[Street] Continuing the thread (and meeting today, 6pm @ Gandhi!)

Ravi Mishra ravi at occupyboston.org
Thu Nov 10 13:58:11 EST 2011


Can someone see if we can get e5 for today?? 6pm, probably until 7:30pm.

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On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Occupy Boston Music and Events <
booking99percent at gmail.com> wrote:

> Peter Tosh son, Tosh 1 will be shooting the video and giving a concert
> between 1:30 and 4 pm on Sunday Nov 20th.
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Ben Janos <occupyprospecthill at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Kelley,
>>
>> What time is Peter Tosh's son coming? I don't see why the two need to be
>> mutually exclusive. Maybe we can get even more members of the 99% from the
>> streets involved with #OB for that event?
>>
>> Also, regarding dates, and street-team march, I just want to reitterate
>> what katie said. There is absolutely no reason we can't have street teams
>> any day of the week at any time. The idea of a huge street team march is an
>> awesome idea because it will make us really visible and hopefully really
>> approachable. We can have smaller street teams on any or all of the days
>> that are mentioned below and then have a bigger street team march on a
>> specific date TBD (maybe at the meeting tonight?)
>>
>> What about the weekend after Thanksgiving?
>> Ben Janos
>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Occupy Boston Music and Events <
>> booking99percent at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Nov 20- We have Peter Tosh son, Tosh 1 doing a music video of his
>>> fathers song... :Get Up, Stand Up for Your Rights on the books for Nov
>>> 20th.
>>> I think that very important for everyone involved with Occupy Boston to
>>> be a part of this music video.
>>>
>>> Kelley
>>>
>>>   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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