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General Assembly: February 26, 2012

February 26th, 2012 · Posted by

Facilitator: Maria R.
Stack keeper: John K.
Note keeper: Andrew S.

Introductions.

Ground rules: Do not interrupt those who are speaking. Assume the good intent of all concerned. Cut each other slack. Participate in the use of a stack system to determine speaking order. Step up your attention to listening or step up your input to the group. Keep a sense of humor. Review of hand signals.

Working group reports:

  • The Occupy Congress Working Group attended a statewide General Assembly in Raleigh yesterday.
  • The Foreclosure Working Group is preparing for its showing of “Let’s Lose Our House,” a film on foreclosures. The film will be shown at Carolina Theatre on 14 March, and the foreclosure group needs assistance planning for and staging the event.
  • The Civil Liberties Working Group attempted to meet at 5:30 Thursday, but only a couple of people were able to meet. The Civil Liberties Working Group may change its meeting time.
  • The Collective-Action/Anti-Oppression Working Group met at 6:30 Friday to discuss tensions that arise in Facebook discussions and environmental aspects of oppressive dynamics.
  • The Art/Communication/Media Working Group met at 1:00 Sunday to discuss making a Foreclosure Working Group press release, designing a Tumblr page, consolidating the Occupy GSO Facebook pages, interacting with local media, updating the website to improve user experience, and planning an event to produce flyers for citywide distribution.
  • The Employment Working Group met at 9:00 Saturday morning to discuss how to assist people in the community who are seeking work can distribute their resumes.

Announcements:

  • Glenwood Coffee and Books has signed on to the We Are Campaign; the organizers of the campaign wish to gain support in organizing a rally to be held 28 April.
  • Glenwood Coffee and Books will host a night of celebration in opposition to NC Proposed Amendment One in mid-March or April; see Mo K. for details.
  • Rapid response email list; see James D. for details.
  • Occupy Charlotte Working Group making preparations for the DNC in September and expanding its horizons; the group is changing its name to “Occupy Solidarity;” see Matt D. and James D. for details.
  • Those interesting in a working group on social currency should meet with Matt D; meetings will be Thursday, 2:00-3:00.
  • Website training to run the OGSO website will be on 3 March at 2:00. Contact Dave R. for details.
  • Three members of OGSO will be participating in the Left Form; if anyone would like to join last minute, contact Michael R. or Cindy before the end of Monday, 27 February.
  • A 28 April conference will be held about rendition flights departing from NC; contact Michael R. for more information.

  • A local photographer asked for a temperature check about participant willingness to be photographed for a social justice blog.
  • A dispute resolution co-op is being organized; the next meeting will be on Saturday, 3 March, at 10:00; see Kate and Paul L. for details.
  • The Collection will play at Glenwood Coffee and Books after our meeting; their performance will be preceded by a pot luck.

Proposals:

  • Solidarity action with Appalachian State University students. Proposal to stand in solidarity with students protesting against sexual violence and administrative neglect of sexual violence on the ASU campus. The protest will be in Boone on 2 March at 1:45. CONSENSUS
  • Press release for the Foreclosure Working Group. The Foreclosure Working Group presented a press release for distribution to local media. CONSENSUS
  • Shifting political discussion from Facebook to the OGSO website. Proposal to move political correspondence and organizing activity (as for working groups and actions) to the OGSO website. TABLED AND REFERRED TO ART/MEDIA/COMMUNICATION GROUP

Discussion points:

  • Administration of the Facebook group and its use as a forum for political discussion and organization DISCUSSED
  • 14 March assistance DISCUSSED
  • OGSO money in Wells-Fargo DISCUSSED SOMEWHAT BUT TRANSFERRED TO TUESDAY’S AGENDA
  • DNC strategy TABLED FOR LACK OF TIME

Next meeting:

  • Facilitator: Mark
  • Stack keeper: Mo
  • Note keeper: Thom

Sunday meeting:

  • Facilitator: Matt
  • Stack keeper: Lynn
  • Note keeper: John K.
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Art/Communications/Media Working Group: February 26, 2012

February 26th, 2012 · Posted by

Facilitator: Dave
Notes: Jim

Foreclosure Working Group press release for March 14 Carolina Theater event

  • Discussed details for promotion of Carolina Theater event.
  • General discussion of media relations and how to be effective in our interactions with external media.

OGSO Tumblr account

  • Christiana will bottom line managing the Tumblr account

Facebook pages & groups

  • There are still some Facebook pages and groups seemingly related to OGSO, but we are unable to locate current admins to give us access.
  • Jim will continue to work on reaching out to current admins of these pages & groups.

Interactions with external media

  • OGSO Media Group can serve as pass-through for external media (TV, newspaper, radio etc.) that want to interview OGSO.
  • Develop guidelines for contacts with media by OGSO members.
  • Have media training teach-in for individuals interested in speaking with media.

Updating website

  • Mo will work on adding a video to the “About” page to get some multimedia content up there that is a little different than standard about pages.
  • Dave will work on collecting information from Working Groups to offer a better information area than the current “Get Involved” page.
  • Dave will add some dropdown tabs under Meeting Notes to make it easier to find notes from specific Working Groups.
  • There will be a website management training session at GC&B on March 2 from 2pm-3:30pm.

Flyering Event

  • Plan flyering event to spread flyers throughout Greensboro
  • Design and print flyers to be ready by March 3.
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Foreclosure Working Group – February 23, 2012

February 23rd, 2012 · Posted by

Facilitator: Marnie
Notes: Bobbi

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Meeting was focused on planning for March 14 event: Save Our Community: Fight Foreclosure!

