https://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Matt&feedformat=atomwiki.occupyboston.org - User contributions [en]2024-03-19T03:31:07ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.41.0https://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=Financial_Accountability&diff=14452Financial Accountability2012-05-07T19:40:43Z<p>Matt: Fixed sort order when looking at all WGs page</p>
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<div>This page is the homepage for the Financial Accountability Working Group (FAWG).<br />
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Email list: [mailto:ob-finance@lists.mayfirst.org ob-finance@lists.mayfirst.org] Join the list and view message archives at [https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/ob-finance https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/ob-finance]<br />
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<p style="text-align: center">'''<u>Cash Hotline</u> - 857.417.7872'''</p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><br />
== FAWG Meeting Schedule<br/> ==<br />
<p style="text-align: center">'''FAWG often meets every other Wednesday from 7:00 to 9:00 PM'''</p><p style="text-align: center">'''Next Meeting: Monday, 5/2/2012'''</p><p style="text-align: center">'''7:00 to 9:00 PM'''</p><p style="text-align: center">'''City Place / Transportation Building'''</p><br />
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<p style="text-align: center">'''ATTENTION'''</p><p style="text-align: center">'''FAWG thanks the OB community for its willingness to engage in the 2 hour conversation about OB's realtionship with its $,'''</p><p style="text-align: center">'''at the Tuesday, April 10 2012''' '''General Assembly''', '''at Camp Charlie:'''</p><p style="text-align: center">'''Please see the transcription of the small group discussions:'''</p><p style="text-align: center">[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsQk3Yy-nTUxdHgzbUdCd3U2Z0hrUi1jNV93di1XM3c#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsQk3Yy-nTUxdHgzbUdCd3U2Z0hrUi1jNV93di1XM3c#gid=0]</p><p style="text-align: center">'''Please see the meeting notes, as well:'''</p><p style="text-align: center">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZDSrDgRgj4yptY0nA7glRNPobJJBcq8FONEozoCxEwk/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZDSrDgRgj4yptY0nA7glRNPobJJBcq8FONEozoCxEwk/edit]</p><br />
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<p style="text-align: center"><span style="color:#ff0000">'''NEXT STEPS'''</span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color:#ff0000">'''Community Work Session'''</span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color:#ff0000">'''Sunday, May 6 1:00 to 4:00'''</span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color:#ff0000">'''Hope Church, Jamaica Plain (1 block from Green Street T)'''</span></p><br />
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== FAWG Minutes<br/> ==<br />
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*[[11/14/11]]<br />
*[[11/09/11]]<br />
*[[11/07/11]]<br />
*[[11/3/11]]<br />
*10/26/11<br />
*[[10/24/11]]<br />
*[[10/19/11]]<br />
*10/15/11<br />
*[[10/14/11]]<br />
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== FAWG Budget Presentation ==<br />
<br />
[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/images/0/0f/OB_Finances_9.30.11_to_1.21.12.pdf%7C Download the OB Finances Report from 9/30/11-1/21/12 (PDF)]<br />
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== Current Financial Accountability Working Group Members<br/> ==<br />
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Linda Jenkins, occupylinda @ gmail.com<br />
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Glen Kinnock<br />
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Matthew Krawitz (IT), OB-FAWG AT theherbalcurrent.com&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (Credit Union Account Signer)<br />
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Gregory Murphy, 617-413-6472, gsjmurphy @ gmail.com&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; (Credit Union Account Signer)<br />
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Rita Sebastian<br />
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== Financial Accountability Working Group Consultants<br/> ==<br />
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Daniel Paradis, tax lawyer - occupybostongc@gmail.com, 617.470.5049<br />
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== OccupyBoston Internal Revenue Service and Banking Structure<br/> ==<br />
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For Occupy Boston to open a credit union account to track donations to the general fund, and any resulting OB expenses, OB needed an Employer Identification Number, provided by the IRS. Gregory Murphy obtained an EIN in the name of OccupyBoston. OccupyBoston's IRS address is OccupyBoston P. O. Box 51162, Boston, MA 02205 .<br />
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For the same reason and per credit union requirements, Gregory Murphy obtained a Certificate of Business from the City of Boston. That certificate lists Gregory Murphy dba (doing business as) Occupy Boston Financial Accountability Working Group. This is a temporary measure, simply to get an account open. OB's Financial Accountability Working Group is researching different potential organizational structures for OccupyBoston, and, at some point, will make a recommendation to the GA, in the form of a proposal.<br />
<br />
Also, per a mediated Agreement (signed 11/1/11) with Paul Carnes and Sydney Sherrel, Mr. Carnes signed a Withdrawal of Business Certificate for the dba Occupy Boston, filed in his name. That certificate sits in escrow with mediator David Kelston, awaiting the fulfillment of all the&nbsp; terms of the Agreement.&nbsp; FAWG contends that FAWG, Mr. Carnes and Ms. Sherrell have satisfied the terms of the Agreement and that Mr. Kelston should deliver, to FAWG, the Withdrawal of Business Certificate dba Occupy Boston. Mr. Carnes and Ms. Sherrell contend that FAWG has violated the terms of the Agreement, have secured legal counsel, and are petitioning Mr. Kelston to return the&nbsp; Withdrawal of Business Certificate dba OccupyBoston to them.&nbsp; Mr. Kelston has called for another session (tentatively) set for Monday, 11/14/11, to come to terms with the dispute.<br />
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Once FAWG secures the Withdrawal of Business Certificate dba OccupyBoston, it intends to file the certificate at the City Clerk's office, and then, as soon as possible, secure a new Business Certificate dba OccupyBoston, to hold and protect, in the name of OccupyBoston, and as consented to by OccupyBoston's General Assembly, on 11/3/11.<br />
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On 10/25/11, members of FAWG opened an account at Liberty Bay Credit Union, in the name of Occupy Boston Financial Accountability Working Group, with a total deposit of $15,819.44, which included $5 LBCU gave OB for opening the account. As of 11/10/11, FAWG is in the process of moving funds donated to the WePay General Fund (over $30,000) to LBCU Savings Account. We wil decide, the week of 11/13, whteher to move the WePay Legal Fund (over $11,000) to a second savings account at LBCU, or to a trust, administered by FAWG consulting tax counsel.<br />
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== <span style="font-size:medium">Monthly Credit Union Statements</span><br/> ==<br />
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*[[10/31/11]]<br />
*[[11/30/11]]<br />
*[[12/31/11]]<br />
*[[1/31/12|1/31/12]]<br />
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== <span style="font-size:medium"><br/>Occupy Boston Financial Statements</span><br/> ==<br />
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'''Profit And Loss'''<br />
<br />
*[[10/31/11|October 31, 2011]]<br />
*[[11/30/11|November 30, 2011]]<br />
*[[12/31/11|December 31, 2011]]<br />
*[[FY '12 Q1|FY '12 Q1]]<br />
*[[1/31/12|January 31, 2012]]<br />
*[[2/29/12|February 29, 2012]]<br />
*[[3/31/12|March, 31, 2012]]<br />
*[[FY '12 Q2|FY '12 Q2]]<br />
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'''Balance Sheet'''<br />
<br />
*[[10/31/11 BS|October 31, 2011]]<br />
*[[11/30/11 BS|November 30, 2011]]<br />
*[[12/31/11 BS|December 31, 2011]]<br />
*[[1/31/12 BS|January 31, 2012]]<br />
*[[2/29/12 BS|February 29, 2012]]<br />
*[[3/31/12|March 31, 2012]]<br />
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'''Working Group Expense'''<br />
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*[[10/11 WGE|October '11]]<br />
*[[11/11 WGE|November '11]]<br />
*[[12/11 WGE|December '11]]<br />
*[[1/12 WGE|January '12]]<br />
*[[2/12 WGE|February '12]]<br />
*[[3/31 WGE|March '12]]<br />
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== Links<br/> ==<br />
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*[[FAWG Proposals (Consented)]]<br />
*[[Procedures for Workgroups and Individuals to Obtain Funds]]<br />
*[[FAWG Background Check Procedures]]<br />
*[[Strategic Action Planning]]<br />
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[[Category:Working groups|F]] <br/></div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=Financial_Accountability&diff=14451Financial Accountability2012-05-07T19:40:07Z<p>Matt: removed extraneous markup</p>
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<div>This page is the homepage for the Financial Accountability Working Group (FAWG).<br />
<br />
Email list: [mailto:ob-finance@lists.mayfirst.org ob-finance@lists.mayfirst.org] Join the list and view message archives at [https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/ob-finance https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/ob-finance]<br />
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<p style="text-align: center">'''<u>Cash Hotline</u> - 857.417.7872'''</p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><br />
== FAWG Meeting Schedule<br/> ==<br />
<p style="text-align: center">'''FAWG often meets every other Wednesday from 7:00 to 9:00 PM'''</p><p style="text-align: center">'''Next Meeting: Monday, 5/2/2012'''</p><p style="text-align: center">'''7:00 to 9:00 PM'''</p><p style="text-align: center">'''City Place / Transportation Building'''</p><br />
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<p style="text-align: center">'''ATTENTION'''</p><p style="text-align: center">'''FAWG thanks the OB community for its willingness to engage in the 2 hour conversation about OB's realtionship with its $,'''</p><p style="text-align: center">'''at the Tuesday, April 10 2012''' '''General Assembly''', '''at Camp Charlie:'''</p><p style="text-align: center">'''Please see the transcription of the small group discussions:'''</p><p style="text-align: center">[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsQk3Yy-nTUxdHgzbUdCd3U2Z0hrUi1jNV93di1XM3c#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsQk3Yy-nTUxdHgzbUdCd3U2Z0hrUi1jNV93di1XM3c#gid=0]</p><p style="text-align: center">'''Please see the meeting notes, as well:'''</p><p style="text-align: center">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZDSrDgRgj4yptY0nA7glRNPobJJBcq8FONEozoCxEwk/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZDSrDgRgj4yptY0nA7glRNPobJJBcq8FONEozoCxEwk/edit]</p><br />
<p style="text-align: center"></p><br />
<p style="text-align: center"><span style="color:#ff0000">'''NEXT STEPS'''</span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color:#ff0000">'''Community Work Session'''</span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color:#ff0000">'''Sunday, May 6 1:00 to 4:00'''</span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color:#ff0000">'''Hope Church, Jamaica Plain (1 block from Green Street T)'''</span></p><br />
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== FAWG Minutes<br/> ==<br />
<br />
*[[11/14/11]]<br />
*[[11/09/11]]<br />
*[[11/07/11]]<br />
*[[11/3/11]]<br />
*10/26/11<br />
*[[10/24/11]]<br />
*[[10/19/11]]<br />
*10/15/11<br />
*[[10/14/11]]<br />
<br />
== FAWG Budget Presentation ==<br />
<br />
[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/images/0/0f/OB_Finances_9.30.11_to_1.21.12.pdf%7C Download the OB Finances Report from 9/30/11-1/21/12 (PDF)]<br />
<br />
== Current Financial Accountability Working Group Members<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Linda Jenkins, occupylinda @ gmail.com<br />
<br />
Glen Kinnock<br />
<br />
Matthew Krawitz (IT), OB-FAWG AT theherbalcurrent.com&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (Credit Union Account Signer)<br />
<br />
Gregory Murphy, 617-413-6472, gsjmurphy @ gmail.com&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; (Credit Union Account Signer)<br />
<br />
Rita Sebastian<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Financial Accountability Working Group Consultants<br/> ==<br />
<br />
Daniel Paradis, tax lawyer - occupybostongc@gmail.com, 617.470.5049<br />
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<br />
== OccupyBoston Internal Revenue Service and Banking Structure<br/> ==<br />
<br />
For Occupy Boston to open a credit union account to track donations to the general fund, and any resulting OB expenses, OB needed an Employer Identification Number, provided by the IRS. Gregory Murphy obtained an EIN in the name of OccupyBoston. OccupyBoston's IRS address is OccupyBoston P. O. Box 51162, Boston, MA 02205 .<br />
<br />
For the same reason and per credit union requirements, Gregory Murphy obtained a Certificate of Business from the City of Boston. That certificate lists Gregory Murphy dba (doing business as) Occupy Boston Financial Accountability Working Group. This is a temporary measure, simply to get an account open. OB's Financial Accountability Working Group is researching different potential organizational structures for OccupyBoston, and, at some point, will make a recommendation to the GA, in the form of a proposal.<br />
<br />
Also, per a mediated Agreement (signed 11/1/11) with Paul Carnes and Sydney Sherrel, Mr. Carnes signed a Withdrawal of Business Certificate for the dba Occupy Boston, filed in his name. That certificate sits in escrow with mediator David Kelston, awaiting the fulfillment of all the&nbsp; terms of the Agreement.&nbsp; FAWG contends that FAWG, Mr. Carnes and Ms. Sherrell have satisfied the terms of the Agreement and that Mr. Kelston should deliver, to FAWG, the Withdrawal of Business Certificate dba Occupy Boston. Mr. Carnes and Ms. Sherrell contend that FAWG has violated the terms of the Agreement, have secured legal counsel, and are petitioning Mr. Kelston to return the&nbsp; Withdrawal of Business Certificate dba OccupyBoston to them.&nbsp; Mr. Kelston has called for another session (tentatively) set for Monday, 11/14/11, to come to terms with the dispute.<br />
<br />
Once FAWG secures the Withdrawal of Business Certificate dba OccupyBoston, it intends to file the certificate at the City Clerk's office, and then, as soon as possible, secure a new Business Certificate dba OccupyBoston, to hold and protect, in the name of OccupyBoston, and as consented to by OccupyBoston's General Assembly, on 11/3/11.<br />
<br />
On 10/25/11, members of FAWG opened an account at Liberty Bay Credit Union, in the name of Occupy Boston Financial Accountability Working Group, with a total deposit of $15,819.44, which included $5 LBCU gave OB for opening the account. As of 11/10/11, FAWG is in the process of moving funds donated to the WePay General Fund (over $30,000) to LBCU Savings Account. We wil decide, the week of 11/13, whteher to move the WePay Legal Fund (over $11,000) to a second savings account at LBCU, or to a trust, administered by FAWG consulting tax counsel.<br />
<br />
----<br />
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== <span style="font-size:medium">Monthly Credit Union Statements</span><br/> ==<br />
<br />
*[[10/31/11]]<br />
*[[11/30/11]]<br />
*[[12/31/11]]<br />
*[[1/31/12|1/31/12]]<br />
<br />
== <span style="font-size:medium"><br/>Occupy Boston Financial Statements</span><br/> ==<br />
<br />
'''Profit And Loss'''<br />
<br />
*[[10/31/11|October 31, 2011]]<br />
*[[11/30/11|November 30, 2011]]<br />
*[[12/31/11|December 31, 2011]]<br />
*[[FY '12 Q1|FY '12 Q1]]<br />
*[[1/31/12|January 31, 2012]]<br />
*[[2/29/12|February 29, 2012]]<br />
*[[3/31/12|March, 31, 2012]]<br />
*[[FY '12 Q2|FY '12 Q2]]<br />
<br />
'''Balance Sheet'''<br />
<br />
*[[10/31/11 BS|October 31, 2011]]<br />
*[[11/30/11 BS|November 30, 2011]]<br />
*[[12/31/11 BS|December 31, 2011]]<br />
*[[1/31/12 BS|January 31, 2012]]<br />
*[[2/29/12 BS|February 29, 2012]]<br />
*[[3/31/12|March 31, 2012]]<br />
<br />
'''Working Group Expense'''<br />
<br />
*[[10/11 WGE|October '11]]<br />
*[[11/11 WGE|November '11]]<br />
*[[12/11 WGE|December '11]]<br />
*[[1/12 WGE|January '12]]<br />
*[[2/12 WGE|February '12]]<br />
*[[3/31 WGE|March '12]]<br />
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== Links<br/> ==<br />
<br />
*[[FAWG Proposals (Consented)]]<br />
*[[Procedures for Workgroups and Individuals to Obtain Funds]]<br />
*[[FAWG Background Check Procedures]]<br />
*[[Strategic Action Planning]]<br />
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[[Category:Working groups|Working_groups]] <br/></div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=Creating_a_occupyboston.org_Development_Environment&diff=14071Creating a occupyboston.org Development Environment2012-04-19T20:18:40Z<p>Matt: /* Obtaining the Source */</p>
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<div>= Creating a occupyboston.org development environment = <br />
= Work in Progress - Not Yet Complete =<br />
== Obtaining the Source ==<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
mkdir occupyboston.org<br />
cd occupyboston.org<br />
git init<br />
git remote add origin occubos@boggs.mayfirst.org:/home/members/occupyboston/sites/occupyboston.org/users/occubos/occupyboston.org/include/site_hub<br />
git fetch origin<br />
git merge origin/master<br />
</pre><br />
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The "occupyboston.org" directory will be your document root.<br />
<br />
== Setup a Virtual Host ==<br />
<br />
Add an IP/hostname mapping to your hosts file (e.g., /etc/hosts). For example:<br />
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127.0.0.1 occupyboston.local<br />
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Add a virtualhost to your web server. For example:<br />
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<VirtualHost localhost:80><br />
ServerName occupyboston.local<br />
DocumentRoot /PATH/TO/occupyboston.org/<br />
</VirtualHost><br />
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== Create a Database ==<br />
<br />
Run<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
$ mysql -uUSERNAME -p<br />
mysql> create database occubos_wp;<br />
mysql> exit<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
== Configuration Setup ==<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
cd occupyboston.org # this is the document root<br />
mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
<br />
=== Configuration Changes ===<br />
Edit the wp-config.php file; focus on the below lines.<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
define('DB_NAME', 'database_name_here');<br />
<br />
/** MySQL database username */<br />
define('DB_USER', 'username_here');<br />
<br />
/** MySQL database password */<br />
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here');<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
Modify 'database_name_here', 'username_here', 'password_here' to the correct values above.<br />
<br />
== Additional Setup for Plugins ==<br />
<br />
We enable several MediaWiki plugins, and some of these plugins require<br />
additional database tables. To install the additional database<br />
tables:<br />
<br />
cd mediawiki<br />
php maintenance/update.php<br />
<br />
At this point, you should be able to create and edit pages in your development environment.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Miscellaneous Notes ==<br />
<br />
If you'd like to look at boggs server configuration for<br />
wiki.occupyboston.org, you'll find it in<br />
<tt>~obwiki/wiki.occupyboston.org/.red/apache2</tt>.<br />
<br />
The live document root is<br />
<tt>~obwiki/wiki.occupyboston.org/web/mediawiki/</tt>. Note that this<br />
is a checked out copy of git repository.</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tactical&diff=13003Tactical2012-03-09T17:52:42Z<p>Matt: </p>
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<div>[[Tactical/Self Education List|Self Education List]]<br />
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No meetings are currently scheduled<br />
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follow us on Twitter [http://www.Twitter.com/obtactical @OBTactical]<br />
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'''The Tactical Task Force Proposal (passed Jan 28, 2012)'''<br />
<br />
''Or... Tactical Super Working Task Cluster Force Group X-treme (temporary) Dictator Spokes''<br />
<br />
We propose, as a working group, to begin open and announced meetings to discuss our next actions in anticipation of the American Spring. The Tactical... is a super working group made up of the Direct Action WG, Logistics WG and Signs WG.<br />
<br />
We propose that $14,000 of the general fund be earmarked for Occupy Boston's future occupation. None of this amount can be disbursed until March 1, with the consent of the GA.<br />
<br />
Setting aside $14,000 will give Tactical a budget to work from. It will allow us to plan properly for supplies needed and know that the funds exist when the time comes. It will be an investment in the future of Occupy Boston.<br />
<br />
The Tactical... will set up a WePay account as soon as possible in order to raise funds.<br />
<br />
Any money that comes into the WePay account can be spent autonomously by The Tactical Task Force.<br />
<br />
If more than $14,000 is raised by the autonomous WePay account, the earmarked funds will then be released back into the open General Fund. The Tactical... will work closely with FAWG to provide receipts for accountability and transparency while maintaining good security culture.<br />
<br />
The goal is to camp in a legal camping area.<br />
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[[Category:Working groups]] <br/></div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=WG/OBIT/External&diff=11165WG/OBIT/External2012-02-10T16:34:00Z<p>Matt: </p>
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<div>Page for those involved with supporting outward facing technologies such as web applications, wikis, irc etc.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
=Project Proposals= <br />
* Buy pre-paid phones on lanyards for working groups<br />
==Drafts== <br />
* [[Improved Online Collaboration for Long Term Sustainability of The Conversation]]<br />
* [[An Online Collaboration Prototype]]<br />
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''Based on: [http://occupyboston.wikispaces.com/External+Technology+Support External Technology Support at wikispaces]''<br />
<br />
Contact: obit@occupyboston.org</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=GA/Minutes/Guidelines&diff=10730GA/Minutes/Guidelines2012-02-02T21:44:51Z<p>Matt: /* New Minutes Form */</p>
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<div>= Intro =<br />
There are many ways to take minutes at the General Assembly. Some people prefer to type them up using a note taking application, some prefer to put them directly into a Google Document. <br />
<br />
Our ultimate goal '''must''' be to have minutes contained directly within the wiki itself. This ensures that minutes will be backed up, that there will be a log of who made edits, and allows us to have just one place to search.<br />
<br />
For each set of minutes that you are ready to put in the wiki, fill in the form below and click the "Create Page" button. Be sure to fill in the information with @@s on the resulting page, and then cut and paste your minutes directly into the last section of your new page and hit save.<br />
<br />
<br />
For an example of how a Minutes page looks review the [[GA/Minutes|GA Minutes page]]<br />
<br />
= New Minutes Form =<br />
Replace each of the following words before creating the page:<br />
<br />
Date: The numeric day of the month, e.g. 22<br />
<br />
Month: Abbreviated name of the month, e.g. Nov<br />
<br />
Year: 4 digit year, e.g. 2012<br />
<br />
<inputbox><br />
type=create<br />
default=GA_Minutes_Day_Month_Date_Year<br />
preload=GA_Minutes_template<br />
</inputbox><br />
<br />
= Advanced =<br />
<br />
Sometimes people put minutes into a format that doesn't easily fit within the wiki. This should be discouraged, but if they already exist and cannot be converted to wiki, please follow these instructions:<br />
<br />
#Please save the minutes as a plain text file (.txt format) on your computer.<br />
#To upload the document, follow these instructions:<br />
#Click Upload File in the bar on the left<br />
#Select the file to upload and fill in the form including '''destination filename'''<br />
##The naming convention is: "GA", underscore, the first three letters of the month, underscore, a two digit number for the day, underscore, a four digit number for the year, underscore, and then "AM" or "PM". (i.e. GA_Oct_09_2011_PM.txt)<br />
#Navigate to the page you wish to place the file on.<br />
#Click Edit on the page<br />
#Add the latest minutes to the top of the list using the Embedded File tool at the top of the editor text box.<br />
#Edit the file name on the inserted link to match the name entered as the '''destination filename''' during upload.<br />
#Click Save Page at the bottom of the screen.<br />
#Thank you!</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=GA/Minutes/Guidelines&diff=10729GA/Minutes/Guidelines2012-02-02T21:44:09Z<p>Matt: /* New Minutes Form */</p>
<hr />
<div>= Intro =<br />
There are many ways to take minutes at the General Assembly. Some people prefer to type them up using a note taking application, some prefer to put them directly into a Google Document. <br />
<br />
Our ultimate goal '''must''' be to have minutes contained directly within the wiki itself. This ensures that minutes will be backed up, that there will be a log of who made edits, and allows us to have just one place to search.<br />
<br />
For each set of minutes that you are ready to put in the wiki, fill in the form below and click the "Create Page" button. Be sure to fill in the information with @@s on the resulting page, and then cut and paste your minutes directly into the last section of your new page and hit save.<br />
<br />
<br />
For an example of how a Minutes page looks review the [[GA/Minutes|GA Minutes page]]<br />
<br />
= New Minutes Form =<br />
Replace each item that is prefixed with an @@:<br />
@@Date: The numeric day of the month, e.g. 22<br />
@@Month: Abbreviated name of the month, e.g. Nov<br />
@@Year: 4 digit year, e.g. 2012<br />
<br />
<inputbox><br />
type=create<br />
default=GA_Minutes_Day_Month_Date_Year<br />
preload=GA_Minutes_template<br />
</inputbox><br />
<br />
= Advanced =<br />
<br />
Sometimes people put minutes into a format that doesn't easily fit within the wiki. This should be discouraged, but if they already exist and cannot be converted to wiki, please follow these instructions:<br />
<br />
#Please save the minutes as a plain text file (.txt format) on your computer.<br />
#To upload the document, follow these instructions:<br />
#Click Upload File in the bar on the left<br />
#Select the file to upload and fill in the form including '''destination filename'''<br />
##The naming convention is: "GA", underscore, the first three letters of the month, underscore, a two digit number for the day, underscore, a four digit number for the year, underscore, and then "AM" or "PM". (i.e. GA_Oct_09_2011_PM.txt)<br />
#Navigate to the page you wish to place the file on.<br />
#Click Edit on the page<br />
#Add the latest minutes to the top of the list using the Embedded File tool at the top of the editor text box.<br />
#Edit the file name on the inserted link to match the name entered as the '''destination filename''' during upload.<br />
#Click Save Page at the bottom of the screen.<br />
#Thank you!</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=GA/Minutes/Guidelines&diff=10728GA/Minutes/Guidelines2012-02-02T21:43:47Z<p>Matt: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Intro =<br />
There are many ways to take minutes at the General Assembly. Some people prefer to type them up using a note taking application, some prefer to put them directly into a Google Document. <br />
<br />
Our ultimate goal '''must''' be to have minutes contained directly within the wiki itself. This ensures that minutes will be backed up, that there will be a log of who made edits, and allows us to have just one place to search.<br />
<br />
For each set of minutes that you are ready to put in the wiki, fill in the form below and click the "Create Page" button. Be sure to fill in the information with @@s on the resulting page, and then cut and paste your minutes directly into the last section of your new page and hit save.<br />
<br />
<br />
For an example of how a Minutes page looks review the [[GA/Minutes|GA Minutes page]]<br />
<br />
= New Minutes Form =<br />
Replace each item that is prefixed with an @@:<br />
@@Date: The numeric day of the month, e.g. 22<br />
@@Month: Abbreviated name of the month, e.g. Nov<br />
@@Year: 4 digit year, e.g. 2012<br />
<br />
<inputbox>type=create default=GA_Minutes_Day_Month_Date_Year preload=GA_Minutes_template</inputbox><br />
<br />
= Advanced =<br />
<br />
Sometimes people put minutes into a format that doesn't easily fit within the wiki. This should be discouraged, but if they already exist and cannot be converted to wiki, please follow these instructions:<br />
<br />
#Please save the minutes as a plain text file (.txt format) on your computer.<br />
#To upload the document, follow these instructions:<br />
#Click Upload File in the bar on the left<br />
#Select the file to upload and fill in the form including '''destination filename'''<br />
##The naming convention is: "GA", underscore, the first three letters of the month, underscore, a two digit number for the day, underscore, a four digit number for the year, underscore, and then "AM" or "PM". (i.e. GA_Oct_09_2011_PM.txt)<br />
#Navigate to the page you wish to place the file on.<br />
