Count me in for the PTSA working group 
Next meeting: Thursday 14th of May
(going on a fortnightly schedule so that group members have time in between to work on things and fit in a bit of regeneration - hope that is ok).
I would like the next meeting to focus on forming some functional working groups / roles to work on the moving parts of the project.
Reasonable groupings would be (I think):
- Arts: Working on all artistic creation, helping arts groups around the country mobilize for paint the streets.
- Infrastructure: Establishing the infrastructure that will safely and effectively hold and communicate the paint the streets project and supporting materials.
- Rollout and Mobilization: Engaging with regional, local, and affinity groups across Australia, designing and facilitating an escalating Paint the Streets campaign.
- Media & Messaging: Working on messaging frames and guidelines, engaging with M&M groups and the media across the country to maximize the impact of our Paint the Streets message.
- Social Media: Organizing the social media presence of Paint the Streets.
Ewan suggested that we could have some of these roles done by existing working groups - e.g. the national Media and Messaging working group could do the Media and Messaging work. I think this would be good, as long as we have someone in a link role who would be part of and accountable to the Paint the Streets project group (so we can trust the communication with the group will be good and the work will be done).
With this in mind, I want to invite rebels to self-nominate to attend the next meeting with the intention of being part of a paint the streets working group.
I think the agenda should be:
- Acknowledgements (3 mins)
- Check-ins (3 mins)
- 2 minute updates on project areas (maximum 10 minutes)
- Split to breakouts (25-40 minutes)
- What work are we already doing?
- What work should this group do?
- Who should do what?
- Report-backs.
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Hi
Caroline from Bris West . XR - I’m currently co-ordinating interested members in my group
and one of the main questions is, “What is the time frame, is there a ‘go’ date?”
Please can anyone shed any light on this topic regarding deadline for action
cheers
Caroline
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I’m pretty sure no date has been chosen, but it would indeed be good to have one.
thanks for your response Jane, we are a little behind on preps here at Bris West 'cos I didn’t join in the planning until later.
Hi Caroline, it has been agreed that the launch of PTS would be at the close of the Digital Rebellion on May 20. I can see that it hasn’t yet been widely advertised on our social media. But Max announced it about a week ago here:
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Yes, there’s a launch on the 20th - but that’s just to direct rebels to start putting lots of energy into this.
We need to work on frameworks for rebels to work with for escalation of Paint the Streets.
Here’s the message I sent to Caroline as she also emailed me:
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A proposal for regenerative action cycle scheduling: Paint the Streets - The 1st Wave
Launch being about 8 o’clock.
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Love this.
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Is there a meeting tonight? If so, where might I find the Zoom link please?
Nope, no meeting tonight.
Lets set an end date for PTS 1st Wave and plan the after party.
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Lets leave a good amount of time to plan our actions and action our plans in honour of the #3rd
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Next Meeting: Reflection and Learning, 5pm AEST Thursday 11th June
Apologies that I haven’t called any meetings for a while - I had a bit of burnout and some trouble at home.
Luckily, my role coordinating this project has not been very important the last few weeks, as there have been plenty of stencil and poster makers, paste-up groups and the Adelaide high-risk affinity group getting to action.
In fact, I know there were at least 4 paste-up groups simultaneously pasting up in Melbourne last friday night, as well as groups in Sydney and elsewhere.
The Adelaide high-risk AG painted up Unley Council who had refused to declare a climate emergency, and were interviewed on ABC radio the next day!
I would suggest that on the regenerative action cycle we have moved through a flurry of action and so now we should have a meeting for celebration, reflection and learning.
Please RSVP Here - See you then 
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Reflection Meeting (11 June 2020) Summary
What’s Happened
Paint the Streets kicked off on the 16th of April with a visioning meeting, and has gone through a broad decentralized cycle of visioning, planning, preparation, and then some decentralized action. Arts guides and videos as well as a regular sunday stencil session on zoom have been created to support rebels to create artistic stuff, and small stencil and poster-making groups have popped up around Australia. There have been paste-up groups operating in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and Adelaide, and the high-risk Affinity Group formed in Adelaide for Paint the Streets has spray-chalked and pasted up on 3 council buildings, netting themselves an ABC radio interview.
We held a reflection meeting to go over what has gone well so far, what hasn’t gone so well, and what we might do differently in the future.
