may day 4 7 meeting notes (PDF)

MAY DAY MEETING 4/7

Next Meetings:
• Art party! 4/14 3pm-5pm
• Next Meeting: 4/15 1pm-3pm

AGENDA:
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Intros- Pronouns
Report Backs
Action plan for the day
Refining roles for organizers and groups
Action Items

NOTES:
1) INTROS:


Mandolin, Sailor, Art, Lonnie, Sarah, Jennifer are present

2) REPORT BACKS:

SAILOR: Spoke on report backs with outreach:
• SEIU 503 (christy)
• GTFF (confirmed)
• Burrito Bergade donating 200 burritos (christy)
• Impact in touch with getting truck with porta potties (chris)
• Occupy Medical to have vet packs available (chris)
• OSLP union (chris)
• ESSN (confirmed)
• CLDC (Charles)
• Opportunity Village (Shawnalee)

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Free School (run by FnB) (Shawnalee)
Student Union Groups (AFLCIO) (christy)
Seiu caregivers (Christy)
FnB (sailor)
Soup Not Cops (Sailor)
LCC IWW (Confirmed for tabling) (sailor)
LCDN (confirmed for tabling and security) (Sailor)
LatinX (day without immigrants) (Sailor)


3) DAY OF ACTION:
THEME: Disrupt the Circus: a day of carnival-like activities against the circus that

is the Trump presidency
• Original plan was connecting unhoused issues, but now we are scrapping
that
• Focus all energy on park-block aspect (block party style carnival)
• Food will be present from food not bombs, soup not cops, burrito brigade

SCHEDULE:
MORNING ACTIONS:
• Talk with groups about possible morning actions and how to support them and their actions
12:00PM: CARNIVAL STARTS
• Carnival Games will be set up
• May pole
• Organization Tabling

1:00PM SPEAKERS START
• Union radical labor focused speakers
• Diversity of viewpoints
• Mark Harris
• UO language teachers
• UO Matters
• GTFF Speakers
• LatinX Alliance
• Kim Marx


3:00PM POSSIBLE MARCH
• Nudge high school students to walkout
• March will be put on back burner



4:00PM CARNIVAL WRAPS UP



4) MARKETING:

DISRUPT THE CIRCUS: a day of carnival-like activities against the circus that
is the Trump presidency

• Apeing off of NYC’s colors, design: https://tinyurl.com/mse3j3m
• Borrowing language from https://itsgoingdown.org/evansville-fall-trump-festival/
• Reclaiming patriotism
• Working class language
• Carnival against the circus
• Ring leaders
• Call for clowns
• Radical burlesque


5) ACTION ITEMS:
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Putting together flyer (Mandy)
Unified Letter (Mandy/ Siolor)
Press Release (Lonnie/ Sailor)
List co-hosts on Facebook page and poster (Mandy)
OUTREACH
FAITH COMMUNITY:
Quakers (Mandy)
First Christian Church (Art)
Saint Marys Episcopal (Sailor/Rosemary)
Unitarian (Christy)
Temple Beth (Cressa/ Mandy)
Church Women United (Ruth)

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• KEPW (Sailor)
• al-nakba Palestinian rights group
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UNIONS:
UFCW (ESSN)
Teamsters (ESSN)
SEIU (ESSN)
AFSCME (ESSN)
United Academics (ESSN)

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STUDENT GROUPS:
ROAR (Mandy)
MECHA (Sailor)
SLAP (Mandy)
Multi-cultural center (Sailor/Mandy)
LBGTQA3 (Cressa)
NASU (Sailor/Mandy)
High School Student Groups
Clown groups
ORLC (ESSN)
MECHA (Sailor/Jennifer)