[OccupyNeeds] occupy needs notes for 12.4.11

Ali S alis at occupydc.org
Sun Dec 11 10:00:29 EST 2011


Farhad
temperature on mailing list? I propose that we set it up under the Occupy
Boston domain.

Ppl are ok with this, Farhad is going to go ahead and set it up, going to
start with it moderated.

Can we rotate host responsibilities?

Agreed.

Leah:
Can we get clarification on what our goals are for these groups?

Farhad:
I think this is a place to have discussion about what we say to donors and
supporters
of the occupation movement and larger financial justice sector.

Do we have someone who can step up and host next week's call?

Jay from Occupy Stanford has offered to host next week.

Farhad:
We can move logistical conversations like finding a host/notetakers to the
listserv.

Group: Agreed

Introductions
Farhad, Occupy Boston
Leah, OWS
Jay, Occupy Stanford
Greg, Occupy Boston
Tracy

Jay:  I think it would be helpful to put on the agenda the inter
connectivity of donors and occupations

Leah:  the first instinct of donors have been to try and donate directly to
the occupations.
We've put together a document to collect info on organizations that have
been working on the
ground with the occupations.

Tracy: There was a panel in front of about 60 donors about 3 weeks ago.  I
suggest that they spend a large percentage
on groups they've never heard of.

What do they need now? With an eye to the Tea Party, they had donors dump
millions into national efforts,
I don't think we want to become like them.

Greg:  We brought in 50 - 60 K.  We're getting requests fo things like 2K
for a food pantry. When ppl give,
they are giving towards us because of OWS, so how can we be financial
accountability.

Leah: That is why we're building this map of local organizations.

Ali: I've been trying to build an outline of basic needs that occupations
may have so we can identify those needs,
and then communicate to supportative orgs and donors.

Jay: This is very similar to the system analysis that we have been doing
here.  I think we will see
a half dozen legit fundraising sites.

Tracy: One thing we could do is draw from the committees to get needs from
them.We could also create partnerships,
where we could go to organizations with proposals.  What does the process
look if we defer some of the decision making
process to the cmtes?

There is something called wildcard money that donors that give funds that
can be used however, but that is very rare.

Ali: I really like this idea of polling various occupy cmtes.  Should I put
together a survey?

Tracy: Yes, I think this is a good idea.  It would be great to put it
online, but also make it printable.

Leah: Should we work with occupywishlist.org?

Ali: I think there are other needs besides just material needs that I am
trying to document, which don't really fit with in the
occupywishlist such as services like hosting and porta potties.
Additionally there are issues with MoveOn being behind
the site.

Jay:  I think there are some orgs that have been trying to take the #occupy
brand to further their own agenda.

Forrest Todd from Occupy System Cooperative has joined us.

Leah: Maybe the InterOccupy listservs would be a good place to go with the
survey.

farhad at occupyboston.org

Jay: Agreed, we can send it out to the lists and maybe even add it as an
agenda item to the InterOccupy calls.
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