[Street] Continuing the thread (and meeting today, 6pm @ Gandhi!)

Katie Gradowski katie.gradowski at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 10:14:33 EST 2011


Some thoughts on dates:

November 17 would be great but is coming up VERY soon.  If we wanted to go
that route, it would be pretty imperative that we coordinate with labor
(there's a big planning meeting on this tomorrow)

November 19 is great, because it's in conjunction with the summit  (though
REALLY BAD, in that I can't go!!!)   It's also pretty short notice,
depending on how wide a shout-out we want to do.

November 20 is fine, too, but no summit   (Maureen, are the dates of the
summit negotiable at all?)   It seems incredibly useful to have them as
paired events, especially if we're doing a cross-boston shout-out for
participation.

December 3 - does anyone know the details for the OTH / OEB event?   This
is very close to the (as-yet-unannounced) day of action on foreclosure,
which we're hoping to promote pretty heavily, but would also give us enough
forward time to get lots of groups on board.

If we can dovetail without overshadowing that event, that would be
amazing.   I'd be strongly in favor of that, because it would give us more
time to plan, coordinate, and get other groups on board.

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Just from an outreach perspective, I would LOVE for this to be a
cross-boston event, with community organizations, rank and file workers,
neighborhood organizations and other groups getting on board, as well as
many of the working groups --- and two weeks is a little short notice to
organize something really big like this.

Vis a vis the 17th, is there anything that prevents us from doing a smaller
version on the 17th, to build toward a larger action on one of the
following weekends?   We can organize street teams pretty much anytime, and
the 17th might be a really great test run to see how it goes and work out
some of the kinks.

Also, I think there are a LOT of people who work 9-5 who would want to be
in on this.   You can't hold a festival on a weekday morning!   and
festival is I think definitely what we're going for here.

hurray!   exciting!

Katie

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Ravi Mishra <ravi at occupyboston.org> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> So stoked from all the awesome feedback and ideas. We have so much to work
> with! I'll aim to synthesize the previous thread to reorient
> and facilitate further discussion. Here were the major points I saw
> combined with other comments people have made via text or in-person (and
> please feel free to add to it because it's late and I'm definitely going to
> leave stuff out):
>
>
>    1. Logistical concerns - how we get people there (march or just meet
>    in different places), planning for contingencies, etc.
>    2. Content - what do we want to say, what do we want to ask people,
>    etc.
>    3. Methods to sign up volunteers
>    4. Names - "Meet the 99%" seemed to get some +1s, please continue to
>    throw out more ideas
>    5. Reaching out to Occupy the Hood, Ocupemos El Barrio, area colleges,
>    etc. This is already in the works (Eric and/or Rene will be joining Michael
>    from BU at a meeting at BU tomorrow, among other things), but we need your
>    help!
>    6. Date - people have thrown out a few so far: Thursday - 11/17,
>    Saturday - 11/19, Saturday 12/3, and others. My quick thoughts are that I
>    think it has to be a weekend day. I agree with the point that people coming
>    home from their commutes are less likely to want to stop and engage in
>    conversation. Weather is also a factor (people don't want to talk in the
>    cold), so the sooner we do this, the better. Summit is definitely a concern
>    that we'll need to address. All dates are on the table, so please continue
>    to discuss.
>    7. Mini demonstrations at individual sites (flash mobs, march
>    formations, spoken word, open forums, conducting GAs, etc.) - I think these
>    are very, very interesting and we should definitely discuss once we have
>    some of the higher level details hammered out. I see a lot of innovation on
>    these concepts as we get better at this.
>
>
> Again, I'm sure I left stuff off, so please fill in the blanks. What
> really gets me excited is point 7 above. So many people have so many
> amazing ideas - what we're doing is incredible because we're innovating on
> the entire concept of demonstrations. (My contribution: I'm betting there
> is a cool way to get technology/social media involved to give us a dynamic
> digital presence. Not quite sure exactly how, but I'm sure we can do a ton
> of awesome stuff.)
>
> Can't wait to make this happen. See you all tomorrow!
>
>
> Ravi
>
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