#Click Edit on the page<br />
#Add the latest minutes to the top of the list using the Embedded File tool at the top of the editor text box.<br />
#Edit the file name on the inserted link to match the name entered as the '''destination filename''' during upload.<br />
#Click Save Page at the bottom of the screen.<br />
#Thank you!</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=GA/Minutes/Guidelines&diff=10727GA/Minutes/Guidelines2012-02-02T21:41:37Z<p>Matt: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Intro =<br />
There are many ways to take minutes at the General Assembly. Some people prefer to type them up using a note taking application, some prefer to put them directly into a Google Document. <br />
<br />
Our ultimate goal '''must''' be to have minutes contained directly within the wiki itself. This ensures that minutes will be backed up, that there will be a log of who made edits, and allows us to have just one place to search.<br />
<br />
For each set of minutes that you are ready to put in the wiki, fill in the form below and click the "Create Page" button. Be sure to fill in the information with @@s on the resulting page, and then cut and paste your minutes directly into the last section of your new page and hit save.<br />
<br />
<br />
= Instructions for Formatting Minutes Pages =<br />
<br />
For an example of how a Minutes page looks review the [[GA/Minutes|GA Minutes page]]<br />
<div align="center" style="background-color:transparent"><form name="createbox" class="createbox" action="/index.php" method="get"><input type="hidden" name="action" value="edit"></input><input type="hidden" name="preload" value="GA_Minutes_template"></input><input type="hidden" name="editintro" value=""></input><input type="hidden" name="summary" value=""></input><input type="hidden" name="nosummary" value=""></input><input type="hidden" name="prefix" value=""></input><input type="hidden" name="minor" value=""></input><input type="text" name="title" class="createboxInput" value="GA_Minutes_Day_Month_Date_Year" size="50"><br/><input type="submit" name="create" class="createboxButton" value="Create page"></input></input></form></div><br />
<br />
<br />
= New Page Form =<br />
Replace each item that is prefixed with an @@:<br />
@@Date: The numeric day of the month, e.g. 22<br />
@@Month: Abbreviated name of the month, e.g. Nov<br />
@@Year: 4 digit year, e.g. 2012<br />
<br />
<br />
= Advanced =<br />
<br />
Sometimes people put minutes into a format that doesn't easily fit within the wiki. This should be discouraged, but if they already exist and cannot be converted to wiki, please follow these instructions:<br />
<br />
#Please save the minutes as a plain text file (.txt format) on your computer.<br />
#To upload the document, follow these instructions:<br />
#Click Upload File in the bar on the left<br />
#Select the file to upload and fill in the form including '''destination filename'''<br />
##The naming convention is: "GA", underscore, the first three letters of the month, underscore, a two digit number for the day, underscore, a four digit number for the year, underscore, and then "AM" or "PM". (i.e. GA_Oct_09_2011_PM.txt)<br />
#Navigate to the page you wish to place the file on.<br />
#Click Edit on the page<br />
#Add the latest minutes to the top of the list using the Embedded File tool at the top of the editor text box.<br />
#Edit the file name on the inserted link to match the name entered as the '''destination filename''' during upload.<br />
#Click Save Page at the bottom of the screen.<br />
#Thank you!</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=GA/Minutes/Guidelines&diff=10726GA/Minutes/Guidelines2012-02-02T21:40:45Z<p>Matt: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Intro =<br />
There are many ways to take minutes at the General Assembly. Some people prefer to type them up using a note taking application, some prefer to put them directly into a Google Document. <br />
<br />
Our ultimate goal '''must''' be to have minutes contained directly within the wiki itself. This ensures that minutes will be backed up, that there will be a log of who made edits, and allows us to have just one place to search.<br />
<br />
For each set of minutes that you are ready to put in the wiki, fill in the form below and click the "Create Page" button. Be sure to fill in the information with @@s on the resulting page, and then cut and paste your minutes directly into the last section of your new page and hit save.<br />
<br />
<br />
= Instructions for Formatting Minutes Pages =<br />
<br />
For an example of how a Minutes page looks review the [[GA/Minutes|GA Minutes page]]<br />
<div align="center" style="background-color:transparent"><form name="createbox" class="createbox" action="/index.php" method="get"><input type="hidden" name="action" value="edit"></input><input type="hidden" name="preload" value="GA_Minutes_template"></input><input type="hidden" name="editintro" value=""></input><input type="hidden" name="summary" value=""></input><input type="hidden" name="nosummary" value=""></input><input type="hidden" name="prefix" value=""></input><input type="hidden" name="minor" value=""></input><input type="text" name="title" class="createboxInput" value="GA_Minutes_Day_Month_Date_Year" size="50"><br/><input type="submit" name="create" class="createboxButton" value="Create page"></input></input></form></div><br />
<br />
<br />
= Advanced =<br />
<br />
Sometimes people put minutes into a format that doesn't easily fit within the wiki. This should be discouraged, but if they already exist and cannot be converted to wiki, please follow these instructions:<br />
<br />
#Please save the minutes as a plain text file (.txt format) on your computer.<br />
#To upload the document, follow these instructions:<br />
#Click Upload File in the bar on the left<br />
#Select the file to upload and fill in the form including '''destination filename'''<br />
##The naming convention is: "GA", underscore, the first three letters of the month, underscore, a two digit number for the day, underscore, a four digit number for the year, underscore, and then "AM" or "PM". (i.e. GA_Oct_09_2011_PM.txt)<br />
#Navigate to the page you wish to place the file on.<br />
#Click Edit on the page<br />
#Add the latest minutes to the top of the list using the Embedded File tool at the top of the editor text box.<br />
#Edit the file name on the inserted link to match the name entered as the '''destination filename''' during upload.<br />
#Click Save Page at the bottom of the screen.<br />
#Thank you!</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=GA/Minutes/Guidelines&diff=10725GA/Minutes/Guidelines2012-02-02T21:35:08Z<p>Matt: /* Creating wiki pages for minutes = */</p>
<hr />
<div># Please save the minutes as a plain text file (.txt format) on your computer.<br />
# To upload the document, follow these instructions:<br />
#Click Upload File in the bar on the left<br />
#Select the file to upload and fill in the form including '''destination filename'''<br />
## The naming convention is: "GA", underscore, the first three letters of the month, underscore, a two digit number for the day, underscore, a four digit number for the year, underscore, and then "AM" or "PM". (i.e. GA_Oct_09_2011_PM.txt)<br />
#Navigate to the page you wish to place the file on. <br />
#Click Edit on the page<br />
#Add the latest minutes to the top of the list using the Embedded File tool at the top of the editor text box.<br />
#Edit the file name on the inserted link to match the name entered as the '''destination filename''' during upload.<br />
#Click Save Page at the bottom of the screen.<br />
#Thank you!<br />
<br />
=Instructions for Formatting Minutes Pages=<br />
[task: write steps so other editors can easily recreate standard format for Mins pages]<br />
<br />
For an example of how a Minutes page looks review the [[GA/Minutes|GA Minutes page]]<br />
<br />
=Creating wiki pages for minutes ==<br />
Please fill in the text box below. Replace each item that is prefixed with an @@:<br />
<br />
@@Date: The numeric day of the month, e.g. 22<br />
<br />
@@Month: Abbreviated name of the month, e.g. Nov<br />
<br />
@@Year: 4 digit year, e.g. 2012<br />
<br />
When you click 'Create Page' a page will be auto generated, it contains further instructions within. Be sure to hit 'Save page' before leaving the page!<br />
<inputbox><br />
type=create<br />
default=GA_Minutes_@@Month_@@Date_@@Year<br />
preload=GA_Minutes_template<br />
</inputbox></div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=GA/Minutes/Guidelines&diff=10724GA/Minutes/Guidelines2012-02-02T21:34:09Z<p>Matt: /* Instructions for Formatting Minutes Pages */</p>
<hr />
<div># Please save the minutes as a plain text file (.txt format) on your computer.<br />
# To upload the document, follow these instructions:<br />
#Click Upload File in the bar on the left<br />
#Select the file to upload and fill in the form including '''destination filename'''<br />
## The naming convention is: "GA", underscore, the first three letters of the month, underscore, a two digit number for the day, underscore, a four digit number for the year, underscore, and then "AM" or "PM". (i.e. GA_Oct_09_2011_PM.txt)<br />
#Navigate to the page you wish to place the file on. <br />
#Click Edit on the page<br />
#Add the latest minutes to the top of the list using the Embedded File tool at the top of the editor text box.<br />
#Edit the file name on the inserted link to match the name entered as the '''destination filename''' during upload.<br />
#Click Save Page at the bottom of the screen.<br />
#Thank you!<br />
<br />
=Instructions for Formatting Minutes Pages=<br />
[task: write steps so other editors can easily recreate standard format for Mins pages]<br />
<br />
For an example of how a Minutes page looks review the [[GA/Minutes|GA Minutes page]]<br />
<br />
=Creating wiki pages for minutes ==<br />
Please fill in the text box below. Replace each item that is prefixed with an @@:<br />
<br />
@@Date: The numeric day of the month, e.g. 22<br />
@@Month: Abbreviated name of the month, e.g. Nov<br />
@@Year: 4 digit year, e.g. 2012<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<inputbox><br />
type=create<br />
default=GA_Minutes_@@Month_@@Date_@@Year<br />
preload=GA_Minutes_template<br />
</inputbox></div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=GA_Minutes_template&diff=10718GA Minutes template2012-02-02T21:28:13Z<p>Matt: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Minutes for @@day @@month @@year =<br />
== Details ==<br />
Location @@location@@<br />
Time: @@time of meeting include end time@@<br />
Note taker: @@yourname@@<br />
<br />
== Summary ==<br />
@@a brief summary, perhaps mention proposals that were discussed, how the votes went, etc @@<br />
<br />
==Minutes ==<br />
@@ detailed minutes@@<br />
<br />
[[Category:GA Minutes]]</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=GA_Minutes_template&diff=10717GA Minutes template2012-02-02T21:27:08Z<p>Matt: Created page with "= Minutes for @@day @@month @@year = == Details == Location @@location@@ Time: @@time of meeting include end time@@ Note taker: @@yourname@@ == Summary == @@a brief summary, per..."</p>
<hr />
<div>= Minutes for @@day @@month @@year =<br />
== Details ==<br />
Location @@location@@<br />
Time: @@time of meeting include end time@@<br />
Note taker: @@yourname@@<br />
<br />
== Summary ==<br />
@@a brief summary, perhaps mention proposals that were discussed, how the votes went, etc @@<br />
<br />
==Minutes ==<br />
@@ detailed minutes@@</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=GA/Minutes/Guidelines&diff=10716GA/Minutes/Guidelines2012-02-02T21:24:16Z<p>Matt: </p>
<hr />
<div># Please save the minutes as a plain text file (.txt format) on your computer.<br />
# To upload the document, follow these instructions:<br />
#Click Upload File in the bar on the left<br />
#Select the file to upload and fill in the form including '''destination filename'''<br />
## The naming convention is: "GA", underscore, the first three letters of the month, underscore, a two digit number for the day, underscore, a four digit number for the year, underscore, and then "AM" or "PM". (i.e. GA_Oct_09_2011_PM.txt)<br />
#Navigate to the page you wish to place the file on. <br />
#Click Edit on the page<br />
#Add the latest minutes to the top of the list using the Embedded File tool at the top of the editor text box.<br />
#Edit the file name on the inserted link to match the name entered as the '''destination filename''' during upload.<br />
#Click Save Page at the bottom of the screen.<br />
#Thank you!<br />
<br />
=Instructions for Formatting Minutes Pages=<br />
[task: write steps so other editors can easily recreate standard format for Mins pages]<br />
<br />
For an example of how a Minutes page looks review the [[GA/Minutes|GA Minutes page]]<br />
<inputbox><br />
type=create<br />
default=GA_Minutes_Day_Month_Date_Year<br />
preload=GA_Minutes_template<br />
</inputbox></div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=GA/Minutes/Guidelines&diff=10715GA/Minutes/Guidelines2012-02-02T21:23:37Z<p>Matt: </p>
<hr />
<div># Please save the minutes as a plain text file (.txt format) on your computer.<br />
# To upload the document, follow these instructions:<br />
#Click Upload File in the bar on the left<br />
#Select the file to upload and fill in the form including '''destination filename'''<br />
## The naming convention is: "GA", underscore, the first three letters of the month, underscore, a two digit number for the day, underscore, a four digit number for the year, underscore, and then "AM" or "PM". (i.e. GA_Oct_09_2011_PM.txt)<br />
#Navigate to the page you wish to place the file on. <br />
#Click Edit on the page<br />
#Add the latest minutes to the top of the list using the Embedded File tool at the top of the editor text box.<br />
#Edit the file name on the inserted link to match the name entered as the '''destination filename''' during upload.<br />
#Click Save Page at the bottom of the screen.<br />
#Thank you!<br />
<br />
=Instructions for Formatting Minutes Pages=<br />
[task: write steps so other editors can easily recreate standard format for Mins pages]<br />
<br />
For an example of how a Minutes page looks review the [[GA/Minutes|GA Minutes page]]<br />
<inputbox><br />
type=create<br />
default=GA_Minutes_Day_Month_Date_Year<br />
preload=GA_Minutes_empty<br />
</inputbox></div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=GA/Minutes/Guidelines&diff=10708GA/Minutes/Guidelines2012-02-02T21:22:20Z<p>Matt: </p>
<hr />
<div># Please save the minutes as a plain text file (.txt format) on your computer.<br />
# To upload the document, follow these instructions:<br />
#Click Upload File in the bar on the left<br />
#Select the file to upload and fill in the form including '''destination filename'''<br />
## The naming convention is: "GA", underscore, the first three letters of the month, underscore, a two digit number for the day, underscore, a four digit number for the year, underscore, and then "AM" or "PM". (i.e. GA_Oct_09_2011_PM.txt)<br />
#Navigate to the page you wish to place the file on. <br />
#Click Edit on the page<br />
#Add the latest minutes to the top of the list using the Embedded File tool at the top of the editor text box.<br />
#Edit the file name on the inserted link to match the name entered as the '''destination filename''' during upload.<br />
#Click Save Page at the bottom of the screen.<br />
#Thank you!<br />
<br />
=Instructions for Formatting Minutes Pages=<br />
[task: write steps so other editors can easily recreate standard format for Mins pages]<br />
<br />
For an example of how a Minutes page looks review the [[GA/Minutes|GA Minutes page]]<br />
<inputbox><br />
type=create<br />
default=GA_Minutes_Day_Month_Date_Year<br />
</inputbox></div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=GA/Minutes/Guidelines&diff=10707GA/Minutes/Guidelines2012-02-02T21:22:07Z<p>Matt: </p>
<hr />
<div># Please save the minutes as a plain text file (.txt format) on your computer.<br />
# To upload the document, follow these instructions:<br />
#Click Upload File in the bar on the left<br />
#Select the file to upload and fill in the form including '''destination filename'''<br />
## The naming convention is: "GA", underscore, the first three letters of the month, underscore, a two digit number for the day, underscore, a four digit number for the year, underscore, and then "AM" or "PM". (i.e. GA_Oct_09_2011_PM.txt)<br />
#Navigate to the page you wish to place the file on. <br />
#Click Edit on the page<br />
#Add the latest minutes to the top of the list using the Embedded File tool at the top of the editor text box.<br />
#Edit the file name on the inserted link to match the name entered as the '''destination filename''' during upload.<br />
#Click Save Page at the bottom of the screen.<br />
#Thank you!<br />
<br />
=Instructions for Formatting Minutes Pages=<br />
[task: write steps so other editors can easily recreate standard format for Mins pages]<br />
<br />
For an example of how a Minutes page looks review the [[GA/Minutes|GA Minutes page]]<br />
<inputbox><br />
type=create<br />
width=24<br />
default=GA_Minutes_Day_Month_Date_Year<br />
</inputbox></div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=WG/radio/Mac_Broadcasting&diff=10483WG/radio/Mac Broadcasting2012-01-27T23:08:15Z<p>Matt: /* Configuring the Server */</p>
<hr />
<div>= Producing LIVE OB Radio from a Mac =<br />
<br />
== Getting Started ==<br />
<br />
First, you'll need to collect the appropriate hardware and software. <br />
<br />
=== Hardware ===<br />
You'll need, at a minimum, a Mac (anything made in the last few years should be good), a microphone and headphones. You can use a headset with a built-in microphone just fine, as long as it is just one person talking. From here on in, when referring to the "microphone", it means either a free standing microphone or headset microphone as appropriate. If you are concerned about quality (and you should be!), '''don't''' use the built-in microphone and speakers on your mac.<br />
<br />
There are two basic ways to connect headphones and microphones: a 1/8th inch headphone jack connector, or via USB.<br />
<br />
If you wish to use more than one microphone on a Mac (say one for the host, one for the guest), you will want to use USB, as it's very easy to mix the two together.<br />
<br />
The OBRadio group has a number of USB microphones available, if you need one temporarily contact the list and arrangements can be made to get one to you.<br />
<br />
=== Software ===<br />
<br />
Note: This guide is based on the latest version of Mac OS X, Lion. Some of the details will be slightly different, but the overall process is the same on Snow Leopard.<br />
<br />
The simplest case, you just need what is called an IceCast "source client". The program 'Nicecast' is fantastic, and free to use for up to an hour, after which it starts adding noise to your broadcast. If you're staying under an hour you should use Nicecast. You can find it on the [http://www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/ Nicecast] Website. Note that Nicecast only streams mp3, not Ogg Vorbis.<br />
<br />
If you need to broadcast using Ogg Vorbis, prefer an open source client, or are broadcasting for more than 60 minutes, you should try 'butt' ("Broadcast Using This Tool"). Download butt from the [http://butt.sourceforge.net/ it's homepage].<br />
<br />
Install either piece of software as you would any other Mac software. Do not launch it yet though!<br />
<br />
=== Setup Testing ===<br />
<br />
First, you need to figure out how your microphone is represented in Mac OS X. <br />
<br />
Before plugging in the microphone into your computer, open System Preferences and go to the Sound panel, and select the "Input" tab. It should look similar to this:<br />
<br />
[[Image:OS X Sound Panel initial.png]]<br />
<br />
If you are using a USB microphone, plug it in. The list of devices should change to something similar to this:<br />
[[Image:OS X Sound Panel after plugging in.png]]<br />
<br />
The new entry is your microphone, remember what this is called. In the above case it's called "Logitech USB Microphone". A new device should show up with a type of "USB".<br />
<br />
If you are using a 1/8th inch microphone, your list of device inputs may not change. Select the one called "Line In".<br />
<br />
At the bottom of the panel there is a level meter, test that your microphone is working by tapping it or blowing into it. The level meter should jump from left to right.<br />
<br />
If the meter doesn't move:<br />
# try selecting other devices<br />
# is the microphone off or muted?<br />
# are you talking into the right microphone?<br />
# did the new mic show up in the list? If not: if it's USB plug it into another USB port. Try plugging a USB mic directly into the computer, rather than a hub. If it's a 1/8th inch microphone, make sure it is plugged into the microphone jack and not the headphone jack<br />
# Increase the input volume<br />
<br />
=== Setting levels ===<br />
<br />
While testing you might notice that no matter how loud you shout, you can't max out the meter, or you might find that the lightest blow makes it max out. Adjust the input volume until your normal speaking voice at a normal distance from the microphone gets to about 3/4ths of the way to max. ''someone come up with better metrics, I just guessed -- matt''<br />
<br />
Now you are ready to go!<br />
<br />
== Configuring the Software ==<br />
<br />
If you are using Nicecast, read on. If you are using butt, please skip to [[#Configuring butt]].<br />
<br />
=== Configuring Nicecast ===<br />
<br />
Nicecast has a very nice built-in manual that is accessible from the help menu, refer to that for any problems. This part of the guide will just give you a quick overview of how to do a simple setup.<br />
<br />
==== Setting the source ====<br />
Launch Nicecast, then click on the "Source" button. In the panel below the main screen labeled "Source", select "Audio Device" from the drop down menu, then use the select button to select the audio device name that was configured earlier.<br />
<br />
<br />
==== Stream information ====<br />
<br />
Fill in the appropriate information in the Info tab. The URL entry is for more information on your show, or topic, not for the stream itself.<br />
<br />
==== Quality settings ====<br />
<br />
Within the quality settings, set the preset to what is appropriate for your connection type. If you are streaming over a WiFi hotspot, or at E5 where bandwidth is limited, you may want to select Low as your preset.<br />
<br />
==== Testing ====<br />
<br />
At this point, in Nicecast click Start Broadcasting. Talk into your mic and you should hear what you say back out your speakers or headphones. You can set which speakers/headphones are used by selecting the preferred device in System Preferences, Sound Panel, Output tab.<br />
<br />
Now click the 'Share' button and use the mouse to select the text next to 'Local:', then copy it, using cmd-C or the Edit menu, Copy. Do not use the 'Copy' button, as that copies the 'Internet:' field instead.<br />
<br />
Open iTunes, hit cmd-U to subscribe to a new stream. Hit paste (cmd-V or Edit Paste) into that field, and click OK. In a few moments you'll hear your radio show come back out through iTunes!<br />
<br />
===== Troubleshooting =====<br />
<br />
'''tbd'''<br />
<br />
==== Configuring the Server ====<br />
<br />
At this point the stream is being 'broadcast' from your computer, we want to broadcast from occupyboston.org. Quit iTunes, and hit Stop Broadcast in Nicecast.<br />
<br />
In Nicecast, go to the Window menu, and select "Show Server". In the drawer on the right, click + to add a new server. Configure it as shown in this image:<br />
[[Image:Nicecast OBRadio Test Server Setup.png]]<br />
<br />
The password should have been given to you already by a member of the radio team. Do '''not''' share it. <br />
<br />
For the mount point, you may set that to another filename, but start it with a slash and end it with '.mp3'.<br />
<br />
Select your new server and then hit Start Broadcasting.<br />
<br />
Open your web browser and go to the [http://stream.occupyboston.org:8000/ stream status page]. You should see two 'mount points', one called 'occupy.ogg', and another, yours, called 'test.mp3' (or whatever you decided upon). Click on the link 'm3u' next to the test.mp3 mount point and in a few moments iTunes will open and you should hear yourself, slightly delayed. You are now LIVE on a test stream! You can share this link with a friend to help test it for you. Play around a bit, see how it sounds if you make loud noises or speak softly. Adjust the level in the Sound System Preference as you see fit. When you are done hit Stop Broadcast in Nicecast. If everything sounds good, you are almost ready to broadcast LIVE on the main OB Radio stream!<br />
<br />
In order to configure the live server, change your configuration thus:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Nicecast_Live_server_configuration.png]]<br />
<br />
===== Troubleshooting =====<br />
<br />
'''tbd'''<br />
<br />
==== Nicecast Tips ====<br />
<br />
''tbd:<br />
How to record?<br />
How to mix in apps?<br />
''<br />
<br />
=== Configuring butt ===<br />
'''tbd'''<br />
<br />
=== Configuring multiple mics ===<br />
<br />
OS X allows mixing multiple sound inputs fairly easily and transparently, by creating a new 'aggregate device'. This device shows up in all of the input audio device selection lists in any sound app in OS X.<br />
<br />
To create a new aggregate device, plugin the devices you want to mix together then launch the application "Audio Midi Setup" from /Applications/Utilities. Select + from the lower left hand corner, and then select "Create Aggregate Device". Tick the box next to the names of the devices you want to mix. Then on the left hand side, click on 'Aggregate Device' to rename it to something you can remember. Click on each of the devices below the name, and make sure the volume is set appropriately, and close the application.<br />
<br />
You can test the device using the level meter in the Sound panel in System Preferences. Then simply select that device as your audio source in Nicecast or butt and it will just work.</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=WG/radio/Mac_Broadcasting&diff=10481WG/radio/Mac Broadcasting2012-01-27T22:49:41Z<p>Matt: Undo revision 10480 by Matt (talk)</p>
<hr />
<div>= Producing LIVE OB Radio from a Mac =<br />
<br />
== Getting Started ==<br />
<br />
First, you'll need to collect the appropriate hardware and software. <br />
<br />
=== Hardware ===<br />
You'll need, at a minimum, a Mac (anything made in the last few years should be good), a microphone and headphones. You can use a headset with a built-in microphone just fine, as long as it is just one person talking. From here on in, when referring to the "microphone", it means either a free standing microphone or headset microphone as appropriate. If you are concerned about quality (and you should be!), '''don't''' use the built-in microphone and speakers on your mac.<br />
<br />
There are two basic ways to connect headphones and microphones: a 1/8th inch headphone jack connector, or via USB.<br />
<br />
If you wish to use more than one microphone on a Mac (say one for the host, one for the guest), you will want to use USB, as it's very easy to mix the two together.<br />
<br />
The OBRadio group has a number of USB microphones available, if you need one temporarily contact the list and arrangements can be made to get one to you.<br />
<br />
=== Software ===<br />
<br />
Note: This guide is based on the latest version of Mac OS X, Lion. Some of the details will be slightly different, but the overall process is the same on Snow Leopard.<br />
<br />
The simplest case, you just need what is called an IceCast "source client". The program 'Nicecast' is fantastic, and free to use for up to an hour, after which it starts adding noise to your broadcast. If you're staying under an hour you should use Nicecast. You can find it on the [http://www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/ Nicecast] Website. Note that Nicecast only streams mp3, not Ogg Vorbis.<br />
<br />
If you need to broadcast using Ogg Vorbis, prefer an open source client, or are broadcasting for more than 60 minutes, you should try 'butt' ("Broadcast Using This Tool"). Download butt from the [http://butt.sourceforge.net/ it's homepage].<br />
<br />
Install either piece of software as you would any other Mac software. Do not launch it yet though!<br />
<br />
=== Setup Testing ===<br />
<br />
First, you need to figure out how your microphone is represented in Mac OS X. <br />
<br />
Before plugging in the microphone into your computer, open System Preferences and go to the Sound panel, and select the "Input" tab. It should look similar to this:<br />
<br />
[[Image:OS X Sound Panel initial.png]]<br />
<br />
If you are using a USB microphone, plug it in. The list of devices should change to something similar to this:<br />
[[Image:OS X Sound Panel after plugging in.png]]<br />
<br />
The new entry is your microphone, remember what this is called. In the above case it's called "Logitech USB Microphone". A new device should show up with a type of "USB".<br />
<br />
If you are using a 1/8th inch microphone, your list of device inputs may not change. Select the one called "Line In".<br />
<br />
At the bottom of the panel there is a level meter, test that your microphone is working by tapping it or blowing into it. The level meter should jump from left to right.<br />
<br />
If the meter doesn't move:<br />
# try selecting other devices<br />
# is the microphone off or muted?<br />
# are you talking into the right microphone?<br />
# did the new mic show up in the list? If not: if it's USB plug it into another USB port. Try plugging a USB mic directly into the computer, rather than a hub. If it's a 1/8th inch microphone, make sure it is plugged into the microphone jack and not the headphone jack<br />
# Increase the input volume<br />
<br />
=== Setting levels ===<br />
<br />
While testing you might notice that no matter how loud you shout, you can't max out the meter, or you might find that the lightest blow makes it max out. Adjust the input volume until your normal speaking voice at a normal distance from the microphone gets to about 3/4ths of the way to max. ''someone come up with better metrics, I just guessed -- matt''<br />
<br />
Now you are ready to go!<br />
<br />
== Configuring the Software ==<br />
