[Street] Meeting Notes - 12/6

Brett West heavyriser at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 21:16:19 EST 2011


*Next Street Team meeting is Thursday at 5pm at Gandhi - Topic: Light Saber
action mob planning*

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*Unity Rally Eval Meeting is scheduled for Sunday 2pm, location TBA. Please
invite all organizers, hub organizers, partners, etc...*


Agenda


1. Dsicuss Unity Rally successes and


*-Katie *- Rally should have been shorter

- Could have been a better mix of speakers - Experienced organizers and not

*Ben* - Loved the location of the rally

- Canvassing went well - mostly positive feedback from people. Talked to a
lot of folks who had only experienced occupy through mainstream media. Got
to dialogue on the movement.

- liked the singalong band and bubbles - family stuff. Liked the sink and
all creativity involved.

- Wants to have a 2nd day of action

*Ravi*   - Sucked that we didn't have amplification permit

*Michael T*. - thinks canvassing was an important part of it

- Open to doing more canvassing stuff

*Brett - *Plan it farther in advance. We got on the ground to outreach and
organize about a week and a half before the event Dec. 3

- More equal distribution of responsibility

- Sound logistics god put on back burner and that hurt us

*Ravi - *ends the shorter Rally idea


2. Proposals for Next Action (This conversation got melded with: What is
the mission and role of the Street Team)


Context - Outreach doesn't have person power to do everything they want to
do.


Ideas for next actions...



*1. GA at other location that Dewey*

* *- (Nicole)

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*2. Tea Party action on the 16th*

* - *(Katie)

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*3. Light Saber flash mob*

* *- (Nicole)

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*4. Boston Common Christmas display action*

*        *- No game plan for this, I just strongly disapprove Boston
Common's appearance right now

* *- (Brett)

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*5. Action against the Herald*

* -* make a letter/ pamphlet documenting things that Howy Carr says . Fact
checking, making fun of his logical fallacies to draw attention to Herald's
poor reporting. This can help us get more media attention (Nicole)

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*6. Fashion show in Downtown Crossing - Really Really Free Market*

* *- (Nicole)

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*7. Canvassing*

* *- Put together an ethnographic document that tells what the 99%ers not
at dewey square think, feel and believe (Ben)

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*8. Yard signs*

* * -People put tents in their yards, with 99% signs on them. Get creative
with this (Brett and Katie)

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*9. Culture Jamming*

* *- Turning subway posters into Occupy Ads


*10. Miscellanious*

* *- Junk mail campaign - Bring your junk mail to occupy boston and mail it
back with Occupy info (ex. how to start and occupation in their city)
(Katie)

- Tag board in every subway station - 1 big question on each. Ex. did you
pay more in student loans than on yourself this year….? (Katie)

 *Ravi* - Sees Street as a catalyst for innovative actions and getting shit
done. We need to be very methodical

-We need to draw on diverse group of people

-Build strong connections with OEB and OTH

-We need to be constantly analyzing and evaluating

- Maybe we can get more diverse representation in the group

-R will start thread conversation of what are the small things that we can
do to be a better street team and work more effectively.


*Nicole* - Sees Street as a DA group with great potential

- We should bring reps to DA and ask for a merge between the groups

- Through direct actions, we'll find our purpose in these actions. Occupy
is a DA movement by origin

- DA is not all anarchist and DA is not just people that dress in black.
People in DA have great ideas.

- Media: (i missed this point)


*Katie* - When we plan an action we need to think about what we have the
capacity to pul off.

- Who can we help reach their goals?

-Katie thinks things that we can pull off are 1) Light Sabor flash mob and
2) Tents in your yard

- DA does not have a monopoly on actions. Street team has a broad network,
which gives us good potential

-Llkes the framework under which the Unity Rally came to be: Idea,
discussion, email organizing/ meetings, event.


*Brett - *We need to have a conversation about what street is before we
continue to plan. We will step on DA's toes.

-10 minutes of each street team meeting would be focused on improving st.
team. The rest on DA planning. That will let us be an action-oriented group
and to grow and improve as well

 *Kevin* - Don't let the "What is street" conversation slow us down. We
have great momentum off of Saturday

-Kevin writes a proposal for continued BOA actions

 *Ridgeoy Fuller*- We should always have leaflets when we have an action,
so that even if it goes wrong, the public knows what we're trying to do

- We need to make actions accessible to everyone.


*Trisha* - Occupy won't go much farther unless we pull in more and more
people. We should consider that in considering a merge with DA

             - Relatively new OB person and wants to enhance public
reputation




*ACTIONS*


Ravi makes a doodle to schedule next meeting after thursday


Folks write up proposals for their action ideas to present at above meeting




Nicole invites DA to next meeting - Thursday - and subsequent meetings


Ravi starts email thread that calls for* ideas to make street as effective
and innovative as possible*


*Next Meeting is Thursday at 5pm at Ghandi *


>From now on Street team meetings, excluding thursday's light saber meeting,
incorporates 10 mins of each to *ways to improve street team operations*

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Brett sends out Sunday eval meeting invitation for 2pm South Station
(included). Ravi emails alissa for E5 space for Sunday




Thanks for a great meeting everyone. And let work to retain the momentum
from Saturday!


Brett

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You can do anything you want, as long as you don't wait for permission.
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