Monthly Archives:: March 2012

Accounting Discussion

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This week is the week: we dont have enough money to meet our recurring budgets. Accounting does not feel ok about spending the rest of our money on a ‘first come, first serve’ basis (ie, if kitchen found accounting first, they could take all the rest of the money and no one else would get [...]

Tweets for Sun, 18 Mar 2012

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There’s a RIDICULOUS amount of police vehicles accompanying our motley crew of a march! #ows #m17 Just heard that @shawncarrie and @Occupymusician got arrested too. Also somebody had a seizure after arrest. #m17 #ows Hey all, just got here. Emergency GA underway. #nycga #ows (@jopauca) What we’re trying to do here is recreate what we’ve [...]

Tweets for Sat, 17 Mar 2012

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RT @DailyOcc: Today’s GA preview & live page just went up: http://t.co/75pyJPNd Tweets via @LibertySqGA. Check it out; starting soon … Hi fam! The 6-month anniversary General Assembly of #OWS starts now. Follow here, @LibertySqGA2, @LibertySqGA3, @LibertySqGA4! #M17 #NYCGA Stairs: “Welcome back! It’s our 6-month anniversary!” Cheers! There are like 500 people here right now. [...]

NYCGA Minutes 3/17/2012

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NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY MINUTES 3/17/2012 Location: Liberty Square, 7 pm Facilitators: Lady and Craig Stack: Stan Vibes: Justin Minutes: Carrie Live tweets: Dicey AGENDA Working Group Reportbacks Emergency proposal: To sign a letter asking for a federal investigation into NYPD surveillance of Muslims. PASSES CONSENSUS. Breakout groups to discuss May Day. ACCOMPLISHED. Meeting of the [...]

Emergency Proposal for General Assembly: Sign letter calling for investigation into abuses by NYPD of the civil liberties of Muslims.

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Emergency Proposal– Time Sensitive due to External Deadline of Sunday, March 18th. Contact person: Caroline McLoughlin Proposal for General Assembly: Sign letter calling for investigation into abuses by NYPD of the civil liberties of Muslims. Occupy Wall Street has been invited to sign a letter asking US Attorney General Eric Holder that the Department of [...]

Tweets for Thu, 15 Mar 2012

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RT @DailyOcc: We’ve also posted our preview of tonight’s Occupy Wall Street / NYC General Assembly: http://t.co/1xuNnOVZ Live coverage l … Hey fam! #NYCGA is now starting at 60 Wall, after a great action. Everyone is really excitable right now. #OWS The first announcement: someone will propose a week from today that we stop holding [...]

Proposal to end spokes and the GA

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Proposal to end spokes and the GA Proposer: Justin Samuels I propose that we end both spokes council and the GA for several reasons. First and foremost, Occupy Wall Street claims to be a horizontal movement.  If it is a horizontal movement, then we don’t need a spokes council (with spokes/representatives) or a General Assembly making [...]

Tweets for Tue, 13 Mar 2012

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#NYCGA is starting at Liberty Square! It’s a lively crowd on this beautiful night. Live tweets here, @LibertySqGA2 thru 4 as usual! #OWS Stairs: “We have a large GA tonight, and many things on the list to get done, so let’s GSD!” Nelini has the first announcement. #NYCGA #OWS Nelini; “On Thursday, we’re continuing to [...]

Proposal to adopt OCCUPY WALL STREET ANTI-VIOLENCE STATEMENT

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There have been great disturbances in Occupy Wall Street solidarity due to violence in the movement.  Because of such, many have left or distanced themselves from OWS.  As the movement has been sullied by these conflicts, this proposal is to get the GA to agree to the following anti-violence statement that would thereafter speak for the movement. [...]

Proposal For the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street to endorse the Everything for Everyone Festival planned in Seattle, Washington

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Proposal For the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street to endorse the Everything for Everyone Festival planned in Seattle, Washington in the month of August.   The Everything for Everyone festival is meant to give a face for this new movement. It intends to facilitate debate and cross-fertilization, for a mutual flourishing of various groups [...]

