NYC General Assembly # Occupy Wall Street

Just a couple of minor points -

Grammar check:

“Occupy Wall Street, in solidarity with the people of the world, offers..”

(In England, “offer” might be OK, but not in the US)

And I believe we […]

To all:
Here’s an update of my attempt to partially merge Rachel’s proposed document with our last consensed version. It is different from my previous similar post in the area of “Justice”, where it uses a […]

I see a patchwork quilt, made by many hands, stitched loosely together…

It won’t win any fashion design awards, but it will keep people just as warm as any designer quilt.

The problem is not with the […]

As Lisa pointed out, we DID reach consensus on a preamble that blends Rachel’s ideas with the rest of the group’s, so I would favor keeping that preamble.

In reading the rest of Rachel’s proposal, a large […]

Sumumba,

Peace!

And thanks! We do need support – and I think we all appreciate getting some respect for the work we’ve done.

But we all know that in this consensus – building environment, anyone is free […]

Michael,

About the reader input box – we could use it to gather ideas for “goals”, too. We can talk about it. It’s just that we’ve heard the criticism before – that more people want a chance to have input […]

Lisa,
That’s great news!

With all of our talk about alternative preambles, let me take this chance to lay out the one big shortcoming I see in our current statement.

We start out fine. Some people don’t […]

To all:
Maybe this would be a good place to post a proposed change to our closing text. This isn’t part of the statement itself – it’s what we say afterward, specifying how it was adopted and where it will be […]

Michael,

I think I’ve heard facilitators say that consensus is not about everyone liking the result – it’s about getting a result that (ideally) everyone can live with.
So if we want consensus, we all […]

If we are going to address healing the wounds of the past, it should be done in the preamble. The body of the statement describes the society we envision for the future – in that society, the work of healing will […]

I’ve kept up with the last few changes. There are several items that members of the group (not just me!) have proposed, but which were not immediately adopted. I think we gave up on them too soon. Here’s my […]

What I’d like to know: who got the idea to stack the barricades on New Year’s Eve? Who were THEY working for?

If we had been in the park having a peaceful, fun New Year’s Eve celebration, and the NYPD shut […]

OK – next round:

I’m trying to come up with a format that we can use to take our proposed changes to the GA, and maybe a set of guidelines we can adopt for deciding what to put before the GA.

I don’t want […]

OK – in response to what I see in the posts above, here’s a new set of proposed edits. I tried to make it easier for people to see what the new version will look like. This isn’t a complete new post – just a […]

Michael,
Thanks for posting! I was going to replace the original proposal with a revised one, but I wouldn’t want to lose the thread.
I made room for your proposed edits in the revision I just posted. Rather […]