his/her first name (50 points)

The following events give you points:
 take phone number : 50 points
 laugh without a word : 20 points
 make him/her laugh: 10 points
 laugh : 10 points
 laugh at the same time : 20 points
 say something absurd : 10 points
 critisize the hierarchy/the hierarchs : 10 points
 
 come up with an action that matches/crosses/combines/embraces what animates him/her 
 and what animates you : 100 points
 
 find a disagreement and a nuance or a compromise that makes you see things 
 differently : 50 points
 
 share what hurts you : 10 points
 share what gets you angry : 5 points
 illustrate with facts and examples what you want to say : 20 points
 have the person meet another "match" : 50 points
 forget about the points : 200 points
 next: your score is set back to zero or minus 200 points if already at zero

The goal of the second contact/conversation  
is to share a contact that can be useful to the persone (50 points, 
+100 points if local media or ngo or union)

The following events give you points:
 debunk an extreme right polemic : 200 points
 talk about the last laws, decrees : 100 points
 sum up a book or an article recently read or a video recently seen: 100 points

The goal of the third contact/conversation is to set a date to keep in touch 
and make something linked with the theme of the activist event (100 points)

The following events give you points 
 sign up/get involved in an ngo, a union or a local media : 500 points 
 give a rdv to another activist event : 100 points 
 
 make a date reminder (or not) to send infos about what animates him/her/you
 : 50 points
 
 organise a potluck dinner/apéro from 1 to n matchs where the theme is 
 debating and meeting heterogenous/different people who dont know 
 each other or not much. 
 
 Suggestion of debating themes: think how to have the extreme right  
 decrease : 200 points

 take an appointment to get trained to physical auto defense: 100 points
 
 if you are a scientist or a civil servant and think some struggles
 would require additional data or structural changes conditions 
 to go forward, feel free to spread the word in your conversations,
 write and publicize synthetic notes/handouts, join unions or ngo, 
 start a citizen-grounded work on the subject or just contribute
 to existing initatives: 200 points

 if you have access to information you want 
 to leak to activists to support their fights: 
 put your files on a usb stick on a disconnected computer
 before going to the event (without a phone),
 ask the person you're talking with
 to recommend a journalist or an activist who can transmit the 
 information, and give your usb stick: 500 points