[Street] Continuing the thread (and meeting today, 6pm @ Gandhi!)
Morrigan Phillips
morrigan.phillips at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 10:51:45 EST 2011
Hi,
This is Morrigan...I am a part of the Monday night community group meetings
and work with Survivors Inc/Mass. Welfare Rights Union. This is all really
exciting and I love the idea of the many marches. Reminds me of very
successful actions done at anti-globalization mobilizations.
With regard to the date...in terms of getting many marches started in
different parts of the city and then coordinating them, that will likely
take time, especially for community orgs to rally their folks and prepare.
It will also take some coordinating and affinity group formation time. So
the more time to organize the more likely that a multitude of marches can
be pulled off, rather then just 2-3. With some time people can form
affinity groups in neighborhoods and within organizations and those groups
can meet and coordinate.
I am also with the Direct Action Training network, we have been working on
trainings in other cities and would love to support this with some
trainings here in Boston. But mostly likely we couldn't pull it together
until the first week in December.
Awesome,
Morrigan
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Katie Gradowski <katie.gradowski at gmail.com
> wrote:
> How do people feel about the 20th?
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Maureen White <
> maureenclairewhite at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> No, the summit date/time has been widely disseminated and can't be
>> changed, plus Saturday is also when our kick-ass facilitators are
>> available. I think the way to make the two work together is to maybe have
>> the march on the 20th, so that we can use the summit as a 'springboard' and
>> a recruitment tool. I think a full morning of marching and a full
>> afternoon of in-depth discussing is a LOT. But one could build of the
>> other if the days were back-to-back... Just my two cents.
>>
>> I strongly agree that the more time for planning and outreach around
>> this, the better. If we are going to do this, it's worth doing it big!
>>
>> Maureen
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Katie Gradowski <
>> katie.gradowski at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Some thoughts on dates:
>>>
>>> November 17 would be great but is coming up VERY soon. If we wanted to
>>> go that route, it would be pretty imperative that we coordinate with labor
>>> (there's a big planning meeting on this tomorrow)
>>>
>>> November 19 is great, because it's in conjunction with the summit
>>> (though REALLY BAD, in that I can't go!!!) It's also pretty short notice,
>>> depending on how wide a shout-out we want to do.
>>>
>>> November 20 is fine, too, but no summit (Maureen, are the dates of the
>>> summit negotiable at all?) It seems incredibly useful to have them as
>>> paired events, especially if we're doing a cross-boston shout-out for
>>> participation.
>>>
>>> December 3 - does anyone know the details for the OTH / OEB event?
>>> This is very close to the (as-yet-unannounced) day of action on
>>> foreclosure, which we're hoping to promote pretty heavily, but would also
>>> give us enough forward time to get lots of groups on board.
>>>
>>> If we can dovetail without overshadowing that event, that would be
>>> amazing. I'd be strongly in favor of that, because it would give us more
>>> time to plan, coordinate, and get other groups on board.
>>>
>>>
>>> ***********************************************************************************************
>>>
>>> Just from an outreach perspective, I would LOVE for this to be a
>>> cross-boston event, with community organizations, rank and file workers,
>>> neighborhood organizations and other groups getting on board, as well as
>>> many of the working groups --- and two weeks is a little short notice to
>>> organize something really big like this.
>>>
>>> Vis a vis the 17th, is there anything that prevents us from doing a
>>> smaller version on the 17th, to build toward a larger action on one of the
>>> following weekends? We can organize street teams pretty much anytime, and
>>> the 17th might be a really great test run to see how it goes and work out
>>> some of the kinks.
>>>
>>> Also, I think there are a LOT of people who work 9-5 who would want to
>>> be in on this. You can't hold a festival on a weekday morning! and
>>> festival is I think definitely what we're going for here.
>>>
>>> hurray! exciting!
>>>
>>> Katie
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Ravi Mishra <ravi at occupyboston.org>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey everyone,
>>>>
>>>> So stoked from all the awesome feedback and ideas. We have so much to
>>>> work with! I'll aim to synthesize the previous thread to reorient
>>>> and facilitate further discussion. Here were the major points I saw
>>>> combined with other comments people have made via text or in-person (and
>>>> please feel free to add to it because it's late and I'm definitely going to
>>>> leave stuff out):
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 1. Logistical concerns - how we get people there (march or just
>>>> meet in different places), planning for contingencies, etc.
>>>> 2. Content - what do we want to say, what do we want to ask people,
>>>> etc.
>>>> 3. Methods to sign up volunteers
>>>> 4. Names - "Meet the 99%" seemed to get some +1s, please continue
>>>> to throw out more ideas
>>>> 5. Reaching out to Occupy the Hood, Ocupemos El Barrio, area
>>>> colleges, etc. This is already in the works (Eric and/or Rene will be
>>>> joining Michael from BU at a meeting at BU tomorrow, among other things),
>>>> but we need your help!
>>>> 6. Date - people have thrown out a few so far: Thursday - 11/17,
>>>> Saturday - 11/19, Saturday 12/3, and others. My quick thoughts are that I
>>>> think it has to be a weekend day. I agree with the point that people coming
>>>> home from their commutes are less likely to want to stop and engage in
>>>> conversation. Weather is also a factor (people don't want to talk in the
>>>> cold), so the sooner we do this, the better. Summit is definitely a concern
>>>> that we'll need to address. All dates are on the table, so please continue
>>>> to discuss.
>>>> 7. Mini demonstrations at individual sites (flash mobs, march
>>>> formations, spoken word, open forums, conducting GAs, etc.) - I think these
>>>> are very, very interesting and we should definitely discuss once we have
>>>> some of the higher level details hammered out. I see a lot of innovation on
>>>> these concepts as we get better at this.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Again, I'm sure I left stuff off, so please fill in the blanks. What
>>>> really gets me excited is point 7 above. So many people have so many
>>>> amazing ideas - what we're doing is incredible because we're innovating on
>>>> the entire concept of demonstrations. (My contribution: I'm betting there
>>>> is a cool way to get technology/social media involved to give us a dynamic
>>>> digital presence. Not quite sure exactly how, but I'm sure we can do a ton
>>>> of awesome stuff.)
>>>>
>>>> Can't wait to make this happen. See you all tomorrow!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ravi
>>>>
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