[Street] [Occupybostonoutreach] Occupy The T Quarter-sheets

Joseph Ramsey jgramsey at gmail.com
Mon Jan 16 19:02:30 EST 2012


Thanks for the update, Lee.

This sounds like a good basic plan.

One thing I would love to see happen (and that I would love to see Occupy
Boston activists as well as others get involved in) is* the formation of
Line and/or Station Occupy the T  Squads.* These would be groups of
people (hopefully starting with at least 2 and building from
there--sometimes we might just start with one person) who would take
responsibility for "occupying" a specific train or bus line and/or station,
on a regular and ongiong basis.  Not actually camping out necessarily, but
passing out leaflets, talking to people, identifying potential activists,
collecting contact info, promoting the cause, finding potential speakers
for the MBTA meetings, and generally establishing a principled public
presence, not just for the T campaing but for the Occupy movement in
general ("our goal is a society that puts the needs of all before the
profits of a few" etc....)

*Dividing up the city by lines and stops* actually would give us a chance
to take seriously our own language: Occupy (all of) Boston.  Not only could
this help keep us focused and organized, and thus help us build the
anti-hikes-and-cuts movement BIG.  It could *also* be a great way to get
know key people and learn about key issues in diverse and disparate
communites across the city.  And for building networks that will help make
popular power possible.

*I am happy to be a point-person for the Davis Square and/or Red Line Squad*.
Anyone else ready to do similar for their neck of the woods? Or who wants
to join me in/for Davis?

-Joe

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:49 PM, <lee at ace-ej.org> wrote:

> thanks eli for the quarter sheet and the call. i thought you and the
> others should know that some of us met today to plan the 1/23 action.
> between 12-12:45pm we'd like to march from the state house to park street
> T, to the transportation building (the alley entrance near the boylston st
> T in the commons). then we want to head to the T's first hearing on the
> fare increase and cuts in the transportation building. genevieve is also
> exploring the possibiility of taking the momentum into the 4:30-6:30pm T
> workshop that afternoon but we'd like to highlight the march on the flyer.
> we also like the idea of planning for a larger action before the 2/13,
> 6-8pm T fare increase and cuts workshop at the library in Copley and using
> other actions in betwen on different targets to escalate. we have a crew of
> folks that we'll be focusing on creative actions to get attention and tell
> our story on the T fare increase and cuts. more to come. thanks again,
>
> lee
> t riders union
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Eli Cohen [mailto:elcoh002 at mail.goucher.edu]
> *Sent:* Monday, January 16, 2012 04:05 PM
> *To:* 'Eric Fields', 'Guy Fawkes',
> occupysomerville-mbta at lists.mayfirst.org,
> 'Emily Parrott', 'street', 'outreach outreach', lee at ace-ej.org,
> Jeremy at massuniting.org,
> golingolin at yahoo.com, ben at occupyboston.org, eli.cohen at mail.goucher.edu,
> mjcjlt at comcast.net, jenmazer at gmail.com, reciprocityrik at gmail.com,
> darronmfs at yahoo.com, lauperu26 at hotmail.com, illynana9 at gmail.com,
> loochyj at gmail.com, greene.douglas at ymail.com, genevieve.d.butler at gmail.com,
>
> maryregan at hotmail.com, charwitt at somervillecdc.org,
> mashaelmajid.1 at gmail.com,
> danny at teenempowerment.org, 'Adam Machson-Carter'
> *Subject:* Re: Occupy The T Quarter-sheets
>
> ...trying that again, only this time, I'm going to *attach* the files. :-D
>
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Eli Cohen <elcoh002 at mail.goucher.edu>wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone!
>>
>> I've put together two sets of quarter-sheets based around the "Free
>> Charlie" idea. One specifically focuses on *Monday, January 23rd*, which
>> is one of the major MBTA hearings in Boston. The T Rider's Union has a
>> rally planned at *Noon at the Transportation Building, 10 Park Plaza<http://maps.google.com/maps?q=10+park+plaza&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x89e37a767c572bc1:0xb05d71435fa7a3b6,10+Park+Plaza,+Boston,+MA+02116&gl=us&ei=ro0UT5HTEuix0QHI4oGwAw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=2&ved=0CCoQ8gEwAQ>
>> * (then the hearing starts at 1PM). Please print and distribute these,
>> particularly at T stations!
>>
>>
>> The other one is a more generic message: "Fare increases and service cuts
>> are happening! Be outraged!" I'm going to make a third one soon that has a
>> message along the lines of "This bus will no longer exist in a couple
>> months!" for use on specific buses and T lines that are disappearing. As
>> always, feel free to email me with more suggestions.
>>
>> In solidarity,
>> Eli Cohen
>>
>
>
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