[Street] Very cool Occupy the T - Free Charlie graphic attached

Joseph Ramsey jgramsey at gmail.com
Sat Jan 14 13:19:06 EST 2012


See below.

Spread widely and use as you see fit.

-Joe
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From: Beauregard Lyle <yayinternets at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Occupybostonoutreach] "Why Occupy the T?" leaflet attached
(for discussion, revision, printing, use, etc)
To: Joseph Ramsey <jgramsey at gmail.com>


here's one i was able to put together, my friends said they will be sending
some too, i added them on the fb group.  i hope this gets people excited
and involved.  cheers!


On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Joseph Ramsey <jgramsey at gmail.com> wrote:

> You rock, Mr. Lyle.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Beauregard Lyle <yayinternets at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I just joined, i'll have a graphic for you sometime this evening and more
>> to follow. Woot!
>> On Jan 13, 2012 2:31 PM, "Joseph Ramsey" <jgramsey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Terrific, B:
>>>
>>> I created an open group on Facebook called "Occupy the T."  Can you find
>>> and join it?
>>>
>>> I am happy to make you a co-admin.
>>>
>>> And I would love to get a cool "Free Charlie!" graphic up as our page
>>> profile shot asap!
>>>
>>> Let's keep in touch,
>>> Joe
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Beauregard Lyle <yayinternets at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can we make this a facebook group? I just read your email out to a few
>>>> friends and they would love to help share the idea.  I have artists
>>>> interested in creating artwork around "free charlie".  Can make the group
>>>> for you and help manage it, there are a lot of people who wpuld love to get
>>>> regular news around this idea and what the city is doing.
>>>> On Jan 13, 2012 1:49 PM, "Joseph Ramsey" <jgramsey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Based on the Occupy the T meeting in Somerville meeting two nights ago
>>>>> (where this slogan was also greeted with enthusiasm), I wrote up a (text)
>>>>> leaflet around the theme of reasons to "Occupy the T." It is attached as a
>>>>> word file. I thought I would share it with you all.
>>>>>
>>>>> There will be much more said about the Occupy the T campaign at the
>>>>> next Action Summit, as I understand it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I wanted to get this text into Outreach hands asap.
>>>>>
>>>>> I welcome feedback on this text, but even moreso welcome people to
>>>>> adapt, edit, or just go out and use them as you see fit. (I only ask that
>>>>> you change the contact info, if you change the flier text
>>>>> substantially--currently it has one of my emails on it.)
>>>>>
>>>>> I wrote the flier so that it works as a pretty punchy and wide-ranging
>>>>> two-sided leaflet of bullet points. It's also written so that you could
>>>>> lift out like say 10 of these bullet points and run a bigger font (or
>>>>> smaller size) leafet with like a "Top Ten Reasons to Occupy the T" .
>>>>> Obviously it can and should be juiced up in terms of presentation! ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried to keep in mind a few potential T-rider audiences:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) People who are already sympathetic and will be interested in
>>>>> getting involved in Occupy the T, not just because of the MBTA's shitty
>>>>> plan, but because of their sympathy with the broader goals and values of
>>>>> the 99% movement. This is why, as you will see, the flier addresses not
>>>>> just the cutbacks but other social and environmental justice issues that
>>>>> are connected to the cutbacks.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) General, T-Riders (workers, residents, students, and seniors, etc)
>>>>> who have heard about the cutbacks/fare hikes, and are pissed about it.
>>>>>
>>>>> 3) Other T-riders who may have heard about the MBTA plan, but aren't
>>>>> really sure what it means yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> I welcome all comments and suggestions. (As I said this is raw copy
>>>>> for use.) Maybe somebody could make a bunch of copies of (some version of
>>>>> this) before the next Street meeting. For my part I plan to leaflet the Red
>>>>> Line and bus riders in Davis Square starting this weekend, Sunday 12-2pm
>>>>> for starters. Let me know if you'd like to join me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Enjoy the leaflet--I had fun writing it!
>>>>>
>>>>> best,
>>>>>
>>>>> Joe
>>>>>
>>>>> P.S. Two things I love about "Free Charlie" as a slogan for this
>>>>> Occupy the T movement: 1) Obviously the creative, ironic way it links the
>>>>> popular song ("Charlie on the MTA") to the cards or tickets in people's
>>>>> wallets. 2) But also the way it suggests the potential to go on offense,
>>>>> and to raise demands not only to oppose the current plans (that's defense)
>>>>> but to move the public discourse and to build a broad-based movement to
>>>>> establish FREE public transportation as a matter of RIGHT in our city, and
>>>>> around the world (for environmental as well as 99%-pocketbook and social
>>>>> justice reasons).
>>>>>
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