[Street] [Occupybostonoutreach] Outreach to schools

Jennifer Mazer jmmazer at gmail.com
Fri Feb 3 11:13:46 EST 2012


       Hello!  Outreach is not on the calendar... I don't know why because
I thought we were meeting tonight ?
           Jen Mazer

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Linda Jenkins <lindajenkins177 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Great Eli-Thanks. When is their GA going to be at E5?
> Cheers,
> Linda
>
> "Our goal is a society that prioritizes the needs of all before the
> profits of the few." Passed by Occupy Boston General Assembly, 11/29/11.
>
> Sent from my mobile.
>
> On Feb 2, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Eli Cohen <elcoh002 at mail.goucher.edu> wrote:
>
> Students are absolutely still here and going strong!
> - Yes, the collegesoccupyboston website has been out of date for a long
> time. They mostly use Facebook to communicate.
> - They decided to host some Student GAs on college campuses this semester.
> The first GA this semester was at Northeastern, and the second was at UMass
> Boston. The third is going to be at E5, and they're hosting a OB Student
> Summit soon. They're doing a great job maintaining an intercollegiate
> network.
> - Their campaigns are every bit as active.
> 1) Students Against T Cuts has almost 500 likes, and I'm working to bring
> them in on the 2/13 rally.
> 2) They're also working on a campaign against a blatantly
> rape-culture-promoting website called Barstool Sports which has caught like
> wildfire; there's 300 RSVPs for their rally tonight<http://www.facebook.com/events/102054269918424/>.
> Entirely student-run. They've been announcing it at GAs, and some
> non-students will certainly be there, but they really brought this together
> themselves.
>
> That's everything I can think to say. If any students ask you how to get
> involved with work being done on their campus, tell them to find the
> existing groups (facebook is a good place to start), or email me if they
> don't know where else to turn. Of course, if they already know about that,
> and just want to be involved in general, then you already know what to do!
> Same as you'd do for any stranger who wants to get involved; direct them to
> working groups, GAs, actions, etc.
>
> Questions? Comments? Missing pieces?
>
> -Eli
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:10 PM, rita sebastian < <rita at brandeis.edu>
> rita at brandeis.edu> wrote:
>
>> ++! to what Katie says.  While it is important to network with colleges
>> and universities (priority to do so) there needs to be more infrastructure
>> building and strategy planning within OB!
>> That is why I am trying to do this participatory budgeting workshop....so
>> OB (with full participation) can develop strategic goals and plans, and
>> then allocate monies to make it happen.
>> Thanks,
>> Rita
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Katie Gradowski <<katie.gradowski at gmail.com>
>> katie.gradowski at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We have never really systematized relationships with the colleges ---
>>> only organized incidentally around specific actions.   Eli Cohen  (who is
>>> on the outreach list) is our main contact for this.
>>>
>>> I agree that it's a project for outreach --- also agree that "outreach"
>>> has shifted a lot, and continues to do so, and that before taking on a big
>>> new project, we should do a gathering of the minds across WGs and come up
>>> with a long-term strategic plan.   At the moment, there's not enough of us
>>> to really cover territory in a meaningful way, lots of groups are doing
>>> outreach in an ad hoc manner, no real long-term strategy for how we want to
>>> grow the movement and evolve.
>>>
>>> There's lots of space to imagine how to do that, of course -- but
>>> first I think there's some groundwork and community-building that needs to
>>> happen within OB to really outline strategy and bring people into this
>>> effort before we go into anything long-term.
>>>
>>> best,
>>>
>>> katie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:35 AM, brett < <brett at occupyboston.org>
>>> brett at occupyboston.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'd love to see more involvement from Universities and partnership with
>>>> different "School" Occupies. Sounds like a project for Outreach.
>>>>
>>>> Especially, in the summer, we should be getting prepared for a *huge
>>>> influx* of students into OB. If we don't see that, its because we
>>>> didn't do that capacity building and recruitment work to bring them in.
>>>> That would be a fail!
>>>>
>>>> Brett
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Kevin Maley < <kevinmaley at gmail.com>
>>>> kevinmaley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> this  <http://collegesoccupyboston.com/>
>>>>> http://collegesoccupyboston.com/  is kind of outdated but I think was
>>>>> originally supposed to be a project linking the different schools for
>>>>> occupy. I know up until the final days of Dewey there were student GAs on
>>>>> the main plaza once a week or so. I am not sure whether any of this is
>>>>> still active but the infrastructure was built up so surely could be
>>>>> revamped so people dont have to reinvent the wheel if they want to jump
>>>>> start it up again
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Ravi Mishra < <ravi at occupyboston.org>
>>>>> ravi at occupyboston.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyone know who is taking care of reaching out to schools and
>>>>>> coordinating with them? Michael Pitter, a student from BU who was
>>>>>> intramental in putting together the Unity Rally, got in touch after getting
>>>>>> back from break to ask where things are and how he can help. I was thinking
>>>>>> a more unified approach to linking OB up with local colleges is something
>>>>>> we're really lacking in, seeing as we're one of the educational capitals of
>>>>>> the world. Beyond solidarity actions and stuff, I can see us doing cool
>>>>>> stuff like collaborating with universities on deep research efforts.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So in short, who has been doing stuff like this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Ravi
>>>>>>
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