Planning for May Day

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meeting venue, near Benson High School

 

wearing West Region AFSC Liaison hat

 

Also present from AFSC: 
Mireaya, AFSC Staff, and the QVS intern assigned to AFSC, Mr. Gehring

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@npym_it working with The Open Bastion, snagged maydaypdx.org today in case the May Day Coalition wants to make use of it for fundraising purposes.

From: kirby urner <kirby...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: existing media assets
To: mayda...@googlegroups.com

OK, I heard back from Steve:  he's snagged it [1].

Steve is a 60+ citizen of the UK, has an apartment here in town but plans to move back to the UK in May. [2]

He's been in the US on a green card for 20+ years. 

I met Steve at an Open Source Convention (OSCON) when he still lived in Virginia.

He got me work teaching Hubble telescope people a computer language (Python) and my day job is to teach a course he wrote.

Just wanted reassure people that maydaypdx.org is in good hands should we choose at our next meeting to make some use of it as part of an experimental fundraising project.

Kirby

[1] excerpted lines from whois.com record:

Domain Name:MAYDAYPDX.ORG

Registrant Name:Steve Holden

Registrant Organization:Holden Web LLC

Registrant Street: 1620 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd #306

Registrant City:Portland

Registrant State/Province:Oregon

Registrant Postal Code:97214

Registrant Country:US

Registrant Phone:+1.8004943119

Registrant Email:steve@holdenweb.com

Admin ID:CR185676440

Admin Name:Steve Holden

Admin Organization:Holden Web LLC

[2]  Here's a blog post about Steve from when he first moved to Portland:

http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2011/02/open-secrets.html

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:14 PM, kirby urner <kirby...@gmail.com> wrote:

Followup:  since maydaypdx.org might be valuable to us I asked a trusted friend Steve Holden to try to snag it for us.

We're not committing to using this URL, just reserving it in case we need it.  As of this writing, I don't yet know if Steve was successful.

However my search of whois.com suggested we could grab it for $10.99.

Anyway, if you don't know about whois.com: it helps you both register new domain names and keep track of which ones are taken and by whom.

Kirby

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:: mock up of a MayDayPDX.org website with sponsors -- followup to May Day Coalition planning meeting ::

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Next meeting tomorrow. 

I plan to be there, with visit to nearby Voodoo Donuts for big coffee also part of the plan (and a donut or two).

-- Kirby
AFSC
Liaison / West Region


Meeting Notes from 2-3-15:

Agenda:

Introductions

Route planning for march (stops, targets)

Committees - develop list of responsibilities

Introductions - spent 5 minutes talking to someone new

Route planning - part of logistics committee. Are we going to have stops? 

In previous years there were no stops, walk-by street theater, messaging/flyering points to catch people as they march, because stopping presents issues with big marches (people in the back can't hear/don't know what is going on)

General support for the idea of walk-by messaging - ,short messages, visuals, theater, maybe led by different organizations

Stops can be effective but sometimes people don't notice that they're happening, because it's just 10 people breaking off from the march. Last year there were some powerful ones.

Police don't like stops, and also they make the fees go up. They don't like us to walk over MAX tracks, walk with the flow of traffic, try to keep us off of main streets but we try to get onto them.

We are going to pick targets, plan for no stops, no breakaways. Reach out to groups with relevant issues for potential targets with a rough idea of what we'd like to see and invite them to stage an action at a specific area.

Brainstorm of targets: 

$15 Now - City Hall, McDonalds

Homeless Bill of Rights (RtD2?) - City Hall

Black Lives Matter - Justice Center

Immigrant Rights - Justice Center (Go around the block of the Justice Center since it is a jail and police headquarters?)

Banks - identify several on the route and then pick one (PCASC?)

TPP and Fast Track - Oregon Fair Trade, at the Trade Center

Outreach commitments:

Robert - 15 Now & IWW

Romeo/Marco - RtD2

Matteson - Don't Shoot PDX

Crystal - PCASC, AAPRP

Romeo - Enlace

Justin - Oregon Fair Trade

Ask each organization to take responsibility to organize some visual/action/event to educate and promote their struggle as the march goes by.

Also ask each organization if they want to make a blog post for the may day pdx blog about their issue.  If they want to they can contact mattes...@gmail.com.

"Save the date" postcards - is there budget to print? Do we want to do that? Online save the date? Facebook event? Patricia's image is a great start, she will bring another draft to the next meeting. Add the date to the image. May Day, Portland Oregon words are hard to see because they are only outlines - make them stand out more. Add location (South Park Blocks - Shemanski Park). Must look good in black and white because our budget means we often print in black and white. Times - rally at 3, march at 4:30 (to get more folks as they come off of work).

5 minute meeting in committees.

To Do:

find police liason - Marco for now

everyone reach out to organizations they agreed to about organizing a demonstrations outside the targets

Crystal send out the map from last May with potential targets listed

Crystal reach out to Ash to get Matteson into the FB account to create FB event page

Patricia commits to continuing to work on a poster for next meeting

Next meeting 2/10 at 5:30 at JwJ

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The artwork is starting to materialize:

#MAYDAYPDX  (hash tag)

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#MAYDAYPDX

might still change gather time from 1 to 2 pm

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Cross References within Group:
 
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mmm-psc/YKQxYfj8_0Q/HkQUiWAOWfAJ  (Dove Puppets?)

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mmm-psc/bVPB5WKEdNc/EBziljpFLR0J  (Pay 2 Play traces Occupy to May Day)

Previous May Days:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kirbyurner/sets/72157644058505299/  (2014)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kirbyurner/sets/72157633384340231/  (2013)

Door Project, R2DToo (Right to Survive):

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kirbyurner/sets/72157633894585826/  (Multnomah working with AFSC)

(R2DToo is on the march route for 2015, R2DToo active on planning committee)

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EXHIBIT:  Route Planning

yellow circles indicate City Hall and Police / Prison respectively

left to right:  east perimeter:  immigration court, prison/police, federal court