[Street] Brainstorm: What needs to get done

Ravi Mishra ravi at occupyboston.org
Sun Nov 27 16:10:45 EST 2011


The date will be confirmed at the meeting tomorrow. Also, that's an
interesting idea, and you're welcome to present it to the meeting. Again,
we've already reached a pretty firm consensus on what we want the day to
look like, but I think everyone is open to making it better.

--
Ravi



On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Joseph Ramsey <jgramsey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Difficult to go forward with most if not all of these until we set a date,
> no?
>
> And the longer we "don't" set a date, the more we are effectively opting
> to put off the action, by default.
>
> Not a good reason to put off an action, especially considering the
> possibility of an imminent assault of Dewey and our movement.
>
> I would propose that an integral piece of this entire march ON THE 3RD!
> should be to call for people to help defend Dewey Square.  Yes, we should
> still be going out to listen and to talk to people and to encourage people
> to get involved in all sorts of ways, on their own turf, not just Dewey
> turf.  But one of our overarching goals should be to clear up
> misconceptions about the movement and also to give sympathetic people
> something they can take away that can help them to keep the movement from
> being squashed (at Dewey).  At least: a place and time to rally if Dewey is
> evicted.  Also perhaps the Mayor's office phone number so they can call him
> and say "Hands Off!"  And hopefully more than this: like it would be great
> if we could add a few hundred or a few thousand new members to our
> emergency contact list in case of an assault.
>
> Now is not the time for delaying, but for focusing and taking action to
> build this movement, and to defend it!
>
> -Joe
>
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Ravi Mishra <ravi at occupyboston.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Regardless of the date, I think we need to get as organized as possible
>> as what needs to get done. I'm going to try to make a list of everything I
>> can think of below. If people have already made progress on any of the
>> following, please email it out.
>>
>>    1. Outreach - calling organizations and letting them know about the
>>    march
>>    2. Getting actions on the spreadsheet (
>>    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ah3pFB7dtoJJdERLcDU3WG1WMHpaSDZkeE03X1d4SHc&hl=en_US#gid=0
>>    )
>>    3. Planning the rally - who will be there, what will be going on, etc.
>>    4. Flyers/flyering - get a finalized version of the flyer out and
>>    schedule shifts for people to promote the day of action around the city
>>    5. Education materials - making 5-10 flyers about various issues that
>>    we care about (finance reform, corporate influence in
>>    politics, environment, the war machine, civil liberties violations, etc)
>>    6. Online presence/promotion - touch up the Facebook, Eventbrite, and
>>    idea submission pages, focus on brevity and clarity. Promote via Occupy
>>    channels (media, social media, etc.)
>>
>> Anything else?
>>
>> --
>> Ravi
>>
>>
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