[Ob-media-multi] IMPORTANT: Cancelling Today's Meeting and an Important Conversation to Come About the Structure of Media WG

Dan dcheeno at occupyboston.org
Sat Apr 14 12:29:36 EDT 2012


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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