The potential value of inter-occupy calls: to build trust between people across the city to take the middleman out of OWS to promote horizontal communication to help newcomers get connected and help people who are not yet involved learn about what is happening to share information/announcements to coordinate actions/events to allow people to communicate who...
Notes for Article V Call 2/16 We had Bill Walker, co-founder of FOAVC.org, join us to discuss the current federal criminal complaint before Attorney General Holder. The complaint is concerned with the state applications for a convention call, and why members of Congress are violating federal laws in not issuing the call. We...
NOTES CONFERENCE CALL 2/16/12 Facilitator: Jasmine CHECK-INS Phoenix – All-day action. Annapolis – Mall area, street theater, community outreach, questions for ALEC legislators Louisville – Inviting community groups in, radio spots Charlottsville – Verizon – signs, skits, coordinating with Fredericksburg Tampa – Outback or Chili’s. Bill 7172 awareness (minimum wage) Boston – Researching....
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Mainstream Media Tool Kit for Occupy Media Teams - How to convince MSM to cover the Occupy movement! This Tool Kit contains valuable information to help with your outreach to Mainstream Media. Contents: - How to Write a Press Release (with a Template); - Creating a Media Distribution List; -How to Create a Video News...
Foreclosures Online Resources http://www.tenant.net/Community/history/hist03d.html info on 1930’s tenant movement. Some tactics may be relevant. http://www.truth-out.org/how-occupy-our-homes-can-win/1328034041 focus on anti-eviction rather than anti-foreclosure, makes the housing bubble the real culprit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qSeEvKoYg0pxLKJxfDW20wNyxVUiBei4-VDoBeKfgmM/edit notes from 2/2/12 mtg http://occupyourhomes.org/ Above has lots of info about helping folks stay in their homes http://bit.ly/9zurox Above enables homeowners to ask their lenders to...
Notes from Arts Call Planning Session 2/16/12: Gan: Subject of next week’s call is “Artists as Bridges” – artists playing a unique role in creating bridges between several social movements and the Occupy movement – more specifically, who is the 99% – migrant workers, immigrants, how the economy is destroying the environment. Wants to...
NOTES: On the call: Joan, Gordon, Walt, Larry?, JackRabbit, Andrea, Steve, Tammy, Jay, Jovanni (sp?), Brandi, Recurring Reports – max of 3 minutes Previous General Call summary and coming call plan – Steve last call had 23 people, peak was 33 low point was 16, call languishes, think we should put it to bed, JR...
Super Tuesday Call Agenda & Notes * BEGIN CALL HERE * Welcome to the Super Tuesday Call. This call is an excellent opportunity to discuss key items of interest to all and share knowledge across Occupations around the country. You might want to keep this agenda open in a browser tab so you can refer...
1) Introduction of Occupy Ideas with demonstration (http://occupyideas.us) 2) Open floor to comments on how this might be used for the movement, possible improvements, etc. http://ideas.occupy.net is a tool developed by OWS that serves same purpose and is open source built on Question2Answer – deployed in Spain as “Propongo” http://propongo.tomalaplaza.net github for code:...
Occupy Delaware maintains an encampment in the center of downtown Wilmington, Delaware in Spencer Plaza, a high visibility location surrounded by the offices of the federal, state, county, and city governments and banking centers of Chase, Bank of America and Barclays. It has been camping continuously in the plaza since early November. With the help...
Wednesday, 2/15/12 5:30 PM PT/5:30 PM ET Call Host: Women Occupy Call Facilitators: Nancy and Rae Maestro Board Manager(s): Michal Note Taker(s): Janet Link to register for this call: http://interoccupy.org/womencall/ Link to these notes: http://bit.ly/ycXlz5 Link to share your contact info and introduce yourself to the group: http://bit.ly/zcmCSI CALL OBJECTIVES: Connect women and feminists across the...
Hi everyone, good call tonight. please help spread the word about these calls, both in your town and with activists at other occupations in florida who are not represented. thanks! there was lively discussion about f29 and the march 16 monsanto demos. f29 is two weeks away. maybe folks will be able to report back...