To Begin Spokes Council Meetings With a Commitment to Collectively Confront Aggressive or Disruptive Violations of Our Community Agreements by Remaining Absolutely Silent

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To Begin Spokes Council Meetings With a Commitment to Collectively Confront Aggressive or Disruptive Violations of Our Community Agreements by Remaining Absolutely Silent (once the facilitation team has requested the perpetrator to leave) Feeling an urgent need to address the impact of violence and disruptions rendering our Spokes Councils dysfunctional, the Facilitation Working Group discussed several optional strategies [...]

Proposal For An OWS Fundraiser Benefit Show And Overturning The Budget Freeze To Allocate Money To Finance The OWS Fundraiser Benefit Show~

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~Proposal For An OWS Fundraiser Benefit Show And Overturning The Budget Freeze To Allocate Money To Finance The OWS Fundraiser Benefit Show~ Occupy Wall Street; the movement for change, the first movement of the people in decades to try to create a better world, is in a place that for the first time we must [...]

Spaces working group proposal

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Spaces working group is to create a strategy for Occupying Spaces, including a headquarters, and to acquire housing, and centers for outreach and community services. We will pursue a diverse set of tactics to acquire new spaces, including rental/purchase, for office spaces and community centers, as well as group living environments for occupiers, and help [...]

Tweets for Mon, 12 Mar 2012

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Spokes Council getting started here at OSA Hall! Corey&Nick co-facilitating, Mark taking stack, Margot on vibes, Bana on time #ows #nycsc Nick is reading from the Community Agreements now. You can read them at http://t.co/dQWpnT8v #ows #nycsc Corey is giving a quick intro to hand signals for some of the new people we have here [...]

Establishment of the Queer OWS Working Group

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The LGBTIQA2Z Caucus at OWS has been going through many changes lately, in trying to figure out how to better serve and reach out to our community. As part of this, we have decided to create a new structure for ourselves, letting the caucus focus on its functions as defined by OWS, and creating a new working [...]

Formation of Meeting of the Minds Working Group

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Meeting of the minds 2 Is a group intend to create mass action with in OWS.Meeting of the minds encourage groups to agree so OWS can move forward on a larger scale.Meeting of the mind objective is to have mass action push through GA to direct action at least ones a month. Reason for meeting [...]

Exclusion Principle

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“There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another. This conception is a potent menace to social regeneration. All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim. The means employed become, through individual habit and social practice, [...]

MayDay Discussion

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MayDay 2012 - No Work, No School, No Housework, No Shopping, No Banking! TAKE THE STREETS! Direct Action & its allies coordinating events for MayDay 2012 would like to spend 1-hour at each Saturday General Assembly leading up to May 1st discussing MayDay. Topics can include.. the history and legacy of MayDay, the role of labor, [...]

MayDay Discussion

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MayDay 2012 - No Work, No School, No Housework, No Shopping, No Banking! TAKE THE STREETS! Direct Action & its allies coordinating events for MayDay 2012 would like to spend 1-hour at each Saturday General Assembly leading up to May 1st discussing MayDay. Topics can include.. the history and legacy of MayDay, the role of labor, [...]

MayDay Discussion

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MayDay 2012 - No Work, No School, No Housework, No Shopping, No Banking! TAKE THE STREETS! Direct Action & its allies coordinating events for MayDay 2012 would like to spend 1-hour at each Saturday General Assembly leading up to May 1st discussing MayDay. Topics can include.. the history and legacy of MayDay, the role of labor, [...]

Endorsement of A24 – Occupy the Justice Department

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Proposal for Occupy Endorsement of April 24 Action:  Occupy the Justice DepartmentProposal for General Assembly on Tuesday, March 13. Contact person:  Stuart Leonard Working group:  Political Action and ImpactThe Political Action and Impact working group of NYCGA, in conjunction with event organizers, Johanna Fernandez, Heidi Boghosian, Frances Goldin and Greg Ruggiero, propose that OWS accept, [...]