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note breakout group. (engaging the 99%)
lorenzo in davis, what our occupations are doing.
Tobins in athens,
SEUI – Jerermy from Boston, Research and Communications.
Mark Mason, OccupyOakland and OccupyCal – Adhoc Liason for Occupy Philliphines.
msm toolkit
- different press releases with different news items
- how to guide, with FAQs and other important information
- control over the story and how it is being told, messaging should be about more than just violence.
manhattan public access tv will be starting a once a week tv show.
- information will be released on how to get started at other occupations around the country.
Stories and information exchange
- notes are available online.
- brainstorming on how to keep, reinvigorate media coverage that is now lacking.
Direct Action update
- today was day of action for banner drops on over and underpasses.
- need feedback from the group, maybe lack of actual occupations who can engage in national actions. Need to cover all of the congressional districts. We all occupy, inter occupy and occupy together - merging databases to coordinate.
- thinking of doing direct action on December 19th, press release to be released one week before.
- Poll for Occupy Congress act on the 19th, if enough people want to do the occupy congress there will be a breakout group.
InterOccupy IT Update:
- Will be hosting call tomorrow for IT – those in need of or can supply IT services should can in for tommorows update.
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Suggestions for Breakout Groups
1- ending corporate personhood
4- campaign finance reform / citizen united
3- how to engage the full 99% – winners
2- tentless occupations + strategy from engaging cohesiveness. – winners
- for the Port shutdown – winners
- for healthcare for the 99%
- for conflict resolution
- to engage with outreach to the 1% to engage in social projects.
- suggesting mass action against SR 1867 – national defense act. – winners
- (mine not suggested – making it throught the winter and getting support from the national level for small and struggling occupations)
5 subjects in breakout
2 – how to engage the full 99%
1 – tentless occupations + strategy from engaging cohesiveness.
3 – for the Port shutdown
4 – for conflict resolution
5 – suggesting mass action against SR 1867 – national defense act.
opening – 2 to 3 minutes for how each occupation is addressing the issue.
I chose engaging the full 99%.
suggestion to create radio program to educate people.
Jerermy – Is it direct action or mass communication issues. – MSM will potray in most cartoonish light. Important to target not just politicians but corporations as well… define targets for direct action.
Alex – I think both are critical…
Mark – Focusing on Outreach processes… should how, who, what tactics are being.
Jeremy has direct outreach with many forms of outreach. but exact tactics and strategires are still unclear. One thing that has worked is enganging existing organizations.
Tobin – Direct response, has been spending time setting up mini-occupations around Athens to do direct dialoque and community outreach. people have heard of occupy, have sympathy and people don’t know what it is about. direct communication is more powerful than mass communication.
Engaging the 99% – In order to reach the 99%, we need to focus on core non-partisan issues. Such issues, such as those outlined in the Declaration of the 99%, focus on key issues that victimize everyone in 99% through a structure of systematic corruption regardless of politcal persuasion. as opposed to sticking to partisan left or right issues. We need to engage both direct action and mass communication doing large positive actions. Campaign type canvasing and direct action is needed that is coordinated on a national level to make sure entire communites get the true message of the movement to offset the biased, ignorant, and slanderous reporting that appears in the Mainstream Media.
December 12th will be national occupy the port / transportation infrastructure day.
will be a national push to repeal sr 1867.
Many are looking at the evictions as an opportunity to regroup indoors and plan for the spring.
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D. merchandise- spreads message, raises funds, expresses creativity
uniting with other movements, groups and organizationsalso mentioned was ethos and thrive. I was unable to locate ethos as there were many ethos facebooks pages, I was able to join a open group, ”thrive” on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/groups/129126187195865/NEEDS:
weekly broadcast system
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BREAK OUT GROUP – Engaging the 99%
Meet Your Neighbor idea:
Individual people do something for your neighbor. Ask for 1$. If 750,000 to 100,000 doing this every week could raise a lot of money.
Discussion of perhaps not asking for money. But doing large actions as a positive force for the community.
Lots of discussion of strategy of reaching out to neighbor.
Suggestion involving purple wrist bands.
Teach In: When reaching out to a community…. What if we started to do teach in’s for children. Help the children you are helping the parents. 15 and below.
Ronnie, Tim
Matt asked: What can we do in our town of 16,000 people with 80 people to reach out to 16,000?
Take out 80 people out. Do a Santa Claus March through neighborhoods. Pass out gifts. Pass out literature.
Get in the streets. Get out and talk to people.
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BREAKOUT GROUP: TENTLESS OCCUPATIONS
Inga: Pittsburgh (note taker)
Catherine & Haley: Occupy Now (Texas)
Robin: Davis, Ca
Josh: This week in Occupy
JC: Occupy Phoenix
Mark: Philly
Ambrose and Annie: OWS
We had a HUGE issue with facilitation and organizing the group. The girls from Occupy Now tried to use our room as a promotion vehicle (it took up way too much time).
Difficulty determining what the topic was or is. Texas wants to discuss Port action.
Robin agreed to facilitate:
Determined that is was:
How to maintain Cohesion within each Occupy geographic location.
Each person reported on the status of their group:
Philly is mirroring NYCGA.org in light of the recent eviction.