Los angeles -general strike coalition and a labor committee (organized and unorganized day laborers/non union workers. Seiu janitors contract runs out April 30, airport workers thinking about striking at midnight. Seattle truck drivers action mentioned. 2005, 2006 walk outs mentioned. Three different immigrants rights groups meeting. As for a march, a large march encompassing downtown,...
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! Occupy Valentine’s Day. Bring Love. VIDEO: Occupy Valentine’s Day. Bring Love. Occupy Equal Marriage Right on Valentine’s [Occupy Austin] – The Occupy Austin Occuqueers working group is a group for humans of any sexual orientation and gender-identity who want to gather together to discuss why queer people occupy. The...
February 9, 2012 Facilitator with MCC: Note Takers: Welcome: Introduce any of new attendees Keypad review: 1 Stack, 2 Twinkles, 3 Disagree, 4 Direct Respond, 5 Point of Process Recurring Reports – max of 3 minutes Previous General Call summary and coming call plan – Steve Admin Subgroup – Andrea Web-Tech Subgroup – Jackrabbit...
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Occupy Raleigh is hosting the first ever Occupy NC Statewide general assembly on Feb. 25th along with a statewide Rally. Events will begin on the 24th and go through the 26th. Occupy Raleigh 411occupyraleigh@gmail.com occupiedncga@gmail.com occupiedncga.org occupyraleigh.net
1. Introductions by Roya {list from Mark A} 2. Overview of NOW DC by Bernadene {Bernadene to send report in writing to Paul} I am the one that brought the idea of NOW DC to Freedom Plaza from OWS. I was there in the thick of things at One Liberty Plaza in the heady,...
CALL PROTOCOL: Welcome & Introduction, Process of this call. 10m Introduce facilitation team Brief Procedural Comments (see Call Participation Guidelines at bottom, # 5 especially) Communication using phone keypad (review numbers 1-5) press 1 = Get on Stack press 2 = Agreement, applause & approval for current speaker – twinkles press 3 = Disagreement with...
Southern Oregon Conservatives and Liberals Join to Protest NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) EVENT DATE: Monday, February 13, Noon-1PM PLACE: Vogel Plaza, Central Ave & Main St, Medford OR On Monday the 13th at Noon in Vogel Plaza there will be a demonstration against the passing of the NDAA, including Wake Up America Southern Oregon, and Occupy...
#f11 SoCal InterOccupy Introduce ourselves: John– moderator, Occupy San Diego Christine– Occupy LongBeach Mari– Occupy San Diego (co moderator for sat) Uma– Occupy San Diego (co moderator for sat) Chris– Occupy San Diego f11 planning and outreach! Audra– Occupy805 quick intro to call, make connections, build relations, go over agenda 90sec rule, progressive stacks Schedule...
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The General Assembly of Saint Louis, in the spirit of solidarity call upon our brothers and sisters in occupied spaces across the country to join us in forming the Midwest Regional Summit. We feel that it is time for us to create new spaces to connect in; new ways to share knowledge, experience, resources, and...
CALL OBJECTIVES: Connect women and feminists across the occupy movement Finalize a plan for coordinated actions on International Women’s Day, March 8th Build teams to bottom-line different aspects of organizing for International Women’s Day CALL AGENDA: Welcome & Introduction Introduce facilitation team, welcome, say how many people are on the line (5 minutes) #...
Resources https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qSeEvKoYg0pxLKJxfDW20wNyxVUiBei4-VDoBeKfgmM/edit notes from 2/2/12 mtg http://occupyourhomes.org/ Above has lots of info about helping folks stay in their homes http://bit.ly/9zurox Above enables homeowners to ask their lenders to show them their mortgage note via a form. Notes from 2/9/12: Foreclosures Reports from Occupy Houston Amy from Burke (806-609-3005): doesn’t know much about foreclosures but is...
Welcome Numbers 1 – On stack 2 – twinkles 3 – down 4 – direct response 5 – Point of Process Introductions Justin New brunswick planning an action, eager to learn about others Jerry Nashville New group ‘ Peg Danburry Conneticut Learning about how these are coordinated Tom Cleveland Wants...
