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THANK YOU! To all who volunteered at and visited the Dewey Square "Occupation Village". It was a historic experience in expressing "a new way" of community living in an urban environment.
NOTE: BY COMING TO A "PROTEST ACTION SITE" YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO ARREST. For more info, see the legal [FAQ].
Get involved in a WORKING GROUP! or see below for other volunteer opportunities.
To get more info, please write to volunteer@occupyboston.org.
If you want to join in a Working Group, check out the main website www.occupyboston.org and look at the the calendar on the right to see when different working groups are meeting.
Look to the left on this page to see a button for "Working Groups". Take a look through the links to see what different Working Groups do and see where your interests are.
Or START YOUR OWN WORKING GROUP! It's easy. The General Assembly voted to allow any two people to start a working group. Check out the "Facilitation Working Group" to see guidelines for establishing a Working Group. Established Working Groups get to access donations for causes that are supported by the General Assembly.
DETAILED VOLUNTEER PAGES "BY WORKING GROUP"
SPECIALTIES/PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
- BOOKKEEPPERS are needed to help the Financial Accountability Working Group. ob-finance@lists.mayfirst.org Please put VOLUNTEER BOOKKEEPPER in the subject line.
- MEDICS/NURSES are needed to help at the events. Please see more details at the Medic Working Group page. Medics Please put MEDIC VOLUNTEER in the subject line.
- LAWYERS
REMOTE and VIRTUAL VOLUNTEERING
- MEDIA MONITORING
Help us keep a complete/running list of media we have gotten. Look at what we have already at: http://www.occupyboston.org/press/press-coverage/
Watch the sites that are covering us already. Or look for other news sources. Submit new coverage links to: submit@occupybostonglobe.com
Write to the Media Coordinator at Media Volunteer Coordinator
- WRITERS of News/Analysis
SUBMIT A WRITING SAMPLE TO: submit@occupybostonglobe.com for submissions
Occupy Boston Globe is looking for news stories and news analysis of the day's events pertaining to Occupy Boston, Occupy Wall Street, and the other Occupy movements.
Occupy Boston Radio is in search of a News Team. Those willing to write, produce and host the News. Please contact us at radio@occupyboston.org
- WRITERS of Human Interest Stories
Write stories about people coming together from diverse backgrounds to do something amazing. The people gathering up supplies or doing fundraisers. The people in your neighborhood that support the effort for their particular reason. Submit stories to: submit@occupybostonglobe.com. See a List of Human Interest Story Topics If you have a new one, go for it, but let us know you're doing it. If you want to do one on the list, let us know, in case someone else has already started it.
- BLOGGING
Search for blogs and newspaper/media that have articles. Or go to the main website (http://www.occupyboston.org/) and OB facebook (http://www.facebook.com/OccupyBoston) page and look for posts of media. Go to those sites, read the article and the comments. Post replies “in support”. Use the “messages” at the main website to help you write things in support of the movement. Here’s a good place to find those messages: http://www.occupyboston.org/faq/general-faq/
- POSTER YOUR TOWN
[out 50 flyers from this page.
Hand them out downtown, at the grocery store, at the big discount store. Post them at coffee shops, bus stations, anywhere that seems appropriate. Be considerate of local cultural preferences relative to posting on telephone poles. While there are laws allowing and preventing, there’s often a local preference that may be worth respecting.
To get more info, please go to http://www.occupyboston.org/contact-occupy-boston-form/
- SET UP and/or STAFF A TABLE IN YOUR TOWN
Get a card table and set it up downtown somewhere. Or at a busy bus or train station. Wherever there’s a lot of foot traffic. Print out a bunch of flyers from http://www.occupyboston.org/flyers-print-and-post/ And just go sit at the table and answer questions. The first time will be hard because you’ll be learning at the same time you’re answering questions. But it’ll get easier. Print out the FAQ from the website and bring them with you. Make sure to check the FAQ sometimes, because there are updates as we figure out other stuff people want to know.
To get more info, please go to http://www.occupyboston.org/contact-occupy-boston-form/
- Write LETTERS TO THE EDITOR(LTE) of your local and regional newspapers - for both bad and good articles or media pieces.
Letters are guest opinion pieces of about 250 words that allow you to offer a brief rebuttal to or support of an event or article. LTEs should be written in a timely manner ideally 24-48 hours after the original media piece comes out. More than one person can send in an LTE, in fact we are more likely to get an LTE published if multiple go in. Watch the press pages of the website or your local/regional papers and write specifically to articles that the publication has released as well as to pieces on the Occupy Boston press site that haven't been addressed by your local/regional paper.
Check with the paper’s limit on the number of words. Write about your feelings about why the Occupation is important to you. If you live or work in Boston or own a business in Boston, specifically if it’s near Dewey Square, be clear about how you feel about the Occupation being in “your neighborhood”. We’ve had people write in and tell us that they love having a “new community center”, and local business owners have said that it’s been great for sales, because of all of the visitors.
See other detailed Letters to the Editor Suggestions. For more info, write to m2 @ occupyboston.org or to outreach@occupyboston.org
- OTHER REMOTE VOLUNTEER DESK/COMPUTER Research and Organizing tasks.
Please write to occupybostonbos@gmail.com to get things you can do to help right from your own home! If you're not afraid to talk to strangers and feel like doing some phone work, please mention this when you write.