>> Intros >> Reportbacks > The Disability Caucus is planning an action to take place at Bloomberg’s Gracie Mansion. The action is designed to confront Bloomberg’s lack of action on disability issues. The action will be on Aug 8 at 5pm. The Caucus says that Bloomberg can’t buy the community of disabled folks with hamburgers. [...]

AGENDA: -SDS Communication Issues -Debt Strike as Action -Trinity Church-Duarte Square Arrestees -Stop and Frisk -Cuomo Action -Cuomo is not supporting the minimum wage bill. An action was discussed involving taking 2 million dollars in fake money and going to his office to ‘bribe’ him like the casinos did to bring light to the fact [...]

People’s Gong 1. hup 2. circle up (form concentric circles and hold hands) 3. face out 4. mic check text 5. face in 6. countdown from 10 7. DING x 3 9:30am & 4pm People’s Gong The closing bell is the symbol / of the colonization of the 99% by the 1% The closing bell [...]

Brainstorming session for Black Monday We should talk about Autonomous Actions. Sept. 17th’s day of action is being called with Black Monday. Do we want to use that term? I think its genius. Black Friday is the shopping day, this is the opposite, sentiment: shut this down. Black Monday is synonymous with three of the [...]

Agenda Items: 1. SDS and Black Monday 2. More militancy/ radicalness in our actions 3. Sleepful Protest at the U.N. 4. Game Workshop Idea 5. NYCGA.net posting info. 6. Outreach Report Backs: 1. Report from D.C. protest of Carlos Slim at George Washington University where he was given an honorary phd. About 700 people showed [...]

Wednesday 5.9.12 5.30-7.30p da meeting Intros Report backs Agenda Items – bank of America action – answering the call for reoccupation – Chicago buses from NY for NATO – Trinity Church is pressing charges, action for June 10 – Summer Disobedience School meeting on Monday – da meeting space – Black Monday 9.17.12 – Bank [...]

AGENDA: 1. M12 2. TRINITY CHURCH 3. PLUS BRIGADES 4. DIRECT ACTION PRIORITIES 5. INCREASING PARTICIPATION IN DIRECT ACTION 6. DIRECT ACTION INVOLVEMENT WITH GENERAL ASSEMBLY 7. DIRECT ACTION MEETING TIMES-PROPOSAL FOR AMENDING TIMES/ PLACES 1. M12 -May 12 is a worldwide day of action called for by the Indignados. While the indignados anniversary is [...]

Minutes for Sunday April 15 DA Taking stack to set agenda Report backs Mayday and direct action Switching location for da meetings Mayday and general assembly Act up 25 Discussions of yesterday Occupation on wall st itself Friday afternoon spring training tactics Presence at Union Sq Reportbacks: Report on action: song I will survive in [...]

DAWG NOTES 3-27-12   start @ 5:45pm   intros report backs – madeline’s out of jail!!!! <3 breakouts (15 minutes) occupy student debt – winter spring training – zak act up april 25th – ? rap battle -shawn/austin   report backs: student debt: 4pm at Union Square; want a tactics training during action; want to [...]

3-18-12 DA Notes Debrief from re-occupation What went wrong? : – We should have stayed in the Financial District after getting kicked out of the park – There were a lot of people in park who we couldn’t convince to do park defense. – We need to work on holding space and be aware when [...]

· May Day website is setup. · Housing changed process for metro card DA gets 7. Cecillia and Mark are point people for this. First come first serve go to Mark. · Why do we have more than other WG · The big WGs get more · Becky has been nominated and approved to be [...]

> DA WG Meeting 2.19.12 > > Recaps > > – F29, Portland’s call to action to “shut down the corporations”. > Three main targets in NYC are Koch, Pfizer & BOA > > – Plans for a public event/teach in have been scrapped. There will be > a teach-in/presentation from Matt Taibbi on BOA [...]

Change in Meeting Schedule · Concerns about a few people making decision for larger group when not many present · Concerns that not enough effort will be put into escalation calendar · Desire to reevaluate restructuring—want to bring it up again on Thursday and Sunday or table it to discuss once people are back from [...]