Logistics

  • We need to find 5 people at GA on Sunday who will dedicate their time to see this event happen. Their commitment only has to last for three weeks
  • Encourage people to take this issue to the other groups they are a part of and to increase excitement/buy-in
  • We need to be reminding people that this event will “turn the tide on organizing around foreclosure in Greensboro” (Marnie, Feb. 23, 2012, personal communication).
  • Kevin and Bobbie will bottomline recruitment of support volunteers
  • One of the goals for the premiere is to connect people to the help that they need
  • Christina and Tom will bottomline the interactive Foreclosure Storycore project
  • Mitch and Cindy are bottomlining/working on the other resources for the 14th
  • Julie is bottomlining work on fraud detection

Kicktstarter

  • Dave is bottomlining getting a link on the front page of the website
  • We need to send the link to as many of our contacts as possible and encourage them to forward it as well

Press Release

  • Nathan has sent us the draft of the first press release. We have until 8:00 AM on Friday to provide any feedback
  • The information on the press releases will increase weekly
  • If you have information to include on a press release, including new relationships with groups (such as possibly the IRC), contact Nathan.

MoveOn support

  • Our trailer has been approved by MoveOn National, but will only be sent out several days beforehand
  • Nathan will try to convince MoveOn that we should be vetting the emails several times before the premiere

IRC March

  • Mitch is bottomlining
  • Todd will recruit more people to help Mitch organize the logistics

    • Flyers

    • Mo will get them translated
    • People are taking the flyers wherever they go
    • Copies will be available at Glenwood Coffee & Books as well as F4DC office. Contact Dave R. for copies
    • People should flyer everywhere and talk to everyone that they can about the event & issue
    • Kevin and Bobbie will bottomline mailing flyers to addresses listed in Foreclosures Notices in the newspaper
    • Nathan is going to contact Huffington Post

    Next week’s meeting: Bobbie is facilitating, Todd is notetaking

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    Energy Working Group: February 22, 2012

    February 22nd, 2012 · Posted by

    Introductions and Collect contact information

    Pick facilitator and note taker. Note taker must email new contact list and meeting minutes to group. Also post minutes on occupygreensboro.org under meeting minutes and create a doc on Facebook Occupy Greensboro Energy Working Group.

    Proposals and Discussion Topics

    • Canvassing: What to do with the information collected and report backs.
      Next Energy meeting we will try and figure out how to process the information we have already gathered. There were many ideas on what the information could be used for. One idea that was discussed would be a radio drama. Create the peoples stories and alter what there story would be in the worst scenario of each energy crisis. Nuclear, coal, natural gas, etc.
    • Report backs for assigned topics
      • Emiley: NCUC, what are they up to?
        No new developments on the NCUC website.
      • Val: Annual Rate Hike Bill and organizations filling against rate hike.
        No information found yet
      • Al: Who worked where and for who in the current and past NCUC.
        The NCUC seems clean, only 2 of the current commissioners used to work for law firms, chairman Finley and commissioner brown-bland. The rest worked for non-profits and so forth. The one conflict that Al found was that the commissioners have to do what they can to keep their seat as a commissioner appointed by the Governors. Also asked about energy books for us to use as resources.
      • Kristen: Connections to other energy groups.
        Greenpeace and there new development with Quit Coal.
      • Julie: Gathered more research on Duke Energy.
        We discussed a power strike but research showed us that the state has in play, a energy company gets paid 70% of the power not used that is not caused due to conservation of energy.

    Other discussions:

    • Class action law suite and what are the possibilities of this as a measure.
    • Plan to sit down with NC Justice and come up with the type of questions that we need answers to.
    • Countrywatch as a tool?
    • What would Duke Energy fear most? – No lobbyists, Energy regulations, Loss of invested interest.
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    General Assembly: February 21, 2012

    February 22nd, 2012 · Posted by

    Note: General Assembly started at 7:10 to give any stragglers from the City Council Meeting who wanted to come a chance to show up.

    Facilitator: Thom
    Stack: Donya
    Notes: John K.

    This was a very intimate group with a couple new faces, so we spent a little time before building the agenda with introductions and a brief word or two on why we were each drawn to OGSO/Occupy.

    Agenda

    Ground Rules

    • Assume good intent of everyone;
      We don’t talk over each other;
      Try not to restate what others have said if you agree with it;
      If someone experiences oppressive language or behavior, please bring it up so we can deal with it then;
      Keeping a sense of humor;
      Step Up/Step Up;
      At this time Hand Signals were gone over in detail

    Working Group Report Backs

    • Civil Liberties WG: Meets Thursdays at 5:30pm at Glenwood Coffee and Books but has experienced low attendance lately. All are welcome to attend, but it might be smart if you live far from Glenwood to call the bookstore before heading in.
    • May Day WG: Plans to meet at 11AM on Saturday at Glenwood Coffee and Books, this will be the first planning meeting for this action. Note: John K. learned post meeting that this event may be moved due to the number of folks who want to be in the WG who are also going to the Statewide GA.

    Announcements

    • Beloved Community Center is hosting a program realitng to the Militarization of the Police from 11am to 1pm on Saturday.
    • The ISO is hosting a program/conversation on LGBT Rights at 7:30pm March 1st in Graham Building on UNCG’s Campus.

    Proposals
    There were no proposals tonight.

    Discussion Topics

    • The protests at the ’68 DNC and lessons from that event that we can draw on as we begin to think about the 2012 DNC.
    • Social Currency/Gift Culture
    • Tuesday Meeting time, what works about it, what doesn’t

    Reflection Time

    FIN

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