Media Meeting 3-3-12

 

Folks present and stuff they can work on

• Franz, web dev’t
• Jose, videos, new Decatur occupation
• James, livestream, editing
• Shayna, legal, twitter
• Darlene, can edit
• Sara, articles
• Ladie- media, home defense
• Natalie, legal, demands, can edit

 

 

1. Announcement List (to send to OA allies/members)

• Outreach was going to launch one but seemingly has not
• Any way to do it through website announcements? (like automated digest?)
• Avery is going to set it up, Jose can be admin & add folks

 

2. Media Discussion groups

• Google groups: has mysterious admin
• Andrew set one up through website (media.occupyatlanta.org)
• To be used for things “entire world doesn’t need to see” (relatively closed) w/o lurkers
• Take people off if consistently not involved (w/ consensus at a committee meeting)

 

3. Athens occupation

• Planning Walmart on the corner of nature preserve so just started 24 hour occupation at City Hall
• Contacted us, Sara we can forward their press releases to our press contacts
• No objections from committee members

 

4. Radio interviews

• Pacifica Radio – wants to talk about race & occupy
• Ladie will talk to them

 

5. PSA

• 89.3 agreed to have us do PSAs so long as non-profit will vouch for us [Art for the People can do this]
• With spring (better weather) we can record I ourselves (a good idea) Ladie will bring guidelines
• TVs also required to give time to PSAs – another possibility

 

 

 

 

6. Signs for SB469 protests

• Pictures of protests (Dr. King, suffragists) with crimes they were charged with (“I am a man”), or images of people being arrested with a line from the bill, lok in NY Times for charges for sitins, suffragists, Birmignham, pictures of downtown Atlanta
• Sara’s friend might be able to print?
• Posterbrain.com as an alternative

 

7. Press release training

• Media training as part of 1x/day training goal at AT&T?
• Sara can do press release training
• Aim to do 1 media training/week

 

8. Court Friday
   • Thursday night, press release from arrestees will be developed
   • Friday 8am, statements read by arrestees, afternoon press conference to publicly thank lawyers
   • Press release for each one? (b/c they may pick or choose?)

 

9. Statement press/release for demand just passed
   • tie to 469
   • # corrupts all levels of government (from Decatur/walmart to… to 469… to superpacs…)
   • Occupy Atlanta has issued a demand:
   • Why we issued
   • Not our only statmenet – root at what we need to accomplish to fix anything else
   • Sarah will write it

 

10. Article for ALEC

• ALEC – gets GA to suppress speech, cost on taxpayer’a backs
• Clip 0 Ernestine “we don’t care” SNL

 

11. Conflict resolution within Media
    • If you do something that makes people not want to work with you…
    • You need to be willing to go to conflict resolution to remain part of the committee. Passed as proposal, unanimous. Internal discussion of who is on that list.

 

12. Decatur
    • 62 yr old women
    • Lives with mother, daughter, 3 yr old granddaughter
    • They say home is worth $40,000
    • Foreclosed on but may not be an actual bank?
    • Tents go up on Sunday, Monday 9am DeKalb courthouse
    • Tuesday press conference
    • Leila is bottom-liner