GA Minutes Tue August 7 2012

-- Announcements: -- Matt anarchist black cross meeting Wednesday 6 central square contact matt

March on wall street north + act up Protest check out "jobs with justice" facebook page,

Centro Presente is organizing pickets in front of restaurants owned by a parent company "One World Cuisine" that has been involved in exploiting and withholding pay to immigrant workers. Local restaurants include: Diva in Somerville and Bukhara in Jamaica Plain

OBIT has brought a new site online for threaded discussion forums and blogs at: http://voices.occupyboston.org

Talk about s17 e t Facilitation meetings change next month: shorter, like 15 minutes prior to GA Info to help new facilitators will be uploaded to the wiki Joan: Update on MBTA- fairsrike meetings every thursday behind park st T (not gazebo) Friday action locations will no longer be made in advance. International chalkupyday Friday/security culture meeting soon w/BB

Update S17, S30 see last saa August 18 and 19th will be planning meetings for S17 -Will tentatively include puppet making workshops with people from Bread and Puppet OWS S17 will actually take place over 3 days: Sept. 15, 16, and 17 Sept 22 Boston Feminists for Liberation, Saturday leaving from bandstand. -- Three Agenda items: One proposal and two discussion items

Proposal: Requested reimburesment for the political prisoners calendars that were misplaced by OB (and therefore not sell-able) until mid-year. The misplaced calendars were the main fund-raising source for Anarchist Black Cross's prisoner support programs (letter correspondence, bail funds, etc.). Matt money proposal: 250 dollars for above

PASSED

- Discussion topics: - brainstorming connective tissue between different organizing groups note: The proposer of the second topic withdrew it in order to lengthen the discussion on the first topic, which took up the remainder of the GA.
 * 1- Idea show to retool Ob meetings for the long term (in years!) and
 * 2- How do we feel about Ob Occupier newsletter endorsing candidates?

Some things from the discussion:
 * occupy Umass tactics alternative social networks aka twitter
 * Inspiring observations from Miguel, visiting from Spain
 * value in regular social gatherings for outreach and bringing people together

Decided to have a potluck/book swap in Copley Square Saturday, Sept. 8th Details to be worked out online, contact person is Justin: Justin.almeida1@gmail.com

GA ended with friendly information exchange with 3 visitors from OWS, NYC.


 * Next GA will be Sunday, August 12 in Copley