[Street] Continuing the thread (and meeting today, 6pm @ Gandhi!)

Katie Gradowski katie.gradowski at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 11:00:39 EST 2011


It's going to be tough to get students the weekend after Thanksgiving.

Going off what Morrigan said -- if we can get in touch with OTH and
Ocupemos el Barrio and get them on board, I think this is a tremendous
opportunity to mobilize the wider community and get MANY more people on
board -- and more importantly, let them take the smaller marches / actions
/ street corner parties / what have you and really make them their own.

I won't be at the meeting until later (closer to 7).   looking forward to
face to face!

Katie

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Ben Janos <occupyprospecthill at gmail.com>wrote:

> Kelley,
>
> What time is Peter Tosh's son coming? I don't see why the two need to be
> mutually exclusive. Maybe we can get even more members of the 99% from the
> streets involved with #OB for that event?
>
> Also, regarding dates, and street-team march, I just want to reitterate
> what katie said. There is absolutely no reason we can't have street teams
> any day of the week at any time. The idea of a huge street team march is an
> awesome idea because it will make us really visible and hopefully really
> approachable. We can have smaller street teams on any or all of the days
> that are mentioned below and then have a bigger street team march on a
> specific date TBD (maybe at the meeting tonight?)
>
> What about the weekend after Thanksgiving?
> Ben Janos
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Occupy Boston Music and Events <
> booking99percent at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Nov 20- We have Peter Tosh son, Tosh 1 doing a music video of his fathers
>> song... :Get Up, Stand Up for Your Rights on the books for Nov 20th.
>> I think that very important for everyone involved with Occupy Boston to
>> be a part of this music video.
>>
>> Kelley
>>
>>   On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Katie Gradowski <
>> katie.gradowski at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Some thoughts on dates:
>>>
>>> November 17 would be great but is coming up VERY soon.  If we wanted to
>>> go that route, it would be pretty imperative that we coordinate with labor
>>> (there's a big planning meeting on this tomorrow)
>>>
>>> November 19 is great, because it's in conjunction with the summit
>>> (though REALLY BAD, in that I can't go!!!)   It's also pretty short notice,
>>> depending on how wide a shout-out we want to do.
>>>
>>> November 20 is fine, too, but no summit   (Maureen, are the dates of the
>>> summit negotiable at all?)   It seems incredibly useful to have them as
>>> paired events, especially if we're doing a cross-boston shout-out for
>>> participation.
>>>
>>> December 3 - does anyone know the details for the OTH / OEB event?
>>> This is very close to the (as-yet-unannounced) day of action on
>>> foreclosure, which we're hoping to promote pretty heavily, but would also
>>> give us enough forward time to get lots of groups on board.
>>>
>>> If we can dovetail without overshadowing that event, that would be
>>> amazing.   I'd be strongly in favor of that, because it would give us more
>>> time to plan, coordinate, and get other groups on board.
>>>
>>>
>>> ***********************************************************************************************
>>>
>>> Just from an outreach perspective, I would LOVE for this to be a
>>> cross-boston event, with community organizations, rank and file workers,
>>> neighborhood organizations and other groups getting on board, as well as
>>> many of the working groups --- and two weeks is a little short notice to
>>> organize something really big like this.
>>>
>>> Vis a vis the 17th, is there anything that prevents us from doing a
>>> smaller version on the 17th, to build toward a larger action on one of the
>>> following weekends?   We can organize street teams pretty much anytime, and
>>> the 17th might be a really great test run to see how it goes and work out
>>> some of the kinks.
>>>
>>> Also, I think there are a LOT of people who work 9-5 who would want to
>>> be in on this.   You can't hold a festival on a weekday morning!   and
>>> festival is I think definitely what we're going for here.
>>>
>>> hurray!   exciting!
>>>
>>> Katie
>>>
>>>   On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Ravi Mishra <ravi at occupyboston.org>wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hey everyone,
>>>>
>>>> So stoked from all the awesome feedback and ideas. We have so much to
>>>> work with! I'll aim to synthesize the previous thread to reorient
>>>> and facilitate further discussion. Here were the major points I saw
>>>> combined with other comments people have made via text or in-person (and
>>>> please feel free to add to it because it's late and I'm definitely going to
>>>> leave stuff out):
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    1. Logistical concerns - how we get people there (march or just
>>>>    meet in different places), planning for contingencies, etc.
>>>>    2. Content - what do we want to say, what do we want to ask people,
>>>>    etc.
>>>>    3. Methods to sign up volunteers
>>>>    4. Names - "Meet the 99%" seemed to get some +1s, please continue
>>>>    to throw out more ideas
>>>>    5. Reaching out to Occupy the Hood, Ocupemos El Barrio, area
>>>>    colleges, etc. This is already in the works (Eric and/or Rene will be
>>>>    joining Michael from BU at a meeting at BU tomorrow, among other things),
>>>>    but we need your help!
>>>>    6. Date - people have thrown out a few so far: Thursday - 11/17,
>>>>    Saturday - 11/19, Saturday 12/3, and others. My quick thoughts are that I
>>>>    think it has to be a weekend day. I agree with the point that people coming
>>>>    home from their commutes are less likely to want to stop and engage in
>>>>    conversation. Weather is also a factor (people don't want to talk in the
>>>>    cold), so the sooner we do this, the better. Summit is definitely a concern
>>>>    that we'll need to address. All dates are on the table, so please continue
>>>>    to discuss.
>>>>    7. Mini demonstrations at individual sites (flash mobs, march
>>>>    formations, spoken word, open forums, conducting GAs, etc.) - I think these
>>>>    are very, very interesting and we should definitely discuss once we have
>>>>    some of the higher level details hammered out. I see a lot of innovation on
>>>>    these concepts as we get better at this.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Again, I'm sure I left stuff off, so please fill in the blanks. What
>>>> really gets me excited is point 7 above. So many people have so many
>>>> amazing ideas - what we're doing is incredible because we're innovating on
>>>> the entire concept of demonstrations. (My contribution: I'm betting there
>>>> is a cool way to get technology/social media involved to give us a dynamic
>>>> digital presence. Not quite sure exactly how, but I'm sure we can do a ton
>>>> of awesome stuff.)
>>>>
>>>> Can't wait to make this happen. See you all tomorrow!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ravi
>>>>
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>>
>> Kelley Pope
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