NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 29

Meeting Date/Time: 10/15/2011 / 7pm EST

Location: Liberty Plaza

Facilitators (F):

AGENDA

29.1.  Working Group Report Backs

29.2.  Announcements

29.3.  Agenda Items

[Note: These minutes are brief due to a short GA.  This was a chaotic day of inspiring peoples’ action.]

F: Facilitation team introductions. Intro to Process

29.1.  Working Group Report Backs

None

29.2.  Announcements

29.2.1.  Black Farmers & Gardeners Conference: we need to grow food; we need to eat; only way to make change in our lives is to grow food.

29.2.2.  Echo: Greetings, ancestors of the future; there are no limits to this movement; origin of the world Responsibility.

29.2.3.  New Policy working group: in response to provocateurs at Times Square, we need to reaffirm commitment to nonviolence of this movement– meet under yellow and blue tent in ten minutes.

29.2.4.  Martin: National organizer of Responsible Endowments Coalition –> divest university money from banks. National conference will be held next weekend (OCT 22-23) here in NYC at Pace University. More info at www.endowmentethics.org.

29.2.5.  New Theory working group: discuss history of political social movements and political theory. First meeting will be Monday at 8pm under the red Joie de Vivre sculpture.

29.3.  Agenda Items

None