<div>AWESOME update Katie, thanks so much.</div>
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<div>On the 23rd, will Movement Building be presenting with us/ have we given them a heads up? If so, would you like me to grab a couple of volunteers to present on the spearheded topics, ie. Joanie on City Hall, George on his idea, Cynthia on freedom winter? </div>
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<div>Let me know and I will get in touch with them, thanks again :) </div>
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<div>Court<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Katie Gradowski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:katie.gradowski@gmail.com">katie.gradowski@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Thanks ben, for these notes!<br><b><br>I'm adding outreach events to this list.</b> Below is a quick sketch ongoing outreach efforts to keep street in the loop -- there's a lot of potential here for awesome collaborative actions, it would be great to put together a schedule of sorts for actions we want to focus on in January + February.<br>
<br>ALSO: I have reserved the Monday, January 23 community gathering for outreach, with the hopes of presenting some of the ideas that have been coming out of movement building. It would also be fantastic to have streets there as well! <br>
<br>Katie<b><br><br></b>*************************************************************************************************<b><br><br></b>ONGOING COMMUNITY CAMPAIGNS THAT INVOLVE ACTIONS<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Chinese Progressive Association: </b> On 12/3, we passed a solidarity statement with 20 workers who lost their jobs and were denied wages when the owner filed for bankruptcy. <u>Next step: flyering + banner campaign in Chinatown, reprint this statement in English and Cantonese to bring visibility to this issue</u> (this was planned, but got derailed with the closing of OB camp)<br>
</li></ul>
<ul>
<li><b>City Life / Vida Urbana: </b> Friday's lightsaber flashmob went really well! They want to do more street theater with us. They also have a few eviction blockades coming up that we may be able to coordinate on. Next steps: Coordinate with housing crisis WG, set up a meeting with CLVU after the new year to discuss next steps (would be awesome to have someone at streets at this meeting)<br>
</li></ul>
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<li><b>Community Garden Eviction: </b> Outreach has been meeting with ARGFC, a <span>refugee</span> cooperative who has recently lost their <span>community</span> <span>garden</span> space and needs our assistance in their struggle. They are launching a campaign to reclaim their garden -- this is definitely something we can help out with, potentially with street actions (Daniel, do you have an update on this?) <br>
</li></ul>
<ul>
<li><b>City-wide actions in February/March: </b> This has been mostly under the radar, but will be hugely important to mobilize around as it develops. Quick summary: a day of action, in February or March (similar to the Right to the City Action) with OB and community orgs across Boston, targeting the financial industry. It's still early in the planning stages, but should definitely be on the radar for streets.</li>
</ul>These are all slow-moving, but hugely important -- they absolutely involve "hitting the streets" as a way to support ongoing outreach efforts, and tie directly in with the wider OB community in Boston. <br>
<br>*********************************************************************************************<br><br><b></b>ONGOING OB CAMPAIGNS THAT MAY INVOLVE ACTIONS<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Move to Amend / Citizens United: </b> This Thursday at 6 p.m. at BU law school, Citizens United to End Political Bribery Working Group will be discussing demonstrations protesting the Jan 20-21 anniversary of the CU decision. They also want to bring together OB working groups on 12/29 for targeted discussions about the event and a call to action. <br>
</li></ul>
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<li><b>Solidarity with Egypt:</b> There's a rally this weekend. Next week, the Egyptian military will likely continue to beat and murder protesters. +1111 to organizing ongoing actions this month around this (next step: figuring out who else is organizing around this, and coordinating with them to make this happen)</li>
</ul>
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<li><b>SOPA / NDAA: </b>Two big, ugly congressional bills that are coming through, one on internet piracy, the other on whether or not American citizens can be held indefinitely by the military. </li></ul>There has been discussion about organizing teach-ins on each of these things -- I would love to invite people working on these campaigns to visit outreach / streets meetings so we can coordinate on actions together (building consensus BEFOREHAND, so we can have better actions!)<br>
<br>*******************************************************************************************<br><br>ONGOING OUTREACH CAMPAIGNS THAT DON'T YET INVOLVE ACTIONS, BUT MAY IN THE FUTURE<br>
<ul>
<li><b>ESWA: </b> They have been coming to our meetings and are interested in working with OB. Sarah Francis is interested in being a liaison. No word yet on what actions will come of this (conversations still in progress) -- having a liaison may be useful, given that they don't primarily work via the internet and are mostly face-to-face <br>
</li></ul>
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<li><b>Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE): </b> A handful of people met with them last week -- they are in the middle of a transit campaign, not sure what came of this meeting, but this is a long-overdue collaboration, and we should think about whether there are useful actions we can do with them in the next few months (Eli, can you update?)</li>
</ul>
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<li><b>Rosie's Place: </b>Cherie and I met with them last week - it's a private women's shelter, and we were doing a presentation on income inequality. There is a LOT of potential here for reaching out on housing issues (in particular, organizing around HUD restrictions on smoking in low-income apartments). Next step: coordinating with housing crisis working group (more on this to come)</li>
</ul>
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<li><b>Dorchester People for Peace</b>. They remain awesome. We like them a whole lot! Eli can update with more details. <br></li></ul>These are all in the works, and involve ongoing work on the community orgs front -- not directly aciton-related, but work that streets should probably be aware of. <br>
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