EqualityCamp Oakland is coming!!
YAY!! On March 5, from 7-9, we've gotten the conference room at Redefining Progress - 1904 Franklin Street in Oakland, CA to hold a planning meeting for an Oakland EqualityCamp. As you recall, we discussed holding some meetings to try to broaden our planning group to get more community diversity, This meeting is both an open space for people to come and contribute to the agenda, and a session to make lists of people we can outreach to before we swing into action.
We have a google group at http://groups.google.com/group/equalitycampoakland which you are invited to join and to invite other people to join; please pass this note to interested people.
Event Wrap-Up Information!
EqCampSF09 -- links to the schedule and all session notes from EqualityCamp SF, Jan 3, 2009
What is EqualityCamp?
Please visit EqualityCamp.com for ongoing updates and information. This wiki will be used for organizing, note-taking, and other administrivia.
EqualityCamp inspiration
14th Amendment: "no state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws".
What is a BarCamp?
An ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.
What is EqualityCamp?
EqualityCamp will begin to plan MarriageEquality2.0 so that all Americans and their families are treated equally under the law.
What is EqualityCamp's goal?
- An inclusive, inspiring, integrated (web and on-the-ground) movement…
- with a clear, central gathering place online…
- with feedback loops to empower a grassroots movement that integrate with any formal campaign.
Who will attend?
Anyone who wants to help achieve the goal. From web 2.0 leaders to people who only use the Net for email, from gay/lesbian/bi/trans/queer citizens who want their full equality to straight allies. People we haven't yet thought of. You.
Event details
When
Saturday, January 3, 2009 (Macworld is Jan 5-9, so people can come in early)
Where
Citizen Space, 425 2nd Street, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94107
Where to stay?
If you are in from out of town, the closest hotel is the Courtyard Marriott, but there are oodles of places nearby.
(fyi, Marriot is Mormon owned.)
To support a local social justice minded business that supports equality for all with style: jdvhospitality.com
Sponsors
Anyone? Anyone?
This may be hard right now but we can probably line up some in-kind sponsors ... should identify specific categories of needs and then target people for each.
cupcakes and snacks - citizen cake (heather gold to talk with elizabeth)
wine - CAV (Pamela is a very good friend of mine, I'll talk with her {Cathy Brooks})
Thoughts????
Not really a sponsor but would suggest we use Seesmic throughout the day as we can bring in commentary and participation from people outside of the Bay Area who want to take part ... We can feature the conversation on the site as well ...
Schedule
Day 1
Proposed Sessions
- Kicking some Digital Ass(ets): Effective ways to use some powerful tools (will focus on video and some text-based) {Cathy Brooks}
- Marriage Equality - not a GAY issue: Avoiding stridency and reaching out to non-gay supporters {Cathy Brooks}
- ^^^ tangentially related: How to encourage/inspire more straight people to get involved in the LGBT civil rights/marriage equality movement: brainstorm ideas, slogans, viral campaigns, t-shirts, logos, campaigns, and events. {Mariva H. Aviram, maybe Eric Wagner, maybe Larimie Garcia}
- Developing an "Emergency Response Network" (ERN) to create spontaneous mass protests against homophobes on the street. ERN Participants would receive some sort of alert: "Homophobe spotted at XXX location (within XXX city) at XXX date/time." If ERN participants have time, they'll go to the location ASAP to meet with others. The ideal behavior would be to nonviolently surround the offender, with backs turned toward him, and chant or sing something pro-LGBT, like the "angels" did with Fred Phelps in The Laramie Project. With regard to technology, how do we create a text-messaging subscription service, so that organizers -- (i.e., anyone who witnesses homophobic street preachers, anti-LGBT violence, whatever) -- don't have to rely on any particular application (like Twitter, Loopt, Brightkite, or whatever) on any particular device (iPhone, Sidekick, Blackberry, etc.)? It would only take ten or so ERN participants to be effective. If we could develop an ERN of thousands (like the "phone tree" in the Milk movie), getting ten people to show up at any given location/time is possible. {Mariva H. Aviram, maybe Eric Wagner, maybe Stuart Gaffney & John Lewis}
- How we are gay the way Obama is black: being comfortable in your own skin, gay or otherwise, {Heather Gold}
- Netroots organizing techniques {Adina Levin}
- Connections between netroots organizing and other community organizing
- Obama's secret sauce, social networking & voter file tools {Dan Ancona}
- Building the list -- how to collect a comprehensive contact list (email, phone, blog, twitter) of marriage equality supporters {David Hornik}
Topics I would like to hear about
- add a topic...