<br />
If you are using Nicecast, read on. If you are using butt, please skip to [[#Configuring butt]].<br />
<br />
=== Configuring Nicecast ===<br />
<br />
Nicecast has a very nice built-in manual that is accessible from the help menu, refer to that for any problems. This part of the guide will just give you a quick overview of how to do a simple setup.<br />
<br />
==== Setting the source ====<br />
Launch Nicecast, then click on the "Source" button. In the panel below the main screen labeled "Source", select "Audio Device" from the drop down menu, then use the select button to select the audio device name that was configured earlier.<br />
<br />
<br />
==== Stream information ====<br />
<br />
Fill in the appropriate information in the Info tab. The URL entry is for more information on your show, or topic, not for the stream itself.<br />
<br />
==== Quality settings ====<br />
<br />
Within the quality settings, set the preset to what is appropriate for your connection type. If you are streaming over a WiFi hotspot, or at E5 where bandwidth is limited, you may want to select Low as your preset.<br />
<br />
==== Testing ====<br />
<br />
At this point, in Nicecast click Start Broadcasting. Talk into your mic and you should hear what you say back out your speakers or headphones. You can set which speakers/headphones are used by selecting the preferred device in System Preferences, Sound Panel, Output tab.<br />
<br />
Now click the 'Share' button and use the mouse to select the text next to 'Local:', then copy it, using cmd-C or the Edit menu, Copy. Do not use the 'Copy' button, as that copies the 'Internet:' field instead.<br />
<br />
Open iTunes, hit cmd-U to subscribe to a new stream. Hit paste (cmd-V or Edit Paste) into that field, and click OK. In a few moments you'll hear your radio show come back out through iTunes!<br />
<br />
===== Troubleshooting =====<br />
<br />
'''tbd'''<br />
<br />
==== Configuring the Server ====<br />
<br />
At this point the stream is being 'broadcast' from your computer, we want to broadcast from occupyboston.org. Quit iTunes, and hit Stop Broadcast in Nicecast.<br />
<br />
In Nicecast, go to the Window menu, and select "Show Server". In the drawer on the right, click + to add a new server. Configure it as shown in this image:<br />
[[Image:Nicecast OBRadio Test Server Setup.png]]<br />
<br />
The password should have been given to you already by a member of the radio team. Do '''not''' share it. <br />
<br />
For the mount point, you may set that to another filename, but start it with a slash and end it with '.mp3'.<br />
<br />
Select your new server and then hit Start Broadcasting.<br />
<br />
Open your web browser and go to the [http://stream.occupyboston.org:8000/ stream status page]. You should see two 'mount points', one called 'occupy.ogg', and another, yours, called 'test.mp3' (or whatever you decided upon). Click on the link 'm3u' next to the test.mp3 mount point and in a few moments iTunes will open and you should hear yourself, slightly delayed. You are now LIVE on a test stream! You can share this link with a friend to help test it for you. Play around a bit, see how it sounds if you make loud noises or speak softly. Adjust the level in the Sound System Preference as you see fit. When you are done hit Stop Broadcast in Nicecast. If everything sounds good, you are almost ready to broadcast LIVE on the main OB Radio stream!<br />
<br />
<br />
===== Troubleshooting =====<br />
<br />
'''tbd'''<br />
==== Nicecast Tips ====<br />
<br />
''tbd:<br />
How to record?<br />
How to mix in apps?<br />
''<br />
<br />
=== Configuring butt ===<br />
'''tbd'''<br />
<br />
=== Configuring multiple mics ===<br />
<br />
OS X allows mixing multiple sound inputs fairly easily and transparently, by creating a new 'aggregate device'. This device shows up in all of the input audio device selection lists in any sound app in OS X.<br />
<br />
To create a new aggregate device, plugin the devices you want to mix together then launch the application "Audio Midi Setup" from /Applications/Utilities. Select + from the lower left hand corner, and then select "Create Aggregate Device". Tick the box next to the names of the devices you want to mix. Then on the left hand side, click on 'Aggregate Device' to rename it to something you can remember. Click on each of the devices below the name, and make sure the volume is set appropriately, and close the application.<br />
<br />
You can test the device using the level meter in the Sound panel in System Preferences. Then simply select that device as your audio source in Nicecast or butt and it will just work.</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=WG/radio/Mac_Broadcasting&diff=10480WG/radio/Mac Broadcasting2012-01-27T22:31:58Z<p>Matt: /* Configuring the Server */</p>
<hr />
<div>= Producing LIVE OB Radio from a Mac =<br />
<br />
== Getting Started ==<br />
<br />
First, you'll need to collect the appropriate hardware and software. <br />
<br />
=== Hardware ===<br />
You'll need, at a minimum, a Mac (anything made in the last few years should be good), a microphone and headphones. You can use a headset with a built-in microphone just fine, as long as it is just one person talking. From here on in, when referring to the "microphone", it means either a free standing microphone or headset microphone as appropriate. If you are concerned about quality (and you should be!), '''don't''' use the built-in microphone and speakers on your mac.<br />
<br />
There are two basic ways to connect headphones and microphones: a 1/8th inch headphone jack connector, or via USB.<br />
<br />
If you wish to use more than one microphone on a Mac (say one for the host, one for the guest), you will want to use USB, as it's very easy to mix the two together.<br />
<br />
The OBRadio group has a number of USB microphones available, if you need one temporarily contact the list and arrangements can be made to get one to you.<br />
<br />
=== Software ===<br />
<br />
Note: This guide is based on the latest version of Mac OS X, Lion. Some of the details will be slightly different, but the overall process is the same on Snow Leopard.<br />
<br />
The simplest case, you just need what is called an IceCast "source client". The program 'Nicecast' is fantastic, and free to use for up to an hour, after which it starts adding noise to your broadcast. If you're staying under an hour you should use Nicecast. You can find it on the [http://www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/ Nicecast] Website. Note that Nicecast only streams mp3, not Ogg Vorbis.<br />
<br />
If you need to broadcast using Ogg Vorbis, prefer an open source client, or are broadcasting for more than 60 minutes, you should try 'butt' ("Broadcast Using This Tool"). Download butt from the [http://butt.sourceforge.net/ it's homepage].<br />
<br />
Install either piece of software as you would any other Mac software. Do not launch it yet though!<br />
<br />
=== Setup Testing ===<br />
<br />
First, you need to figure out how your microphone is represented in Mac OS X. <br />
<br />
Before plugging in the microphone into your computer, open System Preferences and go to the Sound panel, and select the "Input" tab. It should look similar to this:<br />
<br />
[[Image:OS X Sound Panel initial.png]]<br />
<br />
If you are using a USB microphone, plug it in. The list of devices should change to something similar to this:<br />
[[Image:OS X Sound Panel after plugging in.png]]<br />
<br />
The new entry is your microphone, remember what this is called. In the above case it's called "Logitech USB Microphone". A new device should show up with a type of "USB".<br />
<br />
If you are using a 1/8th inch microphone, your list of device inputs may not change. Select the one called "Line In".<br />
<br />
At the bottom of the panel there is a level meter, test that your microphone is working by tapping it or blowing into it. The level meter should jump from left to right.<br />
<br />
If the meter doesn't move:<br />
# try selecting other devices<br />
# is the microphone off or muted?<br />
# are you talking into the right microphone?<br />
# did the new mic show up in the list? If not: if it's USB plug it into another USB port. Try plugging a USB mic directly into the computer, rather than a hub. If it's a 1/8th inch microphone, make sure it is plugged into the microphone jack and not the headphone jack<br />
# Increase the input volume<br />
<br />
=== Setting levels ===<br />
<br />
While testing you might notice that no matter how loud you shout, you can't max out the meter, or you might find that the lightest blow makes it max out. Adjust the input volume until your normal speaking voice at a normal distance from the microphone gets to about 3/4ths of the way to max. ''someone come up with better metrics, I just guessed -- matt''<br />
<br />
Now you are ready to go!<br />
<br />
== Configuring the Software ==<br />
<br />
If you are using Nicecast, read on. If you are using butt, please skip to [[#Configuring butt]].<br />
<br />
=== Configuring Nicecast ===<br />
<br />
Nicecast has a very nice built-in manual that is accessible from the help menu, refer to that for any problems. This part of the guide will just give you a quick overview of how to do a simple setup.<br />
<br />
==== Setting the source ====<br />
Launch Nicecast, then click on the "Source" button. In the panel below the main screen labeled "Source", select "Audio Device" from the drop down menu, then use the select button to select the audio device name that was configured earlier.<br />
<br />
<br />
==== Stream information ====<br />
<br />
Fill in the appropriate information in the Info tab. The URL entry is for more information on your show, or topic, not for the stream itself.<br />
<br />
==== Quality settings ====<br />
<br />
Within the quality settings, set the preset to what is appropriate for your connection type. If you are streaming over a WiFi hotspot, or at E5 where bandwidth is limited, you may want to select Low as your preset.<br />
<br />
==== Testing ====<br />
<br />
At this point, in Nicecast click Start Broadcasting. Talk into your mic and you should hear what you say back out your speakers or headphones. You can set which speakers/headphones are used by selecting the preferred device in System Preferences, Sound Panel, Output tab.<br />
<br />
Now click the 'Share' button and use the mouse to select the text next to 'Local:', then copy it, using cmd-C or the Edit menu, Copy. Do not use the 'Copy' button, as that copies the 'Internet:' field instead.<br />
<br />
Open iTunes, hit cmd-U to subscribe to a new stream. Hit paste (cmd-V or Edit Paste) into that field, and click OK. In a few moments you'll hear your radio show come back out through iTunes!<br />
<br />
===== Troubleshooting =====<br />
<br />
'''tbd'''<br />
<br />
==== Configuring the Server ====<br />
<br />
At this point the stream is being 'broadcast' from your computer, we want to broadcast from occupyboston.org. Quit iTunes, and hit Stop Broadcast in Nicecast.<br />
<br />
In Nicecast, go to the Window menu, and select "Show Server". In the drawer on the right, click + to add a new server. Configure it as shown in this image:<br />
[[Image:Nicecast_Live_server_configuration.png]]<br />
<br />
The password should have been given to you already by a member of the radio team. Do '''not''' share it. <br />
<br />
For the mount point, you may set that to another filename, but start it with a slash and end it with '.mp3'.<br />
<br />
Select your new server and then hit Start Broadcasting.<br />
<br />
Open your web browser and go to the [http://stream.occupyboston.org:8000/ stream status page]. You should see two 'mount points', one called 'occupy.ogg', and another, yours, called 'test.mp3' (or whatever you decided upon). Click on the link 'm3u' next to the test.mp3 mount point and in a few moments iTunes will open and you should hear yourself, slightly delayed. You are now LIVE on a test stream! You can share this link with a friend to help test it for you. Play around a bit, see how it sounds if you make loud noises or speak softly. Adjust the level in the Sound System Preference as you see fit. When you are done hit Stop Broadcast in Nicecast. If everything sounds good, you are almost ready to broadcast LIVE on the main OB Radio stream!<br />
<br />
<br />
===== Troubleshooting =====<br />
<br />
'''tbd'''<br />
<br />
==== Nicecast Tips ====<br />
<br />
''tbd:<br />
How to record?<br />
How to mix in apps?<br />
''<br />
<br />
=== Configuring butt ===<br />
'''tbd'''<br />
<br />
=== Configuring multiple mics ===<br />
<br />
OS X allows mixing multiple sound inputs fairly easily and transparently, by creating a new 'aggregate device'. This device shows up in all of the input audio device selection lists in any sound app in OS X.<br />
<br />
To create a new aggregate device, plugin the devices you want to mix together then launch the application "Audio Midi Setup" from /Applications/Utilities. Select + from the lower left hand corner, and then select "Create Aggregate Device". Tick the box next to the names of the devices you want to mix. Then on the left hand side, click on 'Aggregate Device' to rename it to something you can remember. Click on each of the devices below the name, and make sure the volume is set appropriately, and close the application.<br />
<br />
You can test the device using the level meter in the Sound panel in System Preferences. Then simply select that device as your audio source in Nicecast or butt and it will just work.</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Nicecast_Live_server_configuration.png&diff=10479File:Nicecast Live server configuration.png2012-01-27T22:31:27Z<p>Matt: </p>
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<div></div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=HQ&diff=9359HQ2012-01-02T20:46:56Z<p>Matt: </p>
<hr />
<div>A new group is forming to work on a long-term project of finding an indoor location for Occupy Boston. Maybe this space contains an indoor Info tent, meeting space for Working Groups and a General Assemly. To join the mailing list, please subscribe here, [https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/hq https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/hq].<br />
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[[12/23/11|12/23/11]]<br />
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[[Category:Working groups|HQ]] <br/></div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Working_groups&diff=9358Category:Working groups2012-01-02T20:46:31Z<p>Matt: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''Working groups''' are teams of people within the Occupation, each focused on a particular area or task. These groups are the organs supporting the body of the Occupation. Within them you will find resources, discussions, and courses of action in every field. __NOTOC__<br />
<br />
Working groups are '''open''', which means anyone can help out, including you! Like the Occupation as a whole, working groups are run as horizontal democracies, using consensus decision-making and holding publically accessible meetings. To join or volunteer with a working group, see its wiki page for contact information and meeting times.<br />
<br />
To join the email list for any of these groups, to get announcements and/or participate in discussion, please go to the [http://groups.occupyboston.org/ workgroup signup page].<br />
<br />
:''[[Instructions for Starting a Work Group|Instructions for starting a working group]]''<br />
<br />
'''To put a link to your working group on this list,''' copy and paste this text on the bottom of your page: <nowiki>"[[Category:Working groups|<name of group>]]"</nowiki>. The wiki software will do the rest. (For category help, see [[Help:Categories]].)</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=WG/radio&diff=9357WG/radio2012-01-02T20:44:12Z<p>Matt: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Welcome==<br />
<br />
Welcome to Occupy Boston Radio's home on the wiki!<br />
<br />
The Radio WG is striving to produce great programming all about Occupy Boston and the whole Occupy movement.<br />
<br />
If you are interested in joining, send mail to [mailto:radio@occupyboston.org radio@occupyboston.org] to get added to our mailing list.<br />
<br />
Please visit the [http://obr.fm OB Radio player] to listen.<br />
<br />
==Info==<br />
<br />
Mailing list: radio@lists.occupyboston.org<br />
Groups page: [http://groups.occupyboston.org/wg/radio http://groups.occupyboston.org/wg/radio]<br />
<br />
== Documentation ==<br />
[[WG/radio/Mac_Broadcasting| How to broadcast from a mac]]<br />
<br />
[[WG/OBIT/Ices2|Configuring Ices2]]<br />
<br />
[[Multi-usb_mic/jackd/liquidsoap_setup| Configuring Liquidsoap]]<br />
[[Category:Working groups|Radio]] <br/></div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=OBRadio&diff=9356OBRadio2012-01-02T20:43:56Z<p>Matt: </p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Occupy Boston Radio Working Group!<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size:large;">Listen to OB Radio [http://www.obr.fm Here!]</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''<span style="font-size:larger;">Contact Radio:</span>'''<br />
<br />
[https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/radio Mailing List]<br />
<br />
<br/><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);">OBR Phone #: 617-50MY-RAD</span><br />
<br />
[http://radio@lists.occupyboston.org Email Us]<br />
<br />
<br/>[http://groups.occupyboston.org/wg/radio Group Page]<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/OccupyBosRadio Twitter Page]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''<span style="font-size:larger;">Resources:</span>'''<br />
<br />
[[Multi-usb mic/jackd/liquidsoap setup]]<br />
<br />
[[Liquidsoap for attucks]]<br />
<br />
<br/><br/></div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=HQ&diff=9355HQ2012-01-02T20:43:34Z<p>Matt: </p>
<hr />
<div>A new group is forming to work on a long-term project of finding an indoor location for Occupy Boston. Maybe this space contains an indoor Info tent, meeting space for Working Groups and a General Assemly. To join the mailing list, please subscribe here, [https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/hq https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/hq].<br />
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[[Category:Working groups| HQ WG]] <br/></div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=Occupy_the_Farms&diff=9354Occupy the Farms2012-01-02T20:40:50Z<p>Matt: </p>
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<div>Occupy the Food Supply! We will work with local farmers to find opportunities for occupiers to learn sustainable farming. This will also provide a retreat for burnt out activists, and chance to get back to the Earth.<br />
<br />
This working is just getting going, and we could use your help!<br />
<br />
Stay tuned for an announcement of our first meeting early in 2012.<br />
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'''You can contact the working group at occupythefarms[at]gmail.com'''<br />
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<br/>[[Category:Working groups|Occupy the Farms]] <br/><br/></div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=WG/radio&diff=8692WG/radio2011-12-21T20:48:42Z<p>Matt: </p>
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<div>==Welcome==<br />
<br />
Welcome to Occupy Boston Radio's home on the wiki!<br />
<br />
The Radio WG is striving to produce great programming all about Occupy Boston and the whole Occupy movement.<br />
<br />
If you are interested in joining, send mail to [mailto:radio@occupyboston.org radio@occupyboston.org] to get added to our mailing list.<br />
<br />
Please visit the [http://obr.fm OB Radio player] to listen.<br />
<br />
==Info==<br />
<br />
Mailing list: radio@lists.occupyboston.org<br />
Groups page: [http://groups.occupyboston.org/wg/radio http://groups.occupyboston.org/wg/radio]<br />
<br />
== Documentation ==<br />
[[WG/radio/Mac_Broadcasting| How to broadcast from a mac]]<br />
<br />
[[WG/OBIT/Ices2|Configuring Ices2]]<br />
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[[Multi-usb_mic/jackd/liquidsoap_setup| Configuring Liquidsoap]]</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=WG/radio&diff=8691WG/radio2011-12-21T20:47:27Z<p>Matt: </p>
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<div>==Welcome==<br />
<br />
Welcome to Occupy Boston Radio's home on the wiki!<br />
<br />
The Radio WG is striving to produce great programming all about Occupy Boston and the whole Occupy movement.<br />
<br />
If you are interested in joining, send mail to [mailto:radio@occupyboston.org radio@occupyboston.org] to get added to our mailing list.<br />
<br />
Please visit the [http://obr.fm OB Radio player] to listen.<br />
<br />
==Info==<br />
<br />
Mailing list: radio@lists.occupyboston.org<br />
Groups page: [http://groups.occupyboston.org/wg/radio http://groups.occupyboston.org/wg/radio]<br />
<br />
== Documentation ==<br />
[[WG/radio/Mac_Broadcasting| How to broadcast from a mac]]<br />
[[WG/OBIT/Ices2|Configuring Ices2]]</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=WG/radio&diff=8690WG/radio2011-12-21T20:46:45Z<p>Matt: Created page with "==Welcome== Welcome to Occupy Boston Radio's home on the wiki! The Radio WG is striving to produce great programming all about Occupy Boston and the whole Occupy movement. If ..."</p>
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<div>==Welcome==<br />
<br />
Welcome to Occupy Boston Radio's home on the wiki!<br />
<br />
The Radio WG is striving to produce great programming all about Occupy Boston and the whole Occupy movement.<br />
<br />
If you are interested in joining, send mail to [mailto:radio@occupyboston.org radio@occupyboston.org] to get added to our mailing list.<br />
<br />
Please visit the [http://obr.fm OB Radio player] to listen.<br />
<br />
==Info==<br />
<br />
Mailing list: radio@lists.occupyboston.org<br />
Groups page: [http://groups.occupyboston.org/wg/radio http://groups.occupyboston.org/wg/radio]<br />
<br />
== Documentation ==<br />
[[WG/radio/Mac_Broadcasting| How to broadcast from a mac]]</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=Boston_Occupier&diff=8689Boston Occupier2011-12-21T20:31:36Z<p>Matt: </p>
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<div>'''The Boston Occupier is an independent news source for Occupy Boston and the Occupy movement. We report on the day-to-day happenings from Occupy Boston and the other Occupations, as well as local and national news pertaining to the issues raised by the movement.'''<br />
<br />
'''Find us on the web at: [http://bostonoccupier.com/ http://bostonoccupier.com/]'''<br />
<br />
'''Our twitter account is [http://twitter.com/#!/BostonOccupier @BostonOccupier]'''<br />
<br />
'''Want to get involved or let us know what you think? If so, shoot us an email occupybostonglobe@gmail.com'''<br />
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[[Category:Media]]</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=Boston_Occupier&diff=8688Boston Occupier2011-12-21T20:30:14Z<p>Matt: </p>
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<div>'''The Boston Occupier is an independent news source for Occupy Boston and the Occupy movement. We report on the day-to-day happenings from Occupy Boston and the other Occupations, as well as local and national news pertaining to the issues raised by the movement.'''<br />
<br />
'''Find us [[http://bostonoccupier.com/|here]]'''<br />
<br />
'''Our twitter account is [[http://twitter.com/#!/BostonOccupier |@BostonOccupier]]'''<br />
<br />
'''Want to get involved or let us know what you think? If so, shoot us an email occupybostonglobe@gmail.com'''<br />
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[[Category:Media]]</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=WG/radio/Mac_Broadcasting&diff=8570WG/radio/Mac Broadcasting2011-12-18T17:50:08Z<p>Matt: </p>
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<div>= Producing LIVE OB Radio from a Mac =<br />
<br />
== Getting Started ==<br />
<br />
First, you'll need to collect the appropriate hardware and software. <br />
<br />
=== Hardware ===<br />
You'll need, at a minimum, a Mac (anything made in the last few years should be good), a microphone and headphones. You can use a headset with a built-in microphone just fine, as long as it is just one person talking. From here on in, when referring to the "microphone", it means either a free standing microphone or headset microphone as appropriate. If you are concerned about quality (and you should be!), '''don't''' use the built-in microphone and speakers on your mac.<br />
<br />
There are two basic ways to connect headphones and microphones: a 1/8th inch headphone jack connector, or via USB.<br />
<br />
If you wish to use more than one microphone on a Mac (say one for the host, one for the guest), you will want to use USB, as it's very easy to mix the two together.<br />
<br />
The OBRadio group has a number of USB microphones available, if you need one temporarily contact the list and arrangements can be made to get one to you.<br />
<br />
=== Software ===<br />
<br />
Note: This guide is based on the latest version of Mac OS X, Lion. Some of the details will be slightly different, but the overall process is the same on Snow Leopard.<br />
<br />
The simplest case, you just need what is called an IceCast "source client". The program 'Nicecast' is fantastic, and free to use for up to an hour, after which it starts adding noise to your broadcast. If you're staying under an hour you should use Nicecast. You can find it on the [http://www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/ Nicecast] Website. Note that Nicecast only streams mp3, not Ogg Vorbis.<br />
<br />
If you need to broadcast using Ogg Vorbis, prefer an open source client, or are broadcasting for more than 60 minutes, you should try 'butt' ("Broadcast Using This Tool"). Download butt from the [http://butt.sourceforge.net/ it's homepage].<br />
<br />
Install either piece of software as you would any other Mac software. Do not launch it yet though!<br />
<br />
=== Setup Testing ===<br />
<br />
First, you need to figure out how your microphone is represented in Mac OS X. <br />
<br />
Before plugging in the microphone into your computer, open System Preferences and go to the Sound panel, and select the "Input" tab. It should look similar to this:<br />
<br />
[[Image:OS X Sound Panel initial.png]]<br />
<br />
If you are using a USB microphone, plug it in. The list of devices should change to something similar to this:<br />
[[Image:OS X Sound Panel after plugging in.png]]<br />
<br />
The new entry is your microphone, remember what this is called. In the above case it's called "Logitech USB Microphone". A new device should show up with a type of "USB".<br />
<br />
If you are using a 1/8th inch microphone, your list of device inputs may not change. Select the one called "Line In".<br />
<br />
At the bottom of the panel there is a level meter, test that your microphone is working by tapping it or blowing into it. The level meter should jump from left to right.<br />
<br />
If the meter doesn't move:<br />
# try selecting other devices<br />
# is the microphone off or muted?<br />
# are you talking into the right microphone?<br />
# did the new mic show up in the list? If not: if it's USB plug it into another USB port. Try plugging a USB mic directly into the computer, rather than a hub. If it's a 1/8th inch microphone, make sure it is plugged into the microphone jack and not the headphone jack<br />
# Increase the input volume<br />
<br />
=== Setting levels ===<br />
<br />
While testing you might notice that no matter how loud you shout, you can't max out the meter, or you might find that the lightest blow makes it max out. Adjust the input volume until your normal speaking voice at a normal distance from the microphone gets to about 3/4ths of the way to max. ''someone come up with better metrics, I just guessed -- matt''<br />
<br />
Now you are ready to go!<br />
<br />
== Configuring the Software ==<br />
<br />
If you are using Nicecast, read on. If you are using butt, please skip to [[#Configuring butt]].<br />
<br />
=== Configuring Nicecast ===<br />
<br />
Nicecast has a very nice built-in manual that is accessible from the help menu, refer to that for any problems. This part of the guide will just give you a quick overview of how to do a simple setup.<br />
<br />
==== Setting the source ====<br />
Launch Nicecast, then click on the "Source" button. In the panel below the main screen labeled "Source", select "Audio Device" from the drop down menu, then use the select button to select the audio device name that was configured earlier.<br />
<br />
<br />
==== Stream information ====<br />
<br />
Fill in the appropriate information in the Info tab. The URL entry is for more information on your show, or topic, not for the stream itself.<br />
<br />
==== Quality settings ====<br />
<br />
Within the quality settings, set the preset to what is appropriate for your connection type. If you are streaming over a WiFi hotspot, or at E5 where bandwidth is limited, you may want to select Low as your preset.<br />
<br />
==== Testing ====<br />
<br />
At this point, in Nicecast click Start Broadcasting. Talk into your mic and you should hear what you say back out your speakers or headphones. You can set which speakers/headphones are used by selecting the preferred device in System Preferences, Sound Panel, Output tab.<br />
<br />
Now click the 'Share' button and use the mouse to select the text next to 'Local:', then copy it, using cmd-C or the Edit menu, Copy. Do not use the 'Copy' button, as that copies the 'Internet:' field instead.<br />
<br />
Open iTunes, hit cmd-U to subscribe to a new stream. Hit paste (cmd-V or Edit Paste) into that field, and click OK. In a few moments you'll hear your radio show come back out through iTunes!<br />
<br />
===== Troubleshooting =====<br />
<br />
'''tbd'''<br />
<br />
==== Configuring the Server ====<br />
<br />
At this point the stream is being 'broadcast' from your computer, we want to broadcast from occupyboston.org. Quit iTunes, and hit Stop Broadcast in Nicecast.<br />
<br />
In Nicecast, go to the Window menu, and select "Show Server". In the drawer on the right, click + to add a new server. Configure it as shown in this image:<br />
[[Image:Nicecast OBRadio Test Server Setup.png]]<br />
<br />
The password should have been given to you already by a member of the radio team. Do '''not''' share it. <br />
