[Street] OB Actions

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Wed Jan 11 22:02:16 EST 2012


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OMG bank tag would be amazing. i didn't even think of stopping at
banks :D!
when is the next meeting (it looks like next week my schedule will
be better for me to attend) thanks!

On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:15:55 -0500 Nicole Sullivan
<nicole_sullivan at live.com> wrote:
>I love this. Its getting back to the heart of what we are about. I

>think we could do a sustained campaign with CASA on this. They
>have been planning really interesting things such as walking tours

>of the banks and so on.
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>I love the idea of making a contest out of it. I would be careful
>of how that may be construed by authorties- I think we would need
>to do research on the legal implications of encouraging people to
>shut down banks.
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>I wonder if we can do bank tag. Have a large day of action with
>the purpose being to shut down as many banks as possible. We can
>make it a competition between occupies and that could kick of a
>long term campaign of bank actions.
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>Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:52:25 -0500
>Subject: Re: [Street] OB Actions
>From: aria at littlhous.net
>To: nicole_sullivan at live.com
>CC: arieloboston at gmail.com; suarezalexander at yahoo.com;
>Street at lists.occupyboston.org; elcoh002 at mail.goucher.edu
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>The idea of frightening banks into closing for a day is great for
>two reasons: 1. it's funny 2. it actually effects their bottom
>line. What could give it even more "umph" would be
>tracking/turning it into some kind of contest--that also up's the
>PR potential. Maybe "there's an app for that" ;)....you know, how
>long it took for them to close their doors, were you able to speak

>to someone/make human contact, what reasons did they give....A big

>party/demonstration after we close....100??? doors?????
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>On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Nicole Sullivan
><nicole_sullivan at live.com> wrote:
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>+1 to Ariel.
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>I will also ask that you voluntarily stay off the lists.
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>From: Ariel Nicole <arieloboston at gmail.com>
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>Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:32:44
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>Cc: <elcoh002 at mail.goucher.edu>; <Street at lists.occupyboston.org>
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>Subject: Re: [Street] OB Actions
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>Al,
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>Here is the link to the minutes:
>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r-BgyrZbozeHcBt6Itw_j6cSWu-
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>"Zoe: There was something that took place last night that directly

>affects people in this community.  There wa a person who was
>sitting behind that man.  His name is Al Suarex.  There was a
>house in mattapan that was a safe place for occupiers.  He
>pressured her to take a drink and she finally took it.  She woke
>up and the person with her thought she was going to die.  She had
>a drug test and tested positive for Rohypnol.  We're looking for
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>Tess left you a voicemail regarding your presence at tonight's
>IDEAS WG meeting. We do not feel it is appropriate for you to take

>part in Occupy Boston until this is dealt with and ask that you
>voluntarily abstain from involvement until that time.
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>On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Alexander Suarez
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>i heard i was mentioned at the last part of the last ga when i was

>not present, how can i find the transcript or can someone tell me
>what was said?
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>--- On Wed, 1/11/12, Deborah Fortson <tempest at rcn.com
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>From: Deborah Fortson <tempest at rcn.com <mailto:tempest at rcn.com> >
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>Subject: Re: [Street] OB Actions
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>To: "Eli Cohen" <elcoh002 at mail.goucher.edu
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> Cc: "street" <Street at lists.occupyboston.org
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>Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 12:06 PM
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>I love the idea of doing actions to inform the public of exactly
>what it is that banks do that is in the way of economic recovery,
>how they stand in the way of small business regenerating, what
>they have done about mortgages that was deceitful and harmful
>(I'll bet some people still don't really know how that went down)

>How they're tied in to the organizations like AIG and Goldman
>Sachs . (I don't know exactly how,  but it would be interesting to

>find out)
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>street theater?  signs?  cantastorias?
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>Deborah Lake  (CASA)
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>617-731-9697 <tel:617-731-9697>
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>On Jan 11, 2012, at 12:17 AM, Eli Cohen wrote:
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>I like it! Reading this story
><http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/01/05/wild-old-women-close-
>san-francisco-bank-of-america-branch/>  gave me a similar idea,
>since it showed just how quick they are to close their doors.
>Every BoA action Occupy has done, they've shut the doors on us...
>and as far as I'm concerned, that's fine! If they want to close
>the doors, that's a win for us (it stops us from closing our
>accounts, but prevents them from doing business). I know some
>people will be uncomfortable discussing details here (security
>culture, etc.), but I could see some kind of sustained action at a

>couple banks, or closing a different bank every day, or a
>coordinated action at every big bank in the city, or something
>else I'm not even thinking of right now. Who knows!? Let's work on

>it.
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>On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Kevin Maley
><kevinmaley at gmail.com <http://mc/compose?to=kevinmaley@gmail.com>
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>So a few of us have been having some conversations about a focused

>and sustained campaign on the financial institutions, specifically

>the mega-banks. This would include actions like today's at BNY
>Mellon and the BofA action we did during the Day of Action. It
>would also include informing the public about things they can do
>(transfer to credit unions) and the egregious things the big banks

>do; such as basically taking over public policy, making huge
>investments in dirty coal and mountain top removal, and
>foreclosing on millions of Americans, often illegally.
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>We were going to do it as either a subset of street or probably a
>separate working group, since its focused on a specific target,
>but would involve street action and so wanted to collaborate and
>get people aboard who wanted to join. I think we are looking to
>meet next weekend (the one after MLK) but times not sure. So if
>you want in let me know
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>Also thinking back to the Day of Action/Unity Rally, it was a
>really unique thing that really brought everyone together. With
>recent events at OB getting really ugly internally, I think it
>would help us as a movement to try something like that again soon,

>or otherwise plan some big action that can help us look outward
>and keep moving. Maybe a bank action, maybe something separate,
>maybe a lot of separate actions like the DofA. Not sure what it
>would look like but just wanted throw that out there as I think it

>would be good for people at Occupy Boston
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>keep on truckin'
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>Kev
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