[Street] Circle of lighted tiny tents..
Nicole Sullivan
nicole_sullivan at live.com
Thu Dec 22 00:49:50 EST 2011
around the commons or possibly copely if that is too big. Its visual, we could have a vigil type thing and it would be similar to the idea of lights around dewey,
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:16:19 -0500
Subject: Re: nye actions
From: kevinmaley at gmail.com
To: katie.gradowski at gmail.com
CC: ravi at occupyboston.org; efeghali at gmail.com; rachelbp at gmail.com; occupyprospecthill at gmail.com; heavyriser at gmail.com; yahktoe at gmail.com; nelsonterry123 at gmail.com; courtney.mulroy at gmail.com; nicole_sullivan at live.com; Street at lists.occupyboston.org; infotent at lists.occupyboston.org
Hey Everyone
We had a really productive meeting for Info's plans for First Night. I am summarizing notes and will send out later, but here is the summary:
-We are going to meet at a home base (possibly Community Church) around 12 or 1, then disperse into groups of 4 or 5 to hot-spots in the city where we expect a lot of foot traffic.
- Each group will be a mobile info tent. We will have buttons, Occupy Boston literature, sign-up sheets to join the movement, a big Occupy Boston sign, potentially tiny tents, tent hats, and maybe a little red mobile-info wagon with a tent over it. We are also trying to stay on message and let people know we are not just a movement to be a movement, but are connected to economic/social-justice issues that touch all of the 99%
- We are going to meet back at Community around 4 and debrief; then hope to go on to that night's GA in a place that is outside and visible to a large audience (will bring that up tomorrow) and have an "info" presence there for any new people
- We are also looking to coordinate with any other OB actions; including any street theater or kid friendly events, underscoring that we are going to be about most of the afternoon/early evening, where First Night is family friendly, and look to pull back when the drunks start coming out. perhaps we will all go to a bar afterward...
Next meeting is Monday at 7pm
thanksKevin
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Katie Gradowski <katie.gradowski at gmail.com> wrote:
Hey all!
I'm going to be out of the loop on these actions --- next week is winter vacation camp, and Parts and Crafts has separate plans for first night, so that's going to be my main focus for the next two weeks. If people do decide to go forward on the actions that were discussed, I have two things to add!
1) We have workshop space to volunteer if anyone needs a place to assemble floats, masks, giant puppets, what have you --- lots of space and a bunch of tools in West Somerville, open any day after 3 next week.
2) Radical christmas caroling came up at least three times in that meeting. Our house is having a solstice party on December 30, with at least three divergent groups of nerdy folks in attendance. Anyone up for some radical rehearsing?
Love to all from Maryland!
Katie
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Ravi Mishra <ravi at occupyboston.org> wrote:
adding nicole to this chain (see below for some ideas i wanted to throw out there). please feel free to reply with comments, and let me know how i can help plan this stuff. i'll have a mass email going out about actions (summarizing the summit, next steps, etc.) before i sleep tonight, and i'll include a plug for nye in that as well.
given the cohesiveness of the ob community, nye will be a great night to get a ton of people involved in actions (because we'll all want to hang out). let's not let the opportunity slip! :)
--Ravi
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Ravi Mishra <ravi at occupyboston.org> wrote:
kev - not sure how i left you off the initial message. major apologies.
sounds like meetings are happening tonight and tomorrow. i can definitely be available by phone/dial into a conf call to listen in if you guys can set this up.
i wanted to throw some ideas out there:
1) random acts of kindness.2) chalking happy messages around the city (need to look into legality): stuff like "ob wishes you a happy new year" and maybe something sarcastic/humorous about how much corporations are screwing people.
3) mic-checking subways4) flashmobs at various events: http://schedule.firstnight.org/5) quick input about the "circle of lights" idea floating around: i think we can do way better. dewey is going to be fairly deserted compared to other places. there is a lot going on, and we should focus on high traffic areas, imo.
overall, strategically (echoing the action summit), i think first night should be a perception-building night for us: make our presence known, come across as positive, give people reasons to like us, etc.
--Ravi
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Elias Feghali <efeghali at gmail.com> wrote:
There was a ton of enthusiasm to move forward with NYE actions, but it's going to take a hell of a lot of organizing if we want to do it right. At the very least, we need to meet soon to start planning. If we choose a few strategic, realistic actions, I think we can pull it off.
Appreciate the offer for off-site support, Ravi. We'll lean on you as soon as we can, ha.
Eli
On Tuesday, December 20, 2011, Ravi Mishra wrote:
anything i can do to help organize? i'm out of town but can send emails and try to coordinate and all that. lmk :)
btw, pretty crazy schedule of events: http://schedule.firstnight.org/
--Ravi
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