AGENDA<br><br>present: Ben, B, Eli, Tricia, Nicole, Ravi, Brett, Josh, Anna, KT, Shanna<br><br>1. Introductions (if needed)<br>1a. Pizza- 2 Cheese<br><br>2. Occupy the NH Primary<br><br>3. Occupy the T, collaboration with T Rider's Union, first planning meeting 1/10/2012, 6 pm, 165 Broadway, Somerville<br>
<br>-Nicole: long thread on the streets list. The T has a massive deficit, due to cuts, to address, the MBTA is considering fare hikes, by 40 -70 %, cutting bus services, problematic to poor communities, cutting weekend commuter rail service and possibly non-rush hour commuter, and the E -line on weekends. basically this is a total assault on poor working class communities. will create more divides. Occupy should get behind this, it's local, historical, a lot of community organizations. public hearings in february. we should not do anything w/o community ors, we should have more solidarity work, not actions.<br>
<br>KT- what are some of these ors?<br><br>Nicole- T Rider's union, which is a part of alternative for community environment, some youth groups<br><br>Ben POI- first meeting at Center for Teen Empowerment in Somerville<br>
<br>Eli - close to my house, if we want to gather afterwords<br><br>Brett- important planning meeting before where? This is a really good event to get behind, <br><br>165 Broadway<br><br>Nicole- we have to do this through outreach to start forming ties with these community organizations<br>
<br>Brett- so we should got o community org meetings?<br><br>Shanna - maybe wait for the research to see what they have done (seconded by trice)<br><br>Eli - We're planning on rescheduling, monday meetings will be combined with street and DA and other meetings. Th still street exclusive<br>
<br>Ben- I understood that Outreach would be after streets on Mondays<br><br>Nicole- wish rave was here, he has<br><br>B- Mopnday is DA community gathering, is street involved<br><br>Nicole - <br><br>Brett - good action step: make sure Ouitreach lets Streets know when they are meeting with ACE<br>
<br>Niucole- Monday at 7. Our strengths are small mobile actions. This must be done in collaboration with them. small things: mic checking T, culture jamming, we could do this for this<br><br>Tricia - Canvassing the T to raise awareness that this is happening, but also what effects this will have<br>
<br>Nicole- everyone think of what we could do<br><br>Anna- are they planning on raising fare costs<br><br>Tricia - top would be 2.40 per, lower would be 2.25(maybe)<br><br>anna- peeps will be trying to sneak on t<br><br>
tricia- completely cutting ferry service<br><br>ben- how are peeps gone get out to harbor islands<br><br>eli- how are we gonna get to the islands since that is where we can camp<br><br>brett- emailed lee, it depends on what they want from us, if they just want people that's one thing, if there's more then we should do our best to get that done. So we might not have that much to discuss.<br>
<br>eli- katie is in touch with jasmine from ace, so there may be specific people with specific contacts. crags from EJWG knows someone from ACE, so those connections do exist, good idea to not duplicate efforts.<br><br>Brett- my suggestion is to table, unless other people have other ideas.<br>
<br>Ben- I'm going to that meeting, who else (a bunch of people said that they're going) who wants to do a report back<br><br>Eli- I will, and I think it's a good idea that we get idea to have a point person for that.<br>
<br>Nicole - I'm also gonna bring this to DA, too.<br><br>Biuytrew- I'll bring it to women's caucus<br><br>Brett- we should do that meeting at Eli's place after.<br><br>Eli- I'd love to. I have idea of stuff we can do, like mic checking. any other ideas<br>
<br>nicolke- culture jamming? Mimicing the signs on the T<br><br>trice - there's gonna be a lot of community meetings. we should canvas the T and inform riders<br><br>Ben- we can do a lot of more subversive actions, like culture jamming or actions in front of T stations<br>
<br>brett- we should also see what local politicians like felix arroyo are saying<br><br>KT- we could do something on the E line when it is gonna be shut down, to let people know that if these go into effect, this train will not be running now.<br>
<br>Nicole- we're also known for acts of civil disobedience, if people want to do that within affinity groups, they should work around that.<br><br>Ben- who knows what the plans are?<br><br>Nicole- I have them bookmarked<br>
