NOTE: This is a brief summary that is posted prior to formal minutes. This summary is NOT all-inclusive. It includes only major highlights (discussion topics, proposals, and meeting dates/times/locations announced). This summary is compiled via Livetweets and Livestream viewing.
SUMMARY
- Beta-testing of technology for consensus-taking and temperature checks.
- Working Group Report Backs / Announcements
*Direct Actions scheduled for Nov 30, Dec 6, Dec 12
*Finance closed Thursday (Thanksgiving), bring receipts on Friday
*Facilitation meeting Thursday at 4pm to plan Occupied Thanksgiving dinner
*Communications cluster meeting on Monday at 2pm at the Atrium
*Drummer’s Group doing a march on Friday at 11am
*Strong Women Rule group meeting Friday at 2pm to march to African Burial Site
*Movement Building: Friday 3pm, 1370 Sixth Ave, rally & march to Egypt consulate
*Facilitation: Sunday 2-4pm, working with CT Butler
*Housing: if you have a phone, text owscom to 23559 for help finding housing; also, meeting SUnday at 2pm at the Atrium to discuss
- Facilitation Proposal/Point of Information: Need funding to pay for Spokes Council meeting place, recommended all Working Groups pitch in to pay
- Discussion: Future of General Assemblies
- Meeting broke up before finishing, Minutes and @LibertySqGA left
ayantheworld
No mention of the contentiousness of this meeting. Communication broke down somewhere halfway, and the remainder of the time was spent with a very heated debate regarding racial discrimination. There is deep resentment running in several factions of the movement. It’ll be interesting to see if these rifts can be repaired over time.
Zoë
Ayantheworld, this is just a place-holder for the actual minutes, which will be much more reflective as a verbatim account. The quick summary is just to get the basics out.
Scott
Yeah, well if you think like a capitalist you also behave like one.
There is no reason why any heated problems should arise especially with relavance to racism. I would love to know what started that. Something like that is often do to the way a meeting BEGINS. Or simply a lack of organizing principles. This has to be nipped in the bud.