NEXT CALL
Friday, 12/6, 11am
ACTION POINTS
- all bottomliners: if necessary, please take to your GA for consensus
- all bottomliners: hold one conference call between before next interocc call to discuss:
- any concerns with the schedule
- any uncovered logistical topics (particularly caravaning needs, capacity to provide housing/food)
- programming ideas (don’t overprogram!)
- desired elements of a trip-wide community agreement
- post-trip follow-up ideas
- all bottomliners: add contact info for your city’s bottomliners to coordinator’s contact sheet at this URL: bit.ly/occutripcontactsheet and share that contact info with your respective OWS bottomliners. (NOTE: please add contact info ONLY FOR BOTTOMLINERS, not for everyone from your city who wants to help with the road trip)
- Austin: email minutes to all bottomliners, coordinate collection of contact info, share contact sheet with all bottomliners
USEFUL DOCS
- schedule: http://bit.ly/occutripschedule
- proposal: http://bit.ly/occutripproposal
MINUTES
intros (5)
Spokes:
Helen Gerhardt (Occupy Pittsburgh), Albert Brown (Occupy Buffalo), Echo (Occupy Poughkipsie), Rich (Occupy Hyde Park), Nate (Occupy Philly), Renata (Northampton), Amanda (Occupy Providence), Ben (Occupy Montreal), Stephanie Skier (Occupy Boston), Austin (Occupy Wall Street), Rana (Albany), John Smigle (Occupy Rochester, InnerOccupy)
Participants:
Katie (OWS) Andy (OWS)
reportbacks on calls
Helen (Pittsburgh)
- Helen is currently sole bottomliner, education working group putting lots of energy behind
- discussion possibility of organizing big event around visit
- might lose camp by time of visit
- looking into housing contingency plans
- interested in caravanning
- feb 22-28 would be best time to come, due to capacity restrictions
Renata (Northhampton)
- just found out about trip yesterday, haven’t talked about it at GA, will bring up at GA tonight
- would like DA, consensus, facilitation training
Nate (Philly)
- going strong, lots of folks working on it
Ben (Montreal)
- not on itinerary, but would be interested in joining in on Albany leg, would be great if we (or any occupy) could go to Montreal, could provide housing and lots of great events
Echo (Occupy Hudson Valley)
- just found out about it, will get someone to
Austin (OWS)
- people excited!
- people want to caravan
- lots of cities looking to networking as way to grow during “down time”
- lots of cities looking to reach out to communities
Stephanie (Occupy Boston)
- have several bottomliners (Steph, Farhad, Elizabeth)
- 7 houses ID’ed as possible houses, we need to become NOT strangers
- reached out about bus parking but haven’t heard back yet
- interest in caravaning, but haven’t heard back, will need to talk to folks at Occupy NH to really know
Amanda (Providence)
- just found out, getting the ball rolling
- lots of parking lots, might require
- taking to GA soon
- no limitatinos for schedle
Rana (Albany)
- confident about logistics, housing etc.
- POC Caucus, Women’s caucus would like to have some group dynamics discussions (anti-opression trainings?)
John Smigle (Rochester)
- Bringing up to GA today, will report back later
- lots of room in park, will try to get more tents
- have available parking
- will reportback more after taking it to GA
OWS reportback on coordination progress
- review schedulenhttp://bit.ly/occutripschedule
- each team of bottomliners will discuss schedule and bring any concerns back to next call
- austin will assemble coordinator’s contact sheet. to get on contact sheet, email your OWS bottomliner and cc austin at
formal consensus on proposal (http://bit.ly/occutripproposal)
- we will bring proposal to GA and bring back results of discussion to interocc call next firday
- unanimous temp check from all spokes (8/8) in favor of proposal
commit to discuss elements of trip-wide community agreement elements, report back
- point of community agreement is to create an inclusive safe space that keeps things productive & peaceful
- OWS is coming up with community agreement for bus
- We think it’s important to have community agreements for houses
- Bottomliners are asked to go back to their cities and discuss elements they’d like to see in community agreements
commit to discuss programming ideas
- bottomliners are asked to go back to cities, discuss programming ideas & report back on event/action ideas
