Movement Coordination Meeting
Monday Nov 12 noon
Egypt
- Tammy gave update, check the info in the email
Office
- new ways of operating
- Tammy gave update, check the info in the email
- someone else needs to collect other names at Tuesday meeting and send them to Tammy
Naomi Klein
- ongoing meeting with intellectuals with other movements
- there are others who are doing this
- Cari and Lisbeth were emailing with Naomi Klein
- Matt Smucker website occupywinning.org – articles could generate material for dialogue
- what will get the enthusiasm going re: involvement from other countries who have experience
- DA doing long strategy sessions at 6pm – importance of collaboration with them
- do talks 4-6pm with DA?
- a task force was created to work on this further (Cari and Lisbeth) who will bring their plan to us
- also work with Outreach and PR
GA Norway
- Norway contacted Kobi and want to someone from OWS to go to Norway on ~ Nov 25 (can negotiate for later date). They are going to create PR media around this date. They are wanting to hear the story of OWS.
- thinking that we could go to another place to train in facilitation is problematic
- could we link people in the location re: resistance that has happened throughout history
- need to be aware of costs (they are going to be paying the way)
- building a global solidarity movement is something that is fairly new –relationships to other locations are fundamental to movement building
- look at what are we going to lose and gain for each moment
- need to have combination of people from movement building and training
- go as autonomous individuals, should discourage people going as official delegation of OWS
- should create a culture of research about who the people are, what their background is, etc.
- for Eqypt we didn’t brainstorm all of the things that happened
- Need to learn from Egypt experience – we should have slowed down, and done all the research before hand
- we need to learn from this, once you get into the international stuff, it opens up a whole other area – we need to think this all through before agreeing to it
- the international connections are taking us away from other things that we need to do here (i.e. interocc)
- we could set up trainings re: strategy use of privilege and resources
- cultural sensitivity
- how do you represent OWS w/o representing OWS
- PASSED PROPOSAL: Task Force work on protocol for national and international travel and we tell Norway that we need to figure this out and then get back to them after. Leah and others will work on this task force. Kobi will gather background research on Norway
- we need to see in video that the proposal has been approved by their GA
- our focus needs to be on creating the connections nationally as a first step
- it is frustrating to feel like the international stuff is taking all of the energy
- need to be inviting more people to these meetings so that work gets spread out
next meeting
- no Thursday meeting
- Friday noon – should discuss friendly amendments before Friday 5pm mtg
- Friday meeting 5pm to discuss friendly amendments to Egypt proposal
letter to dept of justice
- stopping police injustices against first amendment rights
- ways to mobilize people to make calls
Communique
- communiqué from our GA to others, it will go to the GA tomorrow
Dec 6
- exciting opportunity for us to expand movement to new audiences and political spaces
- this action is a potential collaboration between movement building and direct action
- have been a series of these actions in other locations (LA, Minnesota)
- gaining traction
- meeting tonight at 5pm at 60 Wall to talk about how day is going to look
- spread out recruitment, coordinate with other occupations
- discuss: how is day going to work in NYC (coordination between community group, anti-foreclosure groups, OWS)
- 3 main groups
- anti-foreclosure movement have sophisticated network (will lead the way)
- Take Back the Land
- community base orgs – has depth and breadth (will connect to families and local neighborhood
- former ACORN
- NYCC, ACE…
- different coalitions of them
- Occupation movement (will hold space through bodies and support)
- our job is to connect more occupations to bring them to other movements and bring national
- month long conversation has been going on
- there are elements of privilege in Occupy movement
- these national networks already exist – we need to connect local occupies to community orgs and anti-foreclosure movement
- need to get people on DA call Tuesday at noon
- need to keep a spreadsheet of our contacts in these places
- phone banking is happening after this meeting
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