InterOccupy Call: F27 Global Day of Action to Occupy the Food Supply (2/09/2012 / 7PM EST- 4PM PT / 60 registered callers) Facilitator Comments/Agenda items marked with orange *please remember this notes are not exact transcriptions of what people said, even when they are written in first person. they are an attempt to capture everything...
FLEXIBLE AGENDA! I. Introduction (5:30 – 5:35 pm) To Call, Purpose, and Future Call Times and Dates Brief Procedural Review II. Brief Update on March 5 – 8 Occupation of the Capitol (5:35 – 5:40 pm) III. Brief Update on Feb. 22 and 23 National Teach In Day (5:40 – 5:45 pm) Occupy Colleges Rep...
Is the U.S. justice system about justice, or the law? Activists from the Occupy movement to climate justice camps are regularly made examples of by the courts for acts of civil disobedience, while bank and oil company executives avoid prosecution for real crimes. This inconvenient truth is illustrated all too well by the case of...
FORECLOSURE ACTIONS Occupiers, Allies Fight to Save Former Marine’s Home from Foreclosure [ThinkProgress.org] About 20 California activists surrounded a local home this weekend to prevent Freddie Mac and Chase Bank from foreclosing on the property, even amid rumors that sheriff’s deputies were coming to seize it. The Riverside, California home belongs to Arturo de los Santos, a...
Call for #GlobalSpring for #GlobalChange Fellow humans, People from the Indignados and Occupy movements from across the world call for a Global Spring, beginning this May. 1st May, 12th May,15th May and the G8/NATO summits in Chicago from May 19th- 21st, will grab the world’s attention and escalate the global movement for economic and...
10:05pm Welcome Intro Need a notetaker Purpose (Overall and Theme) Length: 1.5 hours Agenda How we’re connecting artists: Recording of call and notes sent out and put up on FB page List of projects sent out and put up on FB and AMO Nat’l Googlegroups NEED Planning Committee members if bi-weekly!! Date of next call:...
Move beyond fossil fuels and corporate corruption Save the Ogallala Aquifer, our farms and ranchlands in the Heartland! NO KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE! Join Us in Wichita, KS, hometown & headquarters of the Koch Brothers, Koch Industries and Koch funded think tank, the Kansas Policy Institute February 17-18-19, 2012 Direct Actions—Speakers—Music...
Read the Article on Waging Non-Violence Read the Article on Possible Futures Conference-calling across the Occupy rhizome by Joan Donovan | February 6, 2012, 9:30 am As Occupy camps spread around Southern California in early October, a small group of occupiers located at City Hall in Los Angeles reflected on our experiences setting up...
Here is the press release from Occupy Boston. The Occupy Boston General Assembly passed the following proposal on February 4, 2012: Occupy Boston resolves to stand in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street’s demand for “an Amendment to the Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled...
CALL AGENDA: Welcome & Introduction Introduce facilitation team Review topics Brief Procedural Comments (see Call Participation Guidelines at bottom, # 5 especially) Communication using phone keypad (review numbers 1-5)<br> 1) Get on Stack <br> 2) Agreement, applause & approval for current speaker – wiggly fingers <br> 3) Disagreement with current speaker’s comments<br> 4) Direct response...
NOTES 1. Welcome & Introduction, Process of this call. 10m Introduce facilitation team Brief Procedural Comments (see Call Participation Guidelines at bottom, # 5 especially) Communication using phone keypad (review numbers 1-5) 1) Get on Stack 2) Agreement, applause & approval for current speaker – wiggly fingers 3) Disagreement with current speaker’s comments...
Notes February 5, 2012 1. Introductions Steve Krismer, Occupy Washington, DC Carl Anderson, Tacoma, Washington Kristen , Occupy Michigan Scott Southern Maryland, Occupy DC Zack, Occupy St. Louis Bernadene, Occupy Washington, DC Leslie, Occupy San Diego Roya, Occupy Denver Jill, Occupy Longmont (near Denver and Boulder) Bob Bower, Occupy Washignton, DC Elijah, Occupy Denver...
