[Street] re Occupy the 'T' SUCCESSFUL Campaign
Ridgely Fuller
ridgelyfuller at gmail.com
Sat Jan 14 17:00:27 EST 2012
what I meant by organize/coordinate the campaign..was only the internal OB
portion of it..so that each wg wouldn't have to coordinate its efforts
with each of the other actors/players/orgs outside of OB..meaning the
street WG would be a central go between OB and the outside..maybe not
necessary, i don't know..just wanted to make it easy as possible to have
each WG use all its energy in formulating its particular piece of the OB
effort..'Free Charlie'..and have a clear role for us....formalizing that we
wouldn't be doing All the OB work on the fare/service.....
don't know but clearly not meaning that we would coordiante the entire
effort!! egads!..I think the T Riders are pros on this issue and what needs
to be done...
Ridgely
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Josh Golin <golingolin at yahoo.com> wrote:
> That's a pretty comprehensive and impressive outline.
>
> I wonder, however, whether it makes since for this group to try and plan
> and organize an entire campaign. There are already a lot of folks working
> on this and I think they'll probably be working on a lot of the things in
> this outline. So we might play more of supporting role on some of these
> things (e.g. petitioning, legislator support) and focus our planning energy
> on those things that we're uniquely situated to do: creative actions.
>
> Along those lines, I'd encourage those who are at the action summit to
> pitch one or two specific actions for brainstorming/enlisting volunteers
> rather than a whole campaign.
>
> I also think it's important to bring an Occupy frame to this. Remember
> everyone is going to be hurt by both plans: students, seniors, low-income
> people, T workers (don't forget them!), T commuters, drivers (more
> traffic), clean air, climate. Everyone that is except the debt holders.
> The fact that the T is obligated to pay every penny of its debt payments
> first and then let the rest of us fight over the crumbs is one way to shift
> the debate from choosing between two horrible plans.
>
> Sorry I can't be at Sunday's meeting. Look forward to hearing what
> everyone comes up with.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Ridgely Fuller <ridgelyfuller at gmail.com>
> *To:* Daniel Mc <danielm at occupyboston.org>
> *Cc:* street <street at lists.occupyboston.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, January 13, 2012 4:59 PM
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Street] re Occupy the 'T' SUCCESSFUL Campaign
>
> Daniel..
> I think this is a GREAT blueprint.with all necessary components.and we can
> certainly use trying to get as many of the specifics covered by all the
> folks at the Action Summit ..sorry you can't be there on Sunday. wouldn't
> you like the press conference/campaign launching to be at a T stop?
> Ridgely
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Daniel Mc <danielm at occupyboston.org>wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I can not make the meeting this Sunday but wanted to share some ideas
> about how best to develop a successful campaign. A campaign needs to be
> organized, to the point, and systematized in order to be successful. It
> also has to have a number of phases or levels. Here is a brief outline off
> the top of my head. Some of these things have certainly already been done
> but need to be expanded upon. They don't necessarily need to be in this
> particular order, but I think it best.
>
> - Develop literature
> - i.e. flyer, petition, FAQ, press release
> - Develop coalition/allies
> - Sounds like this has been started with Occupy Somerville, T
> Riders Union, etc.
> - We need to expand this
> - i.e. include other Occupies (The Burbs, JP, Ocupemos, OTH)
> - Launch campaign publicly
> - hold a press conference
> - have a campaign launching party (rent out a space?)
> - Events to raise awareness
> - panel discussion, debate, street theater, chalking, banner drop
> - Outreach
> - Door to door canvassing (read: station to station)
> - Campaigning, petition signing
> - Gain support of legislators
> - This is more generally for campaigns and I dont know if we want
> to go this route but always something to consider
> - Media coverage
> - Reach out to media and get them at awareness raising events,
> street theater, etc.
>
> I know that this may be a lot to take on but I think we have a lot of
> support and interest in this campaign. If we can delegate responsibilities
> properly, I think we can do a lot of what is outlined above.
> Thoughts?
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Daniel.
> Occupy Boston Outreach Committee
> **Use this email for all things occupy**
>
>
> Quoting Joseph Ramsey <jgramsey at gmail.com>:
>
> > +100 to "Free Charlie!" as a great movement image and slogan.
> >
> > Based on the Somerville meeting two nights ago (where this slogan was
> also
> > greeted with enthusiasm), I wrote up a (text) leaflet around the theme of
> > reasons to "Occupy the T." It is attached as a word file.
> >
> > I welcome feedback, but even moreso welcome people to adapt, edit, or
> just
> > go out and use them as you see fit. (I only ask that you change the
> > contact info, if you change the flier text substantially--currently it
> has
> > one of my emails on it.)
