May 2008 Local Meeting
From SP Boston
The Socialist Party of Boston will meet at noon on Sunday, 25 May 2008 in the Lucy Parsons Center. We'll have a chance to catch up on the aftereffects of our May Day actions and Iraq Moratorium demonstration, and will also wrap up planning for the upcoming performance of Howard Zinn's Marx in Soho, the National Assembly to End the War in Iraq, and all the rest of our Socialist Summer 2008 projects. For more information, check out the preliminary agenda below.
The Lucy Parsons Center is located at 549 Columbus Ave. in the South End, near the Mass Ave. T stop on the Orange Line, the Symphony T stop on the Green Line (E), and the #1 bus line.
[edit] Preliminary agenda
- Introductions and agenda approval
- Antiwar
- Iraq Moratorium events, how to get the most out of them.
- StWC proposal for weekly visibilities/standouts at Berkeley.
- National Conference coming up next month in Ohio -- any logistical issues we should address or delegate?
- May Day
- Review activities and how they went.
- Evaluate red/black blocks at recent events.
- Fundraising
- The eternal fundraising concert
- Does Welfare Records work as a venue?
- Do we have a date confirmed with them?
- Need any more bands?
- Jerry Levy performs Howard Zinn's Marx in Soho, Saturday 31 May.
- Coming up quick!
- What more needs to be done?
- The eternal fundraising concert
- Electoral
- Presidential campaign
- Have forms to get official write-in status in MA. Need four more electors, and need to get voter registration certificates certified.
- Consider sticker campaign, which would allow more active outreach than just sitting on write-in laurels.
- Prepare to collect signatures in Rhode Island, laying groundwork for summer petitioning period
- More new literature, full-page for easy distribution-- consider improvements.
- Get list of registered socialists in MA.
- Potential state senate candidate in Rhode Island.
- Presidential campaign
- SP Anti-imperialism committee -- nominate contact?
- New members
- Clarify approval procedure
- Review backlog
- Idea to formalize non-member "supporter" status
- Proposal for SP to adopt expanded platform points
- Other upcoming events
- Anti-imperialist fourth of July -- do one in the Boston area?
- National Organizing Conference, 11-13 July in Ann Arbor, MI
- 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?