Click Here to Download Mp3 of This Call agenda and notes 2.5.12What does ‘non-violence’ or ‘diversity of tactics’ mean to you? ( 5 min) People are encouraged to speak to what non violence or diversity of tactics mean to them. Press 1 to speak to NV press 2 to speak to DOT. Stack will be...
N.D.A.A. DAY OF ACTION: FRIDAY, FEB. 3 Nationwide Protests Against the National Defense Authorization Act Today Occupy protesters and concerned citizens across the country will gather outside congressional offices from noon to 7 p.m. to protest the National Defense Authorization Act 2012 (H.R. 1540). Protesters are calling upon their congressmen to repeal Section 1021 and...
CALL OBJECTIVES (Desired Outcomes if Known): Share Information, Generate Ideas, Make Decisions (as appropriate) Forward The Action on Key Agenda Items Get Lots Done and End Call On-Time OVERVIEW AGENDA (BROAD BRUSH) The Detailed Agenda often goes several layers deep and can be confusing to some. To help make it clear here is the High...
Notes for Women Occupy Call 02/01/2012: Number of persons on this call: 20. This third call of Women Occupy was facilitated by Rae Abileah and Nancy Mancias of the SF, CA Code Pink office; notes by Janet Weil, also CP. Rae reminded everyone to review guidelines, available here: http://www.womenoccupy.org/resources/conference-calls/ Tech overview by Nancy Mancias, of...
ENCAMPMENTS Judge Rules Occupy DC Can Contest Eviction A judge said the federal government must notify the Occupy DC if it intends to shut down the encampment, according to the Associated Press. Representatives from the movement filed a motion in U.S. District Court on Tuesday to ban the National Park service from evicting the protesters off public...
Agenda setting: LF: Want to hear from you. What are your goals for the call? Eric: Some people seem to wanting to treat this as some sort of debate. I’m for a training and empathy program. Some people walk around triggered. But the combination of helping people get clear, rather than a...
OCCUPY ASHEVILLE PRESS RELEASE: January 31, 2012 occupyasheville.org OCCUPY ASHEVILLE ANSWERS MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL WITH LETTER TO THE PEOPLE Asheville NC – Today, Occupy Asheville issued a public statement to the people of Asheville and the Asheville City Council in response to the call for additional dialogue from Mayor Terry Bellamy and the City Council...
Please spread the word anyway you can! Occupy Lincoln, Nebraska has been informed by the mayor’s office that the mayor would like to hear more positive support towards Occupy Lincoln, Nebraska. Let’s flood their office with positive support! The Occupy Lincoln group was sent a letter from the city attorney that they must evacuate their...
InterOccupy.org provides channels of communications between GAs, Work Groups and Occupiers across the Occupy movement. We are currently hosting several weekly conference calls that connect occupiers with shared interests. Our General Call is every Monday night and is open to everyone. We Use the Maestro conference call technology that allows up to 500 people to...
Welcome Intro to purpose and length of call, agenda and date of next call Janelle Note-taker: please send any and all notes from everyone to info@interoccupy.org Brief Procedural Comments (see Call Participation Guidelines at bottom, # 5 especially) Communication using phone keypad (go through numbers 1-5) 1 Stack, 2 Twinkles, 3 Disagree, 4 Direct Respond,...
Click Here to Listen to the Recording of this Call having a roadmap –to get $ out of politics–for other issues, a tool to get what we want rather than a first goal, would fly better with GA’s walt from occupyportland was thinking about community building–reaching out in public ways public discourse is part of...
The folks at Occupy.net put together this open response to Mayor Quan’s request to speak to the leaders of OWS! RAISE YOUR VOICE! http://notes.occupy.net/p/respondtoquan
OCCUPY THE SUPERBOWL WHAT With the help of The People of Occupy, we intend to liberate Military Park and White River State Park. Military Park is a 14 acre park bordering the IUPUI campus as well as White River State Park which is 250 acres. These parks are 2 blocks away from The Indiana Statehouse...