<br />
For the mount point, you may set that to another filename, but start it with a slash and end it with '.mp3'.<br />
<br />
Select your new server and then hit Start Broadcasting.<br />
<br />
Open your web browser and go to the [http://stream.occupyboston.org:8000/ stream status page]. You should see two 'mount points', one called 'occupy.ogg', and another, yours, called 'test.mp3' (or whatever you decided upon). Click on the link 'm3u' next to the test.mp3 mount point and in a few moments iTunes will open and you should hear yourself, slightly delayed. You are now LIVE on a test stream! You can share this link with a friend to help test it for you. Play around a bit, see how it sounds if you make loud noises or speak softly. Adjust the level in the Sound System Preference as you see fit. When you are done hit Stop Broadcast in Nicecast. If everything sounds good, you are almost ready to broadcast LIVE on the main OB Radio stream!<br />
<br />
<br />
===== Troubleshooting =====<br />
<br />
'''tbd'''<br />
==== Nicecast Tips ====<br />
<br />
''tbd:<br />
How to record?<br />
How to mix in apps?<br />
''<br />
<br />
=== Configuring butt ===<br />
'''tbd'''<br />
<br />
=== Configuring multiple mics ===<br />
<br />
OS X allows mixing multiple sound inputs fairly easily and transparently, by creating a new 'aggregate device'. This device shows up in all of the input audio device selection lists in any sound app in OS X.<br />
<br />
To create a new aggregate device, plugin the devices you want to mix together then launch the application "Audio Midi Setup" from /Applications/Utilities. Select + from the lower left hand corner, and then select "Create Aggregate Device". Tick the box next to the names of the devices you want to mix. Then on the left hand side, click on 'Aggregate Device' to rename it to something you can remember. Click on each of the devices below the name, and make sure the volume is set appropriately, and close the application.<br />
<br />
You can test the device using the level meter in the Sound panel in System Preferences. Then simply select that device as your audio source in Nicecast or butt and it will just work.</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=WG/radio/Mac_Broadcasting&diff=8568WG/radio/Mac Broadcasting2011-12-18T17:39:03Z<p>Matt: Created page with "= Producing LIVE OB Radio from a Mac = == Getting Started == First, you'll need to collect the appropriate hardware and software. === Hardware === You'll need, at a minimum,..."</p>
<hr />
<div>= Producing LIVE OB Radio from a Mac =<br />
<br />
== Getting Started ==<br />
<br />
First, you'll need to collect the appropriate hardware and software. <br />
<br />
=== Hardware ===<br />
You'll need, at a minimum, a Mac (anything made in the last few years should be good), a microphone and headphones. You can use a headset with a built-in microphone just fine, as long as it is just one person talking. From here on in, when referring to the "microphone", it means either a free standing microphone or headset microphone as appropriate. If you are concerned about quality (and you should be!), '''don't''' use the built-in microphone and speakers on your mac.<br />
<br />
There are two basic ways to connect headphones and microphones: a 1/8th inch headphone jack connector, or via USB.<br />
<br />
If you wish to use more than one microphone on a Mac (say one for the host, one for the guest), you will want to use USB, as it's very easy to mix the two together.<br />
<br />
The OBRadio group has a number of USB microphones available, if you need one temporarily contact the list and arrangements can be made to get one to you.<br />
<br />
=== Software ===<br />
<br />
Note: This guide is based on the latest version of Mac OS X, Lion. Some of the details will be slightly different, but the overall process is the same on Snow Leopard.<br />
<br />
The simplest case, you just need what is called an IceCast "source client". The program 'Nicecast' is fantastic, and free to use for up to an hour, after which it starts adding noise to your broadcast. If you're staying under an hour you should use Nicecast. You can find it on the [http://www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/ Nicecast] Website. Note that Nicecast only streams mp3, not Ogg Vorbis.<br />
<br />
If you need to broadcast using Ogg Vorbis, prefer an open source client, or are broadcasting for more than 60 minutes, you should try 'butt' ("Broadcast Using This Tool"). Download butt from the [http://butt.sourceforge.net/ it's homepage].<br />
<br />
Install either piece of software as you would any other Mac software. Do not launch it yet though!<br />
<br />
=== Setup Testing ===<br />
<br />
First, you need to figure out how your microphone is represented in Mac OS X. <br />
<br />
Before plugging in the microphone into your computer, open System Preferences and go to the Sound panel, and select the "Input" tab. It should look similar to this:<br />
<br />
[[Image:OS X Sound Panel initial.png]]<br />
<br />
If you are using a USB microphone, plug it in. The list of devices should change to something similar to this:<br />
[[Image:OS X Sound Panel after plugging in.png]]<br />
<br />
The new entry is your microphone, remember what this is called. In the above case it's called "Logitech USB Microphone". A new device should show up with a type of "USB".<br />
<br />
If you are using a 1/8th inch microphone, your list of device inputs may not change. Select the one called "Line In".<br />
<br />
At the bottom of the panel there is a level meter, test that your microphone is working by tapping it or blowing into it. The level meter should jump from left to right.<br />
<br />
If the meter doesn't move:<br />
# try selecting other devices<br />
# is the microphone off or muted?<br />
# are you talking into the right microphone?<br />
# did the new mic show up in the list? If not: if it's USB plug it into another USB port. Try plugging a USB mic directly into the computer, rather than a hub. If it's a 1/8th inch microphone, make sure it is plugged into the microphone jack and not the headphone jack<br />
# Increase the input volume<br />
<br />
=== Setting levels ===<br />
<br />
While testing you might notice that no matter how loud you shout, you can't max out the meter, or you might find that the lightest blow makes it max out. Adjust the input volume until your normal speaking voice at a normal distance from the microphone gets to about 3/4ths of the way to max. ''someone come up with better metrics, I just guessed -- matt''<br />
<br />
Now you are ready to go!<br />
<br />
== Configuring the Software ==<br />
<br />
If you are using Nicecast, read on. If you are using butt, please skip to [[#Configuring butt]].<br />
<br />
=== Configuring Nicecast ===<br />
<br />
Nicecast has a very nice built-in manual that is accessible from the help menu, refer to that for any problems. This part of the guide will just give you a quick overview of how to do a simple setup.<br />
<br />
==== Setting the source ====<br />
Launch Nicecast, then click on the "Source" button. In the panel below the main screen labeled "Source", select "Audio Device" from the drop down menu, then use the select button to select the audio device name that was configured earlier.<br />
<br />
<br />
==== Stream information ====<br />
<br />
Fill in the appropriate information in the Info tab. The URL entry is for more information on your show, or topic, not for the stream itself.<br />
<br />
==== Quality settings ====<br />
<br />
Within the quality settings, set the preset to what is appropriate for your connection type. If you are streaming over a WiFi hotspot, or at E5 where bandwidth is limited, you may want to select Low as your preset.<br />
<br />
==== Testing ====<br />
<br />
At this point, in Nicecast click Start Broadcasting. Talk into your mic and you should hear what you say back out your speakers or headphones. You can set which speakers/headphones are used by selecting the preferred device in System Preferences, Sound Panel, Output tab.<br />
<br />
Now click the 'Share' button and use the mouse to select the text next to 'Local:', then copy it, using cmd-C or the Edit menu, Copy. Do not use the 'Copy' button, as that copies the 'Internet:' field instead.<br />
<br />
Open iTunes, hit cmd-U to subscribe to a new stream. Hit paste (cmd-V or Edit Paste) into that field, and click OK. In a few moments you'll hear your radio show come back out through iTunes!<br />
<br />
===== Troubleshooting =====<br />
<br />
'''tbd'''<br />
<br />
==== Configuring the Server ====<br />
<br />
At this point the stream is being 'broadcast' from your computer, we want to broadcast from occupyboston.org. Quit iTunes, and hit Stop Broadcast in Nicecast.<br />
<br />
In Nicecast, go to the Window menu, and select "Show Server". In the drawer on the right, click + to add a new server. Configure it as shown in this image:<br />
[[Image:Nicecast OBRadio Test Server Setup.png]]<br />
<br />
The password should have been given to you already by a member of the radio team. Do '''not''' share it. <br />
<br />
For the mount point, you may set that to another filename, but start it with a slash and end it with '.mp3'.<br />
<br />
Select your new server and then hit Start Broadcasting.<br />
<br />
Open your web browser and go to the [http://stream.occupyboston.org:8000/ stream status page]. You should see two 'mount points', one called 'occupy.ogg', and another, yours, called 'test.mp3' (or whatever you decided upon). Click on the link 'm3u' next to the test.mp3 mount point and in a few moments iTunes will open and you should hear yourself, slightly delayed. You are now LIVE on a test stream! You can share this link with a friend to help test it for you. Play around a bit, see how it sounds if you make loud noises or speak softly. Adjust the level in the Sound System Preference as you see fit. When you are done hit Stop Broadcast in Nicecast. If everything sounds good, you are almost ready to broadcast LIVE on the main OB Radio stream!<br />
<br />
<br />
===== Troubleshooting =====<br />
<br />
'''tbd'''<br />
==== Nicecast Tips ====<br />
<br />
''tbd:<br />
How to record?<br />
How to mix in apps?<br />
''<br />
<br />
=== Configuring butt ===<br />
'''tbd'''</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Nicecast_OBRadio_Test_Server_Setup.png&diff=8565File:Nicecast OBRadio Test Server Setup.png2011-12-18T17:34:33Z<p>Matt: Nicecast Server window with appropriate settings information filled in.</p>
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<div>Nicecast Server window with appropriate settings information filled in.</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:OS_X_Sound_Panel_after_plugging_in.png&diff=8563File:OS X Sound Panel after plugging in.png2011-12-18T17:33:42Z<p>Matt: uploaded a new version of &quot;File:OS X Sound Panel after plugging in.png&quot;</p>
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<div>Sound panel after plugging in a Logitech USB mic and selecting it.</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:OS_X_Sound_Panel_after_plugging_in.png&diff=8561File:OS X Sound Panel after plugging in.png2011-12-18T17:32:13Z<p>Matt: Sound panel after plugging in a Logitech USB mic and selecting it.</p>
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<div>Sound panel after plugging in a Logitech USB mic and selecting it.</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:OS_X_Sound_Panel_initial.png&diff=8559File:OS X Sound Panel initial.png2011-12-18T17:30:59Z<p>Matt: OS X Sound Panel in the System Preferences application, prior to plugging in a microphone.</p>
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<div>OS X Sound Panel in the System Preferences application, prior to plugging in a microphone.</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=WG/OBIT/Camp_Shutdown_Preparation&diff=8015WG/OBIT/Camp Shutdown Preparation2011-12-08T16:57:56Z<p>Matt: </p>
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<div>Assuming the camp is shutdown suddenly, we will likely see an increased interest in our online presence. Therefore, to prepare we need to do a few things, detailed below.<br />
<br />
== Main Website ==<br />
<br />
Prepare a post on the main site that can be published when the problem occurs. It should at a '''minimum''' contain the following information taken from [[GA_Minutes_Tues_Nov_22,_2011]]:<br />
<br />
I suggest text like this: "On the next day we will meet at 8:15am at the Brook New Martin Courthouse (I can't figure out what is meant by this) to show solidarity with those arrested during their arraignment. That evening we will have a GA at 7pm at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkman_Bandstand Boston Common bandstand]."<br />
<br />
We should also link to all of the relevant social media (twitter, Facebook) and live streaming media (livestream, qik, ustream) that we can uncover.<br />
<br />
The statement should include the NLG hotline number as well as set expectations appropriately about what those arrested should expect for support.<br />
<br />
We should load test the main website and determine if we can support a load of say, 800 users hitting it at once (800 chosen because that is how many are signed up for the phone tree, so not quite made up). If it can't, we should develop a plan B, which thus far we have thought could be to have a lightweight page in straight HTML, no WordPress that has the content of the post. We could put that on Mayfirst and have it ready to switch over. If that doesn't work (say, it's a sheer bandwidth problem), we should set the DNS TTL value as low as possible and prepare a backup server. Not a bad idea even if the camp stays around. If ob.org goes down, we switch the DNS and within 15-30 minutes people should see the backup site.<br />
<br />
For longer term load problems, we need an image resizer plugin, debug the social media icon stuff.<br />
<br />
''IMPORTANT'': confirm that OBIT members have admin access to WP.<br />
<br />
== Twitter ==<br />
<br />
We should confirm that the twitter/email gateway is operational, and will remain thus. Leftyfb has led this, but I'm unaware of anyone else who knows how it works or where it lives, etc.<br />
<br />
== IRC ==<br />
<br />
Do a /topic with the info.<br />
<br />
Update crispusattucks bot's intro message to tell people what to do, or point them at the appropriate page.<br />
<br />
== Text message alerts ==<br />
<br />
It wasn't clear to me who owns this or what they are planning on doing with it. We know it works, as the last two days have seen messages.<br />
<br />
== Live Streaming ==<br />
<br />
We ''need'' to make sure the record button has been clicked on during our livestreams!<br />
<br />
We should try to debug the livestream stuff while we're not actually livestreaming. We seem to always be under pressure to produce the livestream and fix it, while also trying to stream -- not ideal. <br />
<br />
We should try to debug what's going on with livestream and qik integration.<br />
<br />
We should also explore the livestream app, which is more capable than the Flash app and may help us get out to more people, e.g. those on mobile phones.</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=WG/OBIT/Camp_Shutdown_Preparation&diff=8014WG/OBIT/Camp Shutdown Preparation2011-12-08T16:57:00Z<p>Matt: Created page with "Assuming the camp is shutdown suddenly, we will likely see an increased interest in our online presence. Therefore, to prepare we need to do a few things, detailed below. == Ge..."</p>
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<div>Assuming the camp is shutdown suddenly, we will likely see an increased interest in our online presence. Therefore, to prepare we need to do a few things, detailed below.<br />
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== Getting the message out ==<br />
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=== Main Website ===<br />
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Prepare a post on the main site that can be published when the problem occurs. It should at a '''minimum''' contain the following information taken from [[GA_Minutes_Tues_Nov_22,_2011]]:<br />
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I suggest text like this: "On the next day we will meet at 8:15am at the Brook New Martin Courthouse (I can't figure out what is meant by this) to show solidarity with those arrested during their arraignment. That evening we will have a GA at 7pm at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkman_Bandstand Boston Common bandstand]."<br />
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We should also link to all of the relevant social media (twitter, Facebook) and live streaming media (livestream, qik, ustream) that we can uncover.<br />
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The statement should include the NLG hotline number as well as set expectations appropriately about what those arrested should expect for support.<br />
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We should load test the main website and determine if we can support a load of say, 800 users hitting it at once (800 chosen because that is how many are signed up for the phone tree, so not quite made up). If it can't, we should develop a plan B, which thus far we have thought could be to have a lightweight page in straight HTML, no WordPress that has the content of the post. We could put that on Mayfirst and have it ready to switch over. If that doesn't work (say, it's a sheer bandwidth problem), we should set the DNS TTL value as low as possible and prepare a backup server. Not a bad idea even if the camp stays around. If ob.org goes down, we switch the DNS and within 15-30 minutes people should see the backup site.<br />
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For longer term load problems, we need an image resizer plugin, debug the social media icon stuff.<br />
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''IMPORTANT'': confirm that OBIT members have admin access to WP.<br />
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=== Twitter ===<br />
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We should confirm that the twitter/email gateway is operational, and will remain thus. Leftyfb has led this, but I'm unaware of anyone else who knows how it works or where it lives, etc.<br />
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=== IRC ===<br />
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Do a /topic with the info.<br />
Update crispusattucks bot's intro message to tell people what to do, or point them at the appropriate page.<br />
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== Text message alerts ==<br />
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It wasn't clear to me who owns this or what they are planning on doing with it. We know it works, as the last two days have seen messages.<br />
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== Live Streaming ==<br />
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We ''need'' to make sure the record button has been clicked on during our livestreams!<br />
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We should try to debug the livestream stuff while we're not actually livestreaming. We seem to always be under pressure to produce the livestream and fix it, while also trying to stream -- not ideal. <br />
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We should try to debug what's going on with livestream and qik integration.<br />
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We should also explore the livestream app, which is more capable than the Flash app and may help us get out to more people, e.g. those on mobile phones.</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=GA_Minutes_Tues_Nov_22,_2011&diff=8013GA Minutes Tues Nov 22, 20112011-12-08T16:26:23Z<p>Matt: </p>
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<div><p><span>These are the notes from the Occupy Boston General Assembly</span></p><br />
<p><span>these are taken to the best of the note takers ability (Ethan H.)</span></p><br />
<p><span>they are not a direct transcript, where things could not be heard or understood dash marks are used (--)</span></p><br />
<p><span>7:41 85 people in attendance</span></p><br />
<p><span>introductions of roles</span></p><br />
<p><span>welcome to occupy boston </span></p><br />
<p><span>going over of hand signs </span></p><br />
<p><span>announcements:</span></p><br />
<p><span>**facilitators accountability working group </span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; confusion about getting funds </span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; we have made it easier 857 417 7872</span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; email a new address to get funds </span><span>[mailto:obwg.fundingrequests@gmail.com obwg.fundingrequests@gmail.com]</span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; to make process easier </span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; &nbsp;does not skip the filling out a form process </span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; &nbsp;question and answer we can not call 24/7</span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; &nbsp;person named bruce is on call 8am-6pm works in the area</span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; **part two to FAWG announcement</span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; some members have been sued by paul carnes and cidney cheryll </span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; there is a flyer circulating from paul and cidney that is anti F.A.W.G. </span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; these persons will try to </span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; next meeting 6pm wednesday in south station </span></p><br />
<p><span>**outreach working group </span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; all the good work that the working groups are doing</span></p><br />
<p><span>they are doing things two fold</span></p><br />
<p><span>needs mission and vision from working groups </span></p><br />
<p><span>needs actions from working groups </span></p><br />
<p><span>going to make a working doccument of accompolishements </span></p><br />
<p><span>to understand what each other are doing </span></p><br />
<p><span>&ldquo;was blown away by how good we are&rdquo;</span></p><br />
<p><span>this is needed for court! very important</span></p><br />
<p><span>don&rsquo;t want a list of working groups</span></p><br />
<p><span>want a list of what each wg is working on </span></p><br />
<p><span>make it really public &nbsp;on web site and with community </span></p><br />
<p><span>works at </span><span>[mailto:rita@brandice.edu rita@brandice.edu]</span><span>&nbsp;phone (857) 204-5653</span></p><br />
<p><span>internal working doccument and sharing and educating </span></p><br />
<p><span>mic check </span></p><br />
<p><span>site called </span><span>[http://groups.occupyboston.org groups.occupyboston.org]</span></p><br />
<p><span>every group has or should have a space on that site where we can tell everyone what we are doing </span></p><br />
<p><span>mic check</span></p><br />
<p><span>on the wiki working groups have posted some extra things </span></p><br />
<p><span>i also suggest that you send an email to all working groups requesting this </span></p><br />
<p><span>care and comfort: Zoe</span></p><br />
<p><span>ensures or attempts to ensure the relative care and comfort for the activists involved in the movement</span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp;develope a place to relax</span></p><br />
<p><span>legal Ben </span></p><br />
<p><span>one of the attourneys representing OB </span></p><br />
<p><span>**Update**</span></p><br />
<p><span>temp restraining order was obtained further hearing on december 1st</span></p><br />
<p><span>mediation has not gone anywhere </span></p><br />
<p><span>the city said no to tents they must go </span></p><br />
<p><span>that was the long and short of it </span></p><br />
<p><span>they did come forward they showed up and did what court wanted </span></p><br />
<p><span>we don&rsquo;t know what the mediatior will tell the judge but we look reasonable infront of the judge</span></p><br />
<p><span>we say tyhat the statute delegating authority to the greenway is unconstutional </span></p><br />
<p><span>for the sake of argument it&rsquo;s protected speech-- the proctected speech is being here-- there is no ample alternative-- </span></p><br />
<p><span>second announcement </span></p><br />
<p><span>had brief discussion about what we may have </span></p><br />
<p><span>one live wittness </span></p><br />
<p><span>5 affadavids </span></p><br />
<p><span>worried about giving out our legal strategie </span></p><br />
<p><span>judge asked for photos </span></p><br />
<p><span>submitted on december 1st</span></p><br />
<p><span>tuesday at noon is the deadline for submitting things </span></p><br />
<p><span>recognizing that this is the model for how society should work </span></p><br />
<p><span>we passed a well thought out proposal last week----</span></p><br />
<p><span>affadavids last sunday in legal tent</span></p><br />
<p><span>we may be dropping occupy boston as a plantif and have just individuals </span></p><br />
<p><span>**media </span></p><br />
<p><span>occupy boston sunday 2pm to 5pm</span></p><br />
<p><span>develope comprehensive media proposal (?)</span></p><br />
<p><span>occupy sacramento sends out press releases every day </span></p><br />
<p><span>we need to bring public opinion back </span></p><br />
<p><span>two large flower beds are being moved tomorrow morning on wednesday about 8 oclock</span></p><br />
<p><span>we have the food tent!!! </span></p><br />
<p><span>it has been felt and touched woo woo</span></p><br />
<p><span>within the week we will have on site</span></p><br />
<p><span>***writers caucus Kevin</span></p><br />
<p><span>7pm wednesday nights at south station </span></p><br />
<p><span>workshop sat at 3 meet at ghandi</span></p><br />
<p><span>[mailto:writers@occupyboston.org writers@occupyboston.org]</span></p><br />
<p><span>**non violence working group </span></p><br />
<p><span>buenos noches</span></p><br />
<p><span>good evening </span></p><br />
<p><span>mi nombre Jorge </span></p><br />
<p><span>this friday non violence workshop with john....</span></p><br />
<p><span>in the quaker tradition </span></p><br />
<p><span>10am till 12 in fed plaza </span></p><br />
<p><span>meet at ghandi and walk to south station </span></p><br />
<p><span>in the event of a camp shut down </span></p><br />
<p><span>on the day after the raid or shutdown </span></p><br />
<p><span>if there have been arrests </span></p><br />
<p><span>we will meet 815 at the brook new martin court house </span></p><br />
<p><span>to show solidarity with them during their areignment</span></p><br />
<p><span>7pm at the boston common band stand </span></p><br />
<p><span>hold general assembly </span></p><br />
<p><span>what steps we will take follow </span></p><br />
<p><span>**signs </span></p><br />
<p><span>WE NEED HELP AT THE SIGN TENT!</span></p><br />
<p><span>person was out of town for a week and things were stolen </span></p><br />
<p><span>*food </span></p><br />
<p><span>is the relation between people </span></p><br />
<p><span>we have a wonderful management structure </span></p><br />
<p><span>but the dishes aren&rsquo;t getting done</span></p><br />
<p><span>WE HAVE DIVISION OF LABOR PROBLEMS </span></p><br />
<p><span>you&rsquo;re not too good to do dishes </span></p><br />
<p><span>if one has a dish scrape it off first before placing it in the bin </span></p><br />
<p><span>if it is placed into the water the water spoils faster </span></p><br />
<p><span>please help and please follow the rules </span></p><br />
<p><span>***campers ga </span></p><br />
<p><span>proposal for tomorrow about how the camp is structured wednesday at 11am</span></p><br />
<p><span>***Facilitation</span></p><br />
<p><span>we are having a GA on thursday on thanksgiving </span></p><br />
<p><span>on that day we will decide on what to be talked about </span></p><br />
<p><span>it could be an open stack for things we are thankful for </span></p><br />
<p><span>turn up if you&rsquo;re around!! </span></p><br />
<p><span>show your support!</span></p><br />
<p><span>** sherry the houseless and allies comunity working group </span></p><br />
<p><span>wants this working group </span></p><br />
<p><span>monday wed friday 6pm south station </span></p><br />
<p><span>have been discussing drafting a document and proposal for the homeless to be given to gov. patrick and mayor menino</span></p><br />
<p><span>want the housless to come to the meeting </span></p><br />
<p><span>[mailto:cherie.l.king@gmail.com cherie.l.king@gmail.com]</span><span>&nbsp;PLEASE EMAIL FOR MORE INFO</span></p><br />
<p><span>**faith and spirituality </span></p><br />
<p><span>remind everyone at the top of main street there is a tent avialable for everyone to </span></p><br />
<p><span>relax and stay rooted in love </span></p><br />
<p><span>if you have anythin gyou want to teach of share let us know </span></p><br />
<p><span>10pm </span></p><br />
<p><span>12pm cosmic zen session </span></p><br />
<p><span>[mailto:spiritual@occupyboston.org spiritual@occupyboston.org]</span></p><br />
<p><span>**acts of random kindness</span></p><br />
<p><span>people from occupy boston will go and do random acts of kindness </span></p><br />
<p><span>some people have jobs and famalies and can&rsquo;t get away </span></p><br />
<p><span>we can do something little for them</span></p><br />
<p><span>if you&rsquo;re interested find Alex </span></p><br />
<p><span>[mailto:occupythemindboston@yahoo.com occupythemindboston@yahoo.com]</span><span>&nbsp;</span></p><br />
<p><span>**Library and Safety eric</span></p><br />
<p><span>working on de escalation method </span></p><br />
<p><span>one on one method </span></p><br />
<p><span>solidarity from oakland and uc berkley !!!!</span></p><br />
<p><span>have been shot at and have perminant hearing loss from the events </span></p><br />
<p><span>at our ga that we learned that egypt has shown solidarity with them </span></p><br />
<p><span>tuition raised 89% within the UC system</span></p><br />
<p><span>***tod from info tent will be showing solidarity with philly as he travels there in the coming week </span></p><br />
<p><span>****occupy worster has been given a place to stay -- occupy LA received an offer to decamp -- 10,000 feet of office space a farm and housing for the homeless </span></p><br />
