for tonight... and beyond!

[Lucas Shapiro]

Hey team,

A couple quickies:

I'm excited to see a few of you tonight at the Happy Hour!  

We have about 45 people who RSVPed on FB, so we should have a respectable showing.  I posted the event on the walls of most of the orgs the MSP "likes" on FB and did some text message outreach as well.  For the summer, we are competing with the weekly free dance party at BK Museum and a free Blackalicious concert for Celebrate Brooklyn.

Sharon and Michelle, I went ahead and added you to the MSP-Core email list, so we don't have to CC you in messages.  We fam now :)

Attached is a sign-in sheet I drafted for tonight.  It's intended to build our list and also to ID orgs that might want to co-host future happy hours and/or venues/bars where we could hold them.  Let me know if you have any other suggested edits.

Anything else for tonight!?

[Lucas Shapiro]

One more thing!

This event next Tuesday looks rad.  Kazembe now works at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (RLS) where my housemate Heidi also works.  They have some money, so it might be a good group to build with, especially if they are into the idea of radical/organizing spaces.

Here's the FB event and the description below.  I have a Mayoral Candidates forum then, but if someone else was able to make it, would be a good place to promote our work and build relationships.

Hit me up if you can go.

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