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

Joseph Ramsey jgramsey at gmail.com
Sat Dec 10 17:04:51 EST 2011


+1 for Ravi's approach here.

-Joe
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Ravi Mishra <ravi at occupyboston.org> wrote:

> 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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