Reportbacks Occupy newsflash at Grand Central. 2 people arrested; need agreed-upon ending Monsanto at Foley Square. Went great, little police presence Tax Dodgers at Rockefeller Ctr. Went well, police were cooperative   Agenda Protest Queens courts. Mother losing a fight over her son. Judge favors men and mother needs support. Asking for people to come [...]

DA Meeting Minutes Thursday February 2, 2012 1730 Breakout Meeting   Names, Preferred Pronouns, Spirit Vegetable   Report Backs:   -Oakland last weekend, SF weekend before; few lessons learned: 1) wildcat marches: kettled in residential square, very scary moment, casually tossing stun grenades and tear gas.  Really pissed at person who led march into vulnerable [...]

January 30, 2012 Start:  2:10 PM End:  4:00 PM Regular meeting Agenda items      Debrief of Solidarity Sunday March (Oakland March J29)      May Day mapmaking      Advanced Street Tactics training      May Day planning      Jail Support      Announcements Intros      Everyone went around to state their [...]

- Because this was a small meeting, instead of splitting into breakout groups we just took every proposed breakout group as an agenda point and discussed it as a whole group. 1. Idiotarod – it’s a shopping cart race through the city happening this Saturday.  If you want to help organize a cart, contact christineoheron@gmail.com. [...]

Reportbacks 1st May Day (possible general strike) meeting: 40 or so peeps. Worked on definitions of a general strike; goals; inreach & outreach (WGs, immigrants, unions, CBOs, etc). Want to build for huge May Day. Next meeting J14 (Sat.), 1pm, Judson Church. point of info: there’s a non-OWS general strike group who had a meeting– [...]

Report Backs 1.    Sunday visioning meeting report back. 2.    Ending Bank of America meetings are progressing. Interest is growing. Agenda Proposal for setting Sunday’s agenda. Saturday 1pm meeting. Announce it through the email list. Friendly amendment. Whoever is at the Satuday meeting send out emails about the agenda.  Concerns about having meeting in Manhattan. Will [...]

Reportbacks: Spanish Assembly – putting out a call for immigrants general strike for May Day. Pretty far along in process. Newspaper in spanish. No intention to translate to english. Occupy for campus – Improv Everywhere & OWS occupied subways in Underwear.  Addition: started a GA in Union Square. Took off. Over 1000 people joined. Most [...]

Reportbacks NDAA action (J3) multiple locations, ending in flash mob/mic check at Grand Central; done fast, no budget. Spokes council Has empowered itself to make financial decisions. Please come!   Announcements Last GA was disbanded by cops; come to GA tonight to resist J4, state of state address by Cuomo, local fractivists organizing travel to [...]

DIRECT ACTION 6-MONTH STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION – 1/8/12 Agenda 1. Intro/Meeting agreements (5 minutes) 2. Strategic priorities (5 min) 3. Reflection (30) 4. Future Brainstorm (45) 5. Comparing Ideas and Strategic Priorities 6. What Gets Us There/Capacity (60) 7. Targets 8.Facilitators for next weeks meeting   2. Review Strategic Priorities Grow and include Center marginalized [...]

DIRECT ACTION 6-MONTH STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION – 1/8/12 Agenda 1. Intro/Meeting agreements (5 minutes) 2. Strategic priorities (5 min) 3. Reflection (30) 4. Future Brainstorm (45) 5. Comparing Ideas and Strategic Priorities 6. What Gets Us There/Capacity (60) 7. Targets 8.Facilitators for next weeks meeting   2. Review Strategic Priorities Grow and include Center marginalized [...]

Introduction of Greeter role into the group ~the role of the greeter will be to talk to people who are either late to a meeting or unfamiliar with the group process ~for example, when a greeter sees that someone is asking a question that has already been answered, they will approach the person and talk [...]

Agenda items Tenting Proposal to produce a series of tenting-themed visuals for distribution here and outside NYC. Tenting is symbolizes the occupy movement and liberation of space.Proposal to ask GA for $1200 for printing & materials. •    Wants to plug stickers into street art traveling world. •    tenting kits ($1 each to produce) •    100 [...]