[Street] 9/19 12pm Street Team Meeting Notes
Eli Cohen
elcoh002 at mail.goucher.edu
Sat Nov 19 22:48:12 EST 2011
Passing these updated details along to Students Occupy via e-mail, and I'll
bring it up at their next GA tomorrow afternoon. Many of the students are
pumped about this idea: as I've said before; this was practically
*made*for them. Doing decentralized actions then coming together has
been their
style of operation from day one.
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Katie Gradowski <katie.gradowski at gmail.com
> wrote:
> Hey everyone!
>
> I spoke to Steve at City Life earlier this week -- they are having a
> speak-out from members who battled foreclosure and WON at their annual
> meeting on the third, and said that some of these people might be into
> coming to speak at the copley square rally as well.
>
> If we can have TWO OR THREE speakers on major issues -- unemployment,
> foreclosure, student loans -- and can get powerful people to speak on that,
> I think that would be a huge way to rally support. Not just an open mic,
> or an appeal for support, but people who can speak concretely to things
> that people who have used direct action to change their situations.
>
> I think that would be hugely powerful.
>
> Katie
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Brett West <heavyriser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone, here's the minutes from today's meeting 9/19 at 12pm
>>
>> NEXT MEETING - Monday 9/21 5pm at SEIU Local 615 (26 West Street, 3rd
>> Floor, Boston). Arrive at 4pm if you want info. on MassUniting Occupy DC
>> trip Dec. 5-9
>>
>> *Agenda*
>> *
>> *
>> -Outreach
>> -Canvassing Logistics
>> -Pre-Copley events
>> -Copley Program
>> -Create Working Committees
>>
>> *Outreach*
>> -David will reach out to colombian immigrant community, airport employees
>> and SEIU 615
>> -Everyone agreed to do some sort of outreach
>> -Will we make provisions for undocumented persons + previous offenders
>> who cannot be arrested? Is that necessary?
>> -Will we inform the police that we are planning a Dec. 3rd action to
>> converge in Copley? Is that necessary?
>> -Ravi(ravi at occupyboston.org) is point person for social media outreach
>> and dec. 3rd website development
>> -Dec. 3rd action will serve as a "Send off Rally/March" for DC trip
>> organized by MassUnited
>> -We will create a "Personal Flyer" PDF that folks can download, write
>> their personal connection to the 99%, and print and distribute. The flyer
>> will be on the Website.
>> -MassUniting can print flyers and materials to aid in event outreach.
>>
>> **** More Ideas for Outreach include...***
>> - T-stop flyering
>> - coffee shop flyering
>> -Churches
>> -Have Occupy representative at AFL-CIO meeting 9/28 at 10am (contact
>> Daren from MassUniting)
>> -Public Bathrooms postering
>> -Reach out to community Organizations and groups
>> DO SOMETHING
>>
>> *Canvassing Logistics*
>> *Pre-Copley Events*
>> *Copley Program*
>> *Create Working Committees*
>> *
>> *
>> The rest of these agenda items were crammed into the last 30 minutes of
>> discussion, albeit very productive.
>>
>> We redesigned the Dec. 3rd itinerary a bit. Instead of 10-11am canvass,
>> 11am to 1pm march to Copley, and 1pm to 3pm program at Copley, it will look
>> as follows:
>>
>> *10am - 1pm* - Pre-Copley Events
>> *"Decentralized" rallies, canvassing, marches, issue-based or
>> community-based events, protests etc.. hosted by self-starters who belong
>> to the 99%.*
>>
>> **-Daren suggested also using the "1% tracker" to host a pre-Copley
>> event that targets a 1% event happening on Dec. 3rd.
>> -The creation of a google doc was suggested to organize and track
>> Pre-Copley events.
>>
>> *1pm - Indefinite*
>> *All the "Decentralized" actions converge on Copley Sq. at 1pm for the
>> Program.*
>> *
>> *
>> *Program Ideas* (Not Definite plans)
>> - Have letter-sending station where individual stories of the 99% are
>> compiled by folks in copley and will be mailed to corporations/politicians
>> after the event.
>> -An unstructured Open-Mic where people in Copley have 3 mins to speak to
>> the cause of the rally or to their personal story as a 99-er.
>> -Visual: 5-7 Large, blown-up written stories that embody the struggles of
>> the 99% (ex. student debt story, exploited workers story, undocumented
>> immigrant story).
>> -Discussion groups
>>
>> *Questions to Address*
>> -Do we want the Copley Program to call everyones attention to 1 event at
>> a time (i.e. the open mic) or to be more of a free-for-all with multiple
>> things to do at any given time.
>> -How do we end the event?
>>
>> *Action Steps*
>> *
>> *
>> -Everyone does some kind of outreach for the event.
>> -Daren said he would reach out to the crowd that marched on Thursday 9/17
>> so we can hopefully count on their presence Dec. 3rd
>> -David has committed to contacting certain Immigrant communities, airport
>> employees and the SEIU.
>> -Ravi is going to work on website stuff and social media(?)
>>
>> PROPOSED AGENDA Monday 9/21
>>
>> -Introductions (5 mins)
>>
>> -Agenda approval (5 mins)
>>
>> -Outreach (25 mins)
>> -overview of outreach ideas an plans/ personal updates/ check in on
>> action items
>> -Occupy Boston/ Hood/ Barrio updates
>> -Create Goals and Action Plan: Flyers handed out, attendance, media
>> coverage, canvassing
>> -Do we have updated flyers?
>>
>> -Pre-copley (25 mins)
>> -Overview of Dec. 3rd. Plan
>> -List potential pre-copley events/ Check in on google doc/ Who needs
>> help organizing?
>> -Action Plan - delegation
>>
>> -Copley Program (35 mins)
>> -Overview of ideas
>> -New suggestions/ discussion
>> -Action plan - delegation
>>
>> -Review Action Items (2 mins)
>>
>>
>> *
>> *
>> *
>> *
>> *
>> *
>>
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