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BUILDING A MOVEMENT

One Campaign at a time

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  • Leadership is key.

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  • You are part of it.

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BUILD CONSENSUS

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PLAN AND FEEDBACK

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Follow the consensus

Stick with it.

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Collectively plan new directions.

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One on one requests

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The ask

  • Make a specific ask for a specific thing or specific activity.

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  • P3 plebiscites.
  • Hundreds of people organized to ask thousands of people to take one specific action.
  • Organized over a defined period.
  • Major focus on one day, but with opportunities to participate beforehand (e.g., union local votes).
  • Big result.

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  • A campaign should have a specific time period – it doesn’t go on forever and people do not have to make an open-ended commitment.

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  • Recognize contributions.

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  • Report back successes and achievements.

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  • Make it fun.

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  • People come to the positive, not the negative.

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Town halls and meetings

  • Have you got an ask?

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DECIDE ON TWO OR THREE POINTS TO MAKE AT MOST.��KEEP RETURNING TO THEM.��STEER CLEAR OF ON-THE-SPOT POLICY MAKING.��YOU CAN PROMISE TO GET BACK TO A REPORTER WITH AN ANSWER, IF YOU DON’T HAVE ONE HANDY.��THINK ABOUT VISUAL APPEAL.��OHC WENT A LONG WAY WITH A BIG ROCKING CHAIR!

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Our agenda or theirs?

  • MINIMIZE RESPONSE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
  • LOSING STRATEGY TO FOCUS ON RESPONSE.
  • THEN YOU ARE STUCK TO THEIR AGENDA, THEIR FRAMING OF ISSUES.
  • STICK TO YOUR AGENDA, YOUR FRAMING OF THE ISSUES.
  • DON’T ACCEPT OUR OPPONENTS FRAMING OF THE ISSUES .
  • DON’T REPEAT THEIR TALKING POINTS. FIGHT FORWARD ON YOUR AGENDA, YOUR ISSUES.

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STAY ON YOUR AGENDA

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THANK YOU

Doug Allan from the OHC Board, January 29, 2022

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