[Street] Action goals - a brainstorm

Rachel Plattus rachelbp at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 12:53:20 EST 2011


All of these fall under the broad heading of ORGANIZING:

4) Outreach: to bring more individuals into the movement and activate those
individuals
5) Outreach: to show organizations why they should want to work with us
long term
6) Community building: to identify groups and individuals within the
movement who are uniquely suited to working on a given action as a way of
expanding our base of those who work their asses off
7) Internal education: to use actions as an opportunity to make ourselves
better at what we do (organizing, media, interpretive dancing, etc)



On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Ravi Mishra <ravi at occupyboston.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Writing that last email made me think that it might be fun (and useful) to
> have a theoretical discussion of what various goals of action should be? In
> my mind (please chime in here), a valid goal for an action is any
> ideal/value or outcome that aids our overall movement. For example,
> education is a very obvious goal - if people know more about the issues,
> they're more likely to support our cause, which makes it easier for us to
> change the status quo. Conversely (and this could be controversial, again
> please chime in), something like "agitation" if often thought of as a goal
> in of itself, but I think it probably needs more qualification to be truly
> accepted as a goal. Shutting down a street in a financial district could
> definitely be a goal because it hurts the operations of those who are
> behind the problems that plague our society
>
> Anyway, without further ado, some goals off the top of my head - please
> discuss and add yours!
>
> 1) Education - teaching people about the issues and what is going on
> today, for example
> 2) Fun! We're not going to be here in the long run if we're not enjoying
> ourselves. :)
> 3) Targeted systems disruption - making it harder for the opposition to do
> stuff in a manner that helps our cause
>
> Any particular action can aim to achieve one, some, or all of these goals.
> The point of this thread is to create a list of what action goals should
> be, and the hope is that we can use these later to more effectively analyze
> actions and their efficacy.
>
> Finally. this article by author John Robb frames some basic Conflict
> Theory quite well and could serve as a framework to think about what goals
> of actions should be.<http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/11/how-to-win-a-modern-conflict.html>
>
> Thoughts?
>
> --
> Ravi
>
>
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