Monthly Archives:: October 2011

NYCGA Minutes 10/09/11, 7PM

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NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 23 Meeting Date/Time: 10/9/2011 / 7pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): [Editor’s note: We don’t seem to have a complete set of notes for this GA. Please e-mail OWSminutes@gmail.com if you have minutes from the very beginning and very end.]   AGENDA 23.1.  Working Group Report Backs 23.2.  Announcements 23.3.  [...]

Occupiers’ Meeting Minutes 10/5 10AM

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Minutes Welcome to the occupers meeting Propsals Concerns Priorities for today Anna is the stack take Agenda City planning Zoning Proposal for donation storage locker- working group to field donations Concrete schedual for today Bulentin boards for front back middle for daily schedual Discussion items and propsals Peace keeping and what the peace keeping group [...]

Liberty Plaza Anarchist College Seeks Teacher/Facilitators

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The main goals and values of this college is to teach how important establishing the values of any group is, and that a society or environment of non-dominance and non-hierarchy is the one in which its members thrive. Anarchy literally means without a ruler, so an individual who oppresses any other individual by limiting their [...]

NYCGA Minutes 10/4/2011

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NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 18 Meeting Date/Time: 10/4/2011 / 7pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators: Amanda, Brie   Facilitator (F): 100 transport workers refuse to bring protestors to jail, and are filing a restraining order against the NYPD! F: Are there any concerns regarding Amanda and Bre as facilitators for this general assembly? GA Response: [...]

Needs of the Occupiers

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As the Occupation moves into autumn we need to prepare for the onset of of chilly weather. Most Needed: Sleeping bags, blankets, tarps and large, clear plastic storage bins to keep it all dry. Polar fleece sweaters, pants, socks and gloves are also appreciated as, they are durable, easy to clean, keep even the soggiest [...]

Modify Quiet Hours

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Community relations committee: I want to make a proposal to modify quiet hour based on conversations this week and last week with local residents and campers here. They have expressed concern about loud noise in the evenings and are our current time if 11pm for quiet hours. I’d like to propose 2 things: We move [...]

Funding for Sleeping Bags

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We have some major concerned about people sleeping here. Mainly we need sleeping bags. Sleeping bags cost money and no one is donating sleeping bags. With that in mind we have a proposal to use some of the donated money to buy sleeping bags. We would like to request about 2000 dollars from the fund [...]

NYCGA Minutes 10/3/2011, 7:30pm

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NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 17 Meeting Date/Time: 10/3/2011 / 7pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators: Bri, ?   F: Wanted to make sure that we the people are okay with the people up front running it. F: The people up front are facilitators. Anyone can facilitate if they get in touch with the working group. [...]

Things We Need

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Hi my name is Rachel. I’m here with comfort. I want to make an announcement about some things that we need. Important things we need are boots for males and females, sleeping bags, sleeping pads, and folding chairs. Also, we have lots of bags of laundry from when it’s been raining. Since there is no [...]

Global Democracy Statement

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My name is Ameen and this is Caesar we have a global democracy statement. This includes a call to action on October 16, a global call to action that has been adopted by some general assembly and has been endorsed by Noam Chomsky Ben Danishiva Michael Hart and others. We have it in multiple languages. [...]

NYCGA Minutes 10/2/2011, 7:30PM

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NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 16 Meeting Date/Time: 10/2/2011 / 7pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators: John, Nalini?   Facilitator (F): We have a welcome table and an info table. If you want to help out go see either table. They got information; they can point you in the right way. We also have working groups. [...]

NYCGA Minutes 10/1/2011

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NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 15 Meeting Date/Time: 10/1/2011 / 7pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F):   F: Because hundreds of us got arrested, GA will be a little bit different. First, a review of procedures. Then we will have working group report backs. After that, announcements! F: For working group report backs, we’re going [...]