<br>Josh- It's all on the MBTA site<br><br>Nicole- also on mass website<br><br>ben- can someone write a summary of what they do?<br><br>Nicole and Tricia- we can do that<br><br>Eli- again, the people on tuesday can see what Ace is doing. cause even now I'm thinking of actions, I should stop, and wait until after the meeting. One of the main things they've been working on is a youth pass, which not a lot of cities have, boston does have it, it would help people that rely on people that want to get to school<br>
<br>tricia- they said the senior prices will go up a lot, and the Ride is also going to go up to as much as $12 a ride.<br><br>Nicole- for me the Ride is too expensive already, it doesn't always show up, system is flawed<br>
<br><br>4. Ridgely will fill us in on Occupy Pittsburg's request for BMY Bank action for 1/10/2012<br><br>kevin- occupy pittsburg had sent emails around, the place they are occupying is owned by a bank, asking for us to protest at a BMY-Mellon to show support for Occupy Pittsburg<br>
<br>Brett- what is the real issue here?<br><br>kevin- I don't know, they want people to protest by the bank, do something creative, bank doesn't want them there<br><br>tricia- don't evict them kind of message<br>
<br>kevin- and throw it against the bank, because here it is actually the occupiers vs the bank, not Occupy vs govt<br><br>ben- that is the day of the T rider's meeting and the NH prim<br><br>nicole- my concern is that it's on the 10th, it's 5 days away, we can't mobilize in time to do this. Maybe if we had a later date<br>
<br>Ben- second<br><br>eli- certainly autonomous action is welcome, temp check on not making this an official street thing "yes not official street thing"<br><br><br>5. Other future actions (if there's time), such as Valentines Day and MLK Day.<br>
<br>ben- I think we already addressed MLK day<br><br>eli- there is a group of students thinking about doing a love-in sort of event, a kiss-in.<br><br>Ben- I think there's a n atonal day of creative action on 2/12/11, so maybe we can do something else<br>
<br>Eli- they are going to "make out" like bandits, there will be a consent aspect to it. people handing out stuff about banks and consent, and sexuality.<br><br><br>6. Three Strikes Law (Nicole)<br><br>Nicole- brief history- this is a law that is in 23 states, basically, puts habitual offenders in jail for life w/o parole, effects poor communities, colored communities, and it helped bankrupt Cali, so it's bad for states, too. They are thinking of doing it here. Passed in NYC as reactionary. Here they were not able to push it through. on Saturday the 7th their will be a townhall meeting at OTH, 12:30 Dudley Library, 65 warren St, Roxbury, MA. people talking to what this is gonna do to their communities.<br>
<br>KT- given police arresting people, it does effect us<br><br>Nicole- We should go there and do mostly listening. They have a lot of supporting organizations, (lists organizations) we should get by it.<br><br>Brett- sounds like a huge issue that they are getting a lot of support behind, and we should get behind to support OTH, and media is giving their monday community gathering to give to OTH for occupy the hood, it seems fitting to have OTH do a 3 strikes law at the next community gathering. This is a worthy campaign for street.<br>
<br>Nicole- we're in the same space with this meeting, we should go to support, be careful about the way that racial tensions play out.<br><br>Ben- Do we know when it is going to a vote?<br><br>Nicole- No but we should be wary, because it has popped up unexpectedly. I also have a fun fact sheet that I can forward to streets list.<br>
<br>Ben- I think this is good on many fronts, go against the law, repair relations with OTH, and get connections with organizations<br><br>(conversation on how relations got screwed up with OTH)<br><br><br>street announcement<br>
NH - elephant with media where we can post signs that address the questions we want the candidates to address, people can make signs here at GA with Signs.<br>We are working on collaborating with T rider's union about the fare hikes. community meetings all Februaru<br>
<a href="mailto:street@occupyboston.org">street@occupyboston.org</a><br>Three strikes law- meeting with OTH, Dudley Library, 65 Warren St, Roxbury<br><br><br>action items: Eli- go to occupy the T meeting, write review<br>
nicole and tricia- write a summary of what the proposals do<br>Nicole- brief summary of "T shit"<br>everyone, talk to other occupy WGs about what they are doing for this