[Street] [Occupybostonoutreach] Street Meeting Notes, 12/23/2011
Courtney Mulroy
courtney.mulroy at gmail.com
Wed Dec 28 16:03:44 EST 2011
AWESOME update Katie, thanks so much.
On the 23rd, will Movement Building be presenting with us/ have we given
them a heads up? If so, would you like me to grab a couple of volunteers to
present on the spearheded topics, ie. Joanie on City Hall, George on his
idea, Cynthia on freedom winter?
Let me know and I will get in touch with them, thanks again :)
Court
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Katie Gradowski <katie.gradowski at gmail.com
> wrote:
> Thanks ben, for these notes!
> *
> I'm adding outreach events to this list.* Below is a quick sketch
> ongoing outreach efforts to keep street in the loop -- there's a lot of
> potential here for awesome collaborative actions, it would be great to put
> together a schedule of sorts for actions we want to focus on in January +
> February.
>
> ALSO: I have reserved the Monday, January 23 community gathering for
> outreach, with the hopes of presenting some of the ideas that have been
> coming out of movement building. It would also be fantastic to have
> streets there as well!
>
> Katie*
>
> *
> *************************************************************************************************
> *
>
> *ONGOING COMMUNITY CAMPAIGNS THAT INVOLVE ACTIONS
>
> - *Chinese Progressive Association: * On 12/3, we passed a solidarity
> statement with 20 workers who lost their jobs and were denied wages when
> the owner filed for bankruptcy. *Next step: flyering + banner
> campaign in Chinatown, reprint this statement in English and Cantonese to
> bring visibility to this issue* (this was planned, but got derailed
> with the closing of OB camp)
>
>
> - *City Life / Vida Urbana: * Friday's lightsaber flashmob went
> really well! They want to do more street theater with us. They also
> have a few eviction blockades coming up that we may be able to coordinate
> on. Next steps: Coordinate with housing crisis WG, set up a meeting
> with CLVU after the new year to discuss next steps (would be awesome to
> have someone at streets at this meeting)
>
>
> - *Community Garden Eviction: * Outreach has been meeting with ARGFC,
> a refugee cooperative who has recently lost their community gardenspace and needs our assistance in their struggle. They are launching a
> campaign to reclaim their garden -- this is definitely something we can
> help out with, potentially with street actions (Daniel, do you have an
> update on this?)
>
>
> - *City-wide actions in February/March: * This has been mostly under
> the radar, but will be hugely important to mobilize around as it
> develops. Quick summary: a day of action, in February or March (similar
> to the Right to the City Action) with OB and community orgs across Boston,
> targeting the financial industry. It's still early in the planning
> stages, but should definitely be on the radar for streets.
>
> These are all slow-moving, but hugely important -- they absolutely involve
> "hitting the streets" as a way to support ongoing outreach efforts, and tie
> directly in with the wider OB community in Boston.
>
>
> *********************************************************************************************
>
> **ONGOING OB CAMPAIGNS THAT MAY INVOLVE ACTIONS
>
> - *Move to Amend / Citizens United: * This Thursday at 6 p.m. at BU
> law school, Citizens United to End Political Bribery Working Group will be
> discussing demonstrations protesting the Jan 20-21 anniversary of the CU
> decision. They also want to bring together OB working groups on 12/29 for
> targeted discussions about the event and a call to action.
>
>
> - *Solidarity with Egypt:* There's a rally this weekend. Next
> week, the Egyptian military will likely continue to beat and murder
> protesters. +1111 to organizing ongoing actions this month around this
> (next step: figuring out who else is organizing around this, and
> coordinating with them to make this happen)
>
>
> - *SOPA / NDAA: *Two big, ugly congressional bills that are coming
> through, one on internet piracy, the other on whether or not American
> citizens can be held indefinitely by the military.
>
> There has been discussion about organizing teach-ins on each of these
> things -- I would love to invite people working on these campaigns to visit
> outreach / streets meetings so we can coordinate on actions together
> (building consensus BEFOREHAND, so we can have better actions!)
>
>
> *******************************************************************************************
>
> ONGOING OUTREACH CAMPAIGNS THAT DON'T YET INVOLVE ACTIONS, BUT MAY IN THE
> FUTURE
>
> - *ESWA: * They have been coming to our meetings and are interested
> in working with OB. Sarah Francis is interested in being a liaison. No
> word yet on what actions will come of this (conversations still in
> progress) -- having a liaison may be useful, given that they don't
> primarily work via the internet and are mostly face-to-face
>
>
> - *Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE): * A handful of
> people met with them last week -- they are in the middle of a transit
> campaign, not sure what came of this meeting, but this is a long-overdue
> collaboration, and we should think about whether there are useful actions
> we can do with them in the next few months (Eli, can you update?)
>
>
> - *Rosie's Place: *Cherie and I met with them last week - it's a
> private women's shelter, and we were doing a presentation on income
> inequality. There is a LOT of potential here for reaching out on housing
> issues (in particular, organizing around HUD restrictions on smoking in
> low-income apartments). Next step: coordinating with housing crisis
> working group (more on this to come)
>
>
> - *Dorchester People for Peace*. They remain awesome. We like them
> a whole lot! Eli can update with more details.
>
> These are all in the works, and involve ongoing work on the community orgs
> front -- not directly aciton-related, but work that streets should probably
> be aware of.
>
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