Notes from 2012 0123 RallySummit PostMortem NextSteps
Jan 23 Discussion Meeting/Call
ACTIONS
§ Heleni to draft thank you email, Andy to send it out from CU email on behalf of WG
§ GoalPersuade senators to submit a letter after the hearing supporting it
SOMEONE NEEDS TO TAKE POINT ON PLANNING FOR FEB. 28 Below is Laura's proposed action plan.
- Goal: to pursuade senators to sign a letter that favorably report on the hearing.
- § Feb 28 hearing (have a rally, some of us be prepared to speak on the event). Make sure to ask to include public financing in the resolution.
- § 1 week out lobby day
- § 2 weeks out call in and writein in day
- § 3 weeks out proposal to GA
- § 4 weeks out present to GA
Congratulate ourselves on being awesome! The event was a huge success. Go around and tell success stories or good things we heard from other
§ Pam mentioned a potential donor
§ This event was “unprecedented”
§ Think about different approaches to this besides just an amendment
§ Tiny Tents were great.
§ Mark’s banner was awesome
§ The Balloons
Brief announcements (each one is to be 5 minutes or less)
§ Mention the CU Task Force for passing a Boston Resolution.
§ Anyone want to dial in to the Public Citizen "report back" conference call on Wednesday at 8pm? - Heleni said that she could.
§ National day of action for Presidents Day (Theresa)
Talk about what went well and what to improve (or make sure to do) for next time
§ Be prepared on the day of event bringing markers, paper, tape, swiss army knife, ...
§ Have big signs ready pointing out where meeting is
§ Figure out what the heck to do about political candidates
§ Have an OB table next to all the other tablers.
§ Add a dryer next to the donation washer (Washer=General Fund, Dryer=CU WG)
§ Make sure to have a disclaimer for the event that we do not necessarily support what speakers say.
§ Publicize it more
§ Doing everything way too late (including the flyer)
§ Focus on other sorts of solutions besides amendment
§ Be careful that people are clear about who is presenting what?
§ It’s good to rotate lobby groups to get different ideas on how to lobby
- We’d have called time and had people rotate from group-to-gorup
- Instead of letting the question/answer go long and skip the breakouts, have the questions become a breakout session
- More time to set up the event is needed
- Spread out all the todos around better so a few of us aren’t swamped
- Sticking to schedule (didn’t succeed into connecting people to WGs)
Language for the amendment resolution
- there was a very long discussion here.
- People definitely wanted public financing mentioned in the resolution
- Some people also wanted "public ownership" of the airwaves to be mentioned
Brainstorm our next activities
· Rep. Capuano – turn down money from banks
- People were ok with Andy trying to write a grant application to United Republic
Division of Labor
each task below can involve multiple people, but we should start having people volunteer to do specific things so that the person/people who are taking point on an event know they don't have to keep track of everything and so everyone knows who to contact with questions. Note, multiple people should sign up for at least some of these things, especially under Organization.
§ EVENT JOBS
§ Media (coordinate live streamer, press releases)
§ Signs
§ Recruiting (OB info tent table, buttons, and keep track of sign in sheets)
§ Food
§ Event coordinator (MC event, make sure things are ok with room and know how to work AV equipment)
§ Recording - Minute taker and time keeper
§ Set up and decorations
§ ...
ORGANIZATION
§ Recruiting (maintaining member list(s))
§ Event planning
§ Coalition building
§ Maintaining website
§ Donations / Grant Writing
§ ...
Stance on political candidates
All of us present (Big Mike, Laura, Heleni, Nick, Andy) were interested in having candidates at our events and be part of our working group.
We had mixed opinions as to whether and to what extent candidates should be permitted to campaign at our events.
- Some thought we should forbid campaigning
- Others thought we should allow it (since when did Occupy Boston start censoring what people can say?)
We did not discuss what to do about politicians in our working group.
We all want to be able to have candidates at our events and
§ What do we want politicians to be able to say at our meetings?
§ What do we do about politicians in our working group?