Making noise and creative artful activism is great! Informing a few hundred people a day about social issues is great!
A few HUNDRED-THOUSAND people MUCH better!
Changing the conversation is great!
But making REAL concrete positive change for local NYC residents MUCH better!
What has been done by your group to that end? Any concrete achievements? ie Legislative changes by NYC Council. Increase of participants in weekly meetings and NON VIOLENT DIRECT ACTION events?
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Possible ways to do this asap
1) **** Guerrilla Outreach / Artful Activism ie Create robust thriving NYC Activism Light Brigade to spread good ideas and initiatives and critical info with LED and Laser LIGHT possibly? We would like to build/acquire and use at least a few times a week (during tolerably-weathered evenings) promote IMPORTANT NYC resident-empoweing info & be a source of inspiration for New Yorkers info and potentially widely popular local state and national initiatives *****
1a) acquire / make ASAP a scrolling-text LASER projector http://is.gd/scrollinglasertext that can PROJECT useful TEXT AND INFO pertaining to important NYC resources onto vertical surfaces and/or a
1b) portable-powered Scrolling LED sign http://soo.gd/occupykitchenscrollingled like on hot-dog / kebab stands and in stores displays!
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1c) Analog ie PEOPLE-powered / AA-(rechargable!)-battery-powered bright white Christmas-light letters to engage in see ——>
Brigade can be used to help stop the Military Industrial CONGRESSIONAL complex!!!! ie Disaster Capitalism ie. WallStWarSt paradigm! Stop #SuperPACs!!! #JumpstartGreenEconomy http://solidaritynyc.org/ http://neweconomy.net ,
Possibly promote these orgs
https://www.rebootdem.com/ http://www.restore-commons.com/ ; http://tinyurl.com/21waystoleaveyouroppressors ; https://tinyurl.com/bigproblemslittlesolutions
2) Promote calendars #NYCActivismCalendar & #JusticeDuckling
http://soo.gd/justiceduckling in a huge way solicit help from NYC techie community (see list below) to create robust online NYC activism calendar (and a telephone daily recorded telephone hotline for non-Internet savvy New Yorkers!).
Online version can include event mapping based on zip code, keywords, preferences. Daily Email & sms alerts mailing list? Google maps? Other solutions? MUST BE EASY TO INPUT EVENT INFO!
3) #MustSeeDocs FREE ONLINE VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES, real human stories, eye-opening, usually saddening shocking and outraging! But also inspiring! And hopefully moving people into ACTION!
ALSO
4) http://is.gd/mustseedocs < —— viewable / printable documents online educational flyers, and list of possible NYC law changes that could benefit all of us! hosted on sites like SCRIBD! Looking to grow this asap. Have TONS of FLYERS from past 7 years of activism that I’d like to DIGITIZE and UPLOAD to internet!
****** 5) #NYCPeoplesPlatform if say 3/4 of New Yorkers could agree on progressive initiatives what would that look like ? ******** Once we form this living document
6) Occupy NYC Hall! 2) Occupy NYC Council! and Occupy NYC Community Boards! What do you think of #NYCPeoplesPlatform #ChangeTheLaws campaign for NYC get massive input from general pubic to rate and evaluate determine best ideas for an #IfIWereMayor #IfYOUwereMayor campaign? Maybe install MORE LinkNYC (restore Internet browsing on these kiosks!) and other tech tools to build this channel for best ideas to flow to as many connected and offline New Yorkers as possible?
Community POLL in different languages that can be distributed TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE as QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE ASAP pertaining to COMMUNITY/NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERNS
Ways to share and quickly assess and rate/vote on best ideas/initiatives for IMMEDIATE progressive NYC policy change Maybe reach out to LinkNYC ( City of New York, CityBridge, Intersection Qualcomm, CIVIQ Smartscapes ), the people that make those MTA touchscreens ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Group )! Turn them into possible multilingual public opinion/ best-civic-ideas/survey-stations and possibly help build a widely popular #NYCPeoplesPlatform? That we can then lobby City Council?
