Rally up -- OccupySD website and communications personnel

On what you wrote, Tim, 100% agreed.  It may be best if this website be more limited in scope.  Everyone loves a shiny new website, but after the novelty is gone, after other projects kick in and get some of us swamped, maintaining an ACTIVE web presence just doesn't happen anymore.  It's not only OK but IMHO imperative to limit the site to what OSD has been consistently been able to follow up on and maintain.  IMHO nothing is worse than a non-responsive, neglected site.

Occasionally I still receive feedback letters from Ray's "occupysd" mailing list.  I personally feel responsible to act accordingly; if it's someone asking for posting to the old blast, I will try to disseminate their input elsewhere, if it's a thank you for all you've done, I will respond and copy the response back to the feedback address so Ray will know that at least someone got back to them.

Recently we received an extremely appreciative letter from someone who has been fully supportive of OSD and felt terrible that they haven't done more. I took my time in reply to this person and let them know how very much such input is appreciated, and wrote that if they ever wanted to come on down, that OSD would welcome them with open arms, and that we don't have any minimum requirement.

If you write to a website on something you're interested in, doesn’t it make a big difference if you get a reply?

Tim, I would look over past history and if we are doing so poorly in this area, I would strongly advise eliminating any posting of an address for feedback.

I have been an active community organizer for over 35 years, so I get spammed to the teeth.  I use Microsoft Hotmail with its automatic spam-rejection feature.  Since it can import emails from anywhere, you could send your present mail into that sort of a mailbox for scrutiny.  It also has huge firewalls and anti-virus protection built in.  You do know that most spam delivered to political orgs is intentional harassment, right?  My website at www.NZ9F.com, the San Diego Homeless-Owned site, gets something like two dozen spams an hour, and they go right into the Recycle Bin.  John Kitchin

Activist San Diego, a group of student protesters at UCSD, just got a license for a radical radio station, and has applied for a second transmitter site as well.  This would be a good way to educate the public, publicize events and meetings, etc.  Their web page for the radio station is http://www.activistsandiego.org/radio.  Meetings held to give information are (from their website): 

The First Thurs of every month is the Radio Project Steering Committee for those who are serious about being part of the leadership effort to launch KNSJ- 89.1 FM  Same location as below, call phone number for time.

The Third Thurs of every month Informational meeting at 4246 Wightman St, San Diego, CA 92105 - All Supporters of Independent Media are welcome and invited!
Join us at the Activist Center office during the week too, Open 10 am - 2 pm Tues, Wed, Thurs.246 Wightman St, Call us at 619-871-9354

They are also licensed as a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Org, so they can collect donations, tax deductible, from the wealthy, plus if you get a police ticket you can serve your Community Service with them, doing something like picketing.