Direct Action Working Group Minutes, 10-24-11 Facilitator: Sandy Note taker: Madeline (note: I’m sorry, I didn’t catch all names of people involved. A “?” indicates I didn’t get the proposer’s name.) Introductions: about 40 people attended, of whom about 15 were at the meeting for the first time. Report-back on this morning’s working group coordination [...]
Monthly Archives:: October 2011
NYCGA Minutes 10/23/2011
NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 37 Meeting Date/Time: 10/23/2011 / 7pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): Daniele, Leo, Christina, Larry Process Review/Opening Comments: Facilitators are not leaders, they are only here to help facilitate the process of the meeting. They are always looking for new facilitators, and especially encourage anyone from an underrepresented minority [...]
Minutes From 10/22/ Coordinators Meeting
Shen/Moderator Beginning of meeting: Please be time. Facilitator arrives 5-10 earlier, prepare the area for the meeting. Some reinforcement: if late you can only be a monitor of the meeting unless decided otherwise. Who are are auditors? This must be known at the beginning—this may change the nature, info shared at the the meeting. If [...]
Announcing: Subscribe to Events!
We are very please to be rolling out another new feature of the site tonight: Event Subscriptions and RSS Feeds!
NYCGA Minutes 10/21/2011
NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 35 Meeting Date/Time: 10/21/2011 / 7pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): Lady, Amin Process Review/Opening Comments: Facilitators are not leaders, they are only here to help facilitate the process of the meeting. They are always looking for new facilitators, and especially encourage anyone from an underrepresented minority to join them. [...]
NYCGA Minutes 10/20/2011
NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 34 Meeting Date/Time: 10/20/2011 / 7pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): Sonni, Dori, Leah, Steve Process Review/Opening Comments: Facilitators are not leaders, they are only here to help facilitate the process of the meeting. They are always looking for new facilitators, and especially encourage anyone from an underrepresented minority [...]
How To Make Forums Work for Your Group
Unfortunately Forums are currently not working for all groups. To enable them, an administrator from your group should do the following: Click on the admin tab for your group, then click on the settings tab in the next row of tabs. Make sure the box in front of ‘Enable discussion Forums’ is checked. scroll to [...]
NYCGA Minutes 10/19/2011
NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 33 Meeting Date/Time: 10/19/2011 / 7pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): Luke, Catherine, Casey, Sully Process Review/Opening Comments: Facilitators are not leaders, they are only here to help facilitate the process of the meeting. They are always looking for new facilitators, and especially encourage anyone from an underrepresented minority [...]
Site Migration and Downtime Tonight!
Hey everyone, Tonight we’re going to be doing a migration of this site over to a new, better server. If this goes well, we will also be re-pointing the nycga.net/cc domains over to the new server for the world to see. In order to preserve all the content that you lovely people have put into [...]
NYCGA Minutes 10/18/2011
NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 32 Meeting Date/Time: 10/18/2011 / 7:13pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): Johannah Thompson, Morgan Steele Minute-taker: Hannah Appel (ha2315@columbia.edu). Facilitators: Johannah Thompson (from Occupy Miami) & Morgan Steele (from Occupy Ashville, NC). Stack Taker: Ethan. Stack Greeter: Jack from Occupy Boston. Time Keeper: Travis for Occupy San Francisco.
Announcing: Like Button has arrived!
Ok. So for the past 2 days, we’ve been so excited to see everyone starting to use the site. As the activity stream has filled up with awesome posts, we’ve all been itching to express our deep appreciation of what is going on around the park and on the site. The thing is, not every [...]
NYCGA Minutes 10/17/2011
NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 31 Meeting Date/Time: 10/17/2011 / 7pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): Eileen, Marlisa AGENDA 31.1. Working Group Report Backs 31.2. Announcements
NYCGA Minutes 10/16/2011
NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 30 Meeting Date/Time: 10/16/2011 / 9pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): Brie Process: Hand signals. Hands up – I like it. Middle – I’m on the fence. Fingers down – I don’t agree. One finger UP: Point of information – for factual information. Triangle: point of process. A system [...]
Announcing: Events System Live!
We are very pleased to announce that our events management and scheduling system is now live on the site. We were hoping to have it before our soft-launch last week, but when you start to play with it, we’re pretty confident you’ll agree that it was well worth the wait. It offers a huge range [...]
NYCGA Minutes 10/15/2011
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
General Assembly 9pm – extra location [update]
[update 10/16] The GA at Washington Square Park agreed to reconvene Sunday 10/16 @ 7pm in Washington Square Park. Another General Assembly will be held tonight at Washington Square Park after the Times Square march. 9pm General Assembly Washinton Square Park Saterday, October 15th.
EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION:
Prevent the forcible closure of Occupy Wall Street! Tell Bloomberg: Don’t Foreclose the Occupation. NEED MASS TURN-OUT: 6AM FRIDAY EVICTION DEFENSE This is an emergency situation. Please take a minute to read this, and please take action and spread the word far and wide. Occupy Wall Street is gaining momentum, with occupation actions now happening [...]
NYCGA Good Neighbor Policy
Following respectful and good-faith dialogue with members of the local community which has been rebuilding since the trauma of 9/11, Occupy Wall Street hereby announces the following Good Neighbor Policy: OWS has zero tolerance for drugs or alcohol anywhere in Liberty Plaza; Zero tolerance for violence or verbal abuse towards anyone; Zero tolerance for abuse [...]
NYCGA Minutes 10/13/2011
NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 27 Meeting Date/Time: 10/13/2011 / 7pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): AGENDA 27.1. Working Group Report Backs 27.2. Agenda Items
Clean the Park
The mayor came by last night to request the park be cleaned section by section this Friday. In response the occupiers would like to perform a mass cleanup today, Thursday October 13th. We are asking people to donate brooms, mops, squeegees, buckets, waste bins, dust pans, trash bags, and a power washers too. You can [...]
NYCGA Minutes 10/12/2011
NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 26 Meeting Date/Time: 10/12/2011 / 7pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): F: A block is very serious. That means you have an ethical or safety concern. Consensus is 90/100. We aren’t here to silence anyone. We must follow process, though. #PeoplesMic can be very hard, so keep your phrases [...]
The Container Game
We are restructuring Zuccotti Park, and need your help! A couple of nights ago, a General Assembly proposal was passed to unlock the funds to be used for the purchase of storage containers. These containers will be used for the bedding and personal items of occupiers, and are part of a multi-step restructuring process by [...]
NYCGA Minutes 10/11/2011
NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 25 Meeting Date/Time: 10/11/2011 / 9pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): Amanda, Mike F: Want to facilitate? 4pm, west tree F: Blocks are *VERY* serious. Only use if you have an ethical or safety concern re: a proposal. Modified Consensus = 90/100. Stack-taker puts you on a list and [...]
NYCGA Minutes 10/10/11, 7PM
NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 24 Meeting Date/Time: 10/10/2011 / 7pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): Craig, Daniel AGENDA 24.1. Agenda Items 24.2. Working Group Report Backs 24.3. Announcements
10/9: Town Planning
Town Planning: $2,000 for bins to organize personal belongings