Keep the code OPEN SOURCE!
Ways to share and quickly assess and rate/vote on WHAT constitutes a BASIC HUMAN NECESSITY/NEED that they would like NYC legislature and executive to SUBSIDIZE and FUND by DIVERTING money being used towards WAR AND VIOLENCE WALL ST BANKS, PETROCHEMICAL, AND MASS-SURVEILLANCE and ‘POLICING’ to be used for HUMAN NEEDS!
ie
Right to publicly assemble
Right to have free speech in public and not get pounced on
Right to not get brutalized terrorized or killed by NYPD. JUSTICE via an Elected Civilian Review Board
(212) 222-0633 @StopPoliceViolenceNYC stoppoliceviolencenyc@gmail.com https://StopPoliceViolenceNYC.org
Right to stay in park after midnight
Right to decide where our tax money gets spent
Right to impeach / repalce corrupt “leaders” ASAP (or DISSOLVE illegitimate “Government”!)
Right to Healthy food
Right to shelter / heat / air conditioning / hot & cold running water/ sink/shower / cooking facilities / refrigerator / storage
Right to clean clothing
Right to high quality public transport
TRUE health care ie Natural healing
******* 7) PROMOTE LIST AGGREGATE of Practical positively useful meetups etc. etc. Publish this list… Call it Good Groups NYC / Good Pages NYC —- or something better… gather list of all like-minded activism & community groups in NYC. Publish quarterly? Promote in a huge way. Use this list as a starting point to
***** We should probably find a way ASAP for New Yorkers share a list of THE BEST small and large groups in NYC who are 1) fighting for HUMAN RIGHTS 2) successfully serving the needs of NYC residents and 2) hopefully EMPOWERING The residents of NYC! What constitutes a HUMAN NEEDS ie if NYC could operate as a Human Rights ZONE!!!! *****
8) Annual #VacantSpaceCount ANNUAL census by City of NY or crowdsource if we have to. Get an idea of which spaces lots and buildings have been long vacant and can be utilized by able-bodied able-minded homeless and for the public good.
****** 9) Build a robust online NYC resident activist artist barter network. Existing groups to reach out to:
Goal: BASIC NEEDS MET FOR ALL! build a sharing network / barter etc. for people with a little extra they can spare in these troubled times with someone that provide SUPPORT and MOVEMENT BUILDING from it. NOT enablement and dependence though
Known ones based in NYC:
Really Really Free Market (Freegan meetup), Brooklyn Free Store / In Our Hearts, Free University, @OpSafeWinterNYC, The House of Good Deeds
Maybe we should all get together along with NYC Civic Hall / BetaNYC techs and see if we can build something asap?
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10) Cooperative NYC translator service. Come together with silent rave party headphones ( http://is.gd/translatorheadphones ) use these translators and headphones for
***** 11) Monthly #DefragTheMovement monthly organizing meetings to unite human rights groups in NYC and provide live interpreter/translation services for anyone that speaks any of major NYC languages *****
12) Possibly initiate War Tax Boycott for April 17. See https://nwtrcc.org/ National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee How many people on this list know that Pentagon has declared $9 TRILLION (with a T!) missing!!???
Not event mentioning the Trillions spent that HAVE been accounted for. allocate that money for long-overdue local public works projects!
13) Free / low-cost Holistic Healthcare 4 ALL (including Dental care) for all who want it http://thirdroot.org
14) Free Public Transit 4 All self explanatory create a PEOPLES MTA https://www.facebook.com/pplsmta/
15) Maybe petition City of NYC or use #ParticipatoryBudgeting channels to push for the issuance of hometown money ie.. http://is.gd/hometowmmoney ie community currency ie… vouchers and monetary awards for people who are humanitarians / good samaritans / activists, community leaders working for the public good and desperately in need of basic living costs met! ie free metrocard that do homeless outreach, activism, etc.
