Notes from Friday March 30,2012 There was a meeting at Union Square. Attending as far as I know were Ethan Bill B Bill (Canada) Jason Karem Leticia Bonnie The location is east of the George Washington Statue tree and path going north. There is a small alcove where all met. The decision was to meet [...]

Present: Will Bill B Bill (Canada) Leo (Facilitation) Danya R Anthony Vevlyn Lynette (99 for Earth & PRWG) Bonnie We have been told there will be no money distribution until GA meets Tuesday, March 20th.  The freeze will continue until GA makes a decision Proposals are: Lynnette for an action on March 24th to kick [...]

                           Kitchen meeting 3/5   Lady, Jay, Carlton, Chris Brannon, Chyno futuristic, Realutz, Dylan v., Anthony, Paula M, Alice, Maura, Julio,Adelina st. Clair, Eric chef, Christine, Cara Hartley, Ice, Bill B, Bill M, Joshua (minutes), Bonnie G, Karim, Eric Light, Letetia, Casper ( [...]

Will (facilitating) Ice Jordan Jay Danny Casper Chris (minutes) Bill B. Bill Karim Sara Letitia Announcements Ice: People are being arrested everyday for serving food in the park during COOLS, and not just one or two but at six or eight at a time. Monday at noon there is going to be a meditation ceremony. Sara: [...]

Kitchen Meeting 3/2 Chris ( Facilitating) Ben From France Ethan Dylan Sarah from Sustainability Eric Light Bill Henry Occupy farms Jay Jordan Karim Ice Faith Hunter Occupy farms Joshua (minutes) Agenda items; Occupy farms ( Hunter & Henry) Sustainability ( Sarah) Communications & online presence ( Eric and Chris) BBQ ( E NY Jordan) F29 [...]

Will – fascilitating Sage – restricted diets Jordan James Rassio Ice Latisha Eric Bless – breakfast coordinator Nichole Devin – minutes Agenda Items * Announcement for Eric * New finance point people * BBQ on Saturday * Tech shadowing kitchen to produce video and identify needs * Handling SIS * Transportation, what’s going on with [...]

Kitchen Meeting 2/27 Will Facilitating Bonnie Ethan Carlton Dennis Flores Bill B Joshua (minutes) Eric Michael Nan Jay Winnie (from sustainability) Sara (from sustainability) Lady Faith Internal Kitchen meeting Agenda’s Dennis re proposal Sunset march GA proposal about only feeding actions Sunset Park (Dennis) Beacon program runs two activities in Sunset Park one is being [...]

  Kitchen meeting Will (Facilitating Joshua (minutes) Jay from Boston helping with Boston obrfm radio group michael from PA part of nic at night Dennis from  sunset park Jen from legal jose from Occupy Sunset park Ethan Ice james Leah from occupy farms Phoebe OTS Carlton Bill Mark from DA   External actions and events [...]

Kitchen meeting minutes February 20, 2012 Monday   Present: Will Sage Gabrielle Bless Vevlyn Karim Chris G Sue Bonnie   Proposals Agenda Chris G & Sue from Food Not Bombs  (201-390-9031 -  cunderscoreg@gmail.com  – desire to combine the Food Not Bombs event on Sunday Feb. 26th with the Occupy Town Square event at Tompkins Square [...]

Curveball proposes we feed Liberty Square Cultural Occupation for the month of March. $775/week for ~100 people $100 misc. expense budget optional $500 for stainless steel food trays Ethan wonders where they’re purchasing meals for 75 cents/person, proposer thinks its an Indian place in the neighborhood but not exactly sure. Concern about the cost from [...]

Karim Dayna Will (facilitator) Joshua (minutes) Bless Max Jordan Bill B Dylan Max II Carlton   Agenda   E ny kitchen Occupy town sq   breakfast budget Receipt spreadsheet     Occupy town Sq.  ( karim & Max)   Logistics…  discussion about delivery, and cooking. Cooking at downtown bk spot.  A need for a vehicle. [...]

Max ( Facilitation) Joshua (minutes) Bill Ethan Leo Raphael Eric Jordan Ice James Bill B Victoria Thomas Donna Leah Tatiana Casper Announcement  NJ Newark just got a eviction notice today.     Agenda items   occupy farms Request for Open spaces meeting Request for food Feb 15,16,17 for the world forum Food for Monsanto rally [...]

