[Street] Sticker design - persistent visual imagery that links a community

Shivani Kaul kauliette at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 15:24:43 EST 2011


Hello Ben!

An artist friend and I have been working on several Occupy projects,
including a placard design for supportive local businesses to display
proudly in their storefronts: "Join us!  We're the 99%." (in the vein of
vintage "Come In! We're open" signs).  So happy to hear the powwow with OWS
yielded a similar notion : )  We should be able to finalize on the design
this week, and were planning to contact small shops about displaying them
soon.

It would be great to have help on the distribution side - and the printing
side if possible (we're trying to see if we can get a discount or donation
at local printshops and somehow finance it ourselves--were not sure if
there were resources available for this).

And thanks for sending on these notes!  Fittingly exciting ideas for
exciting times.

with peace and warmth -
Shivani


--- On Tue, 12/13/11, Ben Janos <occupyprospecthill at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Ben Janos <occupyprospecthill at gmail.com>
Subject: [Occupybostonoutreach] Ideas from brainstorming with #OWS
To: Occupybostonoutreach at lists.occupyboston.org,
street at lists.occupyboston.org
Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 9:15 AM

hey y'all,
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Last night I had a really exciting conversation with Amity who is from
Outreach from #OWS. We shared ideas and what we have been doing. They've
been doing some cool stuff that really got me thinking, and some of the
stuff we have been doing are things they haven't thought about. Most
importantly, they want to collaborate with our outreach group and possibly
set up a conference call with members from both Occupies to share ideas.

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so here are some things they have done which I think are awesome
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1) Stickers. Three kinds to be shown around town. "We support the 99%" for
business, "Homes for the 99%" for houses and simply ones that say "99%" for
cars. if we had these stickers distributed around town there would be a
cohesions which would be great for creating a sense of community. The store
in Fields Corner would have the same sticker as the one on Newbury Street.

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2) Door-to-Door Canvassing before events in neighborhoods, especially
Foreclosure actions. That way the neighbors know we are coming and that
there may be some activists around. Also, something that they found in #OWS
was that when they did that, when they came to those areas, the neighbors
had put up signs showing their support, which was uplifting. Additionally,
this could be a way to get some organization that do a lot of door-to-door
canvassing in those neighborhoods (ESWA, for example) to get more involved
with us. Also, distribution of above mentioned stickers. Could we do this
in preparation for this week's CLVU actions?

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3) Occupy your Neighborhood. Sounds like something like this is kinda in
the works with "Occupy the Winter" but basically this was simply that?we
would contact local organizations and offer our services to them. Instead
of asking what they can do for us, we would ask them what we can do for
them, help with some events, bring people, etc... The idea would be to
strengthen our relationships with the local community organizations.

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4) NEW YEARS EVE. Can we please have a New Years Party? We've all gotten to
know each other so well over the last few months, and I know a lot of
people feel that this is a family, and it is in a sense. We can either do
something positive for the People of Boston, such as having a Occu-Party in
the commons, but I wouldn't mind having an indoor space where we can all
get together, enjoy each others company and dance until god-knows-when.
There also could be a little video camera, or roving livestream asking
people what their hopes for the new year are, what they want the movement
to accomplish in 2012 etc...

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5) ACTIONS! Obviously this is already in the works, but because we no
longer have a camp we need to be doing actions all the time. Small ones,
big ones, ones that are cute, ones that are disruptive, ones that stay for
a long time, ones that are gone in a day or a few hours.

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There's other stuff too, but those are more direct action oriented and I'd
rather talk about those in person.
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Ben

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