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

Ravi Mishra ravi at occupyboston.org
Sat Dec 10 17:26:03 EST 2011


I'll be at an outreach meeting until ga, but can try to get to the
bandstand 15-20 mins. We could also just do general recruiting for existing
working groups (da, outreach, media, all need volunteers as far as I know).

--
Ravi



On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Joseph Ramsey <jgramsey at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> +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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