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

Brett West heavyriser at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 22:15:00 EST 2011


Hi Everyone, here's the minutes from today's meeting 9/19 at 12pm

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

*Agenda*
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-Outreach
-Canvassing Logistics
-Pre-Copley events
-Copley Program
-Create Working Committees

 *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.

**** 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

*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.

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:

*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%.*

**-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.

*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

*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?

*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(?)

PROPOSED AGENDA Monday 9/21

-Introductions (5 mins)

-Agenda approval (5 mins)

-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?

-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

-Copley Program (35 mins)
   -Overview of ideas
   -New suggestions/ discussion
   -Action plan - delegation

-Review Action Items (2 mins)


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