Love ‘em or Hate ‘em, NYC General Assemblies were once the center piece of the Liberty Plaza Occupy encampment. Occupiers, Supporters & the general public would come together for announcements, community discussions and to work through proposals to support the work of the Occupy movement. There have been many reasons cited for the collapse of [...]

Facilitation Working Group Meeting Attendance: Justin, Katherine, Sean, Owen, Patrick, Cynthia, Jason Minutes JSD Facilitation Sean Discussed Web Poll Results https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/nycgajune2012/ Group Consented on Saturday June 23rd 3PM, Liberty Plaza Round Robin Discussion of Steps Needed to create space for #NYCGA to happen Possible use of Open Spaces to have discussions about next steps for [...]

date: 5/24 justin sd, charlie, aislinn, josh ehr, ethan, joshua, pockets (ec), minutes: pockets fac: charlie group intros sharing of backdrop with group & occupy discussion of past group step back & how it diem-powered #NYCGA no consensus with out full facilitation group: minutes, vibes, livestream & community participation several working groups & affinity groups [...]

Facilition Meeting Minutes May 3rd 60 Wall Street Minutes Taken by Justin Stone-Diaz & Darrell Faciltation: Liza Attendence: Katherine Flowers Justin Stone-Diaz Michael PelLAGGITTI Billay A Livsey Liza Sabater Stan Williams Darrell Prince Stacey Bud Zach Jason Stephen Agenda: Meeting Location Change Meeting Liza, Justin Daryl to be added as admin nycga.net Consented Add Facilition [...]

Location: Union Square (North Side), 6pm In Attendance: Corey, Christina, Brett, Amelia, Brian, Nathan, Lady, Jason W., Jason S, Sage, David The Facilitation WG came to consensus at a group meeting held on 4.2.12 regarding the following statement: “After participating in a number of community dialogues, and numerous Facilitation working group meetings, which have identified [...]

SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/Leah/Desktop/Fragments/3.6.12%20facilitation%20minutes.doc tuesday 3.6.12 4-5.30p facilitation working group minutes facilitation: Melanie minutes: Mark   agenda items take money out of ga discussion as an agenda item on thursdays ga proposal for thursday’s ga breakout group conversation ct butler’s trip around the “world”   report backs daniel reports yesterdays spokes council was easy and went really well. [...]

SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/Leah/Desktop/Fragments/3.6.12%20facilitation%20minutes.doc tuesday 3.6.12 4-5.30p facilitation working group minutes facilitation: Melanie minutes: Mark   agenda items take money out of ga discussion as an agenda item on thursdays ga proposal for thursday’s ga breakout group conversation ct butler’s trip around the “world”   report backs daniel reports yesterdays spokes council was easy and went really well. [...]

In attendance: Corey, Christina, Mark, Marisa, Daniel, Jean, David, Hermes, Carrie, Kelly, Nick, Anthony Facilitation team tonight: Christina & Mark, Vibes: Daniel, Time: Stan, Stack: Corey 5 metrocard process: ·    Record who gets them in mtg. minutes ·    the group will choose at random pulled from a hat indiviuals self-select need: ·    this week: Christina, [...]

in attendance: Christina,  Brett, David,  Corey,  Daniel, Melanie,  Jean,  Lisa, Marisa , Ezra,eamon, Harper, ralph, isaac agenda: reportbacks from sc 2/27/12 by Melanie. picking facilitation for the week  daniel Tues corey Thurs brett sat Brett will send out email for Wed   David getting feedback about his proposal to improve ga  some concern about making [...]

in attendance: Christina,  Brett, David,  Corey,  Daniel, Melanie,  Jean,  Lisa, Marisa , Ezra,eamon, Harper, ralph, isaac agenda: reportbacks from sc 2/27/12 by Melanie. picking facilitation for the week  daniel Tues corey Thurs brett sat Brett will send out email for Wed   David getting feedback about his proposal to improve ga  some concern about making [...]

in attendance: Christina,  Brett, David,  Corey,  Daniel, Melanie,  Jean,  Lisa, Marisa , Ezra,eamon, Harper, ralph, isaac agenda: reportbacks from sc 2/27/12 by Melanie. picking facilitation for the week  daniel Tues corey Thurs brett sat Brett will send out email for Wed   David getting feedback about his proposal to improve ga  some concern about making [...]

Announcements and Reportbacks: 5 mins Nathan, Last nights sc: Town planning proposal, now have a quorum, minimum of 20 people, livestreamer, minutes, 7 wg and 1 caucus. How to keep facilitators safe Team did a great job, Some bias Messaging mtg, yesterday, OWS needs a message, should do an action for tax day, As big [...]

