[Street] Event outline, updates, and todos
Allison Sebastiani
allisonsebastiani at gmail.com
Mon Nov 21 15:02:58 EST 2011
Hey everyone,
Attached is the updated flyer for the Unity Day of Action. If we can get a
consensus on it, I can have it ready for printing. Thanks!
-- Allison
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Ravi Mishra <ravi at occupyboston.org> wrote:
> A lot here - please read.
>
> Hi all,
>
> As Brett's notes discussed at depth, we had a very productive meeting
> today. *The entire idea for the day of action has changed (for the
> better, we think). It is now very, very simple:*
>
> 1) 10am-1pm: Actions throughout the city. If you have an idea, go do it.
> If you want to join an existing action, browse the planned actions and
> join. Marches, canvassing, flash mobs, and anything and everything else can
> dream up.
>
> 2) 1pm-whenever: Rally at Copley Square. Details TBD. Ideas include
> speakers, musicians, art displays/exhibitions, facilitating group
> conversations, and, again, anything and everything else we can dream up.
>
> Now, we need to create infrastructure for this - we have this very complex
> problem of people being very interested in this novel action concept, but
> we need to make sure we facilitate their participation. *To do this,
> we've created a couple avenues:*
> *
> *
> *Eventbrite page: http://occupyunity.eventbrite.com/*
> *Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/291033400930914/*
>
> *Things we need:*
> 1) A new name! Any suggestions?
> 2) Ideas for actions! Describe your action, pick a place, and organize it!
> Use this Google Doc to organize:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ooUD5S0Xbeh3iPH1OQKBVzwa3ib9TTjxiUOJ8WvrBi4/edit?hl=en_US
> 3) Materials for education. Same procedure here - we want to build a
> repository of flyers about the issues we care about. For now, use the
> Google Doc to organize:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yNNl1Dh1oSEARv3U7dhKBnjTdOOkXTKqSmTw6mGSu-U/edit?hl=en_US
> 4) Plan for the Rally - right now we have none! Use this Google Doc to
> brainstorm ideas, and we'll discuss at the next meeting:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lC_wMbctHj8fop8VxNVTOqK1FcMiQZ7nnkdRVq2BQTs/edit
> 5) Announcements and outreach. Someone needs to make an announcement at
> every GA from here on out. Tell people about the eventbrite and Facebook
> event sites - they have all the info that people need.
> 6) DIY flyer page - we need a basic form flyer that we can feed info in
> to. Simon/Allison/Michael? Or anyone else? I'll be working on the tech side
> of this.
>
> -----------------------------
>
> Personal notes/suggestions:
>
> 1) For the actions, maybe the first part can be focused on education - we
> ask people to design their actions around increasing the public's awareness
> of the issues - and the second part can be designed around fostering and
> celebrating unity. Given that those are the two themes we've been
> discussing at length, this could be a good split of the day.
>
> 2) I think it'd be cool if we have multiple things going on during the
> unity rally time. While speakers can be uniting, they can also be very
> boring and don't fall within our horizontal spirit of the movement. Some
> speakers, some musicians, some art, etc. going on somewhat simultaneously
> could be pretty cool. I don't know how it'd all work, but I think we can
> make it happen. Very open to ideas because I'm mostly just brainstorming
> here.
>
> 3) I'm going to miss you guys! I'm back home for Thanksgiving and work
> until Nov 30. I'll be active on the email list and hope to get conference
> called into the subsequent meetings we have. I'm going to focus on having
> the tech and media parts of this as well. As for meetings, at the very
> least, if someone can fill me in on what happens after via phone, that'd be
> great.
>
> Amazing energy, great day. Talk to everyone soon.
>
> --
> Ravi
>
>
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