[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

Deborah Sirotkin Butler amberpaw at gmail.com
Tue Apr 17 14:06:37 EDT 2012


Joshua - I think it is this kind of comment and this kind of perception
which is causing so many to want to quit, when we see ourselves not as a
"power center' but as infrastructure, and serving a community.  Deb
Sirotkin Butler

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Joshua Eaton <jeaton at post.harvard.edu>wrote:

> I'm not sure I appreciate the suggestion that Media has become an "insular
> power center."
>
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Gregory Murphy <gsjmurphy at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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