Strategic Planning Notes June 1

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What do people think? Did we get it right? Add/edit, please...

GOALS:

Short Term (6-12 months): - Society --- $15/hour minimum wage - OB --- get community communication coordinated, calendar, lists, prioritization, etc

Long Term (1 year plus): - Society --- equal access to basic food/healthcare/shelter/education --- environmental justice --- 50% of workers in worker-controlled businesses/collectives/orgs by 2050

Note sure if "getting rid of corporate personhood" is a goal or a strategy/tactic. Not sure what else needs to go into short term.

STRATEGIES

Remember...strategies are NOT TACTICS. Tactics are what you use to ACHIEVE the goal VIA the STRATEG. Strategy is the long term plan on how to acheive a goal...using many tactics and tasks.

It's much easier to talk about tactics if the group agrees on the goals and strategies. Of course, don't stop "actions" til we get our strategies/goals in place. But experience indicates the the more a group agrees on goals and strategies to get to the goals, the more effective the actions are.

4 Pronged Strategic Approach (all happening in parallel)

1. Public Education/Awareness/Direct Actions 2. Internal Organizing and training (process/skills, both technical and organization and on-the-street DA skills) 3. Education/Facilitation of Business Operations (starting Occupy-type businesses/social enterprises/co-ops), Occupying the Economy. 4. Media AS SUPPORT. There is, of course "media direct action", like doing a twitter storm or whatever to achieve a specific goal, but media support to "tell the story". So to write pieces that tell "the whole story". Help make sure that individual WGs aren't telling a part of the story, without relating it to the whole.

TACTICS to achieve the strategies

1. a. Public Awareness - Direct Action

"Support" DA -- support international actions locally. like we should have done a better job supporting NATO. looking forward, support climate action talks w/local actions, world-social-forum -- support other local activist groups

Occupy Boston DA actions -- whatever SAA ideas

1. b. Public Awareness - Education --- decolonize film series --- restorative justice workshops --- biz workshops

2. Internal organizing/training ---

3. Occupy the Economy --- we're already doing it. don't really need anything from OB except its blessing/guidance

4. Media SUPPORT --- Are people actually willing to do this work? Write press releases?

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