<p><span>meeting in copley square at 1pm december 3rd</span></p><br />
<p><span>there is a planing meeting this meeting 26 west street at 5 pm second floor </span></p><br />
<p><span>**spirituality </span></p><br />
<p><span>things </span></p><br />
<p><span>moight be awarre that we are having some problems </span></p><br />
<p><span>so -- thee problems involve issues with the food tent -- evictions -- and the broader comversation about racism and sexism -- they have been having a detrimental effect on the community-- many of the people are standing in front of you are white (talking about the large group that has assembled on the stage) </span></p><br />
<p><span>many cases these broader conversations have spiraled out of controll -- i don&rsquo;t know if this is the forum to address them-- we need to not let them happen in private</span></p><br />
<p><span>mic check </span></p><br />
<p><span>there are clear issues -- of racist conversations happening in our comunity -- we are hurting each other -- we are hurting ourselves -- we have the potential to take these things-- groups of anti racist white groups-- of people of color-- have been talking over and over but it wil take us to iunderstand --- this is pivotal to our work -- this is not dividing out work-- this is our hope as groups of individuals --that we van be accountable to those most affected by systems of white supremicy-- that these people will take a look at how thios comes out ---in our personal relationships---it iw sithout doubt-- white supremicy---is a part of all the other types of supremicy that we need to talk about ----</span></p><br />
<p><span>mic check </span></p><br />
<p><span>are wr going to have an open and honest discussion around </span></p><br />
<p><span>tonight about an hour ago i talked to jamahl craqford </span></p><br />
<p><span>he expressed to me that he had hoped we would discussed </span></p><br />
<p><span>if we want to adress it here we need to address it here and with concern for those people </span></p><br />
<p><span>---everyone here taking accountability for yourselves </span></p><br />
<p><span>if we choose a time to have this conversation within the next 7 days will you come </span></p><br />
<p><span>*temp check most in agreement**</span></p><br />
<p><span>i think it&rsquo;s fantastic that we have decided to talk about this </span></p><br />
<p><span>the important thing is that if we want december 3rd to be succesful we need to tlak about this asap </span></p><br />
<p><span>i want to propose that we have this discussion tonight </span></p><br />
<p><span>they&rsquo;re goijg to let you know what is going on</span></p><br />
<p><span>hi gues i&rsquo;m courtney from outreach community alot of people here know about the racial tension that has been happenng </span></p><br />
<p><span>there have been some issues here at camp</span></p><br />
<p><span>women of color have felt uncomfortable </span></p><br />
<p><span>emails have been sent that are inappropriate</span></p><br />
<p><span>white allies need to speak up about this </span></p><br />
<p><span>they are here standing as revolutionaries</span></p><br />
<p><span>if you have racial tensions that needs to be talked about </span></p><br />
<p><span>on t</span></p><br />
<p><span>my name is mec</span></p><br />
<p><span>i have been asked to speak from my heart</span></p><br />
<p><span>i may cry </span></p><br />
<p><span>i still lnow what i;m talking about</span></p><br />
<p><span>anyone who believes that talking about race willl divide us --is mistaken</span></p><br />
<p><span>those divisions came in with us in this movement </span></p><br />
<p><span>i&rsquo;m really honselty want to do that &nbsp;</span></p><br />
<p><span>i want to give everything </span></p><br />
<p><span>are you with me ?? (responce eys)</span></p><br />
<p><span>we are a communoity that resembles the world </span></p><br />
<p><span>before we can hange or liberate it </span></p><br />
<p><span>we have to awknolege that opression has always defeated every revolutionary movement</span></p><br />
<p><span>we are not exempt from that</span></p><br />
<p><span>we carry the aspirations to change this world </span></p><br />
<p><span>we carry thie (things) that most impacts marganalized groups</span></p><br />
<p><span>alos effects white people --internalized white supremacy keeps us from ourselves </span></p><br />
<p><span>i won&rsquo;t use mic check </span></p><br />
<p><span>not seeing color will make the problem go away?</span></p><br />
<p><span>not seeing color is a form of denial </span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp;if i act like i don&rsquo;t see that this brother is black and beautiful </span></p><br />
<p><span>and likely to go to prison</span></p><br />
<p><span>then i am denied----i don&rsquo;t want you to act like i&rsquo;m not a lesbian </span></p><br />
<p><span>i want you to treat me no different because of it</span></p><br />
<p><span>who i am as a person is different than who i am as a person </span></p><br />
<p><span>if we just act like we&rsquo;re smooth when we see black people that will make it ok</span></p><br />
<p><span>need to make a distinction between old fashioned bigotry and the things that are institutionalized in society</span></p><br />
<p><span>if a duck is a duck then call it a duck </span></p><br />
<p><span>we have not been able to learn how to call it a duck </span></p><br />
<p><span>sometimes my intent doess not match our impact </span></p><br />
<p><span>we hear people that make claims that racism going on </span></p><br />
<p><span>then the backlash is that OOOOOH NO IT&rsquo;S NOT!</span></p><br />
<p><span>there is arrogance in that </span></p><br />
<p><span>white people trying to tell people that it&rsquo;s not going on </span></p><br />
<p><span>what i want to do is try to have conversations about how we perpetuate racism without meaning to----</span></p><br />
<p><span>the structures and systems (need to make sure that they are not) maintaining the status quo </span></p><br />
<p><span>i&rsquo; can we please hear from people of color equal to white alli voices ----are you sure? because we&#39;ve got some shit to say--- ,y brothers and sisters and other folks here do not have any issue with it --- brothers we stand here tonight as allies ---allies don&#39;t mean that we are here only to help when we look at the founding of our nation ---people came together they saw needs--to solve needs we got instititions--those institutions were created by people who look like me </span></p><br />
<p><span>it is the most difficult culture to see---not something we do as individuals </span></p><br />
<p><span>--it&rsquo;s not about an interpersonal peice--what i see happening here--those same systems are being created here in subtle </span></p><br />
<p><span>please stay tuned to the next few days </span></p><br />
<p><span>*we are finished with announcements 9:04pm</span></p><br />
<p><span>announcement</span></p><br />
<p><span>it&rsquo;s going to rain this evening be aware of that </span></p><br />
<p><span>going over hand signals </span></p><br />
<p><span>chris brings proposal to ga through the --- working group </span></p><br />
<p><span>reading of the proposal ---</span></p><br />
<p><span>the idea of right now is to try to get a concensus -- </span></p><br />
<p><span>we have to have a city council sponsopr--- that will take a little time --</span></p><br />
<p><span>Q: could you clarify the relationship between menino and the city council</span></p><br />
<p><span>A menino is separate from the city council this is an appeal to the city council </span></p><br />
<p><span>Q who do you have in mind for a city councelor</span></p><br />
<p><span>A we need to get concensus on this proposal then we will think about who can sponsor it</span></p><br />
<p><span>thinking about the who seems non productive</span></p><br />
<p><span>POINTS OF INFORMATION</span></p><br />
<p><span>appeal for all people present at the GA to be involved </span></p><br />
<p><span>Don&rsquo;t be scurrred </span></p><br />
<p><span>point of information</span></p><br />
<p><span>the language in this proposal has gone through camp to many individuals and working groups </span></p><br />
<p><span>it is a relatively short proposal given all the things that are included </span></p><br />
<p><span>People are discussing now...</span></p><br />
<p><span>more of the factions that occupy boston is representing aren&rsquo;t represented here</span></p><br />
<p><span>Concern: this is a little bit of POI and a little bit of concern-- the legal team did not approve edit or revise this doccument -- the legal support team of occupyboston has no position on this (proposal) </span></p><br />
<p><span>call for strong concerns or objections</span></p><br />
<p><span>now moving on to statements of support </span></p><br />
<p><span>SS: even if this fails we will find out who is a supporter and who is not</span></p><br />
<p><span>SS: i support this-- i see it as a part of our diversity of tactics--this one seems worthwile to me-- </span></p><br />
<p><span>SS: this is not a statement of support of dissagreement-- what i do know is that the image of occupy boston within a lot of people in city hall is that occupy boston is not representative of their communities and that needs to be addressed</span></p><br />
<p><span>SS i think that this is an imperfect doccument--but it is so good that it puts us in a position--doing all things that will ----show respect for city counelors---i think we should just pass it</span></p><br />
<p><span>SS: i am a resident of the city of boston i just voted for the city council members---i support this --- if you need residents who support this -- and to go ------i will support this and go </span></p><br />
<p><span>SS: the first time i aw this purposal i said dear god no-- because that objection has not been brought i want to bring it--i thiink that a diversity of tactics means just that 0 supproting this purposal -- does in no way compromises those people who are concerned with working with the state</span></p><br />
<p><span>asking for amendments </span></p><br />
<p><span>A: i purpose that we do a what is it called a survey and collect signatures from boston residents who support this purposal *called a petition*</span></p><br />
<p><span>A someone on twitter wanted underemployment to be added </span></p><br />
<p><span>the proposers are going to get a chance to re write their proposal </span></p><br />
<p><span>hearing from medical </span></p><br />
<p><span>5 stethiscopes $75</span></p><br />
<p><span>ear thermometer needed $38</span></p><br />
<p><span>pulse ox (gives a pulse and blood oxygen level)</span></p><br />
<p><span>other items noted </span></p><br />
<p><span>$211.57 including shipping </span></p><br />
<p><span>second thing </span></p><br />
<p><span>some of our vests did not come in and we will need to re order the vests </span></p><br />
<p><span>Clarifying questions:</span></p><br />
<p><span>CC what is a pulse ox </span></p><br />
<p><span>it takes the blood ox level and give a pulse </span></p><br />
<p><span>CC can we not just get more covers </span></p><br />
<p><span>when we first started we had 6 stethiscopes and they have gone down to one</span></p><br />
<p><span>we will have a sign in check out list for the new stethiscopes</span></p><br />
<p><span>proposal is the same as when it was read however not taking in 30 more dollars to cover possible shipping and handling charges and the rest will go back to FAWG </span></p><br />
<p><span>re stating the proposal brought by Chris and Outreach </span></p><br />
<p><span>proposal goes through a second process with no new amendments </span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp;</span></p><br />
<p><span>proposal passes! </span></p><br />
<p><span>Go on ot the wiki </span></p><br />
<p><span>email occupy boston outreach group about how to get involved </span></p><br />
<p><span>Now up we have a winterization proposal </span></p><br />
<p><span>Please save the boxes of joe! </span></p><br />
<p><span>This was proposed two weeks ago but there was not quorum</span></p><br />
<p><span>For one thousand dollars to build the tiny house on wheels </span></p><br />
<p><span>we have gotten 1000 from firedog lake to help build these </span></p><br />
<p><span>the iron workers and carpenters unions are involved with building these </span></p><br />
<p><span>they are built on bicycle trailers so they can be eaisly moved</span></p><br />
<p><span>want to make an appeal for this 1000 grant that would be matched </span></p><br />
<p><span>there is a build out date on the 29th </span></p><br />
<p><span>up to 1000 to build 8-10 trailers monies to be refunded with the proof of reciepts </span></p><br />
<p><span>taking clarifying questions </span></p><br />
<p><span>CC can you make it for more than one person </span></p><br />
<p><span>yes depends on how cozy </span></p><br />
<p><span>CC are you conc</span></p><br />
<p><span>CC are you concerned about BPD stopping you from them from coming in</span></p><br />
<p><span>or if they confiscate them</span></p><br />
<p><span>Yes there is some risk but they are mobile and the risk is low. If there is some reason we have to leave we can take them with</span></p><br />
<p><span>if we do it all at once that will be best</span></p><br />
<p><span>CC do we know of any liscence or building codes that prevent this kind of st</span></p><br />
<p><span>CC have we gotten ahold of critical mass to see if they are interested in being involved with bringing them in </span></p><br />
<p><span>Yes we have thought of that </span></p><br />
<p><span>POINTS OF INFORMATION</span></p><br />
<p><span>POI The houses are structurally sound they are ---they look rather comfortable --i think it would servet he camp very well </span></p><br />
<p><span>CC? are they ventelated and safe to sleep in </span></p><br />
<p><span>I have slept in them and did not feel dizzy but they may be inproved </span></p><br />
<p><span>STRONG CONCERNS OR OBJECTIONS </span></p><br />
<p><span>Concern &nbsp;the cioty will use this as a quote unquote safety concern if they are not fire proof or ventelated to say that we are trying to build houses here </span></p><br />
<p><span>Concern I have a concern that may be unfounded given that I came in halfway into the conversation--what we are approaching in the next couple of weeks having to deal with the injunction --- have we clarified that with the lawyers yet ---about constructing and bringing in those beautiful smalll houses -- </span></p><br />
<p><span>Response - i have not but will talk to a lawyer about this </span></p><br />
<p><span>STATEMENTS OF SUPPORT </span></p><br />
<p><span>SS I think these houses can provide a good strategy---we an take these to another spot and build occupations around the city</span></p><br />
<p><span>SS i am going to piggy back--little houses work --amazing gettaway supplies--occupy everywhere until we meet at the common </span></p><br />
<p><span>SS i am building one for myself</span></p><br />
<p><span>SS i think this could bennifit occupy boston and everywhere else as a model=--- this is amazing </span></p><br />
<p><span>SS george washington your firrst president said &ldquo;you will do whatever you want you&rdquo; you want to camp here,,, you camp here he was elected by 100% only to be president </span></p><br />
<p><span>SS the little house on the greenway it writes itself </span></p><br />
<p><span>AMENDMENTS </span></p><br />
<p><span>I would suggest that you write in the proposal that you will find a way to fairly distribute these houses and how to get them into there </span></p><br />
<p><span>A &nbsp;i agree with what he said and I have an ideas. those who want one should help build one </span></p><br />
<p><span>A we should provide malliable skimatics to campers so that they can source their own materials so that campers can build their own materials for free</span></p><br />
<p><span>A i suggest we come up with an awesome name that does not refer to them as houses </span></p><br />
<p><span>A If we are giving halt the money from our communal pot then we should figure out a way to hare them for communal housing to those who want to stay a couple nights </span></p><br />
<p><span>A i would say we should research a way to properly ventelate the homes </span></p><br />
<p><span>A I suggest occubagos (kind of like winnebagos?) </span></p><br />
<p><span>A please hear this as the hurmor that i intend to share what color are you thinking? i think we should paint them multi color</span></p><br />
<p><span>RESTATING </span></p><br />
<p><span>i propose up to 1000 dollars to be funded to build to augment the 1000 dollars </span></p><br />
<p><span>to increase the number of occubagos between 16-20</span></p><br />
<p><span>i am not the czar of occubegos </span></p><br />
<p><span>the group here is funding them and should decide who gets them </span></p><br />
<p><span>2-4 should be set aside for guest houses </span></p><br />
<p><span>design improvements will be included will be taking design improvements </span></p><br />
<p><span>it will be doccumented as a how to guide made avialable in the library </span></p><br />
<p><span>how to distribute the ones now</span></p><br />
<p><span>include that the winterizing group will discuss how to distribute them </span></p><br />
<p><span>probably on saturday IMPUT WANTED/NEEDED </span></p><br />
<p><span>CLARIFYING QUESTIONS</span></p><br />
<p><span>CC I know we&rsquo;re not supposed to use wood is there wood involved</span></p><br />
<p><span>These will be premade items and will probably pass the concern of wood being brought in </span></p><br />
<p><span>and yes I will talk to the lawyer </span></p><br />
<p><span>POINTS OF INFORMATION</span></p><br />
<p><span>POI Technically acording to the city we aren&rsquo;t even allowed to be here </span></p><br />
<p><span>STRONG CONCERNS OR OBJECTIONS </span></p><br />
<p><span>STATEMENTS OF SUPPORT </span></p><br />
<p><span>this is awesome </span></p><br />
<p><span>ARE THERE ANY BLOCKS </span></p><br />
<p><span>Now moving on</span></p><br />
<p><span>thank you to the ideas working group </span></p><br />
<p><span>PROPOSAL PASSES! </span></p><br />
<p><span>note we are 40 people in attendence </span></p><br />
<p><span>proposal by the ideas working group </span></p><br />
<p><span>this monday november 28th Ideas working group will be meeting to discuss </span></p><br />
<p><span>[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/ideas_group_values_data wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/ideas_group_values_data]</span></p><br />
<p><span>proposal by the ideas working group </span></p><br />
<p><span>questions regading the words left out and also why justice is not in the group.</span></p><br />
<p><span>concerns about key values that other groups hold are not include. &nbsp;groups have been struggling to have their values heard - this list could alienate them.</span></p><br />
<p><span>two sers &nbsp;of values missing: &nbsp;anit-opression, racial justice and gender justice; &nbsp;comm=unity history of strength and resistence. &nbsp;stories in boston must be honored here. &nbsp;</span></p><br />
<p><span>proposer answers concerns: &nbsp;this list is meant to be a living document approved by the GA as a primer to take this back and build the document on the list. &nbsp; &nbsp;Outreach to opressed groups was not done as much as it should have been. &nbsp;This list reflects idess of a lot of people. &nbsp;List is a condensing multiple ways of expressing our values. &nbsp;Certain words were grabbed. &nbsp;Just proposing words that might be useful. &nbsp;</span></p><br />
<p><span>GA interrupted by camper</span></p><br />
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<p><span>These are the notes from the Occupy Boston General Assembly</span></p><br />
<p><span>these are taken to the best of the note takers ability (Ethan H.)</span></p><br />
<p><span>they are not a direct transcript, where things could not be heard or understood dash marks are used (--)</span></p><br />
<p><span>7:41 85 people in attendance</span></p><br />
<p><span>introductions of roles</span></p><br />
<p><span>welcome to occupy boston </span></p><br />
<p><span>going over of hand signs </span></p><br />
<p><span>announcements:</span></p><br />
<p><span>**facilitators accountability working group </span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; confusion about getting funds </span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; we have made it easier 857 417 7872</span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; email a new address to get funds </span><span><a href="mailto:obwg.fundingrequests@gmail.com">obwg.fundingrequests@gmail.com</a></span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; to make process easier </span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; &nbsp;does not skip the filling out a form process </span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; &nbsp;question and answer we can not call 24/7</span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; &nbsp;person named bruce is on call 8am-6pm works in the area</span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; **part two to FAWG announcement</span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; some members have been sued by paul carnes and cidney cheryll </span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; there is a flyer circulating from paul and cidney that is anti F.A.W.G. </span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; these persons will try to </span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; next meeting 6pm wednesday in south station </span></p><br />
<p><span>**outreach working group </span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp; all the good work that the working groups are doing</span></p><br />
<p><span>they are doing things two fold</span></p><br />
<p><span>needs mission and vision from working groups </span></p><br />
<p><span>needs actions from working groups </span></p><br />
<p><span>going to make a working doccument of accompolishements </span></p><br />
<p><span>to understand what each other are doing </span></p><br />
<p><span>&ldquo;was blown away by how good we are&rdquo;</span></p><br />
<p><span>this is needed for court! very important</span></p><br />
<p><span>don&rsquo;t want a list of working groups</span></p><br />
<p><span>want a list of what each wg is working on </span></p><br />
<p><span>make it really public &nbsp;on web site and with community </span></p><br />
<p><span>works at </span><span><a href="mailto:rita@brandice.edu">rita@brandice.edu</a></span><span>&nbsp;phone (857) 204-5653</span></p><br />
<p><span>internal working doccument and sharing and educating </span></p><br />
<p><span>mic check </span></p><br />
<p><span>site called </span><span><a href="http://groups.occupyboston.org">groups.occupyboston.org</a></span></p><br />
<p><span>every group has or should have a space on that site where we can tell everyone what we are doing </span></p><br />
<p><span>mic check</span></p><br />
<p><span>on the wiki working groups have posted some extra things </span></p><br />
<p><span>i also suggest that you send an email to all working groups requesting this </span></p><br />
<p><span>care and comfort: Zoe</span></p><br />
<p><span>ensures or attempts to ensure the relative care and comfort for the activists involved in the movement</span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp;develope a place to relax</span></p><br />
<p><span>legal Ben </span></p><br />
<p><span>one of the attourneys representing OB </span></p><br />
<p><span>**Update**</span></p><br />
<p><span>temp restraining order was obtained further hearing on december 1st</span></p><br />
<p><span>mediation has not gone anywhere </span></p><br />
<p><span>the city said no to tents they must go </span></p><br />
<p><span>that was the long and short of it </span></p><br />
<p><span>they did come forward they showed up and did what court wanted </span></p><br />
<p><span>we don&rsquo;t know what the mediatior will tell the judge but we look reasonable infront of the judge</span></p><br />
<p><span>we say tyhat the statute delegating authority to the greenway is unconstutional </span></p><br />
<p><span>for the sake of argument it&rsquo;s protected speech-- the proctected speech is being here-- there is no ample alternative-- </span></p><br />
<p><span>second announcement </span></p><br />
<p><span>had brief discussion about what we may have </span></p><br />
<p><span>one live wittness </span></p><br />
<p><span>5 affadavids </span></p><br />
<p><span>worried about giving out our legal strategie </span></p><br />
<p><span>judge asked for photos </span></p><br />
<p><span>submitted on december 1st</span></p><br />
<p><span>tuesday at noon is the deadline for submitting things </span></p><br />
<p><span>recognizing that this is the model for how society should work </span></p><br />
<p><span>we passed a well thought out proposal last week----</span></p><br />
<p><span>affadavids last sunday in legal tent</span></p><br />
<p><span>we may be dropping occupy boston as a plantif and have just individuals </span></p><br />
<p><span>**media </span></p><br />
<p><span>occupy boston sunday 2pm to 5pm</span></p><br />
<p><span>develope comprehensive media proposal (?)</span></p><br />
<p><span>occupy sacramento sends out press releases every day </span></p><br />
<p><span>we need to bring public opinion back </span></p><br />
<p><span>two large flower beds are being moved tomorrow morning on wednesday about 8 oclock</span></p><br />
<p><span>we have the food tent!!! </span></p><br />
<p><span>it has been felt and touched woo woo</span></p><br />
<p><span>within the week we will have on site</span></p><br />
<p><span>***writers caucus Kevin</span></p><br />
<p><span>7pm wednesday nights at south station </span></p><br />
<p><span>workshop sat at 3 meet at ghandi</span></p><br />
<p><span><a href="mailto:writers@occupyboston.org">writers@occupyboston.org</a></span></p><br />
<p><span>**non violence working group </span></p><br />
<p><span>buenos noches</span></p><br />
<p><span>good evening </span></p><br />
<p><span>mi nombre Jorge </span></p><br />
<p><span>this friday non violence workshop with john....</span></p><br />
<p><span>in the quaker tradition </span></p><br />
<p><span>10am till 12 in fed plaza </span></p><br />
<p><span>meet at ghandi and walk to south station </span></p><br />
<p><span>in the event of a camp shut down </span></p><br />
<p><span>on the day after the raid or shutdown </span></p><br />
<p><span>if there have been arrests </span></p><br />
<p><span>we will meet 815 at the brook new martin court house </span></p><br />
<p><span>to show solidarity with them during their areignment</span></p><br />
<p><span>7pm at the boston common band stand </span></p><br />
<p><span>hold general assembly </span></p><br />
<p><span>what steps we will take follow </span></p><br />
<p><span>**signs </span></p><br />
<p><span>WE NEED HELP AT THE SIGN TENT!</span></p><br />
<p><span>person was out of town for a week and things were stolen </span></p><br />
<p><span>*food </span></p><br />
<p><span>is the relation between people </span></p><br />
<p><span>we have a wonderful management structure </span></p><br />
<p><span>but the dishes aren&rsquo;t getting done</span></p><br />
<p><span>WE HAVE DIVISION OF LABOR PROBLEMS </span></p><br />
<p><span>you&rsquo;re not too good to do dishes </span></p><br />
<p><span>if one has a dish scrape it off first before placing it in the bin </span></p><br />
<p><span>if it is placed into the water the water spoils faster </span></p><br />
<p><span>please help and please follow the rules </span></p><br />
<p><span>***campers ga </span></p><br />
<p><span>proposal for tomorrow about how the camp is structured wednesday at 11am</span></p><br />
<p><span>***Facilitation</span></p><br />
<p><span>we are having a GA on thursday on thanksgiving </span></p><br />
<p><span>on that day we will decide on what to be talked about </span></p><br />
<p><span>it could be an open stack for things we are thankful for </span></p><br />
<p><span>turn up if you&rsquo;re around!! </span></p><br />
<p><span>show your support!</span></p><br />
<p><span>** sherry the houseless and allies comunity working group </span></p><br />
<p><span>wants this working group </span></p><br />
<p><span>monday wed friday 6pm south station </span></p><br />
<p><span>have been discussing drafting a document and proposal for the homeless to be given to gov. patrick and mayor menino</span></p><br />
<p><span>want the housless to come to the meeting </span></p><br />
<p><span><a href="mailto:cherie.l.king@gmail.com">cherie.l.king@gmail.com</a></span><span>&nbsp;PLEASE EMAIL FOR MORE INFO</span></p><br />
<p><span>**faith and spirituality </span></p><br />
<p><span>remind everyone at the top of main street there is a tent avialable for everyone to </span></p><br />
<p><span>relax and stay rooted in love </span></p><br />
<p><span>if you have anythin gyou want to teach of share let us know </span></p><br />
<p><span>10pm </span></p><br />
<p><span>12pm cosmic zen session </span></p><br />
<p><span><a href="mailto:spiritual@occupyboston.org">spiritual@occupyboston.org</a></span></p><br />
<p><span>**acts of random kindness</span></p><br />
<p><span>people from occupy boston will go and do random acts of kindness </span></p><br />
<p><span>some people have jobs and famalies and can&rsquo;t get away </span></p><br />
<p><span>we can do something little for them</span></p><br />
<p><span>if you&rsquo;re interested find Alex </span></p><br />
<p><span><a href="mailto:occupythemindboston@yahoo.com">occupythemindboston@yahoo.com</a></span><span>&nbsp;</span></p><br />
<p><span>**Library and Safety eric</span></p><br />
<p><span>working on de escalation method </span></p><br />
<p><span>one on one method </span></p><br />
<p><span>solidarity from oakland and uc berkley !!!!</span></p><br />
<p><span>have been shot at and have perminant hearing loss from the events </span></p><br />
<p><span>at our ga that we learned that egypt has shown solidarity with them </span></p><br />
<p><span>tuition raised 89% within the UC system</span></p><br />
<p><span>***tod from info tent will be showing solidarity with philly as he travels there in the coming week </span></p><br />
<p><span>****occupy worster has been given a place to stay -- occupy LA received an offer to decamp -- 10,000 feet of office space a farm and housing for the homeless </span></p><br />
<p><span>meeting in copley square at 1pm december 3rd</span></p><br />
