Direct Democracy/Occupy Delaware
I. Concern: more people, more cumbersome
Importance of small communities
Interdependence of autonomous communities
II. DE – corporate sanctuary
maintaining inclusiveness in horizontal structure

Big Vision/Occupy the World
- connect local struggle with global struggle
- recognize social problems are all connected, here & elsewhere
- learn from other movements
- 3/20 Spring equinox gathering

Anti-Militarism/Defund Military to Fund Social Needs
- military as dehumanizing model for social relations
- alternative, non-violent solutions for problems
- decrease budget from 50% to 5 – 10%
- withhold taxes 4/15
- support constitutional amendment

Humanizing the Financial System
- invest in the public good/common good
- moving $ to credit unions was a success!
- tax stock trades (0.001%) to curb high frequency trading
- embarrass companies into disclosing external rate of return

Outreach
- be proactive: go out into communities, engage and invite
- continue livestream and other media
- community mic check
- visual presence: t-shirts, buttons etc.
- outreach wg’s continue work at all Occupys
- floating GA’s

Key Leveraging Points/National
- uhlmantr@gmail.com re: corporate personhood
- demand move to public campaign financing, including term limits
- education
- 2 minute Occupy pitch
- defend 1st Amendment
- Have fun/ demonstrate alterative way to be active citizens

National Coordination
- shift to long-term, sustainable actions
- guerilla projects
- take back narrative from press
- webspace for posting actions, for more cohesive message
- continue Inter-Occupy
- connect locally with national groups
- Interoccupy.org

Farms/Co-ops
- Occupy as till (plow) through the ground metaphor
- OWS has a farm!
- local: money, businesses and farms
- more ENERGY
- Occupy-affiliated farm network
- increase investment in ethical and local businesses
- spend $ in communities that do GOOD

Education- New Model
- honor immeasurable elements of intelligence (emotional, etc.)
- redefine intelligence
- move from standardized to individualized model of pedagogy

Organizing
- broaden/deepen understanding of tactics
- discuss new and used tactics
- network with other activist and consumer groups
- be “press smart” use words wisely

Logistics of national action and message coordination

- Suggestion: marching in similar locations or with identical action/march targets on set dates (ie: all going to BofA one set day)
- Question: are there existing models we can use to develop national network? Direct Response: Yes – but he didn’t give us the actual info on where to locate that information (I see this guy in chat on livestream GA and can get the info from him. I’ll forward it to you when I do.)
- Suggestion: using Rise-up Pad – a living document that we can create as a common document between all occupations
- InterOccupy.org website mentioned as resource
- Suggestion: making local GAs incorporate shared goals
- Emphasis: conference calls and meetings are essential
- Suggestion: central tactical website to develop cohesion and to share success and failures (as they pertain to individual actions per occupation)
- Suggestion: focusing on nationally identical actions and campaigns with longer term goals (eviction defense, guerrilla gardening, street art, etc.)
- Emphasis: the importance of bottom-up idea building and resisting top-down ideas and co-opting.(I think the implication here was that as the movement grows and gains national uniformity, this would be more of a risk.)
- Suggestion: more regional meet-ups
- Emphasis: Necessity for creating better communications and better shared media
- Emphasis: the importance of livestreaming GAs to help increase conversations with non-occupying supports
- Suggestion: developing agreements for systemic things (themes, messages, political actions, supports, etc.) THEN using these things as focal points for our local actions
- Suggestion: inter-occupy livestream simul-GA
- Suggestion: coordinated space take overs (sneak attack guerrilla gardening, etc.)
- Emphasis: resisting media influence of our narrative, controlling our messages, and focusing on reaching a broader spectrum of people (we are The 99%, we should be able to recruit all 99% of us!)
- Suggestion: using movement to get involved local (and state) politics – supporting schools, unions, etc, also helping pass or block legislation, pressuring and holding elected officials accountable – as a means of gaining experience, support, and victories necessary to tackle federal change
- Suggestion: developing “sound bites” or short list of root causes of national problems to release as cohesive statement about our longer terms goals, helping to clarify for non-occupiers and gain their support
- Emphasis: creative coordination methods for inter-occupy communications
- Suggestion: developing nation actions to happen in succession as opposed to “day off action” approach (This one was yours, and I thought it was a really good suggestion!)
- Suggestion: create a centralized movement media record to document what we, as individuals or as occupiers within our own cities, do to help generate an answer to the question “what has occupy done?”
- Emphasis: understanding the difference between “What” we need to do and “How” we are going to get these things accomplished, generating cohesion in our push forward
- Question: how can we bring smaller occupations into the fold, integrating them (with equality) regionally and nationally? (some don’t have access to same technology, etc, as we do)
- Suggestion: inter-occupy working groups complete with report-backs to subsequent regional and national meetings