Hi all! Morrigan was asked to pull together a training to support Affinity Group and Spokescouncil formation...so here it is! This SATURDAY, Morrigan, Jason Lydon, Saif Rahman, and myself will be facilitating. Just click on the link below to sign up!<br>
<br>see you then!<br>liz<br><br><br><b><br>Occupy Boston Affinity Group & Capacity Building Training!</b><br><br><b>Saturday, February 11</b>, 2012, 3pm - 6pm<br>
At E5 - 33 Harrison Ave, downtown Boston<br>
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<b>Please sign up ahead of time - info is below</b><br><br>Affinity groups are an important part of
organizing nonviolent direct actions. AG's are small
groups of friends or like-minded people who join together for mutual
support and safety while participating in protests. AG's can be task or
action oriented. AG's can take on roles like media, arts and action or
very specific actions within a larger protest. AG's make decisions
internally and at times plug into a larger organizing structure to make
collective decisions, like in a spokescouncil. <br>
<br>Come learn with other OB activists and organizers about how to form
and use affinity groups to build for actions, coordinate organizing and
build group capacity. Participants will learn about the history of
affinity groups and spokescouncils, uses, types and formation as well as
group process and action planning basics. <br>
<br>All experience levels welcome! You don't have to be a part of an
affinity group but there will be time for people to form affinity groups
during the training. <br><br><b>Sign-up </b><br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/obtraining" target="_blank"><b>http://tinyurl.com/obtraining</b></a><br>
OR<br>
<a href="mailto:bostonactiontrainings@riseup.net" target="_blank">bostonactiontrainings@riseup.net</a><br><br>More
trainings will hopefully be offered in the future. If you can't make
this one please still let us know that you are interested and we will be
sure to let you know when the next training is scheduled.
<br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:29 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:obgroups@lists.occupyboston.org">obgroups@lists.occupyboston.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Please know about tonight's Spokescouncil WG meeting (sorry for late notice), and pending trial run - see below:<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Allison Nevitt</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asnevitt@gmail.com" target="_blank">asnevitt@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:48 PM<br>Subject: Spokes email<br>To: Gregory Murphy <<a href="mailto:gsjmurphy@gmail.com" target="_blank">gsjmurphy@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br>This is to let everyone know that there is a Spokescouncil WG meeting tonight at City Place at 8:30pm.<br>
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The working group is a place to explore how Spokescouncils work; discuss whether they are a good option for some Occupy Boston organizing; and to develop and evaluate models for us to try.<br>
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Currently, we are launching a Spokescouncil for action planning for March 17. We hope to have the first actual council this coming weekend.<br><br>We are in the midst of setting up an OB listserv and wiki page. We will
sdisseminate the links to those as soon as we can. Thank you for your
patience.<br>
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Allison<br><br>
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