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Nancy Rhode

Occupy Birmingham AL

Occupy Legal
1 stack

2 twinkle fingers

3 direct of response

4 point of process or HELP

5 tech help

 

Report on two cities

Philadelphia

Carol Cleveland: 2/3 of occupy were Union Workers blocked construction near city hall. Another Faction had broke off that does not want to confront city as much. Carol is part of both Occupy

Lea Richi: OWS came to support us. Nothing happened last night. Still scheduling events. Found best possible homeless population. Still working on af ew homes for homeless. Staying positive.

Los Angeles

Lauren Stiener ?? : Mayor had press conference to close park for cleaning and maintenance. Made great speech of why we need to move on to next step of Occupy. Council man came out and progressive message delivered but most of message is to clear out. Most ppl don’t want to go. Not many tents moved by 10 yesterday. LA police have been good. Even delivered turkey’s We gave police pizza. Call for Solidarity. GA 2000 people, 900 occupiers. Police arrived said get back into camp 4 ppl arrested for sitting in street but not for being in park.  Problem for police was that too many people were awake and watching police. Consenses is building to spend less energy on camping and more on gathering. Most people want to sleep in park. Waiting to see what happens.

Faction split off  “Sensible Solutions” in Philly

Next caller. Homeland Security is having calls with mayors. Police not in riot gear and only 50 cops present. We suspect they were seeing what kind of reaction there would be. Irvine, Longbeach, Pamona, Empire arrived just to support GA at Midnight. Rumor that SF was there also, they cancelled their GA to be with us by midnight.

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Occupy Congress: Ideas

Steve Kirby Occupy ATL involved action on 19 to 23rd of Dec. Each GA will do a different action with press release prior.

Picketing

Senate offices

Congressional office,

 

Web site being set up Meta (or Mega) Site: download, get district office address, printed at the remote site, Flyers to be customized. We need help with this list and passing info on to other occupies.

Contacts available form  Occupy Together

415 occupies to contact. NEED HELP please call in your state legislatures to us.

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Comments and Questions

Could not hear first person with a question.

Walt: Election reform. Open source for elections machines.

Need to hear from others with Credit Union concepts in SFO area.

People’s Reserve Credit Union. Student loans, homeless 

Gremine bank is a backer including as well as other business in community. Making a model

PBI and their interest with finance reform.

 

Gina Huntsville: Spreadsheet database, want to offer my services.

Ross Occ Oakland: Curious how ppl occupy congress without getting co-opted by democratic party?

Two different ideas presently:

So fundamentally flawed that we need a completely different solution.

Occupy split need new system or use this system to get what we want.

Citizens United repeal amendment is one example of working within the system we have.

 

IDEAS:

Power of Money

Power of People

 

Ralph Nader speech to OCCUPY DC

If you want them to represent you then you must deny them your vote.

So far we have not shown up as Lobbyist do. Successful in Los Angeles to get stuff on ballot. If you feel you want to over throw system you won’t participate in occupy congress. Or write legislation. That’s fine It’s just another way.

“Occupy Legislation”

Occupy University South Florida: Republicans are passing legislation making it harder for people to vote.

Central Florida (name ??) Conference on campus. With conservative legislators working against school funding to university to cause tuition to be raised. Passed voter suppression laws, to register new from out of state voters. Also, occupy USF web site.

Carol: point of information == lobby is a tech legal term. You can go to office and express opinion without a lobby license.

Katie: Occupy Tusc. Municipalities for ballot initiatives against corp personhood, constitutional amendments

Andy in Boulder Colorado they passed by 3 to 1 margin

but: be wary of when population supports initiative we still have criminalization of poverty.

 

Suzanne: Occupy Washington State. People coming out to protest once a week at bank. First GA this Sunday. Small town 8,600 people. Doing non violent protest training calls. Connecting many occupies together. Not just making demands we need to listen to each other. This is not the world we want to create – just making demands.  Listen to the other side. PHONE NUMBER MISSING

Sam Occupy Lewisville KY, doing a occupy city council event, they meet twice a month and go EVERY TIME to speak about issues that matter to us. Housing projects and flooding. This is our first occupy congress. Our congressman is a cool dude.  Is there any socializing funds between occupations. Are there plans to share/socialize funds between poorer cities.

SOME GROUPS ARE TALKING ABOUT IT.

Soren, Occupy Minnesota – ad hoc committee, report on direct action Occupy Poor on web site. Mid west who want to work with me.

Alishia: To make Announcements please go to interoccupy.org to post comments.

Mark Newton: Occupy ?? is there going to break out groups for safety security groups. To Address Bham.

Contact information to give contact information. We will give contact

 

Philly Process point – we have the interoccupy.org list is for contact.

