[Street] Event outline, updates, and todos

Ravi Mishra ravi at occupyboston.org
Sat Nov 19 23:13:41 EST 2011


A lot here - please read.

Hi all,

As Brett's notes discussed at depth, we had a very productive meeting
today. *The entire idea for the day of action has changed (for the better,
we think). It is now very, very simple:*

1) 10am-1pm: Actions throughout the city. If you have an idea, go do it. If
you want to join an existing action, browse the planned actions and join.
Marches, canvassing, flash mobs, and anything and everything else can dream
up.

2) 1pm-whenever: Rally at Copley Square. Details TBD. Ideas include
speakers, musicians, art displays/exhibitions, facilitating group
conversations, and, again, anything and everything else we can dream up.

Now, we need to create infrastructure for this - we have this very complex
problem of people being very interested in this novel action concept, but
we need to make sure we facilitate their participation. *To do this, we've
created a couple avenues:*
*
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*Eventbrite page: http://occupyunity.eventbrite.com/*
*Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/291033400930914/*

*Things we need:*
1) A new name! Any suggestions?
2) Ideas for actions! Describe your action, pick a place, and organize it!
Use this Google Doc to organize:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ooUD5S0Xbeh3iPH1OQKBVzwa3ib9TTjxiUOJ8WvrBi4/edit?hl=en_US
3) Materials for education. Same procedure here - we want to build a
repository of flyers about the issues we care about. For now, use the
Google Doc to organize:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yNNl1Dh1oSEARv3U7dhKBnjTdOOkXTKqSmTw6mGSu-U/edit?hl=en_US
4) Plan for the Rally - right now we have none! Use this Google Doc to
brainstorm ideas, and we'll discuss at the next meeting:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lC_wMbctHj8fop8VxNVTOqK1FcMiQZ7nnkdRVq2BQTs/edit
5) Announcements and outreach. Someone needs to make an announcement at
every GA from here on out. Tell people about the eventbrite and Facebook
event sites - they have all the info that people need.
6) DIY flyer page - we need a basic form flyer that we can feed info in to.
Simon/Allison/Michael? Or anyone else? I'll be working on the tech side of
this.

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Personal notes/suggestions:

1) For the actions, maybe the first part can be focused on education - we
ask people to design their actions around increasing the public's awareness
of the issues - and the second part can be designed around fostering and
celebrating unity. Given that those are the two themes we've been
discussing at length, this could be a good split of the day.

2) I think it'd be cool if we have multiple things going on during the
unity rally time. While speakers can be uniting, they can also be very
boring and don't fall within our horizontal spirit of the movement. Some
speakers, some musicians, some art, etc. going on somewhat simultaneously
could be pretty cool. I don't know how it'd all work, but I think we can
make it happen. Very open to ideas because I'm mostly just brainstorming
here.

3) I'm going to miss you guys! I'm back home for Thanksgiving and work
until Nov 30. I'll be active on the email list and hope to get conference
called into the subsequent meetings we have. I'm going to focus on having
the tech and media parts of this as well. As for meetings, at the very
least, if someone can fill me in on what happens after via phone, that'd be
great.

Amazing energy, great day. Talk to everyone soon.

--
Ravi
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