[Street] Continuing the thread (and meeting today, 6pm @ Gandhi!)
Ben Janos
occupyprospecthill at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 10:10:28 EST 2011
That's not a bad idea. We'll talk about the date tonight. I was also
thinking Buy Nothing Day (The day after Thanksgiving, November 25th this
year) would be a good day to do it.
Ben
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Maureen White <maureenclairewhite at gmail.com
> wrote:
> Has Sunday, 11/20 been discussed as a possible date?
>
> Maureen
>
>
> On Nov 10, 2011, at 2:57 AM, Ravi Mishra <ravi at occupyboston.org> wrote:
>
> 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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