[Street] re Occupy the 'T' SUCCESSFUL Campaign

Josh Golin golingolin at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 14 08:14:47 EST 2012


That's a pretty comprehensive and impressive outline.


I wonder, however, whether it makes since for this group to try and plan and organize an entire campaign. There are already a lot of folks working on this and I think they'll probably be working on a lot of the things in this outline. So we might play more of supporting role on some of these things (e.g. petitioning, legislator support) and focus our planning energy on those things that we're uniquely situated to do: creative actions.

Along those lines, I'd encourage those who are at the action summit to pitch one or two specific actions for brainstorming/enlisting volunteers rather than a whole campaign.  

I also think it's important to bring an Occupy frame to this. Remember everyone is going to be hurt by both plans: students, seniors, low-income people, T workers (don't forget them!), T commuters, drivers (more traffic), clean air, climate.  Everyone that is except the debt holders.  The fact that the T is obligated to pay every penny of its debt payments first and then let the rest of us fight over the crumbs is one way to shift the debate from choosing between two horrible plans.

Sorry I can't be at Sunday's meeting.  Look forward to hearing what everyone comes up with.



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 From: Ridgely Fuller <ridgelyfuller at gmail.com>
To: Daniel Mc <danielm at occupyboston.org> 
Cc: street <street at lists.occupyboston.org> 
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Street] re Occupy the 'T' SUCCESSFUL Campaign
 

Daniel..
I think this is a GREAT blueprint.with all necessary components.and we can  certainly use  trying to get as many of the specifics covered  by all the folks at the Action Summit ..sorry you can't be there on Sunday. wouldn't you like the press conference/campaign launching to be at a T stop?
Ridgely


On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Daniel Mc <danielm at occupyboston.org> wrote:

