[Street] OB Affinity Group & Capacity Building Training

Liz Samuels liz.samuels at gmail.com
Tue Feb 7 10:45:34 EST 2012


Hi all! Morrigan was asked to pull together a training to support Affinity
Group and Spokescouncil formation...so here it is! This SATURDAY, Morrigan,
Jason Lydon, Saif Rahman, and myself will be facilitating. Just click on
the link below to sign up!

see you then!
liz


*
Occupy Boston Affinity Group & Capacity Building Training!*

*Saturday, February 11*, 2012, 3pm - 6pm
At E5 - 33 Harrison Ave, downtown Boston

*Please sign up ahead of time - info is below*

Affinity groups are an important part of organizing nonviolent direct
actions. AG's are small groups of friends or like-minded people who join
together for mutual support and safety while participating in protests.
AG's can be task or action oriented. AG's can take on roles like media,
arts and action or very specific actions within a larger protest. AG's make
decisions internally and at times plug into a larger organizing structure
to make collective decisions, like in a spokescouncil.

Come learn with other OB activists and organizers about how to form and use
affinity groups to build for actions, coordinate organizing and build group
capacity. Participants will learn about the history of affinity groups and
spokescouncils, uses, types and formation as well as group process and
action planning basics.

All experience levels welcome! You don't have to be a part of an affinity
group but there will be time for people to form affinity groups during the
training.

*Sign-up *
*http://tinyurl.com/obtraining* <http://tinyurl.com/obtraining>
OR
bostonactiontrainings at riseup.net

More trainings will hopefully be offered in the future. If you can't make
this one please still let us know that you are interested and we will be
sure to let you know when the next training is scheduled.





On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:29 PM, <obgroups at lists.occupyboston.org> wrote:

> Please know about tonight's Spokescouncil WG meeting (sorry for late
> notice), and pending trial run - see below:
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Allison Nevitt <asnevitt at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:48 PM
> Subject: Spokes email
> To: Gregory Murphy <gsjmurphy at gmail.com>
>
>
> This is to let everyone know that there is a Spokescouncil WG meeting
> tonight at City Place at 8:30pm.
>
> The working group is a place to explore how Spokescouncils work; discuss
> whether they are a good option for some Occupy Boston organizing; and to
> develop and evaluate models for us to try.
>
> Currently, we are launching a Spokescouncil for action planning for March
> 17. We hope to have the first actual council this coming weekend.
>
> We are in the midst of setting up an OB listserv and wiki page. We will
> sdisseminate the links to those as soon as we can. Thank you for your
> patience.
>
>
> Allison
>
>
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