<p><span>there is a planing meeting this meeting 26 west street at 5 pm second floor </span></p><br />
<p><span>**spirituality </span></p><br />
<p><span>things </span></p><br />
<p><span>moight be awarre that we are having some problems </span></p><br />
<p><span>so -- thee problems involve issues with the food tent -- evictions -- and the broader comversation about racism and sexism -- they have been having a detrimental effect on the community-- many of the people are standing in front of you are white (talking about the large group that has assembled on the stage) </span></p><br />
<p><span>many cases these broader conversations have spiraled out of controll -- i don&rsquo;t know if this is the forum to address them-- we need to not let them happen in private</span></p><br />
<p><span>mic check </span></p><br />
<p><span>there are clear issues -- of racist conversations happening in our comunity -- we are hurting each other -- we are hurting ourselves -- we have the potential to take these things-- groups of anti racist white groups-- of people of color-- have been talking over and over but it wil take us to iunderstand --- this is pivotal to our work -- this is not dividing out work-- this is our hope as groups of individuals --that we van be accountable to those most affected by systems of white supremicy-- that these people will take a look at how thios comes out ---in our personal relationships---it iw sithout doubt-- white supremicy---is a part of all the other types of supremicy that we need to talk about ----</span></p><br />
<p><span>mic check </span></p><br />
<p><span>are wr going to have an open and honest discussion around </span></p><br />
<p><span>tonight about an hour ago i talked to jamahl craqford </span></p><br />
<p><span>he expressed to me that he had hoped we would discussed </span></p><br />
<p><span>if we want to adress it here we need to address it here and with concern for those people </span></p><br />
<p><span>---everyone here taking accountability for yourselves </span></p><br />
<p><span>if we choose a time to have this conversation within the next 7 days will you come </span></p><br />
<p><span>*temp check most in agreement**</span></p><br />
<p><span>i think it&rsquo;s fantastic that we have decided to talk about this </span></p><br />
<p><span>the important thing is that if we want december 3rd to be succesful we need to tlak about this asap </span></p><br />
<p><span>i want to propose that we have this discussion tonight </span></p><br />
<p><span>they&rsquo;re goijg to let you know what is going on</span></p><br />
<p><span>hi gues i&rsquo;m courtney from outreach community alot of people here know about the racial tension that has been happenng </span></p><br />
<p><span>there have been some issues here at camp</span></p><br />
<p><span>women of color have felt uncomfortable </span></p><br />
<p><span>emails have been sent that are inappropriate</span></p><br />
<p><span>white allies need to speak up about this </span></p><br />
<p><span>they are here standing as revolutionaries</span></p><br />
<p><span>if you have racial tensions that needs to be talked about </span></p><br />
<p><span>on t</span></p><br />
<p><span>my name is mec</span></p><br />
<p><span>i have been asked to speak from my heart</span></p><br />
<p><span>i may cry </span></p><br />
<p><span>i still lnow what i;m talking about</span></p><br />
<p><span>anyone who believes that talking about race willl divide us --is mistaken</span></p><br />
<p><span>those divisions came in with us in this movement </span></p><br />
<p><span>i&rsquo;m really honselty want to do that &nbsp;</span></p><br />
<p><span>i want to give everything </span></p><br />
<p><span>are you with me ?? (responce eys)</span></p><br />
<p><span>we are a communoity that resembles the world </span></p><br />
<p><span>before we can hange or liberate it </span></p><br />
<p><span>we have to awknolege that opression has always defeated every revolutionary movement</span></p><br />
<p><span>we are not exempt from that</span></p><br />
<p><span>we carry the aspirations to change this world </span></p><br />
<p><span>we carry thie (things) that most impacts marganalized groups</span></p><br />
<p><span>alos effects white people --internalized white supremacy keeps us from ourselves </span></p><br />
<p><span>i won&rsquo;t use mic check </span></p><br />
<p><span>not seeing color will make the problem go away?</span></p><br />
<p><span>not seeing color is a form of denial </span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp;if i act like i don&rsquo;t see that this brother is black and beautiful </span></p><br />
<p><span>and likely to go to prison</span></p><br />
<p><span>then i am denied----i don&rsquo;t want you to act like i&rsquo;m not a lesbian </span></p><br />
<p><span>i want you to treat me no different because of it</span></p><br />
<p><span>who i am as a person is different than who i am as a person </span></p><br />
<p><span>if we just act like we&rsquo;re smooth when we see black people that will make it ok</span></p><br />
<p><span>need to make a distinction between old fashioned bigotry and the things that are institutionalized in society</span></p><br />
<p><span>if a duck is a duck then call it a duck </span></p><br />
<p><span>we have not been able to learn how to call it a duck </span></p><br />
<p><span>sometimes my intent doess not match our impact </span></p><br />
<p><span>we hear people that make claims that racism going on </span></p><br />
<p><span>then the backlash is that OOOOOH NO IT&rsquo;S NOT!</span></p><br />
<p><span>there is arrogance in that </span></p><br />
<p><span>white people trying to tell people that it&rsquo;s not going on </span></p><br />
<p><span>what i want to do is try to have conversations about how we perpetuate racism without meaning to----</span></p><br />
<p><span>the structures and systems (need to make sure that they are not) maintaining the status quo </span></p><br />
<p><span>i&rsquo; can we please hear from people of color equal to white alli voices ----are you sure? because we&#39;ve got some shit to say--- ,y brothers and sisters and other folks here do not have any issue with it --- brothers we stand here tonight as allies ---allies don&#39;t mean that we are here only to help when we look at the founding of our nation ---people came together they saw needs--to solve needs we got instititions--those institutions were created by people who look like me </span></p><br />
<p><span>it is the most difficult culture to see---not something we do as individuals </span></p><br />
<p><span>--it&rsquo;s not about an interpersonal peice--what i see happening here--those same systems are being created here in subtle </span></p><br />
<p><span>please stay tuned to the next few days </span></p><br />
<p><span>*we are finished with announcements 9:04pm</span></p><br />
<p><span>announcement</span></p><br />
<p><span>it&rsquo;s going to rain this evening be aware of that </span></p><br />
<p><span>going over hand signals </span></p><br />
<p><span>chris brings proposal to ga through the --- working group </span></p><br />
<p><span>reading of the proposal ---</span></p><br />
<p><span>the idea of right now is to try to get a concensus -- </span></p><br />
<p><span>we have to have a city council sponsopr--- that will take a little time --</span></p><br />
<p><span>Q: could you clarify the relationship between menino and the city council</span></p><br />
<p><span>A menino is separate from the city council this is an appeal to the city council </span></p><br />
<p><span>Q who do you have in mind for a city councelor</span></p><br />
<p><span>A we need to get concensus on this proposal then we will think about who can sponsor it</span></p><br />
<p><span>thinking about the who seems non productive</span></p><br />
<p><span>POINTS OF INFORMATION</span></p><br />
<p><span>appeal for all people present at the GA to be involved </span></p><br />
<p><span>Don&rsquo;t be scurrred </span></p><br />
<p><span>point of information</span></p><br />
<p><span>the language in this proposal has gone through camp to many individuals and working groups </span></p><br />
<p><span>it is a relatively short proposal given all the things that are included </span></p><br />
<p><span>People are discussing now...</span></p><br />
<p><span>more of the factions that occupy boston is representing aren&rsquo;t represented here</span></p><br />
<p><span>Concern: this is a little bit of POI and a little bit of concern-- the legal team did not approve edit or revise this doccument -- the legal support team of occupyboston has no position on this (proposal) </span></p><br />
<p><span>call for strong concerns or objections</span></p><br />
<p><span>now moving on to statements of support </span></p><br />
<p><span>SS: even if this fails we will find out who is a supporter and who is not</span></p><br />
<p><span>SS: i support this-- i see it as a part of our diversity of tactics--this one seems worthwile to me-- </span></p><br />
<p><span>SS: this is not a statement of support of dissagreement-- what i do know is that the image of occupy boston within a lot of people in city hall is that occupy boston is not representative of their communities and that needs to be addressed</span></p><br />
<p><span>SS i think that this is an imperfect doccument--but it is so good that it puts us in a position--doing all things that will ----show respect for city counelors---i think we should just pass it</span></p><br />
<p><span>SS: i am a resident of the city of boston i just voted for the city council members---i support this --- if you need residents who support this -- and to go ------i will support this and go </span></p><br />
<p><span>SS: the first time i aw this purposal i said dear god no-- because that objection has not been brought i want to bring it--i thiink that a diversity of tactics means just that 0 supproting this purposal -- does in no way compromises those people who are concerned with working with the state</span></p><br />
<p><span>asking for amendments </span></p><br />
<p><span>A: i purpose that we do a what is it called a survey and collect signatures from boston residents who support this purposal *called a petition*</span></p><br />
<p><span>A someone on twitter wanted underemployment to be added </span></p><br />
<p><span>the proposers are going to get a chance to re write their proposal </span></p><br />
<p><span>hearing from medical </span></p><br />
<p><span>5 stethiscopes $75</span></p><br />
<p><span>ear thermometer needed $38</span></p><br />
<p><span>pulse ox (gives a pulse and blood oxygen level)</span></p><br />
<p><span>other items noted </span></p><br />
<p><span>$211.57 including shipping </span></p><br />
<p><span>second thing </span></p><br />
<p><span>some of our vests did not come in and we will need to re order the vests </span></p><br />
<p><span>Clarifying questions:</span></p><br />
<p><span>CC what is a pulse ox </span></p><br />
<p><span>it takes the blood ox level and give a pulse </span></p><br />
<p><span>CC can we not just get more covers </span></p><br />
<p><span>when we first started we had 6 stethiscopes and they have gone down to one</span></p><br />
<p><span>we will have a sign in check out list for the new stethiscopes</span></p><br />
<p><span>proposal is the same as when it was read however not taking in 30 more dollars to cover possible shipping and handling charges and the rest will go back to FAWG </span></p><br />
<p><span>re stating the proposal brought by Chris and Outreach </span></p><br />
<p><span>proposal goes through a second process with no new amendments </span></p><br />
<p><span>&nbsp;</span></p><br />
<p><span>proposal passes! </span></p><br />
<p><span>Go on ot the wiki </span></p><br />
<p><span>email occupy boston outreach group about how to get involved </span></p><br />
<p><span>Now up we have a winterization proposal </span></p><br />
<p><span>Please save the boxes of joe! </span></p><br />
<p><span>This was proposed two weeks ago but there was not quorum</span></p><br />
<p><span>For one thousand dollars to build the tiny house on wheels </span></p><br />
<p><span>we have gotten 1000 from firedog lake to help build these </span></p><br />
<p><span>the iron workers and carpenters unions are involved with building these </span></p><br />
<p><span>they are built on bicycle trailers so they can be eaisly moved</span></p><br />
<p><span>want to make an appeal for this 1000 grant that would be matched </span></p><br />
<p><span>there is a build out date on the 29th </span></p><br />
<p><span>up to 1000 to build 8-10 trailers monies to be refunded with the proof of reciepts </span></p><br />
<p><span>taking clarifying questions </span></p><br />
<p><span>CC can you make it for more than one person </span></p><br />
<p><span>yes depends on how cozy </span></p><br />
<p><span>CC are you conc</span></p><br />
<p><span>CC are you concerned about BPD stopping you from them from coming in</span></p><br />
<p><span>or if they confiscate them</span></p><br />
<p><span>Yes there is some risk but they are mobile and the risk is low. If there is some reason we have to leave we can take them with</span></p><br />
<p><span>if we do it all at once that will be best</span></p><br />
<p><span>CC do we know of any liscence or building codes that prevent this kind of st</span></p><br />
<p><span>CC have we gotten ahold of critical mass to see if they are interested in being involved with bringing them in </span></p><br />
<p><span>Yes we have thought of that </span></p><br />
<p><span>POINTS OF INFORMATION</span></p><br />
<p><span>POI The houses are structurally sound they are ---they look rather comfortable --i think it would servet he camp very well </span></p><br />
<p><span>CC? are they ventelated and safe to sleep in </span></p><br />
<p><span>I have slept in them and did not feel dizzy but they may be inproved </span></p><br />
<p><span>STRONG CONCERNS OR OBJECTIONS </span></p><br />
<p><span>Concern &nbsp;the cioty will use this as a quote unquote safety concern if they are not fire proof or ventelated to say that we are trying to build houses here </span></p><br />
<p><span>Concern I have a concern that may be unfounded given that I came in halfway into the conversation--what we are approaching in the next couple of weeks having to deal with the injunction --- have we clarified that with the lawyers yet ---about constructing and bringing in those beautiful smalll houses -- </span></p><br />
<p><span>Response - i have not but will talk to a lawyer about this </span></p><br />
<p><span>STATEMENTS OF SUPPORT </span></p><br />
<p><span>SS I think these houses can provide a good strategy---we an take these to another spot and build occupations around the city</span></p><br />
<p><span>SS i am going to piggy back--little houses work --amazing gettaway supplies--occupy everywhere until we meet at the common </span></p><br />
<p><span>SS i am building one for myself</span></p><br />
<p><span>SS i think this could bennifit occupy boston and everywhere else as a model=--- this is amazing </span></p><br />
<p><span>SS george washington your firrst president said &ldquo;you will do whatever you want you&rdquo; you want to camp here,,, you camp here he was elected by 100% only to be president </span></p><br />
<p><span>SS the little house on the greenway it writes itself </span></p><br />
<p><span>AMENDMENTS </span></p><br />
<p><span>I would suggest that you write in the proposal that you will find a way to fairly distribute these houses and how to get them into there </span></p><br />
<p><span>A &nbsp;i agree with what he said and I have an ideas. those who want one should help build one </span></p><br />
<p><span>A we should provide malliable skimatics to campers so that they can source their own materials so that campers can build their own materials for free</span></p><br />
<p><span>A i suggest we come up with an awesome name that does not refer to them as houses </span></p><br />
<p><span>A If we are giving halt the money from our communal pot then we should figure out a way to hare them for communal housing to those who want to stay a couple nights </span></p><br />
<p><span>A i would say we should research a way to properly ventelate the homes </span></p><br />
<p><span>A I suggest occubagos (kind of like winnebagos?) </span></p><br />
<p><span>A please hear this as the hurmor that i intend to share what color are you thinking? i think we should paint them multi color</span></p><br />
<p><span>RESTATING </span></p><br />
<p><span>i propose up to 1000 dollars to be funded to build to augment the 1000 dollars </span></p><br />
<p><span>to increase the number of occubagos between 16-20</span></p><br />
<p><span>i am not the czar of occubegos </span></p><br />
<p><span>the group here is funding them and should decide who gets them </span></p><br />
<p><span>2-4 should be set aside for guest houses </span></p><br />
<p><span>design improvements will be included will be taking design improvements </span></p><br />
<p><span>it will be doccumented as a how to guide made avialable in the library </span></p><br />
<p><span>how to distribute the ones now</span></p><br />
<p><span>include that the winterizing group will discuss how to distribute them </span></p><br />
<p><span>probably on saturday IMPUT WANTED/NEEDED </span></p><br />
<p><span>CLARIFYING QUESTIONS</span></p><br />
<p><span>CC I know we&rsquo;re not supposed to use wood is there wood involved</span></p><br />
<p><span>These will be premade items and will probably pass the concern of wood being brought in </span></p><br />
<p><span>and yes I will talk to the lawyer </span></p><br />
<p><span>POINTS OF INFORMATION</span></p><br />
<p><span>POI Technically acording to the city we aren&rsquo;t even allowed to be here </span></p><br />
<p><span>STRONG CONCERNS OR OBJECTIONS </span></p><br />
<p><span>STATEMENTS OF SUPPORT </span></p><br />
<p><span>this is awesome </span></p><br />
<p><span>ARE THERE ANY BLOCKS </span></p><br />
<p><span>Now moving on</span></p><br />
<p><span>thank you to the ideas working group </span></p><br />
<p><span>PROPOSAL PASSES! </span></p><br />
<p><span>note we are 40 people in attendence </span></p><br />
<p><span>proposal by the ideas working group </span></p><br />
<p><span>this monday november 28th Ideas working group will be meeting to discuss </span></p><br />
<p><span><a href="http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/ideas_group_values_data">wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/ideas_group_values_data</a></span></p><br />
<p><span>proposal by the ideas working group </span></p><br />
<p><span>questions regading the words left out and also why justice is not in the group.</span></p><br />
<p><span>concerns about key values that other groups hold are not include. &nbsp;groups have been struggling to have their values heard - this list could alienate them.</span></p><br />
<p><span>two sers &nbsp;of values missing: &nbsp;anit-opression, racial justice and gender justice; &nbsp;comm=unity history of strength and resistence. &nbsp;stories in boston must be honored here. &nbsp;</span></p><br />
<p><span>proposer answers concerns: &nbsp;this list is meant to be a living document approved by the GA as a primer to take this back and build the document on the list. &nbsp; &nbsp;Outreach to opressed groups was not done as much as it should have been. &nbsp;This list reflects idess of a lot of people. &nbsp;List is a condensing multiple ways of expressing our values. &nbsp;Certain words were grabbed. &nbsp;Just proposing words that might be useful. &nbsp;</span></p><br />
<p><span>GA interrupted by camper</span></p></body></html></div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=WG/OBIT/Hosting_cost_proposal&diff=7132WG/OBIT/Hosting cost proposal2011-11-22T19:29:41Z<p>Matt: Created page with "== Background == At the [http://www.occupyboston.org/2011/10/18/monday-evening-general-assembly-proposals/ 18 October 2011]&nbsp;a resolution was passed to move working groups o..."</p>
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<div>== Background ==<br />
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At the [http://www.occupyboston.org/2011/10/18/monday-evening-general-assembly-proposals/ 18 October 2011]&nbsp;a resolution was passed to move working groups off of Google Groups, and to transition to [http://mayfirst.org/ May First/People Link] as a hosting provider. &nbsp;May First is a non-profit cooperative ISP.<br />
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Since that time, the OccupyBoston IT group (OBIT) have transitioned more than 70 email accounts and 35 mailing lists to May First. &nbsp;We have also transitioned away from Wikispaces (a third party wiki provider) to our own [http://wiki.occupyboston.org wiki], and we are also developing new [http://groups.occupyboston.org working group services].<br />
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As our infrastructure needs grow, we are consuming more resources at May First, who currently provides this service to us for free. &nbsp;This proposal would have Occupy Boston pay May First for a "dedicated server", which is a computer that is not shared with any others and solely dedicated to Occupy Boston. &nbsp;This will allow us even more autonomy as well as room to grow.ver.<br />
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== Proposal ==<br />
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The Occupy Boston Information Technology Working Group proposes that, in order to help Occupy Boston's online presence and infrastructure to continue to grow, $@@ be paid monthly to May First/People Link. &nbsp;In return, May First/People Link will provide us with a virtual server with more resources. &nbsp;This virtual server will not be shared amongst the other May First/People Link members, and thus give Occupy Boston more control over how the server is configured and used.</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=Working_Groups&diff=6978Working Groups2011-11-21T18:22:47Z<p>Matt: </p>
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<div>'''Working groups''' are teams of people within the Occupation, each focused on a particular area or task. These groups are the organs supporting the body of the Occupation. Within them you will find resources, discussions, and courses of action in every field.<br />
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Working groups are '''open''', which means anyone can help out, including you! Like the Occupation as a whole, working groups are run as horizontal democracies, using consensus decision-making and holding publically accessible meetings. To join or volunteer with a working group, see its wiki page for contact information and meeting times.<br />
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:''An alphabetized list of working groups:''<br />
*[[Animal Safety]]<br />
*[[WG/Anti-Oppression|Anti-Oppression]]<br />
*[[Arts and Culture|Arts and Culture]]<br />
*[[Camper Caucus|Camper Caucus]]<br />
*[[Citizens United to End Political Bribery|Citizens United to End Political Bribery]] For ending corporate money in politics<br />
*[[Commons]] Defining what is "Common Property"<br />
*[[Tent City/Safety/Community Wellness|Community Wellness]]<br />
*[[Direct Action|Direct Action]]<br />
*[[Energy|Energy]]<br />
*[[External Technology Support]] (to work on this wiki and other sites, not necessarily at Dewey Square)<br />
*[[WG/Facilitation|Facilitation]]<br />
*[[Faith and Spirituality|Faith and Spirituality]]<br />
*[[Food|Food]]<br />
*[[Finance Working Group|Financial Accountability]]<br />
*[[Free School University (FSU)]]<br />
*[[Health Justice|Health Justice]]<br />
*[[Houseless And Allies Community Working Group]]<br />
*[[Ideas]]<br />
*[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Indigenous_Solidarity_and_Outreach Indigenous Solidarity and Outreach (Decolonize Boston)]<br />
*[[Individual Action]] What each of us can do on our own<br />
*[[Info Tent]]<br />
*[[InterOccupation Communications/Connections]]<br />
*[[Immigration Working Group|Immigration]]<br />
*[[Jail Support]]<br />
*[[Legal|Legal]]<br />
*[[Tent City/Library|Library, A-Z Library]]<br />
*[[Logistics|Logistics]]<br />
*[[Media|Media]]<br />
*[[Media Strategy|Media Strategy]]<br />
*[[Medical|Medical]]<br />
*[[Music and Events]]<br />
*[[Nonviolence and Civil Disobedience (Working Group)|Nonviolence and Civil Disobedience]]<br />
*[[WG/OBIT|OBIT]] Occupy Boston Information Technology<br />
*[[Occupy Boston Globe]]<br />
*[[Occupy Everywhere|Occupy Everywhere]]<br />
*[[Outreach|Outreach]]<br />
*[[WG/Peace Action|Peace Action]]<br />
*[[People of Color Caucus|People of Color Caucus]]<br />
*[[Queer and Trans Caucus|Queer and Trans Caucus]]<br />
*[[Safety|Safety]]<br />
*[[Signs|Signs]]<br />
*[[Solidarity]]<br />
*[[Strategies, Proposals, Positions|Strategies, Proposals, Positions]]<br />
*[[Street Theater]]<br />
*[[Students Occupy]]<br />
*[[Survivor Advocacy]]<br />
*[[Transparency|Transparency]]<br />
*[[UU Unitarian Universalists]]<br />
*[[Volunteer Coordination|Volunteer Coordination]]<br />
*[[Winterization and Fire Safety]]<br />
*[[Womens Caucus]]<br />
*[[Arts/Media/Writers' Caucus|Writers' Caucus]]</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=GA_Minutes_Saturday_Nov_5,_2011&diff=6961GA Minutes Saturday Nov 5, 20112011-11-21T16:54:17Z<p>Matt: cleaned up some of the broken markup.</p>
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<div>'''Occupy Boston General Assembly'''<br />
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November 5, 2011<br />
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Caroline, Alex-process mgr;&nbsp; Gorge-stack;&nbsp; Alex-timekeeper;&nbsp; Rev Mary Francis Drake-minutes<br />
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Hand signal review<br />
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Consensus reviewed; floor aids<br />
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Proposal, clarifying questions, points of info,objections/concerns,&nbsp; statements of support, ammendments, restatement&nbsp; of proposal, review 2<sup>nd</sup> time<br />
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Working Group announcements:<br />
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#Information Working Group, Kevin- first working group Monday at 7 pm at info tent, collecting email of people who want to volunteer-new, email daily volunteer needs and events going on each day, if your working group needs volunteers one email daily to [mailto:voinfotent@occupyboston.org voinfotent@occupyboston.org] , email now [mailto:occupythecalendar@gmail.com occupythecalendar@gmail.com] to get on the calendar<br />
#Facilitation Group:&nbsp; Eric-passed proposal today in-camp ocupiers frustration that their voice is not heard at GA,, in camp individual announcement section will be added to ga will come prior to individual announcements and included in progressive stack,<br />
#FSU: eden- need volunteers for daytime to help teachers, put up signs, greeters, direct people, no tent so sign for FSU needs to have sign visible; please sign up on clipboard, 1 hour or 4 hours needed; 20 minutes greeter, set up microphone, set up space, IMPORTANT: FSU won’t survive if there are no greeters in support of meeting teachers, [mailto:Rachel@freeschooluniversity.org Rachel@freeschooluniversity.org] if you want to teach, [mailto:eden@freeschooluniversity.org eden@freeschooluniversity.org] if you want to volunteer<br />
#Ideas:&nbsp; polling what people from the heart feel are central values; what values do we all share; put your values on the whiteboard by library, information box by Gandhi statue as well, collecting interview by Mallory, Daniel, ideas presented on Monday at 7 pm<br />
#Signs:&nbsp; Jay, looking for volunteers to help with sign tent working group meeting tues at 2 at tent; good way to get message out, hold signs on Atlantic during day and night; working group mtg tues 3 pm<br />
#Alternative banking:; Liam, formation of working group to stop ‘fighting’ the 1percent or trying to convince corporations or politicians to support what we value but making own bank to support those things;working group meeting tomorrow before GA by pyramid, 6:30<br />
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Individual Announcements:<br />
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#Food:&nbsp; extra soup, too much food, soup available, gets cold quick, volunteers needed for washing dishes; getting water, Chipotle donating; need people to organize/run kitchen, new kitchen tent coming next week; restaurants donate hot food; need cereal and jelly;<br />
#Volunteer coordination:&nbsp; working groups say they’re understaffed, now there are many who want to volunteer so working to match volunteers with working group needs, info/media/outreach groups to get coordinated for productivity<br />
#Financial Accountability:&nbsp; Greg Murphy-computer access –wiki page financial transactions being reported daily, debit and credits published, more details coming, detail level coming; financial acctg meeting,&nbsp; Mon/Wed 6 pm South Station above the food mezzanine ,, thurs 3 pm 4 pt channel, Sunday-tba, proposals listed on wiki page, wepay accts transferring $30,000 in general fund will be moved to credit union, Liberty Bay credit union, deal that anyone who opens an account Liberty Bay will give $50 to you,<br />
#Logistics/winterization:&nbsp; smoking on camp-smokers please be cool and throw your butts away, pick up others; please don’t smoke in tents as it’s a fire hazard;&nbsp; working group tents and spaces; tring to find spaces but not much space need ideas;&nbsp; possibility to buy tents but need to know working group ideas for winter tent; mtgs 2 pm Ssat/Sun and 5:30 pm weekdays; logistics Sun at 10 pm; greenway-please don’t&nbsp; use gardens area, keep it clear, permit issue re: farmer’s market-let’s embrace them as they’re on our side….local&nbsp;; food tent ordered and will order within the week approved thru GA process<br />
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Individual Announcements:<br />
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#David:&nbsp; ieas working group-effort to write a statement of purpose for ‘occupy’ an working authors group1 have a draft and is published onwiki; looking for ideas<br />
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Working&nbsp; Group Proposals:<br />
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#Winterization:&nbsp; emergency funds for winter:&nbsp; if a storm comes w/supplies/logistics; propose a budget of$2000 for blankets, tarps, hats, scarves, dropcloths, etc. for when logistic tents runs out; receipts will be provided to fin accountability group;<ol style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;"><br />