National Action and Event Coordination 1/30 Call Notes -Introductions (Participants from San Diego, CA; Indianapolis, IN; Bellingham, WA; Portland, OR; Houston, TX; Boston, MA; Maryland) Agenda Discussion of 12-13 actions over the next 4 months Updates, check-ins from last call Updates from national direct action network Shareholder meeting actions discussion What makes a good...
CALL AGENDA: Welcome & Introduction Introduce facilitation team Brief Procedural Comments (see Call Participation Guidelines at bottom, # 5 especially) Communication using phone keypad (review numbers 1-5)<br> 1) Get on Stack <br> 2) Agreement, applause & approval for current speaker – wiggly fingers <br> 3) Disagreement with current speaker’s comments<br> 4) Direct response to current...
Agenda A. Overview of Occupy Colleges Natalia 1. How we can help you? a. Press – Send stories, guest bloggers b. AFL-CIO endorsement 2. If you need help setting up you occupy 3. Pledge of Non violence – please email us if your school has already accepted it. Comments: What about adding a Drug Free, Alcohol free zone...
Welcome friends. Please stay posted to this page for information related to the occupy actions around the country in solidarity with Occupy Oakland. If you have information post it to the comments section and we will add it to this page. We’ll be updating this as information comes in, so please stay posted. Please use this...
For comprehensive information for Occupy Oakland and National Solidarity Actions: CLICK HERE Agenda: 1. Update – what happened in Oakland yesterday (Gemma) 2. Quick report back: Confirmed convergence points and times? 3. Discussion: Actions and message planned for today From Sandy: FAQ: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/01/27/18705776.php guidelines for exclusion and “community agreement” (at bottom of previous link): https://occupyoaklandmoveinday.org/sites/occupyoaklandmoveinday.org/files/Occupy%20Oakland%20Building%20Action_Guidelines%20for%20Exclusion_Approved%20Version.pdf https://occupyoaklandmoveinday.org/sites/occupyoaklandmoveinday.org/files/Occupy%20Oakland%20Building%20Actions_Community%20Standards_Approved.pdf...
InterOccupy has scheduled a conference call to discuss Solidarity Sunday. Today at 2pm EST / 11AM PST CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS CALL TO READ MORE ABOUT THE CALL CLICK HERE Occupiers everywhere! TODAY IS SOLIDARITY SUNDAY! In response to brutal police repression in Oakland this evening (including tear-gas, “flash” grenades, projectiles, mass arrests,...
In solidarity with occupy education, UCSC has voted to strike March 1st as part of the national day of action for education. All schools are invited to participate in the day of action in what ever form they choose, K-12, community and state colleges, and universities. We are having a hard strike March 1st so...
OCCUPIER RUNNING FOR CONGRESS First Occupy Wall Street Protester Declares Intention To Run For Congress, Will Be Running On Democratic Ticket Nathan Kleinman, a 29-year-old member of the Occupy Philadelphia movement, intends to run for congress in Pennsylvania’s 13th district against Democratic incumbent Allyson Schwartz. “The petition gathering period starts today and lasts for...
1. Introductions- I didn’t get everyones names, started taking minutes after this. Sarah-Occupy Portland; Jack S.; Bruce-Olympia; Sinbad- L.A.; Port Townsend was present; Chris M.-Occupy San Diego; Leslie M.-Occupy San Diego; Shelly-Occupy Modesto. Please contact me if I left you out, as there were 13 people on the call. 2. Report from Occupy Olympia on...
OVERVIEW AGENDA (BROAD BRUSH) The Detailed Agenda often goes several layers deep and can be confusing to some. To help make it clear here is the High Level (Broad Brush) Agenda Opening the call (7min) Guidelines for Participation for this IO Operations Meeting(3 min) Sub Group Topics: Reports and High Priority Items (45 min) “Priority...
National Day of Action Against Holders Of Private Prison Equity Occupations from a least 15 cities across the nation took part in actions against holders of private prison equity this Tuesday. Wells Fargo & Co. was one of the main targets of Tuesday’s actions due to its extensive holdings in two private prison companies –...
