[Street] Street Meeting Notes, 12/23/2011
Katie Gradowski
katie.gradowski at gmail.com
Fri Dec 23 11:43:58 EST 2011
Thanks ben, for these notes!
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I'm adding outreach events to this list.* Below is a quick sketch ongoing
outreach efforts to keep street in the loop -- there's a lot of potential
here for awesome collaborative actions, it would be great to put together a
schedule of sorts for actions we want to focus on in January + February.
ALSO: I have reserved the Monday, January 23 community gathering for
outreach, with the hopes of presenting some of the ideas that have been
coming out of movement building. It would also be fantastic to have
streets there as well!
Katie*
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*ONGOING COMMUNITY CAMPAIGNS THAT INVOLVE ACTIONS
- *Chinese Progressive Association: * On 12/3, we passed a solidarity
statement with 20 workers who lost their jobs and were denied wages when
the owner filed for bankruptcy. *Next step: flyering + banner
campaign in Chinatown, reprint this statement in English and Cantonese to
bring visibility to this issue* (this was planned, but got derailed
with the closing of OB camp)
- *City Life / Vida Urbana: * Friday's lightsaber flashmob went really
well! They want to do more street theater with us. They also have a few
eviction blockades coming up that we may be able to coordinate on. Next
steps: Coordinate with housing crisis WG, set up a meeting with CLVU
after the new year to discuss next steps (would be awesome to have someone
at streets at this meeting)
- *Community Garden Eviction: * Outreach has been meeting with ARGFC, a
refugee cooperative who has recently lost their community garden space
and needs our assistance in their struggle. They are launching a campaign
to reclaim their garden -- this is definitely something we can help out
with, potentially with street actions (Daniel, do you have an update on
this?)
- *City-wide actions in February/March: * This has been mostly under
the radar, but will be hugely important to mobilize around as it
develops. Quick summary: a day of action, in February or March (similar
to the Right to the City Action) with OB and community orgs across Boston,
targeting the financial industry. It's still early in the planning
stages, but should definitely be on the radar for streets.
These are all slow-moving, but hugely important -- they absolutely involve
"hitting the streets" as a way to support ongoing outreach efforts, and tie
directly in with the wider OB community in Boston.
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**ONGOING OB CAMPAIGNS THAT MAY INVOLVE ACTIONS
- *Move to Amend / Citizens United: * This Thursday at 6 p.m. at BU law
school, Citizens United to End Political Bribery Working Group will be
discussing demonstrations protesting the Jan 20-21 anniversary of the CU
decision. They also want to bring together OB working groups on 12/29 for
targeted discussions about the event and a call to action.
- *Solidarity with Egypt:* There's a rally this weekend. Next week,
the Egyptian military will likely continue to beat and murder protesters.
+1111 to organizing ongoing actions this month around this (next step:
figuring out who else is organizing around this, and coordinating with them
to make this happen)
- *SOPA / NDAA: *Two big, ugly congressional bills that are coming
through, one on internet piracy, the other on whether or not American
citizens can be held indefinitely by the military.
There has been discussion about organizing teach-ins on each of these
things -- I would love to invite people working on these campaigns to visit
outreach / streets meetings so we can coordinate on actions together
(building consensus BEFOREHAND, so we can have better actions!)
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ONGOING OUTREACH CAMPAIGNS THAT DON'T YET INVOLVE ACTIONS, BUT MAY IN THE
FUTURE
- *ESWA: * They have been coming to our meetings and are interested in
working with OB. Sarah Francis is interested in being a liaison. No
word yet on what actions will come of this (conversations still in
progress) -- having a liaison may be useful, given that they don't
primarily work via the internet and are mostly face-to-face
- *Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE): * A handful of
people met with them last week -- they are in the middle of a transit
campaign, not sure what came of this meeting, but this is a long-overdue
collaboration, and we should think about whether there are useful actions
we can do with them in the next few months (Eli, can you update?)
- *Rosie's Place: *Cherie and I met with them last week - it's a
private women's shelter, and we were doing a presentation on income
inequality. There is a LOT of potential here for reaching out on housing
issues (in particular, organizing around HUD restrictions on smoking in
low-income apartments). Next step: coordinating with housing crisis
working group (more on this to come)
- *Dorchester People for Peace*. They remain awesome. We like them a
whole lot! Eli can update with more details.
These are all in the works, and involve ongoing work on the community orgs
front -- not directly aciton-related, but work that streets should probably
be aware of.
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