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 of the [...]

We would like to request to have ratification of our Working Group status placed on the agenda for tomorrow’s GA. The Occupy Bank is a sub-group of the existing Alternative Banking Working Group, facilitated by Cathy O’Neill. We have been working since early October on conceiving and establishing a democratic, transparent financial institution for the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

ON MONDAY FEB. 13, 2012 @ RIVERSIDE CHURCH NY NY, during a Spokes Council meeting, Robert while presenting a proposal subjected the Occupy community as a whole to a vicious and violent act of intimidation. By aggressively approaching a female Spoke from behind, with a metal chair raised in the air (higher than 6 ft.)……abruptly [...]

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 [...]

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 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 (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~ 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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 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 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 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, [...]

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, [...]

We would like the GA to authorize the Accounting working group to give us access to the emails of people who have donated to the NYCGA in order to give them the option of subscribing to the OWS Newsletter. We think that people who have donated will appreciate a weekly update on what the movement [...]

PROPOSAL: There is a rapidly growing consensus among millions of Americans, both inside and outside of the OWS movement, that true representative democracy cannot be achieved in our nation as long as the minority of individuals and private entities with the greatest wealth exert a controlling influence over the selection of candidates for public office; [...]

A1 action proposal: April 1, 2012 marks the 6 month anniversary of the march across the Brooklyn Bridge, marked by the arrest of 700 Occupiers on the Brooklyn bound roadway. This march became a key moment in Occupy history, not only because of the arrests themselves, but as a result of the overwhelming moral, spiritual, [...]

Next Wednesday, Republican kleptocrat Mitt ’1%’ Romney will join a bevy of Wall Street bankers for a fundraiser to fill his election coffers right here in Manhattan, at the Waldorf Astoria in midtown. At a luncheon hosted by a billionaire supermarket magnate friend, Romney will shmooze the SuperPACS and corporate fat cats, and we want [...]

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, [...]