Peter Occupy DC radio – Washington post OP ED article topic “OCCUPY IS NOT BLK america’s fight”

  two hour show. Please participate to squash this idea.

 

 

Lauren – to fellow at radio dc, go to occupy the hood. Detroit, New York, Los Angeles,

Addressing a recent wave of : “Why this is not black America’s fight”.

We want to hear from all races. Please call in to radio with opinion.

 

Also, Occupy DC – Super Committee Solutions, at Freedom Plaza

Occupywashingtondc.org

AUSTIN: Ezra – report occupy capital only 3 hours a day.  Legal aspects of that. Occupyaustin.org

Josh: Occupy this week is an occupy video show that is posted each week with video from the previous week.

thisweek@occupy

Please send five photos of your favorite moments. Putting together powerful photos.

Jen:   WeAllOccupy.com and WeAllOccupy.org   all us occupy sites and college sites

Occupy the hood groups

 

Scott from Occupy Oakland – reform but first revolution. Working outside system but not trying to over throw it.

 

Tammy: From Occupy interocc  new and improved web site, announcement and resources that pertain to larger

And NY bat signals.

 

Walt: interoccupy like it and share. Twitter  @interocc

 

Carol: Occupy Philly doing winter flash mob activity. Shopping malls doing flash mobs. Large march in NY planned by NAACP. Addressing the recent Gerrymandering as an occupy issue.

 

Martin: Occupy Boston Saturday media strategy summit.  How to use all the different types/channels of media

Lauren: announcement studio occupy to post video and other tools go to studiooccupy.org

Announcement

Forrest from Occupy Seattle:  west coast struggling to deal with changing conditions to create logistic resilient communication tools. Occupy system cooperative. Back up each other’s web site.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Occupy Congress
Dec 19-23 (?)Take back homes/take back land
Dec 6 starts

Occupy Orlando -
GA taking stance to end corporate personhood. Call for other GAs to do as well.
point of clarification: asking city council to support resolution? (as occupy LA has)
answer: haven’t decided, passing idea to working group.

Facebook; twitter: interocc

Occupy Student Debt http://occupystudentdebtcampaign.com/
from education empowerment wg at ows
point of clarification – connection to forgive student debt campaign? (no)

International call?

ALEC direct action
Nov 30 in Scottsdale AZ
Shut down ALEC conference
Call for solidarity actions (did he say Sodexho is an ALEC member?)
(? chx)
http://azresistsalec.wordpress.com/

November 30 general strike called for by Occupy Dallas

Nov 30 Albany NY high school student walk out
leave school 2nd to last period of the day and go to nearest occupation, use that time for social action

Nov 28 UCD Strike
Goal: prevent board of regents from voting to increase tuition by 81% over 4 years
Board of Regents meeting will be 11/28 at UC Davis, UC Merced, UCSF Mission Bay and UCLA — connected by teleconference. Meeting schedule: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/nov28.html

REPORT FROM EMERGING OCCUPATION CALL
openassembly.org
occupyradio.fm (?)(austin)
notes will be on interoc website
Discussed IT stuff, and referred people to IT call

REPORT FROM FACILITATION CALL
quorum: number of people required for decision to be made
Vote at beginning to discuss whether group is big enough to make consensus?
Come up with set #?

REPORT FROM PROCESS CALL
agenda planning phone meeting Thurs

REPORT FROM DIRECT ACTION CALL
Home for the Holidays:
Foreclosed people in lobbies of banks that foreclosed on them during holiday season

Campaign to get people to add tents to their lawn as part of their Christmas/etc decorations

BREAKOUT GROUPS
1 Occupy and legislation/Competing ideologies in encampment
2 Movement building workgroups ! “Occupy 2.0”
3 Holiday season actions
4 Problems with homeless/drugs (In Albany conflict threatening to split camp apart. People not staying the night because don’t feel safe.)

BREAKOUT #1 – LEGISLATION
In our group:

-We all agreed that we should be involved in the legislation process.

-We talked about The O.C.C.U.P.I.E.D. constitutional amendment
proposed by Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL)

-We talked about potential legislation to break up Big Banks (banks
too big to fail).

-We agreed that any legislation we support needs to have all occupies
behind it in order to show unity, and to show that we are organized.

-We talked about looking at what the progressive caucus is proposing
to find legislation to get behind.

-We talked about creating legislation ourselves.

-We also talked about looking in to legislation proposed by moveon.org
and the national nurses association.

-We talked about making a FaceBook poll to decide what legislation to
get behind.

-We agreed that we should use google moderator instead of facebook
polls to decide what legislation was popular.

