[Street] Meeting Notes - 12/6
Brett West
heavyriser at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 21:16:19 EST 2011
*Next Street Team meeting is Thursday at 5pm at Gandhi - Topic: Light Saber
action mob planning*
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*Unity Rally Eval Meeting is scheduled for Sunday 2pm, location TBA. Please
invite all organizers, hub organizers, partners, etc...*
Agenda
1. Dsicuss Unity Rally successes and
*-Katie *- Rally should have been shorter
- Could have been a better mix of speakers - Experienced organizers and not
*Ben* - Loved the location of the rally
- Canvassing went well - mostly positive feedback from people. Talked to a
lot of folks who had only experienced occupy through mainstream media. Got
to dialogue on the movement.
- liked the singalong band and bubbles - family stuff. Liked the sink and
all creativity involved.
- Wants to have a 2nd day of action
*Ravi* - Sucked that we didn't have amplification permit
*Michael T*. - thinks canvassing was an important part of it
- Open to doing more canvassing stuff
*Brett - *Plan it farther in advance. We got on the ground to outreach and
organize about a week and a half before the event Dec. 3
- More equal distribution of responsibility
- Sound logistics god put on back burner and that hurt us
*Ravi - *ends the shorter Rally idea
2. Proposals for Next Action (This conversation got melded with: What is
the mission and role of the Street Team)
Context - Outreach doesn't have person power to do everything they want to
do.
Ideas for next actions...
*1. GA at other location that Dewey*
* *- (Nicole)
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*2. Tea Party action on the 16th*
* - *(Katie)
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*3. Light Saber flash mob*
* *- (Nicole)
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*4. Boston Common Christmas display action*
* *- No game plan for this, I just strongly disapprove Boston
Common's appearance right now
* *- (Brett)
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*5. Action against the Herald*
* -* make a letter/ pamphlet documenting things that Howy Carr says . Fact
checking, making fun of his logical fallacies to draw attention to Herald's
poor reporting. This can help us get more media attention (Nicole)
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*6. Fashion show in Downtown Crossing - Really Really Free Market*
* *- (Nicole)
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*7. Canvassing*
* *- Put together an ethnographic document that tells what the 99%ers not
at dewey square think, feel and believe (Ben)
* *
*8. Yard signs*
* * -People put tents in their yards, with 99% signs on them. Get creative
with this (Brett and Katie)
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*9. Culture Jamming*
* *- Turning subway posters into Occupy Ads
*10. Miscellanious*
* *- Junk mail campaign - Bring your junk mail to occupy boston and mail it
back with Occupy info (ex. how to start and occupation in their city)
(Katie)
- Tag board in every subway station - 1 big question on each. Ex. did you
pay more in student loans than on yourself this year….? (Katie)
*Ravi* - Sees Street as a catalyst for innovative actions and getting shit
done. We need to be very methodical
-We need to draw on diverse group of people
-Build strong connections with OEB and OTH
-We need to be constantly analyzing and evaluating
- Maybe we can get more diverse representation in the group
-R will start thread conversation of what are the small things that we can
do to be a better street team and work more effectively.
*Nicole* - Sees Street as a DA group with great potential
- We should bring reps to DA and ask for a merge between the groups
- Through direct actions, we'll find our purpose in these actions. Occupy
is a DA movement by origin
- DA is not all anarchist and DA is not just people that dress in black.
People in DA have great ideas.
- Media: (i missed this point)
*Katie* - When we plan an action we need to think about what we have the
capacity to pul off.
- Who can we help reach their goals?
-Katie thinks things that we can pull off are 1) Light Sabor flash mob and
2) Tents in your yard
- DA does not have a monopoly on actions. Street team has a broad network,
which gives us good potential
-Llkes the framework under which the Unity Rally came to be: Idea,
discussion, email organizing/ meetings, event.
*Brett - *We need to have a conversation about what street is before we
continue to plan. We will step on DA's toes.
-10 minutes of each street team meeting would be focused on improving st.
team. The rest on DA planning. That will let us be an action-oriented group
and to grow and improve as well
*Kevin* - Don't let the "What is street" conversation slow us down. We
have great momentum off of Saturday
-Kevin writes a proposal for continued BOA actions
*Ridgeoy Fuller*- We should always have leaflets when we have an action,
so that even if it goes wrong, the public knows what we're trying to do
- We need to make actions accessible to everyone.
*Trisha* - Occupy won't go much farther unless we pull in more and more
people. We should consider that in considering a merge with DA
- Relatively new OB person and wants to enhance public
reputation
*ACTIONS*
Ravi makes a doodle to schedule next meeting after thursday
Folks write up proposals for their action ideas to present at above meeting
Nicole invites DA to next meeting - Thursday - and subsequent meetings
Ravi starts email thread that calls for* ideas to make street as effective
and innovative as possible*
*Next Meeting is Thursday at 5pm at Ghandi *
>From now on Street team meetings, excluding thursday's light saber meeting,
incorporates 10 mins of each to *ways to improve street team operations*
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Brett sends out Sunday eval meeting invitation for 2pm South Station
(included). Ravi emails alissa for E5 space for Sunday
Thanks for a great meeting everyone. And let work to retain the momentum
from Saturday!
Brett
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You can do anything you want, as long as you don't wait for permission.
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