[Street] [Facilitation] Saturday's GA in Copley Square?

Daniel Mc danielm at occupyboston.org
Tue Nov 29 09:50:28 EST 2011


+1

Thanks for concise report back Brian. Really happy to hear that people  
are in favor of this.

See all at GA tonight.
-- 
Daniel.
Occupy Boston Outreach Committee
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Quoting Ethan Harrison <ethanharrison4 at gmail.com>:

> +1 sounds fantastic!
> I also strongly support working with other facilitation WGs from OEB  
> and OTH. Due to work I won't be in attendance tonight, my support is  
> with this proposal.
>
> -Ethan
>
> Sent from mobile device
> Please pardon any errors
>
> On Nov 29, 2011, at 12:36 AM, Jorge Alvarez <eghm627 at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> +1!
>>
>> Great idea, Brian!
>>
>>
>> With peace,
>> Jorge
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Nov 29, 2011, at 12:29 AM, Gregory Murphy <gsjmurphy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> David reached out to me about this, earlier today, and I think it  
>>> is a great idea.
>>>
>>> If facilitators consent, we can decide tomorrow who presents the  
>>> proposal, at GA.
>>>
>>>
>>> Brian - what's the latest on OTH joining the march?
>>>
>>> Is anyone from OB puling a permit for this one, or are we occupying Copley?
>>>
>>> Are we using people's mic?  I would advocate that we do so.
>>>
>>> Can we create a GA Facilitation team from all (or many of) the  
>>> groups represented in the day's activities? I would lend a hand to  
>>> help coordinate, if another had is needed.
>>>
>>>
>>> GM
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Brian K <bdubkwob at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hey facilitation and other folks,
>>>
>>> Just wanted to let you know about an exciting idea that came up in  
>>> the Dec 3rd Unity march meeting at 26 West st a few hours ago.
>>>
>>> For those who don't know, This is the ad-hoc working group  
>>> organizing the distributed march which is starting from various  
>>> points and constituencies (BU students, Building trades workers,  
>>> Ocupemos El Barrio, DA folks, Dewey square folks, FSU/teachers,  
>>> etc). Each group is going to march from some point in the city  
>>> towards Copley Square where we will converge together for a large  
>>> Unity rally for the 99%.
>>> There will be people from many different backgrounds and sectors  
>>> of the 99% and it is a unique opportunity to welcome them all into  
>>> the movement, united together.
>>>
>>> The exciting idea was: why not do Saturday's GA in Copley Square?  
>>> We will have lots of energy, lots of people, including new people,  
>>> and we can immediately include them in the democratic process so  
>>> they can participate in shaping the direction of the movement.  
>>> (Also, we need to practice doing GAs in places other than Dewey.  
>>> And in spaces larger than Dewey's GA space.)
>>> Finally, mass support and participation of this kind is exactly  
>>> what we will need to figure out what to do about the impending  
>>> police crackdown, among other burning issues for the growth and  
>>> development of our movement.
>>>
>>> So, I think/hope there will be a proposal at tomorrow's GA about  
>>> moving Saturday's to Copley Square. I cannot be at GA tomorrow  
>>> because I will be at an OEB working group meeting, but my  
>>> formulation of the proposal would be something minimal, simple,  
>>> and easy-to-pass like:
>>>
>>> "In order to welcome the participants of the distributed unity  
>>> march of December 3rd into our movement, Occupy Boston will hold  
>>> its regularly-scheduled General Assembly for that day in Copley  
>>> Square."
>>>
>>> Is someone else willing/able/already planning to bring a proposal  
>>> of this nature to GA tomorrow?
>>>
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
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