Town Hall Notes: Creating Actions (filled with Energy)

[Barry]

[These are notes from one of the break out groups at the January 9th, 2012 Occupy Sonoma County Town Hall meeting in Sebastopol. You are welcome to reply publicly or contact a group representative by emailing the contact listing below rather than Reply Privately. Thanks! -Barry]

TOPIC: CREATING ACTIONS (filled with energy)
Occupy Town Hall, January 9, 2011

• Use humor, vitality, bright colors, songs, dance
• Civil Disobedience gets more media attention than just picketing or protest
• Colorful vital actions get more media attention.
• Flash Mob
• Street Theatre
• Role Play
• Freeze
• Music
• Holding up signs or banners at surprising places (at a dance, for example)
• Local actions
• At malls, farmer's markets,central points, unexpected and unusual places
• Some slogans we like:

• Bail out students. Forgive student loans

• Tents are speech
• Bank on Main Street, not on Wall Street
• We won't give our lives to corporate control
• US Millionaires—Don't be slackers, pay your taxes

• Bumper stickers on 3 sides of garbage cans
• COMMUNICATION IS VITAL:
• how to network
• email lists
• resource lists to take home
• facebook, twitter, phone tree
• Teach-in at a mall (not at the Peace Center) in conjunction with action
• Recognize character qualities which have been lost: compassion, integrity
• Factual handouts to be used at banks, events, actions or by themselves.

Contact: [email protected]

[Maggi Munat]

Wish I could have attended and would have definitely been in on this break-out group! I sent an email to the submitter of this post so I can get involved with adding more colorful, fun artisitc elements into various actions, as well as organizing a much-needed fundraiser dance party! Please see your inbox, Wonderful one! And please email me . [email protected]

Maggi from OSR Web Media Working Group