This is a compilation of notes from our last two meetings on 3/1/12 and 3/8/12. As always, our meetings are every Thursday, 8:30 am at Spring Garden Bakery. All are welcome.
We are in our final push to organize the March 14 event: Save Our Community: Fight Foreclosure! The event will start at 7 pm.
Event page here: http://occupyforeclosure.org/save-our-community
IRC march
There will be a meal served by Unity church at 5:30pm. Mitch M. is the point person on this. All are welcome. Cakalak Thunder will play; Nego is the point person on this. Katie Y. will help assemble marchers at 6:15pm. Leave by 6:30pm to march to theater. Will S. will be work with the City for special events permitting.
Todd and Tom B. did a Lunch-and-Learn at the IRC announcing the event and had a good discussion with about 15-18 folks. Need to get some follow up fliers to the IRC – Dave R. is making them.
Press
We have gotten some good press leading up to the event. Nathan P. has been updating with several great, professionally written press releases. Todd got a good 2-3 spot on Voices and Viewpoints with WFDD that will re-air the day of the event. Bobbie and Kevin did a great interview with Jeri Rowe for the News and Record ran on Fri on page 2. Todd spoke at City Council as a speaker from the floor for the March 6th meeting announcing the event, inviting council and the general public. It has been airing on public access.
Participants/Supporters of Event
We are really building a broad coalition of support with this event. Participants include:
- Jeff Thigpen, Guilford County Register of Deeds- featured speaker
- MoveOn.org- outreach, tabling for Hold the Banks Accountable table
- Guilford County Home Ownership Center- providing counseling to folks facing foreclosure
- Greensboro Housing Coalition- providing counseling to folks facing foreclosure
- Interactive Resource Center- supporter and sponsoring
- Partners Ending Homelessness
- Unity Church- providing meal at the IRC
- YWCA- supporter and providing transport from their winter emergency shelter, hosting follow up event
- NC Justice Center- will table that night and host a follow up training teaching people how to investigate mortgage fraud on March 31 (prob at Central Library).
- Occupy Greensbro’s CA/A0 working group is helping will table that night and is helping to organize three follow up events including a talk/discussion with the YWCA on intersections of women and the housing crisis, a talk/discussion with the BCC on intersections of race and the housing crisis, and a public movie showing of The House We Live In.
- UNCG and Guilford have both signed up for subsequent showings of Let’s Lose Our House: A Modern Foreclosure Tale.
Fundraising
Kickstarter is currently at $1,614.00! We are over halfway. Donations will be taken at the event. Encourage people to give what they can and continue to send the link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/401246699/save-our-community-fight-foreclosure
Outreach
Make personal phone calls! Everyone should have contacted AT LEAST 10 people with a commitment to come out on Wed. MoveOn.org did a phone tree reaching out to 3000 people! Thank you! Fliers are available at bookstore, post on fb and email.
Program/ Evening Logistics
Basic flow of the program is: march from IRC, red carpet intro of “stars,” seating, intro, personal foreclosure stories, movie, Jeff Thigpen, rousing get active speech from John K, lobby conversations, sign ups, story corp, Q and A, rousing send off!
Theater will open at 3 pm to start set up.
Folks doing tables, story corp booths etc need to come between 4 and 5 to set up materials.
Tables are as follows:
- Hold Banks Accountable- MoveOn
- Follow Up Events table- CA/AO; Maria R and Mark S
- Training for Mortgage Fraud Detection – NC Justice Center, Rochelle Sparko and Julie K
- Partners Ending Homelessness and IRC table
- Foreclosure Counseling- GSO Housing Coalition and Home Ownership Center
- Occupy as a Strategy- sign up and info for folks interested in direct action foreclosure resistance- Katie Y. and Julie S.
- Occupy Greensboro general info table- Emiley J.
- Need clipboards for collecting info- Marnie and/or Julie?
- Marnie and Dave generating text for zine and will coordinate about layout with Mo who did illustrations
- Early Smith is our event coordinator/ stage manager for the evening. If you are a participant, once the event starts do what she says! She is the one keeping the whole program on track!
- Usher training at 5pm at the theater. All ushers need to be present for this.
- QR needs to be checked
- Christina Stone and Tom B have been filming personal foreclosure stories; at least one of these will air prior to movie. They will also person a story corp booth
- Kristian Hultgren of Deep River Productions will be there to help with story corp booth as well video and photo of event
- GSO bear will also do video and photo of event
- John K will emcee! Thanks John! Marnie and Todd put together talking points for program and John is good with them. John has tux and cane, needs top hat…
- Cars being coordinated for Red Carpet drop off
- Need retro hats for ushers- box for hats at Glenwood Coffee. John K has a bunch as well.
- Alyzza will be our people counter to get an accurate count.
- Dave and Alex will be in the robot suits doing robot things
- Steve T and company will be playing old time music acoustically on the mezzanine as people enter
- There will be a Q&A session after the movie, but only after folks have a chance to mill around and sign up for stuff. We will play this by ear. Todd and John K will handle this.
- May need Mr. Microphone for Q&A. Dave will bottomline getting it there.
FWG meeting
Yes- we will meet the next day at 9am at Spring Garden Bakery. Cause we’re nuts like that.