[Januaryfirst] 2013-10-23 Minutes

[Alex Hemingway]

New anti-CETA slogan from the CUPE convention: free Canada, trade Harper!
On 2013-10-24 2:51 AM, "Gil" <zapat3ro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've added a doc to the "Minutes" folder with these notes. They're roughly
> taken so if they don't make sense we can chat about it at the next meeting!
> I've pasted them below in case you don't want to go through the trouble of
> checking it there :-)
>
> I'm also attaching a draft of an image to promote our event on the web :-p
> We can tweak it, as it's only a draft, but I just whipped it together to
> move on it.
>
> Hope to see ya all next Wed!
>
> gil
>
> ====
> Jan. 1st Collective Meeting
> Present: Dave, Karin, Gil
>
> *Nov. 20 event*
>
>    - Speakers: Cease Wysse (Harjap contacts her?), someone from the South
>    (Gil will try some contacts from Mexico and/or Argentina), Mark Leier (Gil
>    can email him).
>    - We figured either we can have someone Skype in or even record a
>    message to play
>    - We’d like to have a poster and leaflet draft ready for the weekend,
>    and print it once we confirm the speakers.
>    - We talked about the facilitators, and thought it’d be best if we had
>    two from the collective, and proposed two out of the three that were there!
>    (Gil and Karin)
>
>
> *Web*
>
>    - Gil will look into forwarding the gmail account of the collective in
>    case nobody checks it regularly
>
>
> *Jan. 1st event*
>
>    - We talked about what we would like the event to look like, and
>    discussed mostly it’d be great to have a tone that’s sort of proud,
>    festive, and semi-silent. Something like a march with some sort of unity in
>    form, but free for people to use as a platform for their own
>    struggle/community. That means that perhaps it can “look” uniform, but the
>    messages will be diverse.
>    - We figured it would be a good idea to use the event on Nov. 20 to
>    launch a series of meetings/workshops between then and Jan. 1st to make
>    materials and give the event shape. For example, Dave will look into the
>    Purple Thistle helping with hosting a materials-making workshop and maybe
>    helping with the poster idea we already sketched out.
>    - Since there probably won’t be a lot of people on the streets, we
>    could focus instead on having some kind of “confetti” leaflet we can throw
>    everywhere (small and very simple messages), or wheat-paste small posters
>    as we go.
>    - We could even facilitate a small critical mass-like group of
>    bicycles to come in and out of the march and leaflet areas farther out!
>    - We thought of making some kind of call-out to get ideas for messages
>    and/or images to be made into the materials, so we can have a series of
>    concise messages in our banners, placards and signs.
>
>
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