[Street] Ideas from brainstorming with #OWS

Ben Janos occupyprospecthill at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 09:15:39 EST 2011


hey y'all,

Last night I had a really exciting conversation with Amity who is from
Outreach from #OWS. We shared ideas and what we have been doing. They've
been doing some cool stuff that really got me thinking, and some of the
stuff we have been doing are things they haven't thought about. Most
importantly, they want to collaborate with our outreach group and possibly
set up a conference call with members from both Occupies to share ideas.

so here are some things they have done which I think are awesome

1) Stickers. Three kinds to be shown around town. "We support the 99%" for
business, "Homes for the 99%" for houses and simply ones that say "99%" for
cars. if we had these stickers distributed around town there would be a
cohesions which would be great for creating a sense of community. The store
in Fields Corner would have the same sticker as the one on Newbury Street.

2) Door-to-Door Canvassing before events in neighborhoods, *especially
*Foreclosure
actions. That way the neighbors know we are coming and that there may be
some activists around. Also, something that they found in #OWS was that
when they did that, when they came to those areas, the neighbors had put up
signs showing their support, which was uplifting. Additionally, this could
be a way to get some organization that do a lot of door-to-door canvassing
in those neighborhoods (ESWA, for example) to get more involved with us.
Also, distribution of above mentioned stickers. Could we do this in
preparation for this week's CLVU actions?

3) Occupy your Neighborhood. Sounds like something like this is kinda in
the works with "Occupy the Winter" but basically this was simply that we
would contact local organizations and offer our services to them. Instead
of asking what they can do for us, we would ask them what we can do for
them, help with some events, bring people, etc... The idea would be to
strengthen our relationships with the local community organizations.

4) NEW YEARS EVE. Can we please have a New Years Party? We've all gotten to
know each other so well over the last few months, and I know a lot of
people feel that this is a family, and it is in a sense. We can either do
something positive for the People of Boston, such as having a Occu-Party in
the commons, but I wouldn't mind having an indoor space where we can all
get together, enjoy each others company and dance until god-knows-when.
There also could be a little video camera, or roving livestream asking
people what their hopes for the new year are, what they want the movement
to accomplish in 2012 etc...

5) ACTIONS! Obviously this is already in the works, but because we no
longer have a camp we need to be doing actions all the time. Small ones,
big ones, ones that are cute, ones that are disruptive, ones that stay for
a long time, ones that are gone in a day or a few hours.

There's other stuff too, but those are more direct action oriented and I'd
rather talk about those in person.

Ben
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