Hi All,
>
>I can not make the meeting this Sunday but wanted to share some ideas about how best to develop a successful campaign. A campaign needs to be organized, to the point, and systematized in order to be successful. It also has to have a number of phases or levels. Here is a brief outline off the top of my head. Some of these things have certainly already been done but need to be expanded upon. They don't necessarily need to be in this particular order, but I think it best.
>	* Develop literature
>	* i.e. flyer, petition, FAQ, press release
>	* Develop coalition/allies
>	* Sounds like this has been started with Occupy Somerville, T Riders Union, etc.
>	* We need to expand this
>	* i.e. include other Occupies (The Burbs, JP, Ocupemos, OTH)
>	* Launch campaign publicly
>	* hold a press conference
>	* have a campaign launching party (rent out a space?)
>	* Events to raise awareness
>	* panel discussion, debate, street theater, chalking, banner drop
>	* Outreach
>	* Door to door canvassing (read: station to station)
>	* Campaigning, petition signing
>	* Gain support of legislators
>	* This is more generally for campaigns and I dont know if we want to go this route but always something to consider
>	* Media coverage
>	* Reach out to media and get them at awareness raising events, street theater, etc.
>I know that this may be a lot to take on but I think we have a lot of support and interest in this campaign. If we can delegate responsibilities properly, I think we can do a lot of what is outlined above.
>Thoughts?
>
>
>Best,
>
>
>-- 
>Daniel.
>Occupy Boston Outreach Committee 
>**Use this email for all things occupy**
>
>
>Quoting Joseph Ramsey <jgramsey at gmail.com>:
>
>> +100 to  "Free Charlie!" as a great movement image and slogan.
>>
>> Based on the Somerville meeting two nights ago (where this slogan was also
>> greeted with enthusiasm), I wrote up a (text) leaflet around the theme of
>> reasons to "Occupy the T."  It is attached as a word file.
>>
>> I welcome feedback, but even moreso welcome people to adapt, edit, or just
>> go out and use them as you see fit.  (I only ask that you change the
>> contact info, if you change the flier text substantially--currently it has
>> one of my emails on it.)
>>
>> I am hoping that in some way the image based work that Eli is working on
>> can be merged with (some of) the language that I have developed here.  I
>> wrote the flier so that it works as a pretty punchy and wide-ranging
>> two-sided leaflet of bullet points.  It's also written so that you could
>> life out like say 10 of these bullet points and run a bigger font (or
>> smaller size) leafet with like a "Top Ten Reasons to Occupy the T" .
>>
>> I tried to keep in mind a few potential T-rider audiences:
>>
>> 1) People who are already sympathetic and will be interested in getting
>> involved in Occupy the T, not just because of the MBTA's shitty plan, but
>> because of their sympathy with the broader goals and values of the 99%
>> movement.  This is why, as you will see, the flier addresses not just the
>> cutbacks but other social and environmental justice issues that are
>> connected to the cutbacks.
>>
>> 2)  General, T-Riders (workers, residents, students, and seniors, etc) who
>> have heard about the cutbacks/fare hikes, and are pissed about it.
>>
>> 3)  Other T-riders who may have heard about the MBTA plan, but aren't
>> really sure what it means yet.
>>
>> I welcome all comments and suggestions.  (As I said this is raw copy for
>> use.)  Maybe somebody could make a bunch of copies of (some version of
>> this) before the next Street meeting.  For my part I plan to leaflet the
>> Red Line and bus riders in Davis Square starting this weekend, Sunday
>> 12-2pm for starters.  Let me know if you'd like to join me.
>>
>> Enjoy the leaflet--I had fun writing it!
>>
>> best,
>> Joe
>>
>> P.S. Two things I love about "Free Charlie": 1) Obviously the creative,
>> ironic way it links the popular song to the cards or tickets in people's
>> wallets.  2)  But also the way it suggests the potential to go on offense,
>> and to raise demands not only to oppose the current plans (that's defense)
>> but to move the public discourse and to build a broad-based movement to
>> establish FREE public transportation as a matter of RIGHT in our city, and
>> around the world (for environmental as well as 99%-pocketbook and social
>> justice reasons).
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Ben Janos <ben at occupyboston.org> wrote:
>>
>>> What is IRC?
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Patricia Downer <
>>> patricia.downer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Was talking in OB Radio chat about Occupy MBTA. Someone from IRC said
>>>> they're working on that stuff too. Wants some one to coordinate with them.
>>>> I honestly don't have time. :( Can some one please reach out to him/her(not
>>>> sure) to coordinate: smant at occupyboston.org
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Patricia Downer
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Patricia Downer <
>>>> patricia.downer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Well, where is the Sunday Action Summit? (I forget where our Sunday
>>>>> meetings usually are) Preferably somewhere within walking distance from
>>>>> there.
>>>>>
>>>>> Patricia Downer
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Ben Janos <ben at occupyboston.org>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  yeah, let's have a street meeting sunday at 4 to work out what we
>>>>>> will talk about at the Action summit on Sunday! I'd love to get as many
>>>>>> people involved as possible! OB has been really buzzing about this, let's
>>>>>> get some people to start working on it and make this campaign 
>>>>>> really happen!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Location suggestion anyone?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Ridgely Fuller <
>>>>>> ridgelyfuller at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Hi Folks..
>>>>>>> .I thought the T riders U mtg last night was really good ( though left
>>>>>>> at 7:30) and it doesn't seem to me, at least up until I left 
>>>>>>> that OB would
>>>>>>> be stepping on anyon orgs. toes by initiating Free Charlie 
>>>>>>> strategy...i am
>>>>>>> wondering whether 'street' should offer that up as an initial 
>>>>>>> Action idea
>>>>>>> at this Sunday's Action Summit..that way we might get all workgroups
>>>>>>> working on the campaign in their own way..eg we wouldn't have to 
>>>>>>> have our
>>>>>>> few members go to CASA ..we could get CASA right there on Sunday 
>>>>>>> night and
>>>>>>> ask them to consider our ideas but come up their own..same for 
>>>>>>> media..etc
>>>>>>> etc..'street' might then have more of a coordinating role among 
>>>>>>> groups on
>>>>>>> the Free Charlie Strategy rather than have to round up all the resources
>>>>>>> and do all the wrok ourselves..seems like an easy way to get all of OB
>>>>>>> involved in this really exciting idea..one of the things I liked 
>>>>>>> best about
>>>>>>> the TRU mtg was the incredible
>>>>>>> diversity..age,ethnicity,city/suburb......etc
>>>>>>> if you all like the idea of it being part of OB action summit this
>>>>>>> Sunday at 5, maybe we should get together at 4 to see what components it
>>>>>>> might have and how we would help organiize it..i really want 
>>>>>>> these Action
>>>>>>> Sunday's to work!!!!!
>>>>>>>  Ridgely
>>>>>>>
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