Monthly Archives:: October 2011

NYCGA Minutes 10/31/2011

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NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 45 Meeting Date/Time: 10/31/2011 / 7:15pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): Christina & William   Stack Taker:  Zach; Stack Greeter/Time Keeper:  Phil; Minutes Taker:  Ron. Introduced Facilitation Team General Description of Consensus Process Announced Facilitation Working Group Meeting Time and Place No Agenda Items   AGENDA 45.1.  Working Group/Caucus Report [...]

Only the Feed You Need

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Take a look at your activity feed on the site. Notice anything? Notice a serious lack of annoying posts about new members and people joining groups? Well, we’ve heard your feedback and I am pleased to announce that we have now removed these two types of activities from all activity feeds by default. If you [...]

NYCGA Minutes 10/30/2011

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NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 44 Meeting Date/Time: 10/30/2011 / 7pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): Kelly, Leo   Time Keeper: Daniel. Stack Taker: Isaiah. Stack Reader: Chris. Minutes: Stephanie, Diane and Paul   AGENDA 44.1.  Agenda Items (Budget Proposal from The Political and Electoral Reform Working Group, Budget Proposal from the Screen Printing Working [...]

Draft Proposal for 10/30- Politics and Electoral Reform

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Voting Experiment A Project of the Political and Electoral Reform Working Group Request for Funds from the General Assembly: $538 Project Spokespersons for Questions and Updates: Kay @kaay Tim @timtpi Stefan Agapie @stefan Political and Electoral Reform Working Group Proposal for Alternative Voting Experiment The PERWG is devoted to investigating and exploring reforms that would [...]

NYCGA Minutes 10/29/2011

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NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 43 Meeting Date/Time: 10/29/2011 / 7pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): Co-facilitators: Christina & Mike Stack-taker: John. Timekeeper: Brian.   AGENDA 43.1.  Agenda Items (Proposal from Finance Working Group Regarding occupywallst.org) 43.2.  Announcements 43.3.  Working Group Report Backs

Draft Proposal for Sunday 10/30 GA: Screen Printing Guild

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WORKING GROUP: Screen Printing Guild PROPOSAL: buying blank Tshirts from a sweatshop-free source   DESCRIPTION: The Screen Guild proposes to buy blank Tshirts and hoodies (to screen with OWS designs) in bulk from a sweatshop-labor-free supplier.   This is a REVENUE-GENERATING INVESTMENT OF OWS FUNDS, as well as a great outreach and movement-building activity. We’d also [...]

Draft Proposal for Sun 10/30: Demands Working Group

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We demand a massive, democratically-controlled public works and public service program, with direct government employment, to create 25 million new jobs at good union wages. This is to be paid for by new taxes on the wealth and income of the rich, on financial transactions, and on corporate profits, by reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act, [...]

NYCGA Minutes 10/28/2011

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NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 42 Meeting Date/Time: 10/28/2011 / 7pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): Facilitators: Marina, Nelini   Process Review/Opening Comments: We have hand signals we want to teach you. Hands up fingers wiggling means I agree! I feel good!
* hands straight forward, fingers wiggling, means I’m on the fence.
* hands down, fingers [...]

A friendly announcement from the Food Working Group

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It is not just the ideas that are important, these spaces are fundamental to the possibility of a new world…It is up to us to make sure they are safe, inclusive, and just. – solidarity statement from Cairo Hello Occupiers and Friends! In the coming days the People’s Kitchen of Occupy Wall Street will be [...]

Draft Proposal for Fri 10/28 General Assembly: Structure

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OWS Structure Proposal        (A Living Document) — Submitted by the Structure Working Group Summary Since September 17th Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has grown and inspired occupations around the globe. The General Assembly (GA) is at the heart of this movement.  It provides a forum for political discussion and a plurality of ideas. It is, [...]

Draft Proposal for Thursday 10/27 General Assembly: Community Relations

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Community Relations proposes a partnership with the Street Vendor Project, a labor project that organizes food cart operators and defends them from city harassment. Through this partnership, they would set up a website that would allow people to support food vendors who have been negatively affected by our presence here by donating food to the occupation via online orders from [...]

Occupy Central Park

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We are currently in the process of planning Occupy Central Park, a one-day cultural event that will gather in Central Park on 11/11/11, the global day of solidarity. The event will not be a protest, but a people’s fair. We will have the chance to come together as the 100% to start building the foundation [...]

Oakland Eviction Relief Funding

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We propose that $20,000 for legal/medical plus 100 tents plus shipping costs be sent to our fellow occupiers in Oakland. Amended to include commitment to working with other occupations to set up a national emergency fund.

NYCGA Minutes 10/26/2011

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NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 40 Meeting Date/Time: 10/26/2011 / 7pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): Facilitators: Leo, Danielle   Stack taker: Larry; Stack greeter: Reza; Time keeper: Alejandro; Minute taker: Carrie Process Review/Opening Comments: We’d like say we’d like to make this GA go as fast as possible. We will explain why shortly. But [...]

Occupy Intelligence Agency is no more

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I am writing this post in the interest of full transparency. This afternoon, I deleted the group “Occupy Intelligence Agency” from the site. At the time of deletion it had 46 members and very little activity. I made this move for the following reason: I was contacted by an admin from the Think Tank group [...]

Working Group Coordination Minutes 10/26/2011

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OWS Working Group Coordination Meeting #38 Weds 10/26/11 Facilitator: Drew 1) Report Backs – info – taking on some Internet task. Please keep your WG contact info up-to-date. In order to get cash from Finance, you need at least 2 current contacts. – Library – Working on a way to keep things dry. will work [...]

“Twinkle” is the new “Like”

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That’s right. In a daring move away from the Zuckerberg standard, we have tweaked our Like Button to now better reflect our direct democracy hand gestures and say “Twinkle”. It may be a bit of an inside joke, but hey – everyone is an insider here, right?

NYCGA Minutes 10/25/2011

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NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 39 Meeting Date/Time: 10/25/2011 / 7pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): Saresh, Marissa [Editor’s Note: I’m not sure, but I think that these minutes stop prior to the end of the actual GA. It cuts off during Working Group Report Backs and there is no section for announcements. If anyone [...]

Working Group Coordination Meeting Minutes 10/25/2011

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OWS Working Group Coordination Meeting #37 Tuesday 10/25/11 Agenda Items: * Sanitation * Community Watch * Policy for press attending meetings * Personal donations/transparent financing * Food distribution ANNOUNCEMENTS Olivia report back from Outreach: Nov 11-13: Occupy Your Time o Building support from community groups o A time for supporting groups to present teach ins [...]

Coordination Meeting Minutes 10/24/2011

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Coordination Meeting 10/24/2011 Facilitator: Chen Agenda Items: 36.1.1 Reportbacks 36.2.1 Are folks getting what they need from Info? 36.3.1 Off-site Support Space 36.4.1 Discussion of Peacekeeping Meetings 36.5.1 How Groups are Created and Maintained 36.6.1 Moving items and fund to other occupations 36.1.1 Reportbacks: 36.1.2 Internet: The minutes email can be minutes@nycga.net, plus on the [...]

NYCGA Minutes 10/24/2011

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NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 38 Meeting Date/Time: 10/24/2011 / 7pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): Naiva Star   F: Good evening! We are the facilitating team and we welcome you to this General Assembly on October 24th, 2011. My name is Naiva Star (?) I will be Co Facilitating.