-A google moderator account was created for this purpose and made
public: tinyurl.com/occupy-legislation

End of disscussion

BREAKOUT #2
Movement building workgroups | “Occupy 2.0” breakout session
Walt – Portland
Gary – Occupy Cafe
made Interoccstrategy google group
Occupy Austin: Heather, Ronnie, Chris, John, Tony – part of Interocc group of Occupy Austin
Tammy – Movement building group in NY
Alia – Occupy Davis/Occupy UC Davis
Jen – spectator. Does directory of occupy groups/resources weareoccupy.com weareoccupy.org

Walt – Moving beyond physical occupation/camps
looking at actions, communication/outreach, strategy
Proposing forum for linking actions+strat+outreach

Gary – Co-creator of occupy cafe
Space to integrate different actions
3rd party, creating legislation, etc

Alia – interested in moving beyond occupying for occupying’s sake

Austin – Occupy Texas to link different Texas groups
Online activism and online participation

Jen – getting bead on what’s going on. keeping directory up to date.

Tamara – movement building committee
interocc group
resources and response – to help other occupations with short and logn term neam
tech
movement coordination – people to people interactions, movement wide teach ins ,international solidarity?, getting all occupies to do actions at same time – part of same movement

movement building has to come from local reaching out to national, start process in GA

operation occupation education?

tammy looking more for experience with horizontal movements – brainstorming with other folks about trying to do what we‘re trying to do (rather than focus on issues, which is also important)

Walt – movement building strategist
working group is for existing working groups to share what they’re working on with other working group

Tony – Austin – what are others doing on gathering together regional occupies/resources

Joan Donovan in LA area dong this for southern california

Gary: Occupy Cafe – having discussions, but not making decisions. How does this fit into larger process?

Tammy – Philly just called regional conference (12/10)
sometimes just calling for something is the best way to make them happen
thinks of movement building group as telephone, connecting people together

Austin – 12 people working with interocc
made wiki with national conference call schedule, links to resources
looking for ways to declutter working groups, lots of duplicates

Gary in contact with a lot of the bay area occupies

Walt – Exploring idea of national call to discuss “occupy 2.0”

email notes to

1)
http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=162495&t=162495.40&f=162495.5af0a6

2)
Can lots of occupation sites and GAs have movement building/internorrupcy workgrousp
cohesive strategy
tammy – validity of having movement building working groups as primatry and important way of movememnt building

occupy cafe – open forum for anybody that wasnts to discuss it at any sacle

3)anticonsumerist campaigns
phx – targeting wal-mart and otehr places people camp out in anticipation of black friday. (why are you allowed ot sleep in public with intent to buy something?))
sf – “black friday is a lot of bull” video being made
buy nothing day – tie in to online shopping
make facebook pages/etc with directories of local buisnesses craftspeople
actions at malls and etc, outreach with alternatives to shopping
come up with new family traditions
if you are having store actions, good tactic – light weight banners, attach to balloons and float to ceilings
extend past buy nothing day to go into whole month

4)homeless/drug use/crime
tampa has 3 strikes system.
suggestion: security workgroup take people out by force?
may not be very effective
need to explore more options to deal with this issue

then my phone died ;)

BREAKOUT #3 MISSING

BREAKOUT #4 HOMELESSNESS

I have never done notes on the calls before; in fact, this was my first ever InterOccupy conference call :) If this needs to be edited to properly “fit” please feel free

Thanks,
Carolyn

Subject 4) Homeless

JJ in Santa Rosa
Carolyn in Tampa
Mark in Philadelphia
Mark in Oakland

Potential solutions:
1) Three Strikes System
2) Remove offenders, physically if necessary

NOT RESOLVED–we should continue to consider solutions to this problem

JJ in Santa Rosa reported on a homeless problem the camp.  JJ is worried about the safety of the occupiers, especially the Security Work Group members.

Carolyn in Tampa said Tampa has a Three Strike system in which those that do something that is seriously against the welfare of the movement receives a strike.  We have given strikes to those that have sexually harassed others, stolen items, and done drugs on site.  Most who receive a strike cease the detrimental behavior.  One that didn’t was asked to leave; when he didn’t leave, the majority of occupiers ignored him until he did.  The parks and recreation staff and police were called over one that didn’t leave or respond to shunning, for the safety of the occupiers (the sexual harasser).

Mark (in Philadelphia?) suggested adopting and reminding everyone that non-violence is key, and perhaps adopting rules regarding this.  He also suggested removing the offenders physically if necessary.

JJ did not seem confident that rules would work since the offenders do not attend GA, and did not seem to think they would respect Three Strikes.  The discussion was not complete when the time was up.  The issue was not resolved so we should continue to consider solutions to help Santa Rosa and other occupations.