[Energy] Occupy the Open House

OB Inreach inreach at occupyboston.org
Sun Mar 11 16:49:55 EDT 2012


Dear Working Groups, Caucuses, and Affinity Groups:

As some of you may already know, on February 18 the Occupy Boston General Assembly reached consensus that the first Community Gathering of every month will be a community-wide OPEN HOUSE, starting on Monday, April 2.  The objective is to bring new people in to Occupy Boston and to get them involved in our working groups, caucuses, and affinity groups. To this end, a group of us -- please join us! -- have been working hard to structure the time and space to provide you all with the opportunity to present yourselves to a lot of new faces.

We know that we want the events to be open, friendly, sincere, and exciting.  We want visitors to understand who we are, what we’ve done, and why it’s important for Occupy Boston to continue -- and for them to become active!

The first of these monthly Open Houses will be at The Cathedral Church of St. Paul (138 Tremont Street) from 6:00 - 8:30 pm.  We're in the process of determining how to give as much exposure as possible to all the different groups.  It’s not obvious!  Please let us know if your group wants to be involved by emailing Inreach at OccupyBoston.org; it'll help us out a lot!

As of this writing, we already have a few recommendations for what groups might want to have ready for the Open House: Please consider a physical handout (e.g. a flier) that is short, simple, and has your up-to-date contact information.  We're still exploring our options for signage for each group, but, if you can bring your own, then all the better!  A sign-up sheet of some kind is strongly suggested.  Pictures would be good, and poster boards with pictures and text would be fantastic.  Computers for multi-media content would be great, although please be advised that background noise might be an issue.  Either way, we encourage you to bring whatever seems representative of what you do.  Be excited and show it!

We're working on getting an awareness campaign up and running shortly and we can always use help from anyone experienced in such things. (Cards, fliers, posters, PSAs on radio?,  can we get articles into magazines? Anything else?)

Thanks so much,
Info Working Group
(Formerly Inreach, InfoTent, and InterOccupy)

Inreach at OccupyBoston.org


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