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

Ravi Mishra ravi at occupyboston.org
Thu Nov 10 02:57:49 EST 2011


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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