***** 16) NYC Truth Commission which we’d like to form ********
to
a) honor courageous whistleblowers, journalists and documentarians alive and deceased
AS WELL AS
b) form OUR OWN investigatory committees to help raise awareness about and hopefully SOLVE many outstanding unsolved NYC terror crimes and political assassinations. Goal is to hopefully expose real perpetrators of crime and hopefully prevent future crime from happening and prevent further reckless endangerment and senseless killing of innocent / benevolent / peaceloving people people. calling forward eyewitnesses and experts
Public inquiry into #MissingTrillions from Pentagon currently documented over 9trillion (with a T)! can tie this into PUBLIC INQUIRY into MAJOR CRIME OF 9/11/01 and now 2020-2021 “CV” #PLANdemic!
17) Election Reform Act of 2017 involves ways we can restore integrity and inclusiveness in local state and federal elections for instance have elections on a holiday. Paper ballet/instant run off etc. Eliminate electoral college etc. Constitutional amendment perhaps? https://is.gd/unrigthedeepstate
17a) Election reform for NYC City Council and NYC Community Board etc CROWDSOURCING & funding campaign for a PAPER BALLOT OLD-SCHOOL COMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD ELECTIONS for new community representatives BASED ON COMMUNITY MERIT not MONEY!
18) #DefundDAPL https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/defunddapl and other toxic dangerous extreme ways to get electricity heat transportation etc. #StarveTheBlackSnake
19) ******* Form list of what constitutes as a CREDIBLE JOURNALISM SOURCES ie a list or flyer of ALTERNATIVE NEWS NETWORKS for #ThePublicGood to counter Fake News! ******
20) Start our own newspaper / publishing company!
21) Find a physical space in NYC to create a video editing / journalism hub to counter fake news!
22) ******* Provide a USB flash drive of STUFF WE NEVER LEARNED IN SCHOOL BUT SHOULD HAVE ****** ie survival skills, true history of USA — of political prisoners, and environmental destruction, free energy, natural healing modalities, home remedies, nature of corporations & expose crimes against humanity, like facebook, monsanto, g4s etc etc etc, nature of government, plight of indigenous nations, Black Wall St. , Palestinians, Tibetans, Cointel Pro 101 etc etc etc see
http://soo.gd/mustseedocs for ideas!
23) Demand that NYC City Council and Mayor acknowledge Indigenous peoples request to #RemoveColumbusStatue and #RenameColumbusDay to
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
24) Make it much easier for Indigenous folks and collectively oppressed and marginalized people acquire and utilize city REAL ESTATE and BUILDINGS!
24) #OccupyTheFarm http://occupythefarmfilm.com/ build a work-exchange / rideshare network for local state farmers so that relations and networks can be established with local farmers!
25) **** NYC Shower Bus!!! a converted mobile bus where people can take showers and or/ 19a) PUBLIC FUND so broke NYC residents can take showers and do laundry *******
25) MACC metro anarchists coordinating council — send community representative to monthly MACC meeting to build coalitions! http://defendj20resistance.org/
26)****** #WaterAsFuel quantum jump can make motor vehicles run in water and power communities with breakthrough energy technology! Develop prototype with hacker and young engineering students and developers! Look up
https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/Methernitha, https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/JohnKanzius https://www.facebook.com/StanleyMeyer! ******
#DumpThePetrodollar #StarveTheBlackSnake
Also learn about what #NikolaTesla was talking about regarding WIRELESS ELECTRICITY
27) ******* #KamalaHarrisOUTCynthiaMcKinneyIN **********
Possibly draft and initiate a petition asap for this and #BestIdeas4Biden campaign. If mass public support, at very least it will raise mass public awareness about people like Dr. Cynthia McKinney (Green Party candidate for President of USA in 2008!) (would be nice to have this ready for NYC Womens’ March!)
