February 18th, 2023 Conference

Suggested topics

Resisting anti-trans propaganda

Will the Party be doing anything more in this regard? It would be a great opportunity to educate more ppl, help them understand the medical & scientific issues behind gender identity & gender affirming care (esp as Boston Medical Center was targeted with threats of violence by anti-trans extremists).

• Invite someone from trans resistance or other org to talk about how we can help protect trans people
• training in privacy/security
• privacy/security documents (zines?)
  • leave community/medical centers/colleges/high schools
  • offer to speak at high schools
• reach out LGBTQ+ student orgs at high school/colleges
• train the trainers

Leader: reach out to two volunteers and mailing list

Joe will look up contact info for student orgs

Jamie will contact trans resistance folks

Events:

• June 10-11, Pride Parade
• June 2X?, Trans Resistance March

Security/Privacy Training

• Threat Modeling
• Using Signal
• Comparing other messaging services
• Using Tor
• On-line identity protection
  • What are you sharing and to whom?
  • What apps are spying on you and how to prevent?
• Data broker lookup
• Managing passwords
• In-person security
  • Who is recording what?
  • What cameras are around you
• Protecting your credit rating
• Check out PeerBlock/NOSTR

Email people to help with topics

Get a list together of what documents we have

Have a single site with all docs

How to videos?

Defining a gun control/legislation/ownership position

• Gather good data
• Suggestion that Mass. has good laws
  • required training done by a third party such as the hunting community
    • training costs money, but then so do guns and ammo
  • keeping guns secured when not in use
• respecting the cultural element
  • issue when guns are used as a means of intimidation - https://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article272343448.html

What are good sources of data?

• Mass. Firearms School
• Joe will provide additional info
• School shootings research
• break down of gun deaths

Change the narrative?

Eliminate gun deaths/all violent deaths

• 50+% of gun deaths are suicides
• all violent deaths are a failure
• dealing with root causes
  • economic injustice
  • mental health
  • etc.

Running for office

Reach out to potential candidates to see what training they need

Emailing -> Calling candidates

Customizing what info they based offices available

Cap $500/year to each candidate. Yearly limit across candidates.

Provide

• flyers to candidates. Is a contribution to candidates if every volunteer can get them? Ask OCPF
• video training
• in-person training
• focus training on organizing and sustaining post election

Schedule trainings in different parts of the commonwealth