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

Katie Gradowski katie.gradowski at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 10:43:04 EST 2011


How do people feel about the 20th?

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Maureen White <
maureenclairewhite at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, the summit date/time has been widely disseminated and can't be
> changed, plus Saturday is also when our kick-ass facilitators are
> available.  I think the way to make the two work together is to maybe have
> the march on the 20th, so that we can use the summit as a 'springboard' and
> a recruitment tool.  I think a full morning of marching and a full
> afternoon of in-depth discussing is a LOT.  But one could build of the
> other if the days were back-to-back... Just my two cents.
>
> I strongly agree that the more time for planning and outreach around this,
> the better.  If we are going to do this, it's worth doing it big!
>
> Maureen
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Katie Gradowski <
> katie.gradowski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Some thoughts on dates:
>>
>> November 17 would be great but is coming up VERY soon.  If we wanted to
>> go that route, it would be pretty imperative that we coordinate with labor
>> (there's a big planning meeting on this tomorrow)
>>
>> November 19 is great, because it's in conjunction with the summit
>> (though REALLY BAD, in that I can't go!!!)   It's also pretty short notice,
>> depending on how wide a shout-out we want to do.
>>
>> November 20 is fine, too, but no summit   (Maureen, are the dates of the
>> summit negotiable at all?)   It seems incredibly useful to have them as
>> paired events, especially if we're doing a cross-boston shout-out for
>> participation.
>>
>> December 3 - does anyone know the details for the OTH / OEB event?   This
>> is very close to the (as-yet-unannounced) day of action on foreclosure,
>> which we're hoping to promote pretty heavily, but would also give us enough
>> forward time to get lots of groups on board.
>>
>> If we can dovetail without overshadowing that event, that would be
>> amazing.   I'd be strongly in favor of that, because it would give us more
>> time to plan, coordinate, and get other groups on board.
>>
>>
>> ***********************************************************************************************
>>
>> Just from an outreach perspective, I would LOVE for this to be a
>> cross-boston event, with community organizations, rank and file workers,
>> neighborhood organizations and other groups getting on board, as well as
>> many of the working groups --- and two weeks is a little short notice to
>> organize something really big like this.
>>
>> Vis a vis the 17th, is there anything that prevents us from doing a
>> smaller version on the 17th, to build toward a larger action on one of the
>> following weekends?   We can organize street teams pretty much anytime, and
>> the 17th might be a really great test run to see how it goes and work out
>> some of the kinks.
>>
>> Also, I think there are a LOT of people who work 9-5 who would want to be
>> in on this.   You can't hold a festival on a weekday morning!   and
>> festival is I think definitely what we're going for here.
>>
>> hurray!   exciting!
>>
>> Katie
>>
>> On Thu, 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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