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*Small groups discuss<br />
*?s-<ol style="list-style-type:lower-roman;"><br />
<li>how much of first proposal of $1500 and how it was spent….tarps, wool socks, rubber suits for safety & medical, rubber boots, $1200 spent; $300 left over –may be inclement weather this week we may not have enough time to have funds ready to go for coming weather;</li><br />
<li>$ ways to keep people warm;&nbsp; donation requests, many things are donated so we want budget available to buy things that aren’t donated</li><br />
<li>Fear that people will start getting cold and go home---consensus process , please bring up as pt of concern; 5:30 weekdays, 2 pm weekends-winterization</li><br />
<li>&nbsp;</li><br />
<li>working group-keep tents and community safe; mtgs in south station on mezzanine or near aubonpain.</li><br />
</ol><li>Points of info:<ol style="list-style-type:lower-roman;"><br />
<li>One man tent, seen a few more around, consolidating space into bigger tents will eliminate one individual tents would be good;</li><br />
<li>Will we be ready knowing where supplies are coming from when snow comes?-most purchased from Hilton tent city and army surplus store on mass ave, plans in place for bulk buying</li><br />
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<li>Concerns/Objections:<ol style="list-style-type:lower-roman;"><br />
<li>Any funds used for sustainable ideas like raw materials like wool and making blankets and other things?&nbsp; If we buy only specialize things, we’ll runout of funds quickly</li><br />
<li>If it gets cold, does that constitute use of $? Can we generalize that anytime we need it we use it….may be an amendment in just a moment.</li><br />
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<li>Ammendments<ol style="list-style-type:lower-roman;"><br />
<li>Generalize proposal to say anytime it gets cold and there is need, funds are automatically available to alleviat e it</li><br />
<li>Suggest that we specify that the judgement of when it is cold enough to spend $ when it’s up to winterization group when to spend funds</li><br />
<li>Less than 32 degrees, winterization would be able to make decision to spend winterization funds</li><br />
<li>Take wind temperature into account</li><br />
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Proposal Amendment from Winterization group:&nbsp; emergency budget used in urgent situations, but would consider making things but would like to keep ‘sustainable’ language out of revised proposal<br />
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Revised: $2000 for emergency fund when it’s ‘cold as hell’ left up to discretion of winterization working group, receipts provided to oversight and transparency with accountability<br />
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&nbsp;Question: what’s in the buget, over $30,000 acct and about $18000 in credit union<br />
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&nbsp;Points of info-none<br />
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Concerns/objections-none<br />
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Support-Greg strongly supports proposal in his heart an publics’ heart and people who occupy here are such a strong symbol of what this movement is about!<br />
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Ammendments; change language of ‘extremely cold’ i/o ‘cold as hell’<br />
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2<sup>nd</sup> amend to ad in winterization working group can also buy items they deem necessary for the emergency other than or in addition to the items on the list<br />
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&nbsp; 3<sup>rd</sup> amendment:&nbsp; way for individual occupants to register their needs-bring up in restatement<br />
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2<sup>nd</sup> reproposal:&nbsp; $2000 in emergency funds for storm s and extremely col weather up to the discretion of winterization working group which meets daily, for items they eem necessary; receipts to accountability;<br />
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Consensus reached with more than 75% in favor.<br />
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2<sup>nd</sup> proposal from facilitation:&nbsp; has been worked on for 3 weeks, consensus&nbsp; w/in the group, processed twice, printed copy given out by speaker to share w/group; called ‘Priority Proposal Process’<br />
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&nbsp;&nbsp; Any working group or individual can bring things up for proposal/process; spirit of proposal is to ask that there be more community participation before proposals get presented to GA.&nbsp; Asking proposals to go through steps and they would get priority on proposal stack.<br />
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&nbsp;See typed proposal&nbsp; on wiki under facilitation working group.<br />
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*Any way to provide technology to people in camp who do not have it to print and add to wiki? Response:&nbsp; proposal states that printed copies would be made available at the info tent;&nbsp; questions may belong to IT…this proposal doesn’t address how to do that<br />
*Digital divide: &nbsp;how do people in camp come to know about this by getting copies available on camp<br />
*Who in camp will make it possible to put proposals together.&nbsp; Response: facilitation will assist with process for anyone who needs technology help<br />
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<li>At transparency mtg: jean and martin of media-said that for occupy business said that for short periods of time the computers in media are available</li><br />
<li>Member of Facilitators available to help people put things on wiki</li><br />
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<li>Speaker not in support of this proposal, 4 days is too long, simpler ways to address this; counterproposal-agenda on white board&nbsp; to vote on priorities;</li><br />
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<li>Support:<ul style="list-style-type:circle;"><br />
<li>One person believes that concenting a proposal that has already been talked about makes the proposal more efficient</li><br />
<li>Another in support, as 4 day limit will not delay proposals since this one has taken&nbsp; 2 weeks to get to ga; doesn’t think it will slow down proposal process</li><br />
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<li>Amendments:<ul style="list-style-type:circle;"><br />
<li>Eric-propose to amend that those who want to make priorituy proposals are allowed or enabled to bring proposals physically if they are not able to submit them electronically</li><br />
<li>Would like some language if emergencies come up if something&nbsp; needs to be voted on immediately;</li><br />
<li>Other concern re-expressed; counter proposals can be brought up at any time to supercede current proposal even if it is concensed.</li><br />
<li>Strongly support having discussions before votes but not necessarily 4 days in advance; perhaps there needs to be an alternative…which is someone wanting to discuss the proposal at the GA and still use ga format for discussion</li><br />
<li>Thinks it would be a good idea to allow this for priority proposals and other proposals we can ask GA to sort the rest in the priority order they deem appropriate</li><br />
<li>Proposal that there be a limit of the number of priority proposals at ga to allow less formal propsals a guaranteed space for consideration</li><br />
<li>Folks that don’t have access to internet should be able to deliver plans for priority proposal to media and information who will disseminate the proposal…response that facilitation group has already offered to make internet and printing available</li><br />
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<li>Call for quarum:&nbsp; are there enough present to speak for whole camp?</li><br />
<li>No quarum&nbsp; tonight for the consensus.&nbsp; Speaker would like to address concerns<ul style="list-style-type:circle;"><br />
<li>4 days not too much time….gives people notice</li><br />
<li>Language of emergency proposals go to head of stack immediately</li><br />
<li>Likes the idea of having only 2 priority process&nbsp; proposals per GA</li><br />
<li>Proposals that don’t go thru priority process, put on board for GA group to prioritize those</li><br />
<li>Facilitation mtgs 5 pm mon-fri, sat/sun 4 pm; cold weather at south station</li><br />
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Mike from occupy Wall Street announces that he is in solidarity with occupy boston and available to talk to people<br />
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Proposal from Winterization Group:&nbsp;&nbsp; bring it up tonight even though it won’t be consensed tonight<br />
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Asking for $1000 for tiny houses on wheels 10 of them to be built to address ‘permanency’ regs from city; easy to be moved, well insulated,&nbsp; $100 per one person, $120 for 2 person, Sage could teach how to build<br />
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Why 10?&nbsp; Small portion of overall budget…to try them out, then propose more.<br />
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Why&nbsp; not for everyone?&nbsp; That’s a possibility, designed by Sage .<br />
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sage speaks….about 2” think styro w/foil R10 insulation value, ceiling is 3 layers of 6mil poly, clear plastic with air space w/insulation but doesn’t drip, design changes, maybe bigger, body heat keeps it warm, hot water bottle makes it cozy,<br />
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&nbsp;&nbsp; How will it be decided who would get these?&nbsp; &nbsp;Further discussion around who would get them.<br />
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Notetaking ends since there is not quarum.<br />
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Discussion continues about building wheeled housing.&nbsp; Housing will need to be built off site by volunteers as building supplies cannot be built on site.<br />
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Point of info:&nbsp; Somerville group has large workshop with building tools an have agreed to let us use them for whatever we&nbsp; need to do. SWEET!<br />
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Is it hard to breathe inside them?&nbsp; Small crack around the door lets in oxygen; may make gortexwindow<br />
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Would it be possible to deploy in stages? So we know that we know that police see that we’re building or housing them here so they won’t stop us..&nbsp; response:&nbsp; these are safe so they shouldn’t have any objection.<br />
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Besides ventilation is there natural light….addressed with clear plastic on the ceiling.<br />
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Can we test flammability?&nbsp; We’ll talk about it more at proposal and we have not flammable methods of warming onsite, no open flame. &nbsp;Also no smoking should be happening in tents.&nbsp;<br />
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One more point-woodshop in Somerville is fully outfitted to comply with city ordinance and could test it there.<br />
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Design is not perfect…first prototype. Sage open to ideas to improvements.<br />
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Would you make working group for those who want to participate/build?<br />
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Maybe winterization group could be part of that.<br />
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Inividual Stack:<br />
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#Martin: address how to unite people that don’t live here with people that do live here; newcomers and those who’ve been here since day 1; concern with fracturing;&nbsp; sign up at info camp to get people plugged in; those who live here and hang out-try to help ease tensions between campers and newcomers for cohesion and better use of language…not me/us/them, we’re all in this together</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=GA_Minutes_Tues_Nov_15,_2011&diff=6960GA Minutes Tues Nov 15, 20112011-11-21T16:47:46Z<p>Matt: </p>
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<div>Talking has been happening for not quite an hour so far. We have discussed feelings about the crackdowns at occupy boston.<br />
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Robin: text Occupyboston to 443322 so that you can get a text message alerting you to what the news is. Text occupyboston to the number 443322. This text message service is for very serious emergencies, not like “Hey, we need tents, hey it’s raining.”<br />
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If you were already on the list, you are still on the list.<br />
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Facilitator: We’re going to break into six groups for a half hour. All of these are immediate response/long term strategy (in the event of crisis). <br />
There will be six groups, with one facilitator per group. Please join the group you most want to join.<br />
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If there are camping occupiers here, we’d love if there was at least one camper in each of the six groups. The first group will--who’s the facilitator out there--Eli. Eli’s got his hand up. THis group is immediate response for Outreach and Media. Eli will be next to the sign tent.<br />
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The next group is for strategies, approaches, nonviolence, direct action, possessions for when the cops come. Anasstassia will be with the strategy-when cops come. THis will be at the plaza.<br />
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3: Immediate Response: Legal--for during and after an eviction. Alex will be the facilitator for this. Meet him on the stage.<br />
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4: Immediate Response: after the crackdown, our first GA, prison, bail, etc. Meet David for this. David is going in front of the Fed (where the facilitators usually meet).<br />
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5: Long term strategy post-crackdown: retaking Dewey, logistics for this. See Alison for this. SHe’ll be close to the library tent. THis is Alison. <br />
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6: Immediate Response: Medical, during and after the crackdown/eviction/disruption of our space. Meet Matt at the front of the stage for this.<br />
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CQ; Please repeat the groups.<br />
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Facilitator repeats the groups. Friendly notetaker dgoesn’t retranscribe this.<br />
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The groups are winding down. It’s now 8:40. We’re getting ready to report out.<br />
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Facilitator: We’re reconvening, move back in and take a seat. e need to hear all of your voices. We’re going to do share-outs, and each group will have five minutes to share out what it is they talked about in their particular group. THen before we end the evening we will spend some time on what we will do with all of this.<br />
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Group 1: Immediate Response, Outreach and Media. <br />
We obviously need to create a really strong comm network. One thing that’s coming up is a phone tree. I call 5 people and they each call 5 people and it grows exponentially and then we can reach a third of the state. We need to think multiplatform--twitter, facebook, human contacts, everything. We need human to human info sharing for good relationships. ALso, flyers. We have strategic plans that may include sending out the battle cry to everyone and people coming in from their various points and pasting flyers up along their commute to alert folks to what’s going on.<br />
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Eli: we also talked about equipment. We need to get as many cheap cameras in the hands of occupiers as possible. We need to be aware of battery loss; there’s a great enercell battery pack for the iPhone. We didn’t finihs our conversation and we need a more comprehensive strategy for this emergency; we shared emails and we want to keep the conversation going. We took really good notes and we’re going to get them up on the wiki.<br />
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When we are doing livestreaming please know that everything you say will be broadcasted to the world. Try to keep it accurate, reporting the events as they happened as a human recorder and reporter.<br />
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One more thing: an emergency control center at E5 where ppl with AV and social media experience could run off to really quickly, so they could do up to the minute media work as it needs done.<br />
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Group 2: Immediate response, strategy, for when the cops come.<br />
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Facilitator Angela is offering to sing another song.<br />
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Facilitator is reminding us: please stay through the end, as this is such an important process. We’re going to consent on a place where we can meet after a crackdown--even if the crackdown is tonight. It’s really important, it’s critical that we make that decision tonight, so please stick around through the process.<br />
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Group 2 rep: We looked at what we should do on the evening that THings happen. We talked about an early warning system to let ppl know if we’re in trouble. We talked about flags at the site, phone trees, we need to coordinate people to take action. We talked about having some folks who won’t be arrested who can get valuable things out so they won’t be destroyed (like they were at OWS). We want to be efficient so that people who do not want to be arrested do not get arrested. We like the phone tree. We want to invite working groups specifically to meet and plan strategies. We want civil disobedience training ASAP. It was suggested that DA would be an appropriate.... people who are not sleeping here … we are concerned about civil safety and civil disobedience training. So we’ll repeat emails...Wall street...workers and students come down if possible and we want to hear them ASAP if it happens tonight at 3am what will hapen. (Sorry, interruptions.) <br />
Please bring your video cameras and film film film everything; we want to record what happens. We are nonviolent; ultimately, we cannot fight them violently, we can just let them arrest us. And we want to have key contacts from labor and other groups; it would be nice to get specific people in the groups to mobilize their people quickly, so we can get people down here and get streaming out to get people to see what’s going on. And Anasstassia: there’s one thing I’m missing, what is it?<br />
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Anasstasia: Having all phones on...<br />
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Group : ANd make sure you have your phone on loud, all night, if you’re on a phone tree.<br />
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Anasstasia: So if there is a crackdown tonight, as a GA, we need to find out what we want to do. In our group when we discussed it it was clear that if they come we do want to defend the camp to the best of our personal and social ability. SO no one is saying I will do this or not; this is a general proposal that if stuff goes down tonight, we are proposing that we do try to keep Dewey Square. So that is the proposal that is on the table and we are going to put that through consensus and we’ll decide whether we consent to it or not incase it comes tonight.<br />
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Facilitator: Next group up is Immediate Response, Legal.<br />
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IR Legal: OK, so...we had a meeting on what to do before, after, during a police action and preemptive actions we can take. TO increase our preparedness: legal WG announcements at GA educating people about bail options, incl the bail fund. ANother thing: distribute the NLG phone number to write on your arm before any actions. You can call them if you get arrested. We’ve ben doing this stuff but we want to ramp it up. The NLG number is: 617-227-7335. (This is mic checked and verified by lots of people.) (Varseek is what it spells on your phone...617-VAR-SEEK.)<br />
Civil disobedience training is next on the list. OWS members speak of this; we want to do more training from legal or wherever and just increase the amt of training we do and perhaps get some WGs doing that.<br />
Once people get arrested we can overburden the system by turning down plea bargains and other tactics like that.<br />
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POI: Last time there were mass arrests, the NLG didn’t bail anyone out. <br />
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POI: At this time NLG has lots of money available. RIght now in a safe location to bail people out.<br />
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IR Legal: Legal WG confirms this; basically we want to make the bail fund more accessible. Legal observer training: the folks in green hats are legal observers. The NLG offers training to become a legal observer and we recomend that we start doing that training here at camp. Disseminating literature, like flyers, that help you know your rights and what to do when you are arrested, and helping you to know what your options are once you are arrested. Also, using the text message system earlier to call for emergency donations to bail fund if we need it. ALso, having a talk from Legal on what services NLG can offer to us so that we can take advantage of these services if we need. Also exploring options in other options, like amicus curae--which is being a friend to other legal actions [ed note: no, friend of the court--think amicus curae brief] ALso we need to make sure we know where people are taken when they are arrested because that was a problem last time.<br />
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Group: Immediate Response AFTER the crackdown.<br />
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IR Postcrackdown, Desiree speaking: The people, united<br />
Crowd: will never be defeated.<br />
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IR Postcrackdown--Desiree: So first, where do we meet after a raid. The next day we would meet at court -- generally it’s all in one jurisdiction, so what if we met at Boston Municipal court the next morning. 2: In regards to bail, we came up with a buddy system; everybody at camp partners with someone offsite who is the ir bail buddy; the bail buddy bails you out after the raid. FAWG general fund, legal bail fund--the general fund requires GA consensus, but in a worst case scenario--like if there’s 200 people who need bail and we don’t have enough in the bail fund--we’d like FAWG and legal and us to vote on making it automatic.<br />
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FAWG rep: it is automatic, no need to vote, it’s taken care of. <br />
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IR Postcrackdown, Desiree: 3, to have GA at 7pm the next day at the Common. (I.e. the day after the crackdown.)<br />
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Facilitation: Now you’ve heard what we’re going to be consenting on later; we’ll go through the proposal in the usual consensus process later, please stay. Horizontal democracy takes a long time. It takes longer but hopefully it sticks better.<br />
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IR Medical eand Personal Items: It was a very small group but we came up with some good ideas. If we have time (like an hour) we’ll get personal possessions out and inventory stuff beforehand. We need to know from ppl what they want taken out of here; what is important to you and what you want to get out of here. Then a separate census/inventory for every WG, what the working groups really need taken out in the event of a raid. THen, determine a location; where can the stuff be carted temporarily to be retrieved at a later date. We discussed the option of cargo bikes so we could get stuff out of here quickly, and volunteers to ride the bikes out if we have time to get out. As far as Medical: they might gas from three sides inward, and so we want to get simple doctor masks for every tent; it’s a viable solution. Earplugs for sound cannons. Brainstorm to get pamphlets out on tactics to protect yourself. ALso, people designated to help folks who can’t easily get out of camp themselves (i.e. disabled) so they can get out quickly and easily.<br />
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Facilitator: Long term strategy after the crackdown is next. ALso a word about ourselves dring the crackdown. Try not to have earrings, necklaces, scarves around you because they can be used to grab you; we’re going to try to make a list of these suggestions. If you’re wearing contacts and you know it’s about to happen; contacts are bad and can cause permanent eye damage if you are tear gassed or pepper sprayed.<br />
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Long term strategy rep: One of the first things is the idea that if Dewey was taken they would erect fences; do we try to scale the fences or pick a second site. We then talked about neighborhood committees--occupy JP, occupy somerville, etc., more important in the case of a crackdown and also as it gets colder. We need a definitive day after plan, like maybe a march 48 hours later, and then we put out a location for the march. If we have the numbers, we could fragment into different groups and use civil disobedience and go and occupy other areas and disrupt life for everyone. For this we need more numbers; we have resources within Labor Outreach and lots of Unions supporting us, which we need to utilize. In other occupations, when there have been evictions, the numbers pick up and we can get the unions’ help. We also discussed--do we need to occupy a single site if we’re ejected from this one or can we scout things out in different places. Dewey is the heart and soul of things here, not only because we’re here but also because we’re raising money to restore the greneway. Occupy Harvard had a huge turnout, and could also be an option not only for people but also for storage, donation, allies. THis goes for other university/college occupations too. We talked a lot about nonviolent civil disobedience; we talked about the “way bigger picture” not just in the days following this but also in the longer term; we don’t have the answers yet, but we want to bring this up.<br />
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Facilitator Angela: We’ve done good. We did real good. I know the cops are always listening to us one way or another; let them know how prepared we are. OK. What we’re now going to do is give a moment or two or three to share things that are very essential that we may have overlooked. Please raise your hand if you have only those kinds of points.<br />
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Greg from FAWG: I want to clarify the relationship on money. There is a legal fund with $12000 in it. There is a general fund with around $40,000. If a thousand people get arrested at fifty bucks each that pretty much taps us out. The legal fund is set aside for legal shit. If people need money from the general fund for legal purposes, we need to run it through consensus. THat’s all.<br />
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Facilitator Angela: That can be done quickly, I imagine. OK, more essential points we may have overlooked. <br />
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Point: Have we acknowledged we need to livestream another breakup?<br />
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Point: In terms of coverage if any of us know someone with access to any of these buildings that would be excellent to set up. <br />
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Point: If I’m not mistaken the NLG last time was more of a voicemail people called to tell them that this many number of people were arrested and these were their names. That being said it would be important if we had a team of multiple people who people can call in case they get arrested so they can disperse throughout the different jails and bail out those people. <br />
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Point: I want to make sure that part of our discussion is how we can grown and expand. The future of any crackdown’s response will be dependent on our size whether it’s the day, week, or month after. I think that November 17 this Thursday at 4 pm, should be billed as hugely as possible in the context of a potential crackdown of our movement. <br />
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Facilitator: are there people who can talk about that?<br />
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Point: Has there been any discussion of a long term response that would involve moving people to washington DC?<br />
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Facilitator: Not aware of that. I’d encourage you to keep looking to see if you can find an answer. Could anyone help with this? <br />
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Eden: Interoccupy comms--get on the mailing list.<br />
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POI: … you can sometimes bail yourself out if you have bail in your pocket. Minimum bail is $40, so keep your cash in your pocket to get bailed out more efficiently. <br />
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POI: Note takers are having trouble getting those. (Oh, good, there’s more than one.)<br />
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POI: NLG now has a 24 hour staffed hotline. <br />
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POI: I think it is important that those who are being consciously arrested are willing to face the facts that they will be charged, and should not accept any bargain, to stand in solidarity, with those who are arrested, because if people take the bargain, it isolats those who do not, and makes their case much more difficult, and kind of negates the point of being arrested.<br />
