[Street] [Occupybostonoutreach] Outreach to schools
Linda Jenkins
lindajenkins177 at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 2 18:06:03 EST 2012
Great Eli-Thanks. When is their GA going to be at E5?
Cheers,
Linda
"Our goal is a society that prioritizes the needs of all before the profits of the few." Passed by Occupy Boston General Assembly, 11/29/11.
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On Feb 2, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Eli Cohen <elcoh002 at mail.goucher.edu> wrote:
> Students are absolutely still here and going strong!
> - Yes, the collegesoccupyboston website has been out of date for a long time. They mostly use Facebook to communicate.
> - They decided to host some Student GAs on college campuses this semester. The first GA this semester was at Northeastern, and the second was at UMass Boston. The third is going to be at E5, and they're hosting a OB Student Summit soon. They're doing a great job maintaining an intercollegiate network.
> - Their campaigns are every bit as active.
> 1) Students Against T Cuts has almost 500 likes, and I'm working to bring them in on the 2/13 rally.
> 2) They're also working on a campaign against a blatantly rape-culture-promoting website called Barstool Sports which has caught like wildfire; there's 300 RSVPs for their rally tonight. Entirely student-run. They've been announcing it at GAs, and some non-students will certainly be there, but they really brought this together themselves.
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> That's everything I can think to say. If any students ask you how to get involved with work being done on their campus, tell them to find the existing groups (facebook is a good place to start), or email me if they don't know where else to turn. Of course, if they already know about that, and just want to be involved in general, then you already know what to do! Same as you'd do for any stranger who wants to get involved; direct them to working groups, GAs, actions, etc.
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> Questions? Comments? Missing pieces?
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> -Eli
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> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:10 PM, rita sebastian <rita at brandeis.edu> wrote:
> ++! to what Katie says. While it is important to network with colleges and universities (priority to do so) there needs to be more infrastructure building and strategy planning within OB!
> That is why I am trying to do this participatory budgeting workshop....so OB (with full participation) can develop strategic goals and plans, and then allocate monies to make it happen.
> Thanks,
> Rita
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> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Katie Gradowski <katie.gradowski at gmail.com> wrote:
> We have never really systematized relationships with the colleges --- only organized incidentally around specific actions. Eli Cohen (who is on the outreach list) is our main contact for this.
>
> I agree that it's a project for outreach --- also agree that "outreach" has shifted a lot, and continues to do so, and that before taking on a big new project, we should do a gathering of the minds across WGs and come up with a long-term strategic plan. At the moment, there's not enough of us to really cover territory in a meaningful way, lots of groups are doing outreach in an ad hoc manner, no real long-term strategy for how we want to grow the movement and evolve.
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> There's lots of space to imagine how to do that, of course -- but first I think there's some groundwork and community-building that needs to happen within OB to really outline strategy and bring people into this effort before we go into anything long-term.
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> best,
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> katie
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> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:35 AM, brett <brett at occupyboston.org> wrote:
> I'd love to see more involvement from Universities and partnership with different "School" Occupies. Sounds like a project for Outreach.
>
> Especially, in the summer, we should be getting prepared for a huge influx of students into OB. If we don't see that, its because we didn't do that capacity building and recruitment work to bring them in. That would be a fail!
>
> Brett
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> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Kevin Maley <kevinmaley at gmail.com> wrote:
> this http://collegesoccupyboston.com/ is kind of outdated but I think was originally supposed to be a project linking the different schools for occupy. I know up until the final days of Dewey there were student GAs on the main plaza once a week or so. I am not sure whether any of this is still active but the infrastructure was built up so surely could be revamped so people dont have to reinvent the wheel if they want to jump start it up again
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> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Ravi Mishra <ravi at occupyboston.org> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Anyone know who is taking care of reaching out to schools and coordinating with them? Michael Pitter, a student from BU who was intramental in putting together the Unity Rally, got in touch after getting back from break to ask where things are and how he can help. I was thinking a more unified approach to linking OB up with local colleges is something we're really lacking in, seeing as we're one of the educational capitals of the world. Beyond solidarity actions and stuff, I can see us doing cool stuff like collaborating with universities on deep research efforts.
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> So in short, who has been doing stuff like this?
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