[Street] 9/19 12pm Street Team Meeting Notes

Linda Jenkins lindajenkins177 at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 19 22:40:50 EST 2011


Great idea Katie; I agree that we should get more concrete if we can.



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 From: Katie Gradowski <katie.gradowski at gmail.com>
To: Brett West <heavyriser at gmail.com> 
Cc: Street at lists.occupyboston.org 
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Street] 9/19 12pm Street Team Meeting Notes
 

Hey everyone!

I spoke to Steve at City Life earlier this week -- they are having a speak-out from members who battled foreclosure and WON at their annual meeting on the third, and said that some of these people might be into coming to speak at the copley square rally as well.

If we can have TWO OR THREE speakers on major issues -- unemployment, foreclosure, student loans -- and can get powerful people to speak on that, I think that would be a huge way to rally support.   Not just an open mic, or an appeal for support, but people who can speak concretely to things that people who have used direct action to change their situations.

I think that would be hugely powerful.

Katie




On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Brett West <heavyriser at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Everyone, here's the minutes from today's meeting 9/19 at 12pm
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>NEXT MEETING - Monday 9/21 5pm at SEIU Local 615 (26 West Street, 3rd Floor, Boston). Arrive at 4pm if you want info. on MassUniting Occupy DC trip Dec. 5-9
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>Agenda
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>-Outreach
>-Canvassing Logistics
>-Pre-Copley events
>-Copley Program
>-Create Working Committees
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>Outreach
>-David will reach out to colombian immigrant community, airport employees and SEIU 615
>-Everyone agreed to do some sort of outreach
>-Will we make provisions for undocumented persons + previous offenders who cannot be arrested? Is that necessary?
>-Will we inform the police that we are planning a Dec. 3rd action to converge in Copley? Is that necessary?
>-Ravi(ravi at occupyboston.org) is point person for social media outreach and dec. 3rd website development
>-Dec. 3rd action will serve as a "Send off Rally/March" for DC trip organized by MassUnited
>-We will create a "Personal Flyer" PDF that folks can download, write their personal connection to the 99%, and print and distribute. The flyer will be on the Website.
>-MassUniting can print flyers and materials to aid in event outreach.
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>**** More Ideas for Outreach include...***
>- T-stop flyering
>- coffee shop flyering
>-Churches
>-Have Occupy representative at AFL-CIO meeting 9/28 at 10am (contact Daren from MassUniting)
>-Public Bathrooms postering
>-Reach out to community Organizations and groups
>DO SOMETHING
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>Canvassing Logistics
>Pre-Copley Events
>Copley Program
>Create Working Committees
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>The rest of these agenda items were crammed into the last 30 minutes of discussion, albeit very productive. 
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>We redesigned the Dec. 3rd itinerary a bit. Instead of 10-11am canvass, 11am to 1pm march to Copley, and 1pm to 3pm program at Copley, it will look as follows:
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>10am - 1pm - Pre-Copley Events
>"Decentralized" rallies, canvassing, marches, issue-based or community-based events, protests etc.. hosted by self-starters who belong to the 99%.
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>-Daren suggested also using the "1% tracker" to host a pre-Copley event that targets a 1% event happening on Dec. 3rd.
>-The creation of a google doc was suggested to organize and track Pre-Copley events.
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>1pm - Indefinite
>All the "Decentralized" actions converge on Copley Sq. at 1pm for the Program.
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>Program Ideas (Not Definite plans)
>- Have letter-sending station where individual stories of the 99% are compiled by folks in copley and will be mailed to corporations/politicians after the event.
>-An unstructured Open-Mic where people in Copley have 3 mins to speak to the cause of the rally or to their personal story as a 99-er. 
>-Visual: 5-7 Large, blown-up written stories that embody the struggles of the 99% (ex. student debt story, exploited workers story, undocumented immigrant story).
>-Discussion groups
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>Questions to Address
>-Do we want the Copley Program to call everyones attention to 1 event at a time (i.e. the open mic) or to be more of a free-for-all with multiple things to do at any given time.
>-How do we end the event?
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>Action Steps
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>-Everyone does some kind of outreach for the event.
>-Daren said he would reach out to the crowd that marched on Thursday 9/17 so we can hopefully count on their presence Dec. 3rd
>-David has committed to contacting certain Immigrant communities, airport employees and the SEIU. 
>-Ravi is going to work on website stuff and social media(?)
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>PROPOSED AGENDA Monday 9/21
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>-Introductions (5 mins)
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>-Agenda approval (5 mins)
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>-Outreach (25 mins)
>   -overview of outreach ideas an plans/ personal updates/ check in on action items
>   -Occupy Boston/ Hood/ Barrio updates
>   -Create Goals and Action Plan: Flyers handed out, attendance, media coverage, canvassing
>   -Do we have updated flyers?
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>-Pre-copley (25 mins)
>   -Overview of Dec. 3rd. Plan
>   -List potential pre-copley events/ Check in on google doc/ Who needs help organizing?
>   -Action Plan - delegation
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>-Copley Program (35 mins)
>   -Overview of ideas
>   -New suggestions/ discussion
>   -Action plan - delegation
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>-Review Action Items (2 mins)
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