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

Maureen White maureenclairewhite at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 09:49:40 EST 2011


Has Sunday, 11/20 been discussed as a possible date?

Maureen

On 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):
> 
> Logistical concerns - how we get people there (march or just meet in different places), planning for contingencies, etc.
> Content - what do we want to say, what do we want to ask people, etc.
> Methods to sign up volunteers
> Names - "Meet the 99%" seemed to get some +1s, please continue to throw out more ideas
> 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!
> 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.
> 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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