Monthly Archives:: September 2011

Funding for Printing Flags

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We are requesting some money for printing.The artist who made the sweet shirt is offering to make us a bunch of flags for marches. We are asking for 300 dollars as the estimated cost of printing the assembly a bunch of flags.

Funding for Printing Fliers

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This is a request for funds proposal. We at OWS that we must come to you for anything more than $100 dollars. This proposal is for 2k$ for fliers to be handed out during the march to ….. I know you’ve heard a lot about the wonderful union support. We’d like to make Wed march [...]

NYCGA Minutes 9/30/2011, 7PM

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NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 14 Meeting Date/Time: 9/30/2011 / 7pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators:   F: Discussion of General Assembly Process and Facilitation Training F: Discussion of Human Microphone F: Discussion of Stack. Progressive stack explanation. Gives marginalized speakers more access to process. Gives those who speak less often a chance to access the [...]

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City

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Our movement has now a reason, now we work in the action! Solidarity! It is our proposal to release this document to every other Occupy Movement, to put it on the internet as a beacon to those who are incredibly angry and want to do something about it, even if they can’t be here. Declaration [...]

Funding for Bail

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Frame it when we march on Wall Street, we have a really cool chant: They got bailed out, we got sold out! It’s true! In the spirit of that chant, let’s not sell each other out. Let’s bail each other out of jail. They propose that the legal group, in the chants time, when someone [...]

NYCGA Minutes 9/28/11, 7:30pm

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(Note: There were two GAs on day 12, on at 2pm and this one, at 7:30pm. There are two separate sets of notes, one for each GA held.) NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 12.2 Meeting Date/Time: 09/28/2011, 7:30pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators:   F: Introduction. For everyone who has never been to a general assembly, [...]

Post Draft Document Online

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Principles of Consolidation – Proposed that the second draft of our Principals of Solidarity be posted online to show the online community and the world at large that steps are being take to better refine the message of the movement.

NYCGA Minutes 9/23/11

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NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 7 Date / Time: 9/23/2011 / ? Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators:   F: Review of Process (Hand Signals and their Meaning)   AGENDA 7.1.  Working Group Report Backs 7.2.  Announcements 7.3.  Agenda Items (Legal, Consolidation of Principles, Direct Action)

NYCGA Minutes 9/21/2011

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NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 5 Date / Time: 9/21/2011, 1pm Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators:   F: The general assembly is about to begin. You shouldn’t be shy, you shouldn’t be far away, because it’s hard to hear people with different ability to vocalize what they’re saying. Please come closer. F: People need to be patient [...]

Principals of Solidarity Break-out Discussion

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What is so extraordinary about what we’re doing here together is that we are pre-figuring the world we want to create in the here and now together. So tonight we are going to break up into groups and come up with, collectively, our principals of unity. Our principals about how we make decisions together, we [...]

No Police Liaisons

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Extended discussion of the possibility of having police liaisons. Consensus was that we will not have representatives of this body going to police, but we will deal with police as they come to us, and tactical and security and legal will work together to handle this problem.

Occupation of Liberty Plaza

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The following items were decided: We will stay in Liberty Plaza indefinitely We will rename Zuccotti park to Liberty Plaza We will maintain the space and will be responsible for its up keep We will select working and thematic groups Some Groups that have been suggested (and are active): Working Groups: Security, Food, Legal, Tactical, [...]

Past Proposals

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To see upcoming proposals, head over to our Future Proposals section. Note: The people posting proposals to this page are volunteers and do not dictate the content of the proposals.  All viewpoints expressed here belong solely to the individuals and working groups that put each proposal forward.

NYCGA Minutes 9/10/11

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If there are images in this attachment, they will not be displayed.  Download the original attachment NYC General Assembly- Pre-Occupation 09/10/11 Location?, 5:30p Facilitators: unknown Stack taker: N/A ? Time keeper: N/A? Minute taker: Richard. Process Review. AGENDA Committee Report Backs Individual Report Backs Passed Proposals 1.1.1 National Lawyers Guild
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