> >
> > I am hoping that in some way the image based work that Eli is working on
> > can be merged with (some of) the language that I have developed here. I
> > wrote the flier so that it works as a pretty punchy and wide-ranging
> > two-sided leaflet of bullet points. It's also written so that you could
> > life out like say 10 of these bullet points and run a bigger font (or
> > smaller size) leafet with like a "Top Ten Reasons to Occupy the T" .
> >
> > I tried to keep in mind a few potential T-rider audiences:
> >
> > 1) People who are already sympathetic and will be interested in getting
> > involved in Occupy the T, not just because of the MBTA's shitty plan, but
> > because of their sympathy with the broader goals and values of the 99%
> > movement. This is why, as you will see, the flier addresses not just the
> > cutbacks but other social and environmental justice issues that are
> > connected to the cutbacks.
> >
> > 2) General, T-Riders (workers, residents, students, and seniors, etc)
> who
> > have heard about the cutbacks/fare hikes, and are pissed about it.
> >
> > 3) Other T-riders who may have heard about the MBTA plan, but aren't
> > really sure what it means yet.
> >
> > I welcome all comments and suggestions. (As I said this is raw copy for
> > use.) Maybe somebody could make a bunch of copies of (some version of
> > this) before the next Street meeting. For my part I plan to leaflet the
> > Red Line and bus riders in Davis Square starting this weekend, Sunday
> > 12-2pm for starters. Let me know if you'd like to join me.
> >
> > Enjoy the leaflet--I had fun writing it!
> >
> > best,
> > Joe
> >
> > P.S. Two things I love about "Free Charlie": 1) Obviously the creative,
> > ironic way it links the popular song to the cards or tickets in people's
> > wallets. 2) But also the way it suggests the potential to go on
> offense,
> > and to raise demands not only to oppose the current plans (that's
> defense)
> > but to move the public discourse and to build a broad-based movement to
> > establish FREE public transportation as a matter of RIGHT in our city,
> and
> > around the world (for environmental as well as 99%-pocketbook and social
> > justice reasons).
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Ben Janos <ben at occupyboston.org> wrote:
> >
> >> What is IRC?
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Patricia Downer <
> >> patricia.downer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Was talking in OB Radio chat about Occupy MBTA. Someone from IRC said
> >>> they're working on that stuff too. Wants some one to coordinate with
> them.
> >>> I honestly don't have time. :( Can some one please reach out to
> him/her(not
> >>> sure) to coordinate: smant at occupyboston.org
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Patricia Downer
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Patricia Downer <
> >>> patricia.downer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Well, where is the Sunday Action Summit? (I forget where our Sunday
> >>>> meetings usually are) Preferably somewhere within walking distance
> from
> >>>> there.
> >>>>
> >>>> Patricia Downer
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Ben Janos <ben at occupyboston.org
> >wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> yeah, let's have a street meeting sunday at 4 to work out what we
> >>>>> will talk about at the Action summit on Sunday! I'd love to get as
> many
> >>>>> people involved as possible! OB has been really buzzing about this,
> let's
> >>>>> get some people to start working on it and make this campaign
> >>>>> really happen!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Location suggestion anyone?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Ben
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Ridgely Fuller <
> >>>>> ridgelyfuller at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi Folks..
> >>>>>> .I thought the T riders U mtg last night was really good ( though
> left
> >>>>>> at 7:30) and it doesn't seem to me, at least up until I left
> >>>>>> that OB would
> >>>>>> be stepping on anyon orgs. toes by initiating Free Charlie
> >>>>>> strategy...i am
> >>>>>> wondering whether 'street' should offer that up as an initial
> >>>>>> Action idea
> >>>>>> at this Sunday's Action Summit..that way we might get all workgroups
> >>>>>> working on the campaign in their own way..eg we wouldn't have to
> >>>>>> have our
> >>>>>> few members go to CASA ..we could get CASA right there on Sunday
> >>>>>> night and
> >>>>>> ask them to consider our ideas but come up their own..same for
> >>>>>> media..etc
> >>>>>> etc..'street' might then have more of a coordinating role among
> >>>>>> groups on
> >>>>>> the Free Charlie Strategy rather than have to round up all the
> resources
> >>>>>> and do all the wrok ourselves..seems like an easy way to get all of
> OB
> >>>>>> involved in this really exciting idea..one of the things I liked
> >>>>>> best about
> >>>>>> the TRU mtg was the incredible
> >>>>>> diversity..age,ethnicity,city/suburb......etc
> >>>>>> if you all like the idea of it being part of OB action summit this
> >>>>>> Sunday at 5, maybe we should get together at 4 to see what
> components it
> >>>>>> might have and how we would help organiize it..i really want
> >>>>>> these Action
> >>>>>> Sunday's to work!!!!!
> >>>>>> Ridgely
> >>>>>>
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