[Street] Continuing the thread (and meeting today, 6pm @ Gandhi!)
Occupy Boston Music and Events
booking99percent at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 10:30:44 EST 2011
Nov 20- We have Peter Tosh son, Tosh 1 doing a music video of his fathers
song... :Get Up, Stand Up for Your Rights on the books for Nov 20th.
I think that very important for everyone involved with Occupy Boston to be
a part of this music video.
Kelley
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Katie Gradowski <katie.gradowski at gmail.com
> wrote:
> Some thoughts on dates:
>
> November 17 would be great but is coming up VERY soon. If we wanted to go
> that route, it would be pretty imperative that we coordinate with labor
> (there's a big planning meeting on this tomorrow)
>
> November 19 is great, because it's in conjunction with the summit (though
> REALLY BAD, in that I can't go!!!) It's also pretty short notice,
> depending on how wide a shout-out we want to do.
>
> November 20 is fine, too, but no summit (Maureen, are the dates of the
> summit negotiable at all?) It seems incredibly useful to have them as
> paired events, especially if we're doing a cross-boston shout-out for
> participation.
>
> December 3 - does anyone know the details for the OTH / OEB event? This
> is very close to the (as-yet-unannounced) day of action on foreclosure,
> which we're hoping to promote pretty heavily, but would also give us enough
> forward time to get lots of groups on board.
>
> If we can dovetail without overshadowing that event, that would be
> amazing. I'd be strongly in favor of that, because it would give us more
> time to plan, coordinate, and get other groups on board.
>
>
> ***********************************************************************************************
>
> Just from an outreach perspective, I would LOVE for this to be a
> cross-boston event, with community organizations, rank and file workers,
> neighborhood organizations and other groups getting on board, as well as
> many of the working groups --- and two weeks is a little short notice to
> organize something really big like this.
>
> Vis a vis the 17th, is there anything that prevents us from doing a
> smaller version on the 17th, to build toward a larger action on one of the
> following weekends? We can organize street teams pretty much anytime, and
> the 17th might be a really great test run to see how it goes and work out
> some of the kinks.
>
> Also, I think there are a LOT of people who work 9-5 who would want to be
> in on this. You can't hold a festival on a weekday morning! and
> festival is I think definitely what we're going for here.
>
> hurray! exciting!
>
> Katie
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Ravi Mishra <ravi at occupyboston.org>wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> So stoked from all the awesome feedback and ideas. We have so much to
>> work with! I'll aim to synthesize the previous thread to reorient
>> and facilitate further discussion. Here were the major points I saw
>> combined with other comments people have made via text or in-person (and
>> please feel free to add to it because it's late and I'm definitely going to
>> leave stuff out):
>>
>>
>> 1. Logistical concerns - how we get people there (march or just meet
>> in different places), planning for contingencies, etc.
>> 2. Content - what do we want to say, what do we want to ask people,
>> etc.
>> 3. Methods to sign up volunteers
>> 4. Names - "Meet the 99%" seemed to get some +1s, please continue to
>> throw out more ideas
>> 5. Reaching out to Occupy the Hood, Ocupemos El Barrio, area
>> colleges, etc. This is already in the works (Eric and/or Rene will be
>> joining Michael from BU at a meeting at BU tomorrow, among other things),
>> but we need your help!
>> 6. Date - people have thrown out a few so far: Thursday - 11/17,
>> Saturday - 11/19, Saturday 12/3, and others. My quick thoughts are that I
>> think it has to be a weekend day. I agree with the point that people coming
>> home from their commutes are less likely to want to stop and engage in
>> conversation. Weather is also a factor (people don't want to talk in the
>> cold), so the sooner we do this, the better. Summit is definitely a concern
>> that we'll need to address. All dates are on the table, so please continue
>> to discuss.
>> 7. Mini demonstrations at individual sites (flash mobs, march
>> formations, spoken word, open forums, conducting GAs, etc.) - I think these
>> are very, very interesting and we should definitely discuss once we have
>> some of the higher level details hammered out. I see a lot of innovation on
>> these concepts as we get better at this.
>>
>>
>> Again, I'm sure I left stuff off, so please fill in the blanks. What
>> really gets me excited is point 7 above. So many people have so many
>> amazing ideas - what we're doing is incredible because we're innovating on
>> the entire concept of demonstrations. (My contribution: I'm betting there
>> is a cool way to get technology/social media involved to give us a dynamic
>> digital presence. Not quite sure exactly how, but I'm sure we can do a ton
>> of awesome stuff.)
>>
>> Can't wait to make this happen. See you all tomorrow!
>>
>>
>> Ravi
>>
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