Meeting 1: Action and Events   Bonnie Dayna BillBless Bill Ethan James Nate Michael Eco Ice Jay Jason Joshua Johnny   Facilitation – Will Notes – Dayna   Pre-Agenda Proposals from Eco of Occupy Farms:   1. Farm has a greenhouse in the works. Wants input about what seeds to plant so Kitchen can use the [...]

Max Stina Maximus Will Bill Joshua Eric chef Bless     Agendas   Repeating Tabled topic about being a part of the freeze with some exceptions Breakfast/ Max proposal financial person for east Ny appointed Telephone information offsite kitchens receipts     Breakfast by Bless and Ice   Breakfast this week was terrible.  Was late, [...]

Joshua (facilitating) Will (minutes) Ethan Christina Jay Victoria Bill Jordan Eric Thomas Chris O. Leroy Jay   Agenda Transportation support Kitchen request formatting scheduling Direct Action food proposal Kitchen Fund raising Feeding 86th st. Open Spaces Deescalation security proposal’s Record keeping max’s proposal Superfood Distribution. Leticia Will announcement   Open Spaced event by Christina Follow-up [...]

Will ( Facilitating) Stina Thomas Julia Ice Jordan Vevlyn Chris From 86th Eric (chef) Bless Bill B Joshua Julio Dylan Agendas OccupyFarms January 23 meeting at 702 communications group dynamic 86th st, food proposal’s battery reimbursement OccupyFarms and Feed the Movement. Julia was delivering food as a participant of Feed the Movement every week up [...]

Ice Chris B. Eric Arts and culture Chris O. Will (notes) Bless Alexi Dylan Thomas Leah Dan Sage Max (facilitating) Kyle Teddy   Agenda items Farm to kitchen Solidarity proposal ( Thomas) Reusable plates proposal (Thomas) Hot drinks  for actions on 20th and 21st  (Lily) Communications and Actions (Ice) Breakfast ( Bless) Curveball ( Eric [...]

KITCHEN MEETING 1/12   THOMAS (facilitating) ERIC from Arts & culture Eric2light@gmail.com (312-890-2547) CHRIS FAITH ALICIA LEE ROY VEVLYN DAYNA JOSHUA   Announcements   Josh says: Vegan food group, would like to cook a meal, considering affinity status, discussed having a food truck, use truck to serve food at events, easiest way for them to [...]

Thomas Lee roy Jordan Bonnie Alejandro Al Victoria Kyle Chris Joshua (minutes) Ethan Bill Will (facilitating) Max   Agenda Open  space event ( Alejandro) proposals report back Zucotti park (Kyle) Metro cards pt person (chris) Max   Open  space event by Alejandro Alejandro: open space  an event that folks can come and discuss their own [...]

REDUCING BUDGET We spend about $6,000 per week. Finance wants us to have a clear idea of what we are using. We aren’t spending the total $10,500 each week. There isn’t an average available at this time. Need a plan to reduce the budget. Do we take proposals from outside groups to feed people? Josh [...]

POINT OF INFORMATION FROM OWS KITCHEN: As of December 8th, the kitchen received word that we needed to propose a weekly budget to the GA before we could receive more funds. Good news, it passed at the December 10th GA. However, in order to get that budget passed we agreed to the new requirements for [...]

Announcement from Kelly from Accounting: Joshua had trouble reconciling Kitchen’s receipts at the end of the last week because several people didn’t turn in their receipts to him. Accounting cannot continue financing Kitchen’s budget as it exists now. Need a new budget. Proposing that Kitchen set times for 3 meals a day, and a fixed [...]

Eric Will (facilitating) Rafael Joshua (minutes) Katrina Jordan Bonnie Vevlyn Benedict Jason D. Chris O. Ice Agenda items: New Year eve Metrocards Future cooking sites Special dietary needs Money for food/ for security Office needs minutes for security with code people Office access people *Agenda item # 1 Minutes (Redux) for the office affinity group. [...]

Max (facilitating) Bonnie Jason Jordan Bill Sam Joshua Eric Kareem Benedict Ice Faith *Individual Servings (Agenda item #1 Bonnie): Problem with how food was served during X-mas, not being served in individual servings. P Proposal; to serve food individually at 60 Wall and other places. Because it helps with flow, and allows us to go [...]

Joshua facilitating, Will taking minutes. Labor Outreach Committee – Alex Group meets Friday at 6-9pm at 125 Barclay St., ~40 people. Group feels a bit isolated from the rest of the movement, she thinks it would be nice if Kitchen could feed them at those weekly meetings. Jason: It would be easier to meet the [...]