[Street] Action goals - a brainstorm

Katie Gradowski katie.gradowski at gmail.com
Thu Dec 8 00:48:42 EST 2011


Hey all!

Had a quick conversation with Stephen and Ariel in media this evening --- I
think it would be great for street to sit down with media and think
specifically about how we can plan actions to support concrete, clear
messaging.

The gist was, "we missed the window to get message out with statements, now
we need to do it with actions."   I think this group can really run point
on this, and will be incredibly effective in doing so if we can do it in
conjunction with media  (as well as with community orgs -- bridging one of
the more effective outward messaging WGs with the wider community that we
need to get on board).

There's a meeting this Sunday at E5 to talk about roadmaps and strategy ---
can anyone from the streets team make it?   It's early in the day, I think
around 2.   If we can make a short list of actions and bring it to that
meeting, i think that'd be a huge help to everyone involved.

Best,

Katie


On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Ravi Mishra <ravi at occupyboston.org> wrote:

> Random one that could be a tactic or a goal:
>
> 8) To shock the viewer or somehow create an alternate sense of reality in
> which an outside's mind becomes more open to accepting a truth or leaning
> about a situation. (Ex: a mass "playing dead" demonstration to visualize
> the scope of war casualties or something like that.)
>
>
> PS - I'm a firm believer in a very open, accepting brainstorming process.
> All ideas should be thrown out there, and we can weed through what we like
> and don't like later.
>
> --
> Ravi
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Rachel Plattus <rachelbp at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> All of these fall under the broad heading of ORGANIZING:
>>
>> 4) Outreach: to bring more individuals into the movement and activate
>> those individuals
>> 5) Outreach: to show organizations why they should want to work with us
>> long term
>> 6) Community building: to identify groups and individuals within the
>> movement who are uniquely suited to working on a given action as a way of
>> expanding our base of those who work their asses off
>> 7) Internal education: to use actions as an opportunity to make ourselves
>> better at what we do (organizing, media, interpretive dancing, etc)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Ravi Mishra <ravi at occupyboston.org>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Writing that last email made me think that it might be fun (and useful)
>>> to have a theoretical discussion of what various goals of action should be?
>>> In my mind (please chime in here), a valid goal for an action is any
>>> ideal/value or outcome that aids our overall movement. For example,
>>> education is a very obvious goal - if people know more about the issues,
>>> they're more likely to support our cause, which makes it easier for us to
>>> change the status quo. Conversely (and this could be controversial, again
>>> please chime in), something like "agitation" if often thought of as a goal
>>> in of itself, but I think it probably needs more qualification to be truly
>>> accepted as a goal. Shutting down a street in a financial district could
>>> definitely be a goal because it hurts the operations of those who are
>>> behind the problems that plague our society
>>>
>>> Anyway, without further ado, some goals off the top of my head - please
>>> discuss and add yours!
>>>
>>> 1) Education - teaching people about the issues and what is going on
>>> today, for example
>>> 2) Fun! We're not going to be here in the long run if we're not enjoying
>>> ourselves. :)
>>> 3) Targeted systems disruption - making it harder for the opposition to
>>> do stuff in a manner that helps our cause
>>>
>>> Any particular action can aim to achieve one, some, or all of these
>>> goals. The point of this thread is to create a list of what action goals
>>> should be, and the hope is that we can use these later to more effectively
>>> analyze actions and their efficacy.
>>>
>>> Finally. this article by author John Robb frames some basic Conflict
>>> Theory quite well and could serve as a framework to think about what goals
>>> of actions should be.<http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/11/how-to-win-a-modern-conflict.html>
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ravi
>>>
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