Contact Person: Dan Marks Working Group (if applicable) : Inter-Occupy Article V Work Group Contact Email: hardtruthpac@gmail.com Contact Phone: 808-345-3990 This is a Proposal for: General Assembly Proposal: Emergency Proposal for General Assembly: Sign declaration demanding Congress’ call to assemble an Article V Constitutional Amendment Convention as 49 of 50 States have applied for. We [...]
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Proposal from Vision and Goals
Proposal from Vision and Goals to present the latest version of this statement (below) A Vision of the People’s Movement of Occupy Wall Street Occupy Wall Street assembles to protest the unjust laws and rules manufactured by less than 1% of the Earth’s population.We come from everywhere in America and abroad; our views are as [...]
No Dollar Left Behind 2
Proposers: Sean McKeown Proposer Contact Information: s_mckeown@hotmail.com Date of Proposal: 3/31/12 General Assembly This proposal is intended as a proposal to improve OWS accounting and accountability methods by drafting proper protocols for the movement as a whole to follow as we move revitalized into the American Spring. Part II: Accounting Standards Reform Before even a [...]
Voters Registration Drive Discussion
Proposal for Voters Registration Drive Discussion Proposer: Justin Samuels I propose that Occupy Wall Street has a voters registration drive. Occupy Wall Street was originally about pointing out and fighting economic injustice. This message has been lost due to nightly battles with the police officers at Union Square. I propose that instead of focusing on [...]
Occupy National Gathering Proposal
Occupy National Gathering Proposal Proposers: Nathan Kleinman & Larry Swetman (for the National Gathering Working Group, Occupy Philly) On January 7, 2012, the Philadelphia General Assembly came to consensus on a proposal from the Philadelphia Committee of Correspondence to form a national working group dedicated to conceiving of, and implementing a strategy towards, a National [...]
Proposal to take part in the June 24 NYC Gay Pride parade
In keeping with the spirit of equality and social justice that is the lifeblood of the Occupy movement, I want to have 25-75 LGBT occupiers and straight allies take part in the June 24 NYC Gay Pride parade down 5th Avenue. Proposer: Karim Walker
Move the NYCGA from Liberty Plaza (backup: 60 Wall) to Union Square
Proposal to move the NYCGA officially from Liberty Plaza (backup: 60 Wall) to Union Square for the foreseeable future. Proposer: Bill Livsey
No Dollar Left Behind Discussion
Proposers: Sean McKeown Proposer Contact Information: s_mckeown@hotmail.com Date of Proposal: 3/24/12 General Assembly This proposal is intended as both a fiscal budget for the remaining OWS funds, in replacement of the weekly budget frozen by Accounting for the week of 3/19, and a proposal to improve OWS accounting and accountability methods by drafting proper protocols [...]
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 decisions for us. We should be [...]
Proposal for Printing May Day Poster
Budget Proposal for DAP This proposal is for Printing for a May Day Poster to be distributed widely throughout NYC. The print shop we will be using is union run and the paper is recycled newsprint. We are looking to print 1000 copies on recycled newsprint, 2′x2′ We will wheatpaste the posters all across the [...]
Emergency Proposal for General Assembly: Sign letter calling for investigation into abuses by NYPD of the civil liberties of Muslims.
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 [...]
Proposal to end spokes and the GA
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 [...]
Proposal to adopt OCCUPY WALL STREET ANTI-VIOLENCE STATEMENT
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
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
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~
~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
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 [...]
Proposal to form ‘Liberate Liberty Pl.’ Working Group
GA PROPOSAL Working Group Title: ‘Liberate Liberty Pl.’ Proposer: Nicolas P de Mones Without our park as headquarters we’ve lost the main base camp for the OWS movement, and the center of all its activities. And even though we continue to strive, we’re in NYC, we’re Occupy Wall Street, we’re the symbol of the revolution, [...]
Proposal to discuss a practical suggestion to complement Deescalation methodology/discussion of tactics, vis-a-vis Principles of Solidarity.
Proposal to discuss a practical suggestion to complement Deescalation methodology/discussion of tactics, vis-a-vis Principles of Solidarity. Proposer: immersive excel
Proposal to have a conversation about transportation alternatives
Bike Coalition proposes that the GA have a conversation about transportation alternatives.
Proposal to reply to letter of solidarity from pelican bay and corcoran prisoners
Proposal to reply to letter of solidarity from pelican bay and corcoran prisoners Presenter Cari Machet Working Group: anti-repression committee subgroup of activist legal working group ________________________________________________________________________________ We were sent a letter of solidarity from pelican bay and corcoran prisoners as they were on a hunger strike and we would like to reply to their [...]
Proposal of suggestions for improving Transparency and Fundraising methodologies for Finance/Accounting
I would like to propose suggestions for improving Transparency and Fundraising methodologies for Finance/Accounting. I would like all concerned to _listen_, perhaps make friendly amendments, discuss and debate subsequently in forums, BUT NOT VOTE ON AT THIS GA! I want _everybody_ to be calm and emotionally detached (<joke>well, as much as they usually are in [...]
Proposal to move the rest of OWS FUND into the BAIL FUND..
Proposal to move the rest of OWS FUND into the BAIL FUND.. On September 17th when a group of activists sat down in Liberty Square no one knew how things would play out. As the weeks passed on and as our story began to spread across the country it resonated with people. It gave them [...]
Request for Solidarity with The Line
Request for Solidarity with The Line The Line is the world’s longest unemployment line for 14 minutes - 1 minute for each of the 1 million currently unemployed Americans. THE LINE TUESDAY, MARCH 6th, 2012 8:14- 8:28am Join 5,000 citizens to form the world’s largest unemployment line stretching on Broadway from the bull on Wall Street [...]
Proposal for Tsampa Revolution Non-Violent Solidarity Statement
Being Brought via Council of Elders & Tibetan Activists of the NYC Area. Tsampa Revolution Solidarity Proposal: Over the past 53 years, the world has watched silently as the Tibetan people non-violently struggled against China’s colonial rule. In the past year alone, we have witnessed barbaric acts of repression by Chinese security forces in Tibet. [...]