- cross-cultural outreach (rural/urban, black/white, rich/poor...how do we reach everyone?)
- creating a centralized place of authority online for the issue
- right to privacy amendment
- people from the Obama web strategy team and how they integrated with the on-the-ground campaign
- how all the Net groups can communicate
- how to create a central web location that will work for everyone, including the grassroots web, grassroots on-the-ground and the No on 8 campaign and its members (HRC, NCLR etc)
Planners
- TaraHunt
- Cathy Brooks
- HeatherGold
- Adina Levin
- Hillary Hartley
Volunteers
- Susan Mernit (let me know how I can help here...)
- BJ Wishinsky (likewise!)
Participants (aka Campers)
Task List
(please cross out when it's done)
Tech
WifiProjector, White Boards (Dan Ancona: looks like you've got this but I could scare up a spare projector)- Photo (CB - reached out to Brian Solis to see if he would. He's checking to see if he's back from holiday vacation yet. If he is, he will do for us!)
- Video (CB working on this)
- Audio
- Streaming or Stickam or Skype (CB working on this) (All you really need is Ustream, a decent computer and internet connection. - Brian Leubitz)
- music for dance breaks (Dan Ancona: I could dj. Have a listen to a couple sets here).
Non-tech
Breakfast - Coffee/pastries Donated by Citizen Agency- Lunch
- Coffee/Tea
- Tables and chairs
websites, groups and people to invite
check Marriage Equality wiki (many groups listed on the Action page)
Marriage Equality USA
Gavin Newsom
Alex Randolph (LGBT liason to City Hall)
Mark Leno
Tom Ammiano
Board of Supervisors (especially Bevan Dufty, District 8 Supervisor)
Arianna Huffington (Cathy will reach out to her today)
David Plouffe
Joe Trippi (Matt Lockshin will invite)
Courage Campaign (Eden James)
Calitics.com - I'll do a shout out on Calitics if so desired by the group - Brian Leubitz
Stop8.org
Jointheimpact.com
Overturnprop8.com
twitter.com/NoonProp8 (Moya Watson, volunteer with No on 8 Campaign , invited)
- @moyalynne - http://moyawatson.com/Mormonsformarriage
http://www.marriageforward.com
Admins of all FaceBook groups (also compose Wall post for each)
All petition organizers
MoveOn
Obama organizers, strategists and web team (WWOD?) (Ask Leonard Lim for who to contact - Hillary to reach out directly) NOTE: For Obama organizer, contact Pamela Coukos at Berkeley (contact Mariva privately for Pam's email/phone)
Personal Democracy Forum - Micah Sifry - (Tara to reach out)
bloggersagainst8 (Invited)
Pam's House Blend / Pam Spaulding (Matt Lockshin will invite)
8against8.com
8asians.com
NCLR - Calla Devlin and/or Kate? (Cathy will reach out today)
No on 8 - Chris Maliwat, Chris Riley, Lilia Tamm
EQCA - Shumway already said he would come (invite Geoff) - (Cathy will reach out today)
HRC - Elizabeth Birch
Bay Area Bisexual Network (BABN), SoBOA, BiNet USA
San Francisco Atheists
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Other "carbon-based" organizations supporting the movement (aka "old school" organizations that existed off line first <g>).
