[Street] Action goals - a brainstorm
Ravi Mishra
ravi at occupyboston.org
Thu Dec 8 00:12:48 EST 2011
Random one that could be a tactic or a goal:
8) To shock the viewer or somehow create an alternate sense of reality in
which an outside's mind becomes more open to accepting a truth or leaning
about a situation. (Ex: a mass "playing dead" demonstration to visualize
the scope of war casualties or something like that.)
PS - I'm a firm believer in a very open, accepting brainstorming process.
All ideas should be thrown out there, and we can weed through what we like
and don't like later.
--
Ravi
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Rachel Plattus <rachelbp at gmail.com> wrote:
> All of these fall under the broad heading of ORGANIZING:
>
> 4) Outreach: to bring more individuals into the movement and activate
> those individuals
> 5) Outreach: to show organizations why they should want to work with us
> long term
> 6) Community building: to identify groups and individuals within the
> movement who are uniquely suited to working on a given action as a way of
> expanding our base of those who work their asses off
> 7) Internal education: to use actions as an opportunity to make ourselves
> better at what we do (organizing, media, interpretive dancing, etc)
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Ravi Mishra <ravi at occupyboston.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Writing that last email made me think that it might be fun (and useful)
>> to have a theoretical discussion of what various goals of action should be?
>> In my mind (please chime in here), a valid goal for an action is any
>> ideal/value or outcome that aids our overall movement. For example,
>> education is a very obvious goal - if people know more about the issues,
>> they're more likely to support our cause, which makes it easier for us to
>> change the status quo. Conversely (and this could be controversial, again
>> please chime in), something like "agitation" if often thought of as a goal
>> in of itself, but I think it probably needs more qualification to be truly
>> accepted as a goal. Shutting down a street in a financial district could
>> definitely be a goal because it hurts the operations of those who are
>> behind the problems that plague our society
>>
>> Anyway, without further ado, some goals off the top of my head - please
>> discuss and add yours!
>>
>> 1) Education - teaching people about the issues and what is going on
>> today, for example
>> 2) Fun! We're not going to be here in the long run if we're not enjoying
>> ourselves. :)
>> 3) Targeted systems disruption - making it harder for the opposition to
>> do stuff in a manner that helps our cause
>>
>> Any particular action can aim to achieve one, some, or all of these
>> goals. The point of this thread is to create a list of what action goals
>> should be, and the hope is that we can use these later to more effectively
>> analyze actions and their efficacy.
>>
>> Finally. this article by author John Robb frames some basic Conflict
>> Theory quite well and could serve as a framework to think about what goals
>> of actions should be.<http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/11/how-to-win-a-modern-conflict.html>
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> --
>> Ravi
>>
>>
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