[Street] [Occupybostonoutreach] Ideas from brainstorming with #OWS
Jordan Price
yotar at comcast.net
Tue Dec 13 13:16:34 EST 2011
Ditto here.
On Dec 13, 2011, at 1:09 PM, angela giudice wrote:
> par-tee par-tee par-tee. Oh yeah...and I love the other action ideas too, especially offering ourselves to neighborhood organizations saying what would you want us to do.
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> --- On Tue, 12/13/11, Ben Janos <occupyprospecthill at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Ben Janos <occupyprospecthill at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Occupybostonoutreach] Ideas from brainstorming with #OWS
> To: Occupybostonoutreach at lists.occupyboston.org, street at lists.occupyboston.org
> Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 9:15 AM
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> hey y'all,
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> 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.
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> so here are some things they have done which I think are awesome
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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...
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> 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.
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> There's other stuff too, but those are more direct action oriented and I'd rather talk about those in person.
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> Ben
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