Agenda: Tonight’s GA Last Night’s Spokes Space Location Wow Proposal David Facilitation Justin Minute Taking Working Group Requirements: 1 Meeting a week, GA Feedback from Last Night’s Spokes- Full Team couldn’t make it, Group asked to step up Trish’s Objection to Stack Taker, resolved via temp check Medics Report Back- Jose well presented Wow Proposal- [...]

Introductions Names Agenda items- Marsha Alia Jennifer David Trish- agenda items Ray Jean Zach- proposal def of operational “class war” Brian Frank Nysheva Starr Lisa nicole carty- appriciation week Christina Daniel- tonight+ agenda training A few other things Vision statement Minutes feeling unappreciated Agenda Spokes Debrief Tonights GA (And trish proposal) Appreciation week 10 minutes [...]

Facilitation WG meeting  2/2/12 Facilitator: Christina Minutes: Carrie Present: Christina 1 Nick Negesti Carrie Brett Daniel Anthony Christina 2 Corey Stefan Alia Nysheva Dan Yoni Reportbacks GA on Tuesday Daniel and Christina facilitated. Was proposal to ban an individual. Lots of advice in planning. Proposer in reaction to feedback decided to restructure it. Confusion and [...]

Facilitation meeting notes 1/26/12 Facilitator: David Minutes: Leah Stack: Daniel Agenda: Report back from Tuesday’s GA   Anthony: -original team was Anthony, Ronnie and Nick -went smoothly generally -concerned w/how Nan’s proposal was used in the process -incident with Newark folks -opted not to reopen stack -Robbie stepped down during faciliation proposal -Nick became frustrated [...]

Facilitator: Dali Stack: Stefan Minutes: Alejandro   Spokes report back Zach: Spokes went smoothly but not as smoothly as Monday and Wednesday. Saw problem with too much emotions. Also saw a gender division, with the male housing-proposal presenters and the WOW group, which contributed to the tension in the room. Questions around what stand-asides are [...]

Facilitator: Dali Stack: Stefan Minutes: Alejandro   Spokes report back Zach: Spokes went smoothly but not as smoothly as Monday and Wednesday. Saw problem with too much emotions. Also saw a gender division, with the male housing-proposal presenters and the WOW group, which contributed to the tension in the room. Questions around what stand-asides are [...]

12.27.2011 Facilitator: Negesti Stack: _ from Detroit, then Alejnadro Minutes: Aaron Time: Aaron Agenda ——— Facilitators for Tuesday, Wednesday Today: Negesti, Nathan from Asheville, Anthony, Aaron Wednesday: _ Friday: Bottom-lined by Anthony Last nights GA Anthony: comhub announcement went out canceling Spokes. No announcement of GA went out via Comhub, one did go out via [...]

Minutes taken by Aaron, thank you Aaron!   Facilitation 12.24.2011 Facilitator: Alexis Stacktacker: Eileen, then Negesti Time: Shawn Minutes: Aaron Announcements DA needs facilitators for mobile occupation – occupybus@gmail.com ThinkTank would like facilitators for in-park and outreach operations – owsthinktank@gmail.com Facilitation outreach team – facilitation.outreach@nycga.net Reportbacks Spokes – Negesti did not have clarity on how [...]

Hello Occupations, My name is Trish and we are the New York City General Assembly working group. Please find us at nycga.net and join. If, you are in the New York City area, we strongly advise you to come to our weekly meeting. One of our (my) major task(s) as a working group(individual) is to [...]

The following proposal developed out of conversations between myself and Sully and has gotten feedback from many other members of the Facilitation Working Group. It contains three sections: “Final Form” which describes how we envision the group being structured once we have fully transitioned to the new structure; “Roll Out” which describes a gradual roll-out [...]

PDF available: http://joeymolinaro.com/wp-content/uploads/FACILITATION_INTRO.doc Unofficial General Assembly Intro Hello, and welcome to the General Assembly, it is open to everyone, and we follow a process that is meant to empower everyone’s voices. ORDER After this intro will be working group report-backs.  These are for members of working groups to report useful information pertaining to that group Then [...]

Why I Step Back  You may be feeling confusion because of how we communicate at the New York City General Assembly and related movements.  I am writing this because it is not the job of traditionally marginalized voices (i.e. female, queer, black, etc.) to educate dominant voices (i.e. white, male, heterosexual, etc.) about systems of [...]

THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL OWS DOC.  It is being posted for discussion purposes only, and may or may not be brought to the GA following an extensive consensus-building process. Statement of horizontalism We, the NYCGA encourage autonomous actions.  We recognize that ours is a leaderless movement.  We encourage everyone to use their energy as [...]