[Street] [Ob-media] Please respond: what to discuss at GA tonight

Ravi Mishra ravi at occupyboston.org
Sat Dec 10 15:31:59 EST 2011


Also working on next to 0 sleep so apologies if this doesn't make sense.

I feel pretty strongly that we need to offer tangible tasks in which to
channel our awesome energy right now. One part of GA could be as simple as

1) Announcements/decompression session

2) 30 minute brainstorm session on tangible next steps (e.g. strategy
summit meeting, town hall, finding official Occupy office space, finding
official Occupy shelter space, etc.)

3) Creating teams/task forces to actually do these things and report back
at the next few GAs. Kinda like we did the first night, where we said ok,
if you want to do X, go to this part of the common, if you want to do Y,
that part, etc.

4) Come back together for more announcements for each group

Focus should be on creating infrastructure to make sure we lose as few
people as possible, given our lack of physical space. Upcoming GAs, fb and
twitter feeds, website, etc. should be constantly promoted.

Again, slightly delirious, so just throwing stuff out there. Could be
completely stupid, please don't judge. :)

--
Ravi



On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Kevin Maley <kevinmaley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Outreach/street will be preparing a few quick action items to be announced
> that can keep the momentum going and reinforce the notion that the raid was
> not an interruption of moving occupy boston forward
>
>  On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Linda Jenkins <lindajenkins177 at yahoo.com
> > wrote:
>
>>  I agree that the single focus of tonight's GA should be our next steps
>> and I suggest we narrow the framing of the issue even further to: Do we
>> want a single site for GA's and possibly other galvanizing actions of the
>> whole community (you can sense my support for this) or not? If yes, can we
>> agree on what concrete features we want such a space to have, for example,
>> indoor and outdoor, just 1 big space or 1 big space with small spaces too
>> for working groups etc, location visible somehow or downtown or in a
>> community of color?
>> If we don't want another centralizing site, do we want a set of smaller
>> sites? For what functions? Working groups or other collections of people?
>> This is a chance to re-vision our movement. I say reach for the stars in
>> the vision (but briefly, so we don't get bogged down there) and then get
>> down to brass tacks: who will do what when, so we can get reports back
>> about how we're doing on meeting our expectations (accountability). My
>> 2cents.
>>
>> I'm pretty exhausted so won't be at the facilitation meeting but look
>> forward to being with you all at 7 in the Commons.
>> Solidarity,
>> Linda
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Dec 10, 2011, at 1:55 PM, Deborah Sirotkin Butler <amberpaw at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> +1 see you all tomorrow. Deb aka AmberPaw
>> On Dec 10, 2011 1:49 PM, "Anna Aizman" < <anna at occupyboston.org>
>> anna at occupyboston.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all, Please send your ideas on what to discuss in GA to *<facilitation at lists.occupyboston.org>
>>> facilitation at lists.occupyboston.org*, so that all facilitators can see
>>> what people are saying!
>>> my 0.02.
>>> -Anna
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Stanley Rosario < <yelnats02 at gmail.com>
>>> yelnats02 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey Brian,
>>>>
>>>> I think that our GA tonight should focus in/ and have just a single
>>>> item:
>>>>
>>>> 1- what is the next step for our movement?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My two cents
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 10, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Brian K < <bdubkwob at gmail.com>
>>>> bdubkwob at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey folks,
>>>>
>>>> The facilitation working group is meeting at 4pm at the Gazebo. They
>>>> are looking for ideas on what should be discussed, so that they can plan an
>>>> appropriate structure for the meeting.
>>>>  Please respond to <anasstassia.baichorova at teachforamerica.org>
>>>> anasstassia.baichorova at teachforamerica.org
>>>> with your ideas.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Brian
>>>>
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