28) #FreeALLpoliticalPrisoners NOW! shine light on this elephant-in the-room! And release aged PPs and POWs NOW!
29) #FreeALLNonViolentOffenders pardons NOW!
30) Tied into #GanjaNYC #IbogaineNYC etc free the plants! End the bogus failed drug war. Treat addiction as an illness NOT a crime. It is widely known that CIA and USA Inc. have been controlling heroin from Afghanistan etc.! They WANT people addicted. It’s is their cash crop for black budget projects! https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/ganjanyc
31) ****** #StopMonsanto – Mandatory labeling of GMO and possible BAN of known toxic Monsanto products in NYC! NOW ********
32) ***** Close down vacate any company doing business in NYC or with NYC that is known to be shady and human rights abusers! #StopG4S etc etc
etc.
32a) Possibly ******* rewrite NYC charter ****** to ban these types of companies from operating in NYC ********
33) #BanForcedVaccination look it up! Vaccines are bogus as well! http://is.gd/awakenyc
34) #StopThePoliceState #StopPoliceTerror ie WE THE NYC residents decide how POLICE OFFICERS and resources are utilized here in NYC. Not millionaire / billionaire Mayors!
#CommunityControl!
35) #BanHorseCarriages a no brainer to humane people everywhere! #HumaneNYC!
36) ***** Rethink and hopefully #ReclaimPublicSpace #TakeBackTheLand #TakeBackTheStreets #RestoreCommonLaw and allow people to pitch tents in parks and outdoors (as long as they do it responsibly)! See hashtag:
#RememberZuccotti ******
37)******* Possibly make a City Council resolution declaring human right to FREE SPEECH ,(reasserting constitutional and NATURAL BORN rights). Prevent UNINVITED crazy obscene wasteful oppressive NYPD from partaking in marches! ******
38) Build a strong #EvictionProtectionNetwork like Boston’s #CityLifeVidaUrbana http://www.clvu.org/ make City Council pass a MORATORIUM on bank foreclosures and evictions from places of residence!
39) Use this as a robust network to STOP BIG DEVELOPERS like REBNY from controlling NYC politicians! https://www.facebook.com/Stop-REBNY-Bullies-298163840621942/
40) ******** #RealPoliticalCourageTest for any potential future government representative *****
41) PEARS search engine ( http://is.gd/pearssearchengine ) or something similar. GOGGLE is buying up every evil technology in sight (search: Boston Dynamics killer robots!) . FUNCTIONS like NSA. And cooperates fully with US Government ON DEMAND. Find alternative SEARCH ENGINE(S) that promotes local community, privacy, anonymonity, ASAP
42) Ham-radios, INTRANET infrastructure built that can be RUN and SUPPORTED by local NYC residents / ie stakeholders. Make it freely accessible! Teach skills in HIGH SCHOOLS!!!!!!
43) ****** Reform education system in NYC and promote ALTERNATIVEmodalities for education!! See work of
44) Identify cheap easy tech solutions for NYC Actvisits and creative people.. ie. Kits to enable your cell-phone screen project a small 3D HOLOGRAM ( https://is.gd/cellphone3dhologramprojector ) etc. Teach these things in NYC PUBLIC SCHOOL
45) Alternative currency ie bitcoin, blockchain and/or non-counterfeitable ANALOG printed money
46) ****** PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN / sliding scale FOOD
TRUCK — Solar powered / wind or veggie oil even at this point (
or possibly H2O- powered
OR
electromagnetic engine powered
NOT power with gasoline!
