new years resolutions of the movement ACTION

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Community OutreachSpread awareness of text alerts through fliers and word of mouth (3)*

Actively engage new people (In the streets and on the web) (3)

Create additional roles of engagement for people who can’t protest

such as seniors, people with disabilities or anyone who doesn’t have time (3)

Spread awareness. Speak it and wear it! (2)

Create orientations for people who are new to the movement (2)

Organize, attend and invite others to recurring anti-racist organizing trainings

Build base of trained anti-racist organizers to broaden the movement

Organize and participate in neighborhood assemlblies to discuss and organize around

issues pertinant to our community. These groups can join to create city assemblies

to identiify common issues and collecively correct them

Organize mothers

Expand movement south of 44

Numbers in parenthesis indicate how many breakoff groups voted to include resolution.*

LocalPoliticsRun local organizers and activists for political offices (3)

Consolidate municipal governments (2)

Campaign to merge city/county (2)

Run counter-campaigns against politicians

Attend board meetings to report information from communities regarding abuses in municipalities

Stay in contact with local alderpersons and hold community meetings w/elected officials

Get involved in Ward 2 election

Hold police, national guard and Jay Nixon accountable for destruction & damage in Ferguson

Track upcoming elections

Provide voter education and registration

Cultivate, support and hold local candidates accountable

Advocate for affordable housing/education

Consolidate municipal school districts

Form a PAC

Demonstrators block traffic on Interstate 70

1. 2.

Contact and attend court dates of stl activists still in jail (3)

Restore full civil rights to ex-felons so they can serve on juries, vote, and qualify for social services (2)

Engage in letterwriting campaigns (especially for unlawful arrests)

Broaden and intensify movement

Expand the creativity of our actions and art

Increase discussion of mass incarceration

Develop network of employment for ex-cons

End harsh sentencing laws

End the “War on Drugs”

PrisonIndustrialComplex

Support police oversight bill (2)

Restorative justice / truth & reconciliation (2)

Create a national database for tracking

police violence & make it public knowledge (2)

Change how police officers are trained so that they

know the people they serve (go doorknocking in

communities to introduce themselves, etc.)

Document police misconduct and sue

Put pressure on STL FBI field office

and demand that they hold PD accountable

Host community trainings w/police officers

Community mentoring of police officers

End hot spot policing

Community Oversightof the Police

Enforce current racial profiling laws

CIT Training for deescalating people in mental health crisis

Whistleblower law that works in contingent with civilian review board

Pressure congress on de-militarization of police 1033 program

Continue to drive for special prosecution in cases when police cause the death of an unarmed civilian

Challenge spending on expanding police forces in

poor communities and make allocations for

structural changes (e.g. after school programs,

mental illness support and outreach, job training,

and programs combating gun violence)

Demonstrators block traffic on Interstate 70

5. 6.

SolidarityEconomicsDevelop incubator for worker owned co-ops (2)

Create community gardens and build community own co-ops

community training education - skill sharing

support timebanking - cowry collective

Explore ways to build new insitutions in our community

support black, brown business

establish people’s/neighborhood assemblies to strategize around issuses we face

Municipal CourtsProperly enforce 30% rule

Support Senate Bill 5, which proposes to limit the amount of revenue a city

can earnfrom its municipal court to only 10% of the total city’s operating budget (2)

Be present at court nights for each municipality (2)

Put pressure on judges (2)

Support efforts to disband and consolidate municipalities (2)

Demand the recall all petty traffic fines and warrants (2)

End bench warrants in the municipal courts (2)

Target muicipalities who over ticket residents

Support timebanking as a non-monetized alternative

Restructure all fines and fees to reflect income of defendant

Create neighborhood arbitration board that

promotes restorative justice within municipalities

Establish revenue sharing

Plan actions to hold Kostner accountable for suing municipalities

Show Me 15 Rally,Kiener Plaza

3. 4.

Boycott of CorporationsSupport ofLocal BusinessSupport movement to raise

minimum wage to $15 and show solidarity

with Show Me $15 campaign (4)

Maintain efforts to support individual workers

by striking, boycotting and walking employees

back to work

Fight against discrimination on black workers

Media/CommsCreate a list of organizations and what they do

Appoint a communications person to write press releases, etc.

Create a city-wide media campaign to control our narrative and make demands

Utilize our proffesional skills to build our movemen.

Create local website to stay connected

Demonstrators march through downtown St. Louis

Hundreds of people march on to Interstate 70

8.7.

EconomicJustice@ $15/hrFocus on supporting movement to

raise minimum wage to $15

and show solidarity with

Show Me $15 campaign (4)

Maintain grassroots effort to

support individual workers by

striking, boycotting and walking

employees back to work

Fight against the discrimination

of black workers

PoliticalEducation/DialougeHave more conversations with white people about white privilege (3)

Organize spring teach-ins (2)

Continue interracial dialogue on anti-racism

Explore creative ways to make converstion with those who don’t want to hear what we have to say

Build awareness and consciousness through art, plays, music, poetry

Build community

Show Me $15 supporters rally in front of the Old Courthouse

Demonstratorsblock traffic in Downtown St. Louis

9. 10.

Explore ways to fund our movement and leverage existing wealth

FundraisingTransportationEstablish a system of transportation to and from meetings and demonstrations

Jonathan Pulphis rallies a crowd outside St. Louis Police Headquarters.Tara Thompson after leading die-in at Union Theological Seminary in New york.

11. 12.

Misc.Have more actions where Kajieme Powell was killed.

Establish “Ferguson Fridays” for regular actions on different issues

Unify and organize demands among different organizations

Push for a re-trial

Stay in the Streets! Continue to disrupt and make people uncomfortable

Focus on change at the state level

Form two commitees to oversee day and night actions.

13.

wewill win.

These ideas were generated by a group of over 200 St. Louisans who met to answer the question “What do we want to happen in 2015?”

Drafted at Ferguson Action Mass Meeting Dec. 20, 2014

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