The Attendees
| Where | What they’ve done |
|---|---|
| Adelaide | Painted up 3 council buildings with an affinity group |
| Sydney | Putting up posters with tape, risk-averse |
| Adelaide | Doing Paste-ups |
| Mornington (Vic) | Is a postering machine |
| Adelaide | Set up the council-painting high-risk AG group |
| Melbourne | Thinking about organizing high-risk actions and media stunts |
| Central Coast NSW | Paste-ups around Sydney and Central Coast |
| Westside Melbourne | Made a mistake of publicly sharing paste-up plans which caused group to be met and followed by a large group of cops. Been doing lots of paste-ups and stenciling |
| Melbourne | Been making posters and stencils and working on M&M |
| Melbourne | Sharing arts resources online and sharing arts know-how |
| Sydney | Postering and making stencils and posters. Enjoying solo postering. |
| Bondi (Sydney) | Made lots of posters. Been putting some up, looking for paste-up crew. |
| Melbourne | Making arts resources available, holding sunday stencil sessions |
| Melbourne | Been doing some coordination work with Vic actions group and been doing paste-ups and stenciling with local group |
What Went Well
General Feedback
- Great
- Loved it
- Could eat it for breakfast
Artistic Support:
- The guide was super handy
- Sunday Stencil Sessions
- Love the designs / stencils available.
- Good messaging advice provided
- Developed new skills
Artistic production:
- Impressed with the creative versatility with poster printing.
- Customizability
- Making posters is fun / relaxing / addictive
- Enjoyed synthesis of creative and intellectual experience
Mobilisation:
- Reactivated local group - made them excited and active
- The campaign has activated lots of rebels
- Able to get involved in multiple disruptive actions with Adelaide high-risk AG while being a completely new rebel. Enjoyed that every member of affinity group brought their own strengths.
Decentralisation
- Impressive potential of spontaneous decentralised actions
- Autonomy encouraged
- Being part of a big decentralized nation-wide action
- First experience of good national collaboration
- Making connections with people across the country
- Meeting new people
- Sharing of inspiration from the collective
Timing
- Framing of phases of project (pre-production, emphasis on preparation)
- Not rushing led to effective action
- Putting time into helping others has helped with purpose and how
What Didn’t Go So Well
Match-making:
- No clear way of connecting with other people - need a callout system.
- Struggling to find people to help
- Didn’t get to experience high-risk action because of lack of AGs ready to take on action
- (Sydney) Have 200-300 posters, 10 big banners - need people to help put them up
Too many people:
- Having too many people doing paste-ups together - small groups worked better
- Some meetings too big and unwieldy
Don’t tell the authorities:
- Going public with postering plans (via Facebook) summoned police and ruined a paste-up run.
Timing:
- Timeframes and phases were unclear.
- Cycle was not synchronized and well-communicated
- Did we go to reflection too early?
What We Might Do Differently Next Time
If risk averse
- Can use sticky tape to reduce legal risk
- Nervous people can make / prepare the posters
Need MORE
- Stickers
- Reverse Graffiti - not illegal, good for learning to handle stencils
- People
- Affinity groups
- Strong, agile, form identity
Paste-up logistics
- Having a good place to meet and debrief away from target site.
- Having a lookout to watch for aggressive bystanders.
Amp up the Messaging
- Go back to basics - get more serious
Coordination
- Separate meetings by purpose - core organizers vs all-ins.
- Separate meetings to fulfill different needs
- Need more coordination
- Adelaide coordinated within its own area, but would like to coordinate with other cities
Mobilisation
- Create pathways to engagement via poster making and poster pasting.
- Matchmaking between people who want to do the above.
Share the model
- The decentralized model of the Paint the Streets campaign would work well for other projects.
Targets
- Specific campaigns could guide creative production
Technical Support
- Support to use the Base
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Paint the Streets Planning Meeting (June 24 2020)
Minutes available here.
Summary and Key Decisions
We had quick check-ins and then talked about some messaging for stickers.
The bulk of the meeting was about planning some projects to work on and assigning rebels to them, as follows.
Projects:
Brad (@brad333) & Jay (@extinction1234567) : Stickers
Kate S (@kate_s) , Brooke (@Brooke_Thompson) , Anna(@AnnaR) : Arts Crew
- Reworking Arts Resources - including how to work in the Regenerative Actions Cycle
- Consider arts resources for targeted campaigns -> talk with Rosaria about that
Rosaria (@RosariaRebel) : Establish M&M Group
- Incorporate messaging docs and guidelines with Paint the Streets
- Consider targeted campaigns -> talk with Arts crew about that
Beth (@bethal), Louis (@rhinolouis) , Jay (@extinction1234567) , Costas (@costasmaniatis) , Cate: Actions Crew
- Beth: Apprenticeship actions
- Louis: Arrestable Actions
- Jay and Costas: High-Risk AG in Vic
- Cate: Mass participation PTS Action
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Hi Rosaria, Do we have any legal info on the risks of paste-ups yet? I get asked about it but haven’t followed up with anyone in Sydney. Anna
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Hi AnnaR
Legal doc for paste ups in Victoria might have some crossover
Hope that helps you
Hi Anna,
Im not aware of anything apart from what Costas sent you. So, it would be good to find some Sydney based XR legal people to comment on the document that Costas sent & whether there’s additional information for Sydney. However, I would start by assuming that paste-ups are considered ‘damage to property’, and comprise varying levels of risk, probably depending on where the pasting is done. Get local advice!
Here’s something I found online: https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/live/report-local-issues/bill-posters