[Street] nye actions

Kevin Maley kevinmaley at gmail.com
Wed Dec 21 22:16:19 EST 2011


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

thanks
Kevin

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 subways
>>> 4) 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Occupy Boston!   Please redirect mail to katie.ob at occupyboston.org.
>
> www.partsandcrafts.org
>
>
>
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