[Ob-media-multi] [Ob-media] [Ob-media-external] IMPORTANT: Cancelling Today's Meeting and an Important Conversation to Come About the Structure of Media WG

Gregory Murphy gsjmurphy at gmail.com
Sat Apr 14 14:49:24 EDT 2012


it's a fascinating study - the insular power centers in OB which
inadvertently and unintentionally develop as we dedicate ourselves to doing
the best job possible, yet often end up replicating the dominant structures
we assembled to oppose - this horizontal democracy stuff sure is
challenging!

GM




On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Deborah Sirotkin Butler <amberpaw at gmail.com
> wrote:

> +1 to cancelimg today's Media meeting.  Maybe a focused GA to facilitate
> the evolution of OB media like the GA that focused on FAWG would be good
> horizontal democracy to best handle those. As for me I have felt honored to
> ne part of the hard working and under appreciated media wg
> Deb amberpaw on droid
> On Apr 14, 2012 12:29 PM, "Dan" <dcheeno at occupyboston.org> wrote:
>
>> Good afternoon Media WG,
>>
>> As many of you may already be aware, several members of Media WG have,
>> over the past few days, discovered that we possess a shared sense of
>> dissatisfaction at the work that we do as a working group.  Furthermore,
>> the Occupy Boston community has, to varying degrees, repeatedly expressed
>> discomfort and frustration with our work; some groups and members of the
>> community, in particular, have indicated that they feel disempowered by the
>> current structures and policies that empower us.
>>
>> Over the past few days, conversations have ranged from: a desire amongst
>> several of us to simply step back; to an idea of creating an unmanaged
>> infrastructure that empowers working groups; to suggestions that Media WG
>> be dissolved in the hopes that the wider Occupy Boston community could find
>> a satisfactory way to manage Media WG's resources and access (and enough of
>> us may want to step back that it would be unfair to leave those who don't
>> want to step back to take on so much).  The point is, though, that many of
>> us feel that we ought to / want to step back or significantly restructure
>> the working group to address the concerns of the working group's members
>> and of the OB community--and that, no matter what, a significant change is
>> coming that will affect you, the working group, and the entire community.
>>
>> The purpose of this email, then, is to inform you (and, we realize, the
>> entire community) that these conversations about things not really working
>> for anyone are happening and to invite you to be a part of them at our next
>> working group meeting.
>>
>> In the meantime, today is a busy day and, because of the dismantling of
>> Camp Charlie and Andy's service, it seems that the most appropriate thing
>> to do at this late hour is to cancel today's meeting.  Temp check?
>>
>> If today's regularly scheduled meeting is cancelled, though, it still
>> seems that conversations about the role of Media WG are in order, and
>> several of us will likely be around at Camp Charlie to have those
>> conversations.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Dan
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