[Street] notes, Street meeting, 1/5/12

Ben Janos ben at occupyboston.org
Fri Jan 6 18:22:46 EST 2012


AGENDA

present: Ben, B, Eli, Tricia, Nicole, Ravi, Brett, Josh, Anna, KT, Shanna

1. Introductions (if needed)
1a. Pizza- 2 Cheese

2. Occupy the NH Primary

3. Occupy the T, collaboration with T Rider's Union, first planning meeting
1/10/2012, 6 pm, 165 Broadway,  Somerville

-Nicole: long thread on the streets list. The T has a massive deficit, due
to cuts, to address, the MBTA is considering fare hikes, by 40 -70 %,
cutting bus services, problematic to poor communities, cutting weekend
commuter rail service and possibly non-rush hour commuter, and the E -line
on weekends. basically this is a total assault on poor working class
communities. will create more divides. Occupy should get behind this, it's
local, historical, a lot of community organizations. public hearings in
february. we should not do anything w/o community ors, we should have more
solidarity work, not actions.

KT- what are some of these ors?

Nicole- T Rider's union, which is a part of alternative for community
environment, some youth groups

Ben POI- first meeting at Center for Teen Empowerment in Somerville

Eli - close to my house, if we want to gather afterwords

Brett- important planning meeting before where? This is a really good event
to get behind,

165 Broadway

Nicole- we have to do this through outreach to start forming ties with
these community organizations

Brett- so we should got o community org meetings?

Shanna - maybe wait for the research to see what they have done (seconded
by trice)

Eli - We're planning on rescheduling, monday meetings will be combined with
street and DA and other meetings. Th still street exclusive

Ben- I understood that Outreach would be after streets on Mondays

Nicole- wish rave was here, he has

B- Mopnday is DA community gathering, is street involved

Nicole -

Brett - good action step: make sure Ouitreach lets Streets know when they
are meeting with ACE

Niucole- Monday at 7. Our strengths are small mobile actions. This must be
done in collaboration with them. small things: mic checking T, culture
jamming, we could do this for this

Tricia - Canvassing the T to raise awareness that this is happening, but
also what effects this will have

Nicole- everyone think of what we could do

Anna- are they planning on raising fare costs

Tricia - top would be 2.40 per, lower would be 2.25(maybe)

anna- peeps will be trying to sneak on t

tricia- completely cutting ferry service

ben- how are peeps gone get out to harbor islands

eli- how are we gonna get to the islands since that is where we can camp

brett- emailed lee, it depends on what they want from us, if they just want
people that's one thing, if there's more then we should do our best to get
that done. So we might not have that much to discuss.

eli- katie is in touch with jasmine from ace, so there may be specific
people with specific contacts. crags from EJWG knows someone from ACE, so
those connections do exist, good idea to not duplicate efforts.

Brett- my suggestion is to table, unless other people have other ideas.

Ben- I'm going to that meeting, who else (a bunch of people said that
they're going) who wants to do a report back

Eli- I will, and I think it's a good idea that we get idea to have a point
person for that.

Nicole - I'm also gonna bring this to DA, too.

Biuytrew- I'll bring it to women's caucus

Brett- we should do that meeting at Eli's place after.

Eli- I'd love to. I have idea of stuff we can do, like mic checking. any
other ideas

nicolke- culture jamming? Mimicing the signs on the T

trice - there's gonna be a lot of community meetings. we should canvas the
T and inform riders

Ben- we can do a lot of more subversive actions, like culture jamming or
actions in front of T stations

brett- we should also see what local politicians like felix arroyo are
saying

KT- we could do something on the E line when it is gonna be shut down, to
let people know that if these go into effect, this train will not be
running now.

Nicole- we're also known for acts of civil disobedience, if people want to
do that within affinity groups, they should work around that.

Ben- who knows what the plans are?

Nicole- I have them bookmarked

Josh- It's all on the MBTA site

Nicole- also on mass website

ben- can someone write a summary of what they do?

Nicole and Tricia- we can do that

Eli- again, the people on tuesday can see what Ace is doing. cause even now
I'm thinking of actions, I should stop, and wait until after the meeting.
One of the main things they've been working on is a youth pass, which not a
lot of cities have, boston does have it, it would help people that rely on
people that want to get to school

tricia- they said the senior prices will go up a lot, and the Ride is also
going to go up to as much as $12 a ride.

Nicole- for me the Ride is too expensive already, it doesn't always show
up, system is flawed


4. Ridgely will fill us in on Occupy Pittsburg's request for BMY Bank
action for 1/10/2012

kevin- occupy pittsburg had sent emails around, the place they are
occupying is owned by a bank, asking for us to protest at a BMY-Mellon to
show support for Occupy Pittsburg

Brett- what is the real issue here?

kevin- I don't know, they want people to protest by the bank, do something
creative, bank doesn't want them there

tricia- don't evict them kind of message

kevin- and throw it against the bank, because here it is actually the
occupiers vs the bank, not Occupy vs govt

ben- that is the day of the T rider's meeting and the NH prim

nicole- my concern is that it's on the 10th, it's 5 days away, we can't
mobilize in time to do this. Maybe if we had a later date

Ben- second

eli- certainly autonomous action is welcome, temp check on not making this
an official street thing "yes not official street thing"


5. Other future actions (if there's time), such as Valentines Day and MLK
Day.

ben- I think we already addressed MLK day

eli- there is a group of students thinking about doing a love-in sort of
event, a kiss-in.

Ben- I think there's a n atonal day of creative action on 2/12/11, so maybe
we can do something else

Eli- they are going to "make out" like bandits, there will be a consent
aspect to it. people handing out stuff about banks and consent, and
sexuality.


6. Three Strikes Law (Nicole)

Nicole- brief history- this is a law that is in 23 states, basically, puts
habitual offenders in jail for life w/o parole, effects poor communities,
colored communities, and it helped bankrupt Cali, so it's bad for states,
too. They are thinking of doing it here. Passed in NYC as reactionary. Here
they were not able to push it through. on Saturday the 7th their will be a
townhall meeting at OTH, 12:30 Dudley Library, 65 warren St, Roxbury, MA.
people talking to what this is gonna do to their communities.

KT- given police arresting people, it does effect us

Nicole- We should go there and do mostly listening. They have a lot of
supporting organizations, (lists organizations) we should get by it.

Brett- sounds like a huge issue that they are getting a lot of support
behind, and we should get behind to support OTH, and media is giving their
monday community gathering to give to OTH for occupy the hood, it seems
fitting to have OTH do a 3 strikes law at the next community gathering.
This is a worthy campaign for street.

Nicole- we're in the same space with this meeting, we should go to support,
be careful about the way that racial tensions play out.

Ben- Do we know when it is going to a vote?

Nicole- No but we should be wary, because it has popped up unexpectedly. I
also have a fun fact sheet that I can forward to streets list.

Ben- I think this is good on many fronts, go against the law, repair
relations with OTH, and get connections with organizations

(conversation on how relations got screwed up with OTH)


street announcement
NH - elephant with media where we can post signs that address the questions
we want the candidates to address, people can make signs here at GA with
Signs.
We are working on collaborating with T rider's union about the fare hikes.
community meetings all Februaru
street at occupyboston.org
Three strikes law- meeting with OTH, Dudley Library, 65 Warren St, Roxbury


action items: Eli- go to occupy the T meeting, write review
nicole and tricia- write a summary of what the proposals do
Nicole- brief summary of "T shit"
everyone, talk to other occupy WGs about what they are doing for this
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