Philly is relying on the virtual aspect post-eviction but there is still a meeting hall for GA’s.
Davis (not UC Davis which is where the pepper-spray thing was), has shifted over to the campus which is making the movement smaller. They need to start planning for a time when there will not be an encampment. What is next is a critical question.
Pittsburgh is secure and building yurts and mess halls….planning to winterize and create a place.
Challenge Off-site versus On-site Occupier issues.
Phoenix and Pittsburgh both having off-site versus on-site issues at their encampments. General consensus is “if you’re not on the ground you’re not doing anything of value.”
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National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) / S. 1867
Educational Materials Needed
We need educational materials so people understand the bill and what the issue are. Because the bill can easily be misinterpreted, it would benefit us to have the bill analyzed. There are ways to discern what the congressional intent is, perhaps there is a group already doing this. Is it possible to look into who might be analyzing/researching the bill so that we can work in conjunction with them?
No Miranda rights for people being detained?
661 billion dollars in additional military spending
National Day of Action
Minimum of where we can start is get the support of our own GA’s in opposing the bill.
Imperative that we do something effective that will directly address the Senators as well as utilize symbolism. This is a very real thing and it is extremely dangerous. The fact that it passed 93-7 shows they could care less about the American people.
Should we try to protest NDAA on the international day of human rights, December 14th?. If you want to do it by this day which may be too soon, consider reaching out to your occupation and try to get people there talking about it.
There is a powerful picture of people protesting in orange jumpsuits and face masks. Will forward pic, maybe that is something we can utilize.
Seeing that there has been a media blackout, consider utilizing social media to raise awareness about the bill. At least get #NDAA trending on Twitter.
Outreach to other organizations
It seems impossible that other organizations are not doing exactly what we are doing now. Can we combine efforts for a National Day of Action? The website with the petition came from an organization called Demand Progress.
Presidential Veto?
Considering that the Obama administration already has the authority to kill U.S. citizens and has utilized it, this lack of disclosure is extremely scary considering that they can be detained and killed without charge or trial.
Obama administration is saying they will veto the bill because it takes the power out of the executive offices to detain citizens, not because it is unconstitutional.
Questions raised as to whether a presidential veto would work considering that Senate passed the bill 93-7. (His veto could be overridden with 2/3 house vote.)
The bill that passed one of the houses possibly does not have the resolutions that are frightening (1031 – 1047). These bills will have to be combined and then presented. When does the revised bill become public?
We are extremely alarmed considering what the government would be allowed to do to U.S. citizens and this would be comparable to an American Guantanamo.
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Announcments -
1) National Meet Your Neighbors campaign – fundraising and outreach initiative.
2) Point of order (button 4) is/was not working.
3) InterOccupy website is coming along. facebook.com/interoccupy
4) Occupy New York State - occupynewyorkstate.org is looking for all NY occupations to contact them and provide contact info so they can coordinate infrastructure between occupations.
5) Occupy Buffalo – Trying Janauary 1st for International GA between US, Canada and other Countries, pushing for the ending of borders?
6) Michigan, has mass action in works for sr1867. on December 14th. Facebook.com/Occupy1867
7) This Saturday 12/10, Philadelphia is having gathering of regional occupations. occupynortheast.org Occupations. Each occupation should set up Committee of Correspondance to coordinate working groups and staff in each working group betweeb all other occupations. Coc Contact should be sent to . Individuals to get on the directory to –>
8) OccupyFreedom on Ustream will covering a combination lecture, teach-in and town-hall from Santa Montica College – full article and press release atpursuitofhappinessyoga.com
9) COC contacts should not be personal emails, but official emails + phone numbers for the database.
10) NY will target Goldman sachs on December 12th…
11) Direct action call tomorrow will discuss Occupy The Congress.
12) National Occupy Seed Bank Being Formed, vacant lot to be occupied for agriculture and food boycotts are being planned.
13) ?? Call Cut Off ?? OccupyTheHood.org doing national outreach to minorities.
14) Suggestion – Hand signals covered very quickly. Perhaps they should be sent out? Occupy Rochestor has agreed for 2 months for an open occupation in a supportive community.
15) Occupy Trenton has open occupation and a supportive community. Occupy Trenton has a Tent City open and available for occupiers and is currently short of staff. We could also utilize tents, media canopies and other supplies as are current equipment can house 10 to 15 full time occupiers. If anyone would like to Join Trenton Occupation who has been evicted elsewhere we encourage you to do so.
16) Vision meeting in NY wil be on the 18th… Philly will do immigration meeting on the same day.
17) Atlanta joining tommorow’s Foreclosure action… Huffington Post has article on “packaging occupation” as “foreclosure occupations”
18) Iniative being considered to reach out to the 1% to fund OWS supported social projects the U.S government can’t fund/run themselves.
19) OccupyNow! – Mission Statement read calling for mass non-voilent organization.
20) ThisWeekIn looking for photos from all occupations - .
21) Looking to streamline breakout group topics by pre-polling.
22) Maestro Tech Assistantants needed -
23) Facilitators needed for calls to conduct the mike – looking for occupiers to step up to facilitate/hosting this call.
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