ACTION: First Night, DEC 31st

FSU to do a "Roving Soap Box" to help publicize FSU and Occupy Boston.  We will have two orange poster-boards, one advertising FSU, and the other directing people toward OB First Night activities.  Instead of a Soap Box lecturer, we will have poets and alternative carolers.

Action Poems here, Action Carols here (under construction) FSU pdf here David is bringing 1,000. To customize your own flyer here Not carols, Raging Grannies song-book here More songs here Tiny Tents here OB Poster here Buttons

InfoTent flyer, Declaration plus here Occupy Boston Header here

Tasks: firm-up location(s) .. especially where to start and who is contact for meet-ups (ask David for his ph# if you will be late). Z is also confirmed until he marches with the Palestinian contingent of the Parade (5pm or 5:30 starts at Hynes)

Write invitation/description get to the occupyboston.org/calendar (Rachel or Dan of Outreach) also send to street@lists; signs; poets (Monica & Ellen, Elizabeth) and live@lists (livestream) especially Eli and Phil Anderson, & Jess of TV@lists.

Create a hand-out with FSU info (contact; wiki; youtube; facebook; perhaps our best video URLs see FSU signature at bottom)

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Friday continue to do outreach/reminder, send to @lists, groups broadcast, teachers who have taught etc

Check occupyboston.org/calendar for locations

1-5pm Signs at E5: 33 Harrison St, 5th floor, Chinatown or Boylston T

5pm Facilitation WG Meeting @ City Place

5:30 #D30, Day 30 of #OB @ Fed, Atlantic Ave, bring a pillow Rose Kennedy Rose Garden

6pm InfoTent planing meeting, at E5.

7pm InterOccupy Communications WG meeting E5, 5th fl. 33 Harrison St, Chinatown

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ACTIONS that are scheduled SAT, DEC 31st:

FSU, see David from 1-7pm Roving Soap Box. David has the FSU flag and bright orange signs for the soap box. I will update this info: specific location and further description, info will also be pasted to occupy calendar. We have 2 poets confirmed and some to sing alternative carols. See more info at bottom. contact fsu@occupyboston.org.

Kevin & InfoTent and Jay with Signs will be around, Tinny tens were made. Street is discussing red balloons. Other OB Actions include InfoTent face-painting, a large banner ... bring small rope for the InfoTent.

Noon-1pm InfoTent & Street Team @ Community Church, will hand-out helium balloons and set-up 2 giant banners, Occupy 2012 and a lower one to write on, 'This year I'd like to see ...'

1-5pm InfoTent canvasing around the city, buttons, flyers

1-5pm Community Church Screen Printing for First Night, Community Church 656 Boylston St 02116 The #OB Screen Print Guild will be doing screen printing in coordination with all OB First Night activities. Come join us and have some fun! Please bring donations of materials to print on if you can. Tshirts, sweat shirts, bags, fabric, you name it!

1pm meet FSU David & Z at Community Church, 565 Boylston Street (across from Copley) Soap Box, poets, & caroling.

1pm – 2pm Peace Vigil @ Park Street T Station The Action for Peace Working Group of Occupy Boston is joining this long standing weekly community peace vigil. All are welcome.

3pm – 7pm in Copley Square, Boston, MA  The Peace Action Working Group (PAWG) of Occupy Boston will be tabling at Copley Square during the annual First Night New Years Eve event, along with the Stop the Wars Coalition, United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), and United for Justice with Peace (UFJP). After the tabling, PAWG will be joining the parade at the end along with Palestine solidarity activists. Bring signs and banners and handouts. The parade begins at the Hynes Convention Center at 5:30pm and marches down Boylston Street. Please join us!

3pm FSU Soap Box corner of Dartmouth & Boylston

5pm InfoTent back at Community Church

5:30 pm The parade begins at the Hynes Convention Center at 5:30pm and marches down Boylston Street.

5:00pm – 8:30pm Social Event/First Night Staging at Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston Street (across from Copley)

8PM for a serious and fabulous surprise produced and directed by the Women's Caucus. We cannot tell you what it is now, but do come and you will LOVE it. Bring your video camera so you can film it, or so you can film what others say about it. Find us: Copley Square, Boylston St. near the big Christmas tree.

11:15pm #OB-Faith+Spirituality & Arts-WGs, Breath, Meditation & #OB Stickers being passed out, St Paul's Church, Park St T. Stichers, 'Occupy Your Heart'.

11:30pm Interfaith Service at St Paul's, across the street from Park St. T-Station

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More info Peace Action WG:

FIRST NIGHT AGAINST THE WARS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 12 (says 3pm on calendar) – 6:00 PM COPLEY SQUARE, CORNER OF DARTMOUTH & BOYLSTON(next to Boston Public Library) We will be distributing peace materials and stickers against U.S. wars and joining the First Night parade at the end as it passes Copley Sq. BRING SIGNS, BANNERS & NOISE MAKERS.  We’ll be there rain, shine, or snow. Co-Sponsors:  Boston United National Antiwar Coalition, Stop the War Coalition, United for Justice with Peace, Occupy Boston Action for Peace Working Group This year, the Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights is also calling for a stand out and march in the parade for a Free Palestine: The Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights calls for your participation in this annual Boston event – please spread the word!   
Let’s  make this year’s demonstration of support for a FREE PALESTINE the biggest one ever!

FIRST NIGHT:  
STAND OUT AND MARCH FOR A FREE PALESTINE

Saturday, December 31 (New Year's Eve)
Copley Square, Boston beginning at 4 PM

At 5:30 PM the Grand Procession marches down Boylston Street –
we will make up a FREE PALESTINE contingent at the end of the procession.

Please bring signs, banners, candles and drums.  
www.bcprights.org

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FSU is hosting a roving Soap Box for First Night DEC 31st between 1pm and 7pm.

Reply to me if you'd like to join us for poetry reading and singing altered carols.
FSU will be meeting-up/crossing paths with many other #OBoston WGs: Signs, InfoTent, Street Actions,  Inreach and the Peace Action WGs.

Action Poems here:
Declaration of Occupation, #OB
A Ritual to Read to Each Other, Wlm Stafford
The Warrior, Hafiz
Return to Earth, eden
Final Notions, A Rich ... this is the one U R looking for.  

FSU pdf here
FSU Signature:
EDUCATION IS A WEAPON OF MASS CONSTRUCTION

To schedule a class send to fsu@occupyboston.org, write 'POST' and <date> in the subject line.
FSU classes WIKI: http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Solidarity/FSU
and whole Occupy Boston:http://www.occupyboston.org/calendar/
Daily newspaper, list of classes and other notes RE: FSU can be found at Boston Occupier: http://bostonoccupier.com/free-school-u/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/OccupyBostonFSU
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/OccupyBostonFSU/
Our recordings are listed on wiki and on:
http://www.youtube.com/user/FSUOccupyBoston