NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 70 Date / Time: Friday, 11/24/2011 / 7pm Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): [Note: The introductions were not captured verbatim for tonight’s meeting, Legal was the first working group report back.] AGENDA 69.1. Working Group Report Backs 69.2. Proposal from Comfort 69.3. Announcements
Monthly Archives:: November 2011
Draft Proposal for Saturday 11/26 General Assembly: Volunteer Services Office Supplies Budget
Volunteer services has secured office space that was donated from Harlem. We intend to use this space for a full time volunteer operational center in which working groups will contact us for volunteer needs. We will also be housing a working division of volunteers to operate emergency housing hotlines to address immediate housing needs of [...]
NYC Operational Spokes Council Minutes 11/23/2011
NYC OPERATIONAL SPOKES COUNCIL DAY 68 Date/Time: Wednesday, 11/23/2011 / 7:00 PM Location: 56 Walker Street Facilitators (F): Brian Taking Stack: Elaine, Dan; Minutes: Carrie SUMMARY 68.1. Introduction & Process Discussion 68.2. Working Group (WG) Reportbacks 68.3. Breakout Groups to Discuss How to Revive the GA
NYC Operational Spokes Council 11/23/2011 (Summary)
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.
NYCGA Minutes 11/22/2011
Due to circumstances beyond our control (weather, equipment failure, etc), Minutes was not able to record verbatim minutes for the GA on 11/22/2011. There is a LiveTweet record available. Please note that the LiveTweet record are not a Minutes WG product. You can find the link to the LiveTweet record in the “Quick Find” post [...]
Draft Proposal for Tuesday 11/22 General Assembly: Inter-Occupation Communication and S.I.S.
Proposal to the General Assembly of Liberty Plaza The Inter-Occupation Communication Group and the S.I.S. Working Group propose that the following communiqué be presented by the Liberty Plaza Assembly as a statement to all other Assemblies and Occupations of the world and then be broadcast on currently available media platforms: This communiqué is presented by [...]
Coordinators’ Meeting Minutes 11/21/2011
Co-ordinators’ Meeting Minutes 21 November 2011 60 Wall Street Atrium, NYC Agenda: rather than follow a formal agenda, we’ll just go around and do reportbacks today.
NYC Operational Spokes Council 11/21/2011
NYC OPERATIONAL SPOKES COUNCIL DAY 66 Date/Time: 11/21/2011 / 7:30PM Location: 65 Walker Street Facilitators (F): Marissa and Ethan [Editor’s Note: Anytime someone speaks from the council but has not put their name on stack will be marked with a [SC]] SUMMARY 66.1. Introduction & Process Discussion 66.2. Announcements/Report Backs 66.3. Legal Proposal [...]
Draft Proposal for Tuesday 11/22 General Assembly: from White Hat
AMENDMENT TO EGYPT ELECTION DELEGATION CONSENSUS The following amendment to the EGYPT ELECTION DELEGATION consensus (passed by the NYCGA on November 10th, 2011) is being submitted by a number of concerned OWS individuals. Since the November 10th NYCGA consensus to send a delegation to observe the upcoming Egyptian parliamentary elections, both new events have come to pass and new [...]
Draft Proposal for Tue 11/22 General Assembly
TRIP TO PLYMOUTH ROCK TO CELEBRATE THANKSGIVING WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES On thanksgiving day there will be a caravan of people taking two buses to plymouth rock to join a group of indigenous peoples in a social, dinner, and thanksgiving ceremony. The first bus is full but we need funds for the second bus. Many immigrant [...]
Draft Proposal for Tue 11/22 General Assembly: Tech Ops
The New York City General Assembly hereby expresses its firm opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act in the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R.3261) and the Protect IP Act in the U.S. Senate (S.968) as they are currently written and calls on all Occupy movements nationwide to mobilize supporters against their passage. We oppose this [...]
Draft Proposal for Tuesday 11/22 General Assembly: Get Shit Done (GSD)
Form the GSD working group. GSD stands for Get Shit Done. We need $300 to form the working group The money will be spent on printing costs and the purchase of a small camera for keeping records. printing cost: $100 small camera: $200 Contact person: Lady Millard, ladymillard@gmail.com
NYCGA Minutes 11/20/2011
NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 65 Date / Time: Sunday 11/20/2011 / 7:00pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): Jeff and Jason Stack Taker: Alexandra; Time Keeper: Brett; Minutes: Dara AGENDA 65.1. Working Group Report Backs and Announcements 65.2. Agenda Items (Vision and Goals Proposal, Arts and Culture Proposal, GA Meeting Time and Space Proposal, Mobile [...]
