You are a medical student and like the idea of Target X. You are thinking of bringin this project to your home town?

Wonderful. This is just the right place for you to receive all the necessary information on how to set up your own installation of this project. If you do not have a local student group at your university, this could be a great idea to start one with. Just ask around for like-minded fellow students, ask the medical student council if they would be interested or hang up some posters.

You can also ask other peace- and disarmament relate groups at your university if they want to join this project - all's fair, as long as you can work together on this.

Once you have a small team assembled, you can go about planning your own Target X, which would then of course be called "Target Whatever-your-city's-name-is". First of all, read all the information on this website carefully and download the information material we have set up, maybe adjusting it to your needs and ideas, adding your own logo or affiliate name.

Now it's time to consult the check list for preparing a Target X installation:

- Pick a spot in your city center, which receives a lot of pedestriant traffic and has some sort of symbolism to it
- Pick a date for the Target installation - preferably a weekend to get more pedestriants
- Get permission from the city to hold a demonstration there. Usually that shouldn't be a problem
- Organize some red paint, tape, chalk or anything else to make the red X with (depends on the ground on the target site)
- Organize some police line (the "do-not-cross"-type) and something to block the area immediately surrounding the 'X'
- Organize some tables or boards, which you can use for your information material
- Print out a map of your city and print our concentric circles over it (circles.doc) to show the grid of destruction (Download this - all you need to do is find out the average population per square kilometer and you can fill out the table attached to the map)
- Make copies (and translations if necessary) of the downloads - enough so you won't run out
- Read or google up on nuclear facts, like how many nukes there are in your own country, where they're pointed to, etc.
- A good page to check out is www.slmk.org/learn
- Take care that every participant is up to date on the most important information and arguments. There'a s briefing for participants we've prepared
- Organize some white coats which you can wear for the installation. This is very important, as you will represent medicine
- Definitely take care that you organize a digital camera for the installation, because 'if it's not on the web, it didn't happen!'
- Possibly contact newspapers or radio stations about your event so that they can cover it

Once you've got all the preparations done, it's time for the big day:

- Draw the red X on the central square of your choice and surround it by police line
- Spread out your information material on the tables and put on your white coat
- Adress people's questions about this installation from a medical point of view and explain to them:
    - the health effects of nuclear weapons
    - the possible scenario of a nuclear weapon hitting your city (using the map)
    - the fact that there cannot be an adequate medical response to a nuclear attack
    - the costs which the mere existence of nukes is causing (destruction before detonation)
    - the possibilities of influencing decision makers in your country
- If you have time, prepare a postcard or a letter people can sign on to, which can be addressed to the local mayor, the governor, the parliament or the head of state. If you want to address parliamentarians, make sure to have a list ready, since most people don't know their own representatives.




- Don't be afraid to approach people with your message - you do have an important point to get across!
- Hand out flyers and make people aware of future events related to nuclear disarmament in your region
- Take care not to make the mistake of providing people with arguments for bogus nuclear shields or even building more nukes in order to be safe from nuclear attacks. The only sane option is abolition - everything else is insane.
- Take a lot of photos during the installation, also of passerbys in dialogues

After the installation it's time to party and celebrate. Afterwards, there's just two more important things to be done:

- Write up a short article about your installation and the impressions you collected
- Send the photos and the article to Alex at alexrosen at gmx.net

We wish you all the best with your own installation if Target X and hope to have given you some good tips. Please don't hesitate to contact us if there's any more questions you might have.