<div><br>See below.</div><div> </div><div>Spread widely and use as you see fit.</div><div> </div><div>-Joe<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Beauregard Lyle</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yayinternets@gmail.com">yayinternets@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:32 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Occupybostonoutreach] "Why Occupy the T?" leaflet attached (for discussion, revision, printing, use, etc)<br>To: Joseph Ramsey <<a href="mailto:jgramsey@gmail.com">jgramsey@gmail.com</a>><br>
<br><br>here's one i was able to put together, my friends said they will be sending some too, i added them on the fb group. i hope this gets people excited and involved. cheers!<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Joseph Ramsey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jgramsey@gmail.com" target="_blank">jgramsey@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">You rock, Mr. Lyle.<div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Beauregard Lyle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yayinternets@gmail.com" target="_blank">yayinternets@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p>I just joined, i'll have a graphic for you sometime this evening and more to follow. Woot!</p><div><div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 13, 2012 2:31 PM, "Joseph Ramsey" <<a href="mailto:jgramsey@gmail.com" target="_blank">jgramsey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">
<div>Terrific, B:</div><div> </div><div>I created an open group on Facebook called "Occupy the T." Can you find and join it?</div><div> </div><div>I am happy to make you a co-admin.</div><div> </div><div>And I would love to get a cool "Free Charlie!" graphic up as our page profile shot asap!</div>
<div> </div><div>Let's keep in touch,</div><div>Joe<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Beauregard Lyle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yayinternets@gmail.com" target="_blank">yayinternets@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote"><p>Can we make this a facebook group? I just read your email out to a few friends and they would love to help share the idea. I have artists interested in creating artwork around "free charlie". Can make the group for you and help manage it, there are a lot of people who wpuld love to get regular news around this idea and what the city is doing.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Jan 13, 2012 1:49 PM, "Joseph Ramsey" <<a href="mailto:jgramsey@gmail.com" target="_blank">jgramsey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div>
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<div>Based on the Occupy the T meeting in Somerville meeting two nights ago (where this slogan was also greeted with enthusiasm), I wrote up a (text) leaflet around the theme of reasons to "Occupy the T." It is attached as a word file. I thought I would share it with you all. </div>
<div> </div><div>There will be much more said about the Occupy the T campaign at the next Action Summit, as I understand it.</div><div> </div><div>I wanted to get this text into Outreach hands asap. </div><div> </div><div>
I welcome feedback on this text, but even moreso welcome people to adapt, edit, or just go out and use them as you see fit. (I only ask that you change the contact info, if you change the flier text substantially--currently it has one of my emails on it.) </div>
<p>I wrote the flier so that it works as a pretty punchy and wide-ranging two-sided leaflet of bullet points. It's also written so that you could lift out like say 10 of these bullet points and run a bigger font (or smaller size) leafet with like a "Top Ten Reasons to Occupy the T" . Obviously it can and should be juiced up in terms of presentation! ;)</p>
<p>I tried to keep in mind a few potential T-rider audiences: </p><p>1) People who are already sympathetic and will be interested in getting involved in Occupy the T, not just because of the MBTA's shitty plan, but because of their sympathy with the broader goals and values of the 99% movement. This is why, as you will see, the flier addresses not just the cutbacks but other social and environmental justice issues that are connected to the cutbacks.</p>
<p>2) General, T-Riders (workers, residents, students, and seniors, etc) who have heard about the cutbacks/fare hikes, and are pissed about it.</p><p>3) Other T-riders who may have heard about the MBTA plan, but aren't really sure what it means yet.</p>
<p>I welcome all comments and suggestions. (As I said this is raw copy for use.) Maybe somebody could make a bunch of copies of (some version of this) before the next Street meeting. For my part I plan to leaflet the Red Line and bus riders in Davis Square starting this weekend, Sunday 12-2pm for starters. Let me know if you'd like to join me.</p>
<p>Enjoy the leaflet--I had fun writing it!</p><p>best,</p><p>Joe</p><p>P.S. Two things I love about "Free Charlie" as a slogan for this Occupy the T movement: 1) Obviously the creative, ironic way it links the popular song ("Charlie on the MTA") to the cards or tickets in people's wallets. 2) But also the way it suggests the potential to go on offense, and to raise demands not only to oppose the current plans (that's defense) but to move the public discourse and to build a broad-based movement to establish FREE public transportation as a matter of RIGHT in our city, and around the world (for environmental as well as 99%-pocketbook and social justice reasons).</p>
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