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47) Stimulate, motivate, incentivize MORE ideas that would advance NYC so that we can all live with more peace, dignity and humanity! Find away to a way to channel best ideas through civic tech, COMPETITIONS with PRIZES and social rewards!! #BestIdeas4NYC #IfIWereMayor #IfYOUwereMayor
48) ***** Connect with the best NYC subway performers for an annual / biannual old-school JAM!!!!! Possibly fundraiser??? ***
49) ***** Connect with techies! Civic Hall NYC 118 w 22nd st 12th fl and also SFO-based Reboot Democracy civic tech tools (ie #ResistTools) and BetaNYC and other Hactivists ****
50) ****** Connect with landlords that are willing to host MONTHLY / weekly pop-ups like this:
NYC Techie Groups:
Anarcho Tech Collective
Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Committee
Civic Hall NYC (Nicrosoft owned?? WTF?)
Progressive Hacknight ( http://www.progressivehacknight.org/ ),
Xcubicle ( https://www.xcubicle.com/
Impact Hub NYC ( https://nyc.impacthub.net/ )
BetaNYC ( https://www.facebook.com/BetaNYC/ )
HackNY ( http://hackny.org/hackathon/ )
Hacking Manhattan ( https://hackmanhattan.com/ )
Disrupt NY Hackathon
MIT civic data design lab ( http://civicdatadesignlab.mit.edu/ ),
NYC Resistor ( https://www.nycresistor.com/ )
NYC Meetups Data forDemocracy Meetup
etc.???
OWS (Occupy Wall Street) Tech Ops http://devinbalkind.com/tag/occupy/
More resources:
You can reach me, Matt Bralow, on NYCActivism.org Facebook page email
owspeopleskitchen@gmail.com or phone 646-470-3890 Feel free to like/share/repost/comment anything on this page or at OWSKitchen.org !
Thanks for reading and entertaining these ideas!
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Can you or someone start researching these?
20160811 Jamzen Pleas For Garvey Energy Project & Humanity –
better business unlimited
http://roomster.com barter??
project outreach jobs – glassdoor.com
Please share whatever you want with New Economy people maybe can collaborate
1:1 Barter Advisor
OurGoods
12:00–8:00pm
Historic Essex Street Market
Meet with an OurGoods “barter advisor” for 10–30 minutes. These one on one consultations aim to connect creative people to other artists, designers, and craftspeople who want to trade skills, spaces, or objects in an atmosphere of mutual respect. To schedule an appointmentnow, email caroline@ourgoods.org.
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BETANYC
HACK MANHATTAN
xCubicle
Resistor
NYC Hackerspace
We are NYC’s civic technology and open government vanguard. … First, you can learn about our history though “Made In NYC: Civic Hacking 102,” and you can … #BetaNYC, NYC’s open data, open gov, & civic tech community (New …
NYC ## What is BetaNYC BetaNYC envisions an informed and empowered public who can leverage … Data Jam – NYC’s National Day of Civic Hacking event.
Mailing List Archive · ?Members · ?Photos · ?Pages
BetaNYC
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#BestIdeas4Trump #SupportTheseGroups
1) Occupy Wall St Projects Project:
2) Arts & Labor – Alternative Economics Guide for Living in NYC –
#WEareamericanvalues
#wearenewyorkvalues
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Maybe a solidarity / shared values statement by residents of NYC . see example: #NYCPeoplesResolution #NYCemergencyResolution
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGCtcb0WEAArsUh.jpg:large ENLARGE …..ALSO
List things we all can agree on (or at least things that most people in your crew can agree on).. use that as a template to invite ALL New Yorkers to take part including TEENS and PRE-TEENS. Like a Best Ideas, “If I were President” “if I were Governor” “If I were Mayor” type of things. Ways to TRULY make NYC NYS and America great.. .the BEST ideas/initiatives from these groups. Form a TRULY progressive NYC Council, #ProgressiveCabinet etc. Get people to run for office on these principles… the #NYCPEOPLESPLATFORM. #BRANDNEWCONGRESS
#OccupyNYCCouncil Make it a living document where people can VOTE/RATE best ideas. #BetaNYC
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OWS / ARTS & LABOR “PROJECTS PROJECT”:
http://www.nycga.net/group-documents/meeting-minutes-tech-ops-2012-03-07/
Occupy Union Square 
