[Street] Occupy the T flyer

Connelly & Teixeira mjcjlt at comcast.net
Tue Jan 17 23:09:37 EST 2012


Thanks to you Joseph and to all others who have contributed to the flyer.  I
like the points you make, and appreciate that you edited down the number of
points in favor of readability (always hard-hard to lose those good bullet
points!).  I also appreciate that the flyer can be printed in black and
white and still look good.  

 

I plan to hand out flyers along the 89 and 101 routes and at Sullivan
station, as well as in my daily travels in East Somerville.  Which brings me
to some questions. I apologize if these were already answered at the
meeting-I had to leave early to pick up a kid and to attend a school
meeting. 

 

1)    Doing outreach in East Somerville (and Winter Hill), we really need a
flyer that is in both English and Spanish (better if it is in Portuguese and
Haitian Creole as well, since there are also many people in E Som. who speak
those languages.).  Is there anyone on this list who also needs
multi-lingual flyers? Any resources for translating?  I can get it
translated into Portuguese if that is useful to others as well. 

 

2)    I am reluctant to give out a flyer with no other contact information
than a web address and facebook. While some people will be able to use this,
many will not.  Is there a live person or group with a phone number who
agreed to be a contact, or did we not get to that in the meeting ?

 

3)    Maybe I am being too literal, but I think a lot of people will be
wondering what the flyer is trying to get them to do by saying Occupy the
T''?  It would help a lot if we had some specific dates or actions to ask
people to do.  Whatever that action is: wear a sticker/button, make a phone
call, sign a petition, come to something, boycott something . . .   Getting
information is useful, but in the end it feels kind of disempowering not to
have any idea of what you can do that would show your support/join in/ help.
I guess I could add the date and time of the Somerville public hearing to
the bottom of the flyer, but I don't think a lot of people will attend that
kind of meeting just because a stranger handed them a flyer. I can do
turnout for the meeting, but it will be more with people I know.  

 

Thanks again for all of your work and commitment. I hope you take these
questions in the spirit of my trying to add in what I know it will take to
reach /bring in my bus and subway-riding neighbors and friends (people with
families; people over 50; those who don't speak English; people from the
East Somerville and Winter Hill neighborhoods). 

 

Mary Jo Connelly 

   

 

From: Joseph Ramsey [mailto:jgramsey at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:57 PM
To: Eli Cohen
Cc: Eric Fields; Guy Fawkes; occupysomerville-mbta at lists.mayfirst.org; Emily
Parrott; street; outreach outreach; lee at ace-ej.org; Jeremy at massuniting.org;
golingolin at yahoo.com; ben at occupyboston.org; eli.cohen at mail.goucher.edu;
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danny at teenempowerment.org; Adam Machson-Carter;
ob-media at lists.occupyboston.org
Subject: Occupy the T (already!) in the NEWS

 

Dear fellow T-riders and activists:

 

Occupy the T in the front page of two Boston papers today.  

 

1)  The Boston Metro featured us on the front page!  It's just a short story


but it shows already that this campaign is capable of garnering a LOT of
media attention, public interest...and support!

 

2)  The new Boston Occupier, has a substantial, very informative and useful
article on page on about Occupy and the T hike/cuts.

http://bostonoccupier.com/2012/01/17/free-charlie-occupy-activists-take-on-t
he-t/  Read it and forward it widely as well!

 

This makes the new Occupier issue a great outreach and organizing vehicle.
(There's lots of other good stuff in it as well!) 

 

If people can, THIS Wednesday, (tomorrow!), any time after noon, please go
down to Encuentro Cinco (aka E5) 

at 33 Harrison Avenue (in Chinatown, near Downtown Crossing)  to 

PICK UP A STACK OF THEM TO PASS OUT AT T and BUS STOPS and STATIONS near
you! 


Also, one more time, I have attached a touched up version of an "Occupy the
T" full page leaflet.  Please print as many as you can and distribute
widely!

Let's strike while the iron is hot! (Note: after printing, but before
copying this, you might write on the margins that 

there is a Rally and March planned at the State House for Monday, Jan 23rd
at Noon and at 5pm.

 

Free Charlie!

-Joe

 

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Eli Cohen <elcoh002 at mail.goucher.edu>
wrote:

...trying that again, only this time, I'm going to attach the files. :-D

 

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Eli Cohen <elcoh002 at mail.goucher.edu>
wrote:

Hello everyone!

I've put together two sets of quarter-sheets based around the "Free Charlie"
idea. One specifically focuses on Monday, January 23rd, which is one of the
major MBTA hearings in Boston. The T Rider's Union has a rally planned at
Noon at the Transportation Building, 10 Park Plaza
<http://maps.google.com/maps?q=10+park+plaza&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:
official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x89e37a767c572bc1:0xb05d7
1435fa7a3b6,10+Park+Plaza,+Boston,+MA+02116&gl=us&ei=ro0UT5HTEuix0QHI4oGwAw&
sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=2&ved=0CCoQ8gEwAQ>  (then the hearing
starts at 1PM). Please print and distribute these, particularly at T
stations!

The other one is a more generic message: "Fare increases and service cuts
are happening! Be outraged!" I'm going to make a third one soon that has a
message along the lines of "This bus will no longer exist in a couple
months!" for use on specific buses and T lines that are disappearing. As
always, feel free to email me with more suggestions.

In solidarity,
Eli Cohen

 


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