Re: [Occupyresearch] Getting Participants for OWS Survey

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Author: Tristan Lear
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To: List of the shared space for distributed research occupyresearch
Subject: Re: [Occupyresearch] Getting Participants for OWS Survey
Forgot to mention we did a lot of support for the local union organizing at
Walmart.

Feel free to email/call: 567-343-2769 / trissypissy@???
I also think you should talk to Susie Shannon: pauandhow@???



On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Tristan Lear <trissypissy@???> wrote:

> I participate/d in Occupy Toledo and Occupy Tampa. It seems to me that
> since the movement didn't really have "membership cards," that I found it
> best to refer to myself, when asked once by the local media, as a
> "participant." This lack of essential membership status I think did us a
> lot of good in the long run, because when you get language out of the way,
> it looks to me like what we once considered Occupy Tampa "working groups"
> have transformed into several loose knit mutually affiliated autonomous
> groups with a lot of overlapping participation. For example, I would
> include all these as catalyzed by OT:
>
> Tampa IWW
> Tampa Food Not Bombs
> Tampa Chelsea Manning Support Group
> Tampa March Against Monsanto
> Tampa Solidarity Network
> Tampa Light Brigade
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Kathryn Ranney <kranney@???>wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I would like to make available to current and former participants/members
>> of the Occupy Wall Street movement an online survey for a research project.
>> As mainstream attention and activist attendance at OWS campsites have
>> dwindled, I was wondering how to reach out to those people who were/are
>> connected to the movement. I'm trying to get as large a sample as
>> possible, and the local manifestation of the movement here is only a
>> handful of people.
>>
>> Would any of you on the list have any suggestions how to contact people
>> who might identify (have identified) as Occupiers and would be willing to
>> spend a little time answering a survey?
>>
>> Thank you for your time.
>>
>> --
>> *Aloha*,
>> Katie Ranney
>> *-----------*
>> *Graduate Assistant*
>> Public Policy Center / Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict
>> Resolution
>> *University of Hawaii at Manoa*
>>
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