[Subvertistas] Subvertistas meeting notes of 12/7/04

[trin at resist.ca]

Meeting notes of 12/7/04 for Subvertistas

1) Video and tv production classes for Subvertistas have been offered,
free of charge, by a benefactor of ours.

a - Members present decided it'd be a good thing if I (Trin) went through
it myself first, so that at least I'd be empowered to take out video and
audio equipment for events and actions of ours, or for whatever purposes
which their use might be helpful to us.

b - All others stated how busy they already are, what with school, work,
social lives (what's that?), etc., that they couldn't take the classes
just yet (I imagined how our benefactor would be relieved financially but
would still urge the others to take the classes any old how).

c - Being able to have a command of media equipment and processes enables
us somewhat to 'up the ante' on our effectiveness as a radical affinity
group, a discussion ensued to the effect which got us all thinking about
some of the projects we could take up, videos, documentaries, news
stories, and roll-ins for our cable access tv show which soon begins.

2) j20 Anti-Inaugural Event planning

a - PDX or DC, which is right for Subvertical? Well, here we decided
pretty much unanimously that we couldn't afford a trip to DC which has us
there in a little over 6 weeks time, and that our efforts would best be
spent in trying to make our presence known here in PDX instead.

b - Strategy and tactics? Here we talked some of how the j20pdx ppl have
really begun to prepare for this event and that we ought to throw in with
them as best we can, and that we might be able to werk some actions of our
own into the whole affair.

c - Logistics? Well, seeing as how we'll all be here instead of in DC, the
concerns of travel and whatnot really are out the window at this point. We
got into how we'll at least be able to focus more so on the matters of
planning our own particular, signature action(s) for that day and perhaps
for the days leading up to it too. We encouraged one another to dream up
some big ideas for the occasion, so that we might be able to werk out any
potential kinks or faults in our plans beforehand.

3) The Conference of the Radical Contingent - It's back!

a - Though we tabled this idea about two months ago on the well
intentioned advice of one of our comrades (not I), it's definitely time we
got busy with the werk of planning this whole affair. The aforementioned
advice came from concerns about timeliness because of the elections and
this whole Cascadian autonomy movement which has emerged, but now we must
proceed with our efforts to make the Conference (CRC) into a real thing.

b - We need to flesh out our ideas for this thing, its character, tone,
goals, time-frame, etc., lots of werk to do. One idea which we must do our
best to identify with is the idea of 'building the myth' of the CRC, well
before it actually materializes, so that there's a good and very clear
sense of purpose for all who would attend.

c - We got to talking a little bit about when we could pull this off, the
CRC, and March 20th came up because of that date's significance with the
beginning of the Iraq occupation, and well, it's just too bloody early now
for us to committ to a date when we have so much werk to do in terms of
actually defining the whole event. There'll be lots more talk of this as
time goes by.

4) Banner drops, freeway blogs, postering - yay, everyone's favourite!

a - Materials for signage can be got by dumpstering behind art and media
stores, Lowes, Home Depot, the like.

b - Construction of signage could be done at either Midian 48 (HQ) or at
the infoshop (so says comrade MD)

c - Ideas for slogans, sayings, and whatnot for the banners, signs, and
posters can probably best be arrived at by werking in teams of two so that
too many cooks won't spoil the soup.

d - Deployment of these things at the best places was also discussed, we
also understand the need to make it easy to record with cameras our werk
after its placed (so we can post it all on IMC and be rockstars! lol)

5) Next week's meeting time and place is something we'll werk out between
all of us throughout this week in correspondence.

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Yo all, I'll be in touch soon about some new developments which we should
all be made aware.  :)  Oh btw, anyone here wanna do some tv broadcast
journalism in Salem on Monday? Please let's stay in touch more and not
less.

Trin