June 2008 Local Meeting
From SP Boston
The Socialist Party of Boston met at noon on Sunday, 29 June 2008 at the Lucy Parsons Center. Since this meeting took place in the middle of the National Assembly, we just held a very informal discussion about recent and upcoming events. For more information, check out the full minutes below.
[edit] Agenda
- Introductions and agenda approval
- Anti-Imperialist Fourth of July
- Noon to four in the Charles River Reservation off Soldiers Field Rd. past Elliot Bridge (near Harvard Stadium).
- Review logistics -- who can bring what, and when.
- Review site, perhaps check it out after meeting.
- Antiwar
- Weekly DMZ at Mass. Ave. and Boylston St., 6-8 pm every Friday.
- Any news yet from National Assembly in Cleveland?
- Electoral
- Presidential campaign in MA, RI.
- Need one more elector in MA, need voter registration certificates from many electors already signed up.
- John Walsh new ballot access coordinator in Rhode Island.
- Need a thousand verified signatures by September.
- Todd Vachon for Congress in CT. Needs another couple thousand signatures by August, needs a lot of help.
- Jon Osbourne for State Senate in RI. Should have no trouble collecting the 100 signatures he needs, but we should go down and help out anyway.
- Presidential campaign in MA, RI.
- Proposal for SP to adopt expanded platform points.
- Proposal for formal non-member "supporter" status.
- SP-New England Podcast and Media Exposure
- This discussion is going to be around the development and production of content to specific to SP-New England, and how to distribute it and get it out there for wider consumption. There have been several ideas on the SP-New England list, but having a discussion at the general meeting would be helpful.
- Mark True is putting together a proposed programming format for the podcast
- Some ideas so far:
- Podcast
- Streaming radio show
- YouTube video program
- Wider dissemination to other progressive journals (Boston Pheonix comes to mind)
- Possible Media Committee or Corresponding Secretary?
- Possible trial project: Ed Laing's primer on democratic socialism?
[edit] Minutes
There's actually not much more to say than the summary at the top of the page. LPC was MIA, so the three of us who made it just chatted outside about recent and upcoming events including the National Organizing Conference, the Fourth of July, and October 11.