Draft Proposal for Tuesday 11/22 General Assembly: Movement for Justice in El Barrio
To the General Assembly of Occupy Wall St.: Receive greetings of solidarity from Movement for Justice in El Barrio, The Other Campaign New York: We write to you with an important proposal that we would like placed on the agenda for this Tuesday’s General Assembly. At the General Assembly of Nov. 3rd, after receiving the [...]
Draft Proposal for 11.20 General Assembly: OWS Housing Prject from Wooloo Collective
Hosting Occupy Wall Street aims to turn private New Yorkers into hosts for Occupy Wall Street activists during the upcoming winter and beyond. Back in 2009, the Wooloo collective coordinated a project at the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen that facilitated a hospitality project, recruiting more than 3000 local residents to open their homes and [...]
Draft Proposal for Sunday 11/20 General Assembly: Arts and Culture poster project & budget request
Working Group: Arts and Culture Contact Email: flowchartart@gmail.com Proposal: paper and ink for limited hand-printed editon: $250 printing and shipping for mass edition: $2,023.94 total budget: 2,273.94 This proposal is for the General Assembly to fund the printing of 5,200 copies of the Flowchart of the declaration of the occupation of nyc (5,000 in a mass edition, [...]
Draft Proposal for Sunday 11/20/2011 General Assembly: Regarding GA schedule & meeting space
OWS shall immediately reinstate daily GA meetings. In addition, the Town Planning WG is hereby empowered to designate and maintain an appropriate meeting space in the vicinity of the steps on the Broadway side of Zucotti Park. This meeting space will be kept permanently clear of tents and all other personal and common belongings such that we, the people, [...]
Draft proposal for 11/19 General Assembly: Emergency proposal for implementation of GA quorum
Contact: Trish (Timber) Proposal: That the GA implement a quorum to address working groups including: autonomous affinity groups, caucuses, OWS operations groups, other entities, proposals or any person(s) who propose(s) financial assistance during GA. Email: Occupytheballot@yahoo.com Contact phone: 646-269-7280 Proposed by: Trish
Draft Proposal for 11/19 General Assembly: Emergency proposal regarding Spokes Council
Contact: Trish (Timber) Proposal: Dissolution of the Spokes Council Email: Occupytheballot@yahoo.com Contact phone: 646-269-7280 Proposed by: Trish
Draft Proposal for 11/19 General Assembly: Inter-Occupation Communication Working Group, a subgroup of Movement Building WG
Proposal to the General Assembly of Liberty Plaza The Inter-Occupation Communications Group, a sub-group of the Movement Building Working Group, proposes that the following communiqué be presented by the Liberty Plaza Assembly as a statement to all other Assemblies and Occupations of the world and then be broadcast on currently available media platforms: This communiqué [...]
Draft Proposal for Sunday 11/20/2011 General Assembly: Mobile Occupation East Coast Solidarity Tour & Budget
Proposal Form Working Group (if applicable) : Mobile Occupation Contact Email: occupywithin@gmail.com This Proposal is for: General Assembly Mobile Occupation draft proposal for East Coast Solidarity Tour (for consideration at the November 15th General Assembly – feedback and friendly amendments are welcome and can be submitted to occupywithin@gmail.com or by attending one of our working [...]
Draft Proposal for Saturday 11/19/2011 General Assembly: Emergency Proposal from Movement Building – Friendly Amendment, Egypt Election Delegation
November 19, 2011 The Movement Building Working Group proposes the following friendly amendment to the EGYPT ELECTION DELEGATION consensus passed by the NYCGA on November 10th, 2011. The EGYPT ELECTION DELEGATION proposal came through our working group originally. New information and a wide array of important questions and concerns have been raised across the occupation [...]
Draft Proposal for Saturday 11/19/2011 General Assembly: Visions & Goals Working Group statement
(11/19/11) From the General Assembly of the Occupy Wall Street movement, To the People of the World we offer a preliminary Declaration of our Vision. Our Vision is that of [1] a free, democratic, and just society; [2] where we, the people, come together and solve our problems by consensus; [3] where people are encouraged [...]
NYC Operational Spokes Council Minutes 11/18/2011
NYC OPERATIONAL SPOKES COUNCIL DAY 63 Date / Time: Friday 11/18/2011 / 7:00pm EST Location: Facilitators (F): Lisa, Leo [Note-takers note: A list of discussed priorities as well as questions from Finance are included at the end of these notes.] SUMMARY 63.1. Group Introductions 63.2. Agenda Discussion 63.3. Legal, Housing and Kitchen WG [...]
NYCGA Minutes 11/17/2011
NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY DAY 62 Date / Time: Thursday 11/17/2011 / 7:00pm EST Location: Liberty Plaza Facilitators (F): Shawn and Christina Stack Taker: Joe and Jason. Minutes: Robina. [Note from the Minutes-taker: This was an unusual GA and I note this for context. Scheduled facilitation was late. Soapbox, which spontaneously began before facilitation arrived, [...]