United Healthcare Workers - Paul Kumar - Eden will handle
SF Central Labor Council
Groups that filed lawsuits in favor of overturning Prop 8:
ACLU (Matt Lockshin will talk to Skyler Porras of the ACLU of NorCal SanJose office)
Lambda Legal
Equal Justice Society (Matt Lockshin will talk to Keith Kamisugi)
Asian Pacific American Legal Center
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Equal Justice Society
California NAACP
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
Ev & Sara Williams - Cathy B. will invite
Tantek Celik - Heather Gold will invite
David Sifry - Cathy Brooks will invite
David Hornik - Cathy Brooks will invite
Chris Iglesias - exec director of SF HRC
Former Senate President Pro tem Don Perata (why?)
Kip Williams - online organizer doing civil disobedience actions (Matt Lockshin will invite)
Fresh White - compumentor / queer activist (hg)
Carol Queen - pro sex/ queer activist (hg)
Michelle Tea / Katastrophe - artist and queer / trans community leaders (hg)
Lynnee Breedlove - artist and queer / trans community leader (hg)
Thea Hillman - artist and queer / Intersex leader (hg)
Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits (hg)
Malinda Lo (editor afterellen) (hg)
Club Papi promoter (through the site, if anyone knows the promoters personally that would be better) (hg
Stuart Gaffney / John Lews ask them to outreach to GAPA gay asian pacific alliance) (hg)
Susan Bluer (outreach to Jewish Federations GLBT group) (hg)
Rev Lynice Pinkard (hg)
http://www.edgesanfrancisco.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=&sc3=&id=83400
sfaguilas.org - eduardo morales (hg)
baratunde - comic and activist (hg)
aundre the wonderwoman - comic and activist (hg)
kamau bell - comic (hg)
jenni olson and julie dorf- IGLHRC founder and filmmaker / queer activists (hg)
calitics
daily kos (someone known in that community to post)
blogher (Matt Lockshin will invite)
sv mommy bloggers (Matt Lockshin will invite)
progressive jewish alliance: (Matt Lockshin will invite)
democratic youth organizers (adina to find a business card) (Adina, can you put down who you've talked to? I'll work my network too -Matt Lockshin)
obama campaign silicon valley
Pride at Work organizers
San Francisco-based bloggers:
Sweet Melissa
FogCityJournal
LeftinSF
Naomi Fine (invited)
OTHER CITIES FOR EQUALITYCAMP (california) (Work with Courage Campaign?)
Long Beach
Los Angeles (multiple) -- Jackie Peters?
San Diego
San Francisco (done)
Sacramento
THEMES/SUBTITLES:
Voice
Diversity
58 County Strategy
Integrating
Lubricating
Hooking up
Connecting
Mobilizing
peole power
grassroots
netroots
starfish/spider
more effective
make it work
obamafy
gaybama
campaign 2.0
marriage equality movement
empowerment/empowering
from communication to action
from streets to strategy
awe to action
it's ok to get angry
Campaign 2.0: Cross pollinating the marriage equality movement
Lubricating the marriage equality movement
"What does marriage equality look like? ... A long time coming ..."
Obamafication: Love your flawed allies
EQUALITY CAMP PLANNING STUFF
1. Planning stuff
A. Food
B. Sponsors
C. Goals
D. After party
TECHNORATI TAGS
Tags for flickr, delicious ma.gnolia, technorati etc...
Please use the tag (#EqualityCamp) for content related to this event
TO DO LIST:
- Web site - EqualityCamp.com secured, Heather to handle hosting, setting up Wordpress with WooTheme and Buddy Press for community aspect.
- Registration - Fee of $20/person ... $5/under-employed or student (get a t-shirt with that? who do t-shirts- RightSleeve.com??)
- If find additional sponsorship - bonus
- Gather the list of people to invite - collective effort everyone post suggestions on wiki - must include name, and contact info.
