On Monday, January 9, 2012 at 6:00 PM, the Occupy Boston Direct Action Working Group will host Occupy Boston’s weekly Community Gathering at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 138 Tremont Street in Boston. The evening will introduce attendees to the basics of nonviolent direct action, an essential component of the growing Occupy movement’s activist strategy.
Occupy Boston’s Community Gatherings are held every Monday evening and are open to the public. The intention of these Community Gatherings is to build and strengthen the Occupy Boston community through ongoing dialogues, presentations, workshops, and facilitated conversations, in order to build a resilient, wide-spread and inclusive social movement.
Participants will also learn about the “affinity group” model for activist organization. Attendees will see first hand how successful affinity groups are as close-knit as families, and they will be given the knowledge and encouragement they need to start forming their own affinity groups. Quality time, training, and small-scale actions will strengthen the bonds between us, and those bonds will empower us to speak truth to power louder than ever come spring. We are the 99%, and creative nonviolent direct action will help ensure that our voices are heard.
This event is free and all are welcome to attend. For more information about this event, please email occupybostonmedia@gmail.com or visit https://www.occupyboston.org
One Response to “Occupy Boston Digs In For a Winter Full of Actions and Action Planning”
Seems like you should be training people to go to other places and do this presentation. The folks interested in Occupy are more savvy than such basic information. However.. empowering them to organize such a meeting or visit their church and share these ideas IS the “next step”. In the course of training them how to ‘spread the news’ they will gain this same information as if they had sat in on your meeting.