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Point: Two quick suggestions regarding arrests. Other occupy movements have done mic checks asking those being arrested what are their full names and they are documenting that on paper so they have an official list. Second point: livestreams, we can and should have many and many of us can upload video from our phones and put it on Youtube or anywhere else. It is equally effective, maybe more so. <br />
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Point: It is important to not upload videos of arrests immediately after they happen assuming people will not take the bargains because they could be detrimental to these people’s cases.<br />
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Point: I cannot reiterate the importance of building … for November 17 for the labor march that’s happening at 4pm. We’ve seen across the country in different occupy movements that the first battle to save Zuccotti Park (NY) when labor mobilized their numbers. Oakland, with 15000 people shut down the fifth largest port in the country and the police couldn’t touch us. And they can go out and tear thousands of books at Zuccotti and a judge can dismiss our basic civil liberties, and it’s so important for us to be able to show them that we are growing and mobilizing more people.<br />
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Facilitator Angela: I am an onsite occupier and I am very concerned that I don’t see many campers here. If you are an onsite occupier please ID yourself. [Not many.] We have a campers GA tomorrow morning and we should cover that here as well. THis idea of the buddy system, I can’t stress it enough. There are people who have all their stuff here; people who don’t have outside contacts; people who don’t have resources. We can deepen our awareness for us onsite; some of us are homeless, some of us are not. THis is real, thank you for listening.<br />
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Point: Due to the recent conversation I have to ask you if you are so afraid of being arrested then why are you here? Civil disobedience is as simple as marching. Which you can be arrested for. So why is this being brought up. ...PC crap...<br />
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Facilitator: We are taking direct questions at this point to clarify what the group delegates discussed. We’re also taking points of information--facts.<br />
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Point: Every time we go out to march we could all be arrested. Everyone acknowledge that.<br />
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Facilitator: Now we need to hear and consent on the proposal for what we do immediately following an eviction or disruption of our presence here. We need to move to the proposal process now concerning this specifically. David, or anyone on legal...<br />
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Facilitator Angela: First, an all hell out mic check to bring other onsite occupiers to GA now--hi there out in the tents, we’re about to make some decisions about what happens if and when the cops do a crackdown. Please come forward, this most affects us who live here. You will then have a voice in making these decisions. We will give a few minutes to get you out here. Thanks.<br />
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Greg from FAWG: Come to GA! Come to GA! Come to GA! <br />
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Facilitator Jorge: We will now hear the proposal. <br />
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Proposal from Legal: If this camp is torn down tonight, two things ill happen tomorrow. 1. If possible, go to the courthouse where people who have been arrested will be arraigned. Last time it was the New Chardon Courthouse, four blocks that way. 2. At 7pm the day after, we will convene a GA at the gazebo/bandstand/grandstand at the Boston Common. We know the police will know--they’re listening now. They will always know where we will be. We will assemble peacefully and speak at that GA about what came up about what happened the night before. At that GA we will make serious decisions about what happens next--reoccupying, etc.<br />
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Call for Clarifying Questions (CQs).<br />
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Facilitators and crowd are reviewing the hand signals. Clarifying Questions (CQ), POI (facts), amendments, points of process (POP), happy, middle, and sad fingers, blocks. <br />
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CQ: Where is the courthouse and what time do we get there?<br />
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It opens at 9am. <br />
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Response: New Chardon Courthouse is a few blocks down Atlantic Ave, on the corner of New CHardon and Washington Street. It’s the brand new courthouse built down there; if you hit the Fleet Center you’ve gone too far. It’s right by the Haymarket T, called the Brook Courthouse. <br />
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POI: Show up at 9:30 because people are arraigned at 10. There’s nothing you want to se more than your people waiting for you when you’re about to be arraigned.<br />
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CQ: What’s your reasoning about waiting until the day after to make a decision as to what we do after they evict us?<br />
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Response: Proposal was to have a GA at 7pm the next day; obviously campers will have to have procedures in place; we need to reconvene as a whole group the next day.<br />
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Lots of remarks from the people.<br />
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CQ: Why can’t we make the contingency plan now?<br />
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Fac Jorge: We are going to hear a restatement.<br />
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Proposal clarifies: We aren’t ruling out what happens during. We’re talking about what to do the next day. We thought that we could definitely know we are going to reconvene the next day.<br />
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CQ: Why did we decide that this is the courthouse to go to? There are a lot of courthouses in Boston, why couldn’t they just drag us to Dudley, West Roxbury, etc. What if we chose the wrong courthouse?<br />
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Response: I don’t know, but everyone arrested last time was arraigned at this courthouse.<br />
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CQ: THat might be a bad idea because we could go to any courthouse, and if they know we’re all going to convene at a given courthouse they’ll just send arrested people there. <br />
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Response: COurts work for specific purposes--criminal courts, municipal courts, etc. But Legal can clarify where to go and maybe we’ll get a text notifying us which courthouse to go to.<br />
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CQ: Just wondering what happens to the direct response (process)?<br />
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Process Monitor: Direct response hand sign is a sign sometimes used in ad hoc discussions but not formal consensus.<br />
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CQ: Inform safety...working at night...so we have a sneak attack if they’re coming.<br />
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CQ: Am I correct in understanding your proposal that all you’re saying is 9am, occupy boston will go to a court or number of courts that people will be arraigned at, and secondly, that at 7pm we meet on Boston Common to have a GA?<br />
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Proposer: Correct. THat’s all our proposal was.<br />
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Now points of information--facts.<br />
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POI: Boston Municipal COurt is in the same building as suffolk probate and family court, at 24 new chardon street at the corner of merrimack and new chardon and congress, next to the Haymarket T. Where people wil lbe called to court is based on jurisdiction of where they are arrested. They might be able to move us but we won’t be able to answer that tonight. <br />
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POI: When people were arrested at Zuccotti journalists within the camp reported that various officers referred to Zuccotti and what was going on there as a frozen zone. No one knew what this was but it was something only used when there is a terrorist threat. I don’t know if this is true but it seems to change the game a little.<br />
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POI: Friends of mine in Zuccotti park were good enough to furnish me with photographs of police in counterrerrorism outfits, logos identifying them as counterterrorist units were photographs and published online.<br />
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Proposer: If you are charged with a federal crime, you might also be brought to the federal courthouse. THat’s the only other court you would be brought to.<br />
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POI: It seems like the rapid comms system we were discussing would make it possible to reroute people to different sites if needed.<br />
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Fac Process Monitor: That sounds like an awesome amendment.<br />
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Fac Jorge: Please stay here to vote and consent upon this critical issue. <br />
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Any strong objections?<br />
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Any statements of support?<br />
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Support: I strongly support this proposal beccause last time it was a hot mess. I was up all night and theruse last time it was ridiculous. We need to pass this so we all know what to do when this comes. (Anastasia)<br />
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Support: I was arrested on Columbus Day. It was a hot mess. I’d like to not be a hot mess. I like this proposal. It has a semblance of organization. We will meet at 9 and then at 7. Sounds like a plan.<br />
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SUpport: I support the second part. People all over the state and NE know Boston COmmon as an activist site of all kinds, so our numbers will be high.<br />
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Amendments?<br />
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Amendments: I’d like to amend that our comms system be used to reroute people if it is needed.<br />
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Amendment: I’d like to add a jail solidarity. Some of us .. may not be in court at that time. It’s really nice after spending the night in jail to see friendly spaces. ANd coffee and solidarity. That would be awesome.<br />
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Amendment: Rather than state a specific courthouse we state a specific location at an earlier time to meet, because by 8am we will know which specific courthouse or courthouses to send people. <br />
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Amendment: Is it possible to add an alternate site in the case that … put something up around the Common? (If they barricade the Common, I think.)<br />
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Chant: Tell me what democracy looks like; this is what democracy looks like. <br />
JohnFord: Constipated clusterfuck<br />
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Chant: This is what democracy looks like, in Spanish. Led by Facilitator Jorge.<br />
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Fac Angela: If we get to Saturday, there is a summit, 2-6 on Saturdayhe quincy community school down the street. This will be a time for conversation. I know GA can be frustrating because it doesn’t allow for conversation that we might want. We’ll have small tables, so 6 or so people will be in small groups, so you can really have your voice heard. November 19, 2-6, OB summit at the Quincy COmmunity School.<br />
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Fac Jorge: Please stay and move back in. The proposal is just being amended right now. It was Angela’s birthday yesterday. (We are now singing Happy Birthday. Transcriber note: I love Occupy Boston.)<br />
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Fac Angela: Thank you. I’m going to make a proposal to Social to have a birthday party for everyone whose birthday is in the month, each month.<br />
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Fac Jorge: The proposal will now be restated. <br />
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Proposal: We don’t think that an alternate site is a good idea because it might give them a reason to block off the Common if we have somewhere else. It would be hard to block the COmmon. If they block the COmmon we’ll go on the streets, and if they block the streets we’ll go somewhere else. We will find somewhere to go and the media will follow us because we will be a force to be reckoned with. We can make a decision on the spot if the Common doesn’t work. If we’re a big enough group they will have to deal with US, we won’t have to deal with them. With respect to meeting at one place rather than at the courthouse, we will know where ppl will be arraigned right away. When you arrested you get paperwork and you are told where you will be arraigned. Unless the charges are federal we will go to New CHardon. But if they change it somehow we can put this out via text. Remember this is not a two minute process; each person is arraigned individually, so we can get there eventually. We may not need a statement of solidarity-<br />
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Prev Amendment: It wasn’t about a statement of solidarity it was about jail solidarity. We wanted to add the idea of going to the actual jail.<br />
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Proposal: The only problem there is that that is multiple locations. I don’t know that we’re going to include that in this proposal but it can be part of a different proposal. So the proposal is: <br />
the day after this camp is ejected:<br />
1. We go to the courthouse at 9am to show support to arrested people<br />
2. We hold a GA at 7pm on the Common.<br />
We can get more detailed when this happens but we need to know that this happens.<br />
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And back through the process!<br />
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CQ: What time in the morning at the courthouse, 9? <br />
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Proposal: Yes, 9 will give us enough time to get through metal detectors and get into the courthouse.<br />
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POI Alex P.: First POI is a contradiction to the point that when you get arrested you get paperwork and know what’s happening; that’s false. 2. … they hold people as a group separate from criminals, book you one at a time, put you back in the group, and you don’t know anything. So the plan needs to take this into consideration. The second POI is contradicting the point that people who are arraigned go one at a time. After the raid arraignments were made in groups, a number at a time, up to 7, so my personal experience with being arrested, I would say, that going to the jail, is NOT a good idea, because when we were arrested, we werea at 9 different jails across the city. Going to the courthouse should be the only suggestion.<br />
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Other POIs?<br />
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POI Anasstasia: Since the proposal is not about jail, but about the court and then meeting at 7 for GA, let’s focus on that. THe really important thing is that people who didn’t get arrested knew the jail and courthouse locations by 3am after 1am arrests.<br />
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Any objections?<br />
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Support? <br />
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Support: I finally spoke to my wife today. They didn’t get charged for trespassing...they got charged with a felony but plea bargained down to trespassing...if they see tents and food you will be charged with a felony...they took down NYC, where they started...<br />
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Support: This is a great idea, let’s just do it. (Referencing the proposal.)<br />
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Amendments?<br />
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Amendment: I’d like to suggest based on the facts that her story suggested an arraignment could happen more quickly than we think, that we do plan to meet at the courthouse a little early in case we need to go somewhere else. Let’s meet at 8 or 8:15.<br />
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Fac Jorge: Now we need to talk about blocks; if this proposal will cause you to walk away from this movement; if it poses a mortal danger to this movement, then block it.<br />
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Proposal restated: Meet at the courthouse at 8:15am now to give us extra time, meet at 7pm at the Common bandstand for GA, all this happens the day after the arrests/disruption.<br />
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Fac Jorge: [Explaining blocks and how you do them] I see no blocks. Let’s move to consent. Now we will go through the consensus process. We need 75%. <br />
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Facilitator: This isn’t voting, it’s consensus. If you can live with this proposal, raise one hand. If you can’t, don’t raise your hand. THis isn’t a temp check. If we see consensus we will verify with you that you see consensus. If you acknowledge it then we have consented.<br />
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Restating the proposal: On the day after the camp is raided and taken down, we will meet at 8:15 at thw courthouse where people are being arraigned to support them. Then at 7pm we will meet at the Common at the bandstand to hold a general assembly. That’s all, just meeting at two places.<br />
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Fac Angela: Okay, if you can live with this proposal then raise one hand high above your head. Please look around. Do you see 75% consensus?<br />
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Fac Angela: WE HAVE REACHED CONSENSUS.<br />
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Tell me what democracy looks like?<br />
This is what democracy looks like!<br />
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Fac Jorge: If you were in one of the working groups please exchange information; these are ideas that will continue to be worked upon as we go forward. We will continue to work on this.<br />
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Emergency proposal from Bill from Medical: We have licensed EMTs, we want to be wearing EMT vests when this goes down. What we need is 5 EMT vests, 2 sets of pen lights, masks, chest pads. We need $262 for this so that when the EMTs come here on site, they recognize us here as EMTs. We need a bag valve mask in case people pass out or stop breathing; this is a medical supply. I want to order this tonight so we can get it in a couple days. <br />
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Fac Angela: So this is a proposal. First, clarifying questions.<br />
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CQ: Has Medical spent $100 last week and this week?<br />
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Medical: We’ve only spent $45 total ever; everything we have has ben donated so far. THis is a one time thing.<br />
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POP: It is true that working groups receive $100 a week to begin with. This doesn’t seem urgent given that. <br />
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Greg from FAWG (Finance): I know how this works. WGs get up to $100 a week, there is a process for that. THat money doesn’t roll over if you don’t spend it. If you have an expense over $100 it needs to be consented upon. <br />
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Fac Angela: Does anyone have concerns?<br />
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Point: I just want to say that the gypsy squad has been working in the community nonstop and we have not been recognized or given any kind of funds. Anything I have or my tentmates have I bought with my own money. So, if I am a working group you approve of and I’m supposed to get the $100, give it to medical. (Effecitvely, support.)<br />
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There is a small conflict over the use of point of process perceived as an act against a gypsy squad member.<br />
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Anasstasia: You need to surround the person and not talk to them when someone disrupts the GA.<br />
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Gypsy: I am a working group...<br />
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There is much shouting which the transcriber cannot hear between the PRocess Monitor Facilitator and the Gypsy Squad member who spoke earlier. This is persisting for above 3 minutes.<br />
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Fac Angela: Your willingness to contribute is really appreciated. I think we can quickly go through consensus on this. First, temp check on this to see wherher we can go through a decision. <br />
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(Yes, high temperature--lots of happy fingers.)<br />
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Call for consensus. 75% consensus achieved. This is passed! <br />
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Medical: Thank you!<br />
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Various people: THank you, Medical!<br />
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Fac Angela: The onsite occupiers GA is at 11 or 11:30, not 10am tomorrow. This is a corrective to what I said earlier.<br />
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Fac Jorge leads “Show me what democracy looks like/This is what democracy looks like.” Fantastic job of horizontal democracy tonight with those two proposals.<br />
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Fac Jorge; We have an emergency GA tomorrow; it will deal with most of tonight’s “regular business,” the announcements from WGs, proposals, individual announcements and proposals, etc. So please be here at 7pm tomorrow night, Wednesday, for GA.<br />
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Fac Jorge: So if they come tonight, will we defend the park? Will we defend the square? Always and everywhere! Folks, thank you for coming tonight, thank you for doing the work of horizontal democracy. Remember the 4pm Thursday march right here, heading to the Charlestown bridge on north Washington street and heading back to Dewey Square. As always, you are welcome to come up here for open mic (sans an actual microphone). <br />
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Lots of voices thanking Facilitators Jorge and Angela! <br />
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And one very kind voice thanking the friendly transcriber and livestream folks. Thank you, Mr. bodyguard/coordinator/message carrier of awesomeness. You are awesome.<br />
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And we’re out!<br />
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Cut and pasted from [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nwrQnJJhwx7B9kwiKSU-_VIsSKUlF5iE0vTDUnEH-dc/edit here]</div>Matthttps://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/index.php?title=GA_Minutes_Tues_Nov_15,_2011&diff=6959GA Minutes Tues Nov 15, 20112011-11-21T16:45:10Z<p>Matt: </p>
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<div>Talking has been happening for not quite an hour so far. We have discussed feelings about the crackdowns at occupy boston.<br />
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Robin: text Occupyboston to 443322 so that you can get a text message alerting you to what the news is. Text occupyboston to the number 443322. This text message service is for very serious emergencies, not like “Hey, we need tents, hey it’s raining.”<br />
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If you were already on the list, you are still on the list.<br />
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Facilitator: We’re going to break into six groups for a half hour. All of these are immediate response/long term strategy (in the event of crisis). <br />
There will be six groups, with one facilitator per group. Please join the group you most want to join.<br />
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If there are camping occupiers here, we’d love if there was at least one camper in each of the six groups. The first group will--who’s the facilitator out there--Eli. Eli’s got his hand up. THis group is immediate response for Outreach and Media. Eli will be next to the sign tent.<br />
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The next group is for strategies, approaches, nonviolence, direct action, possessions for when the cops come. Anasstassia will be with the strategy-when cops come. THis will be at the plaza.<br />
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3: Immediate Response: Legal--for during and after an eviction. Alex will be the facilitator for this. Meet him on the stage.<br />
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4: Immediate Response: after the crackdown, our first GA, prison, bail, etc. Meet David for this. David is going in front of the Fed (where the facilitators usually meet).<br />
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5: Long term strategy post-crackdown: retaking Dewey, logistics for this. See Alison for this. SHe’ll be close to the library tent. THis is Alison. <br />
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6: Immediate Response: Medical, during and after the crackdown/eviction/disruption of our space. Meet Matt at the front of the stage for this.<br />
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CQ; Please repeat the groups.<br />
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Facilitator repeats the groups. Friendly notetaker dgoesn’t retranscribe this.<br />
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The groups are winding down. It’s now 8:40. We’re getting ready to report out.<br />
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Facilitator: We’re reconvening, move back in and take a seat. e need to hear all of your voices. We’re going to do share-outs, and each group will have five minutes to share out what it is they talked about in their particular group. THen before we end the evening we will spend some time on what we will do with all of this.<br />
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Group 1: Immediate Response, Outreach and Media. <br />
We obviously need to create a really strong comm network. One thing that’s coming up is a phone tree. I call 5 people and they each call 5 people and it grows exponentially and then we can reach a third of the state. We need to think multiplatform--twitter, facebook, human contacts, everything. We need human to human info sharing for good relationships. ALso, flyers. We have strategic plans that may include sending out the battle cry to everyone and people coming in from their various points and pasting flyers up along their commute to alert folks to what’s going on.<br />
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Eli: we also talked about equipment. We need to get as many cheap cameras in the hands of occupiers as possible. We need to be aware of battery loss; there’s a great enercell battery pack for the iPhone. We didn’t finihs our conversation and we need a more comprehensive strategy for this emergency; we shared emails and we want to keep the conversation going. We took really good notes and we’re going to get them up on the wiki.<br />
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When we are doing livestreaming please know that everything you say will be broadcasted to the world. Try to keep it accurate, reporting the events as they happened as a human recorder and reporter.<br />
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One more thing: an emergency control center at E5 where ppl with AV and social media experience could run off to really quickly, so they could do up to the minute media work as it needs done.<br />
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Group 2: Immediate response, strategy, for when the cops come.<br />
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Facilitator Angela is offering to sing another song.<br />
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Facilitator is reminding us: please stay through the end, as this is such an important process. We’re going to consent on a place where we can meet after a crackdown--even if the crackdown is tonight. It’s really important, it’s critical that we make that decision tonight, so please stick around through the process.<br />
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Group 2 rep: We looked at what we should do on the evening that THings happen. We talked about an early warning system to let ppl know if we’re in trouble. We talked about flags at the site, phone trees, we need to coordinate people to take action. We talked about having some folks who won’t be arrested who can get valuable things out so they won’t be destroyed (like they were at OWS). We want to be efficient so that people who do not want to be arrested do not get arrested. We like the phone tree. We want to invite working groups specifically to meet and plan strategies. We want civil disobedience training ASAP. It was suggested that DA would be an appropriate.... people who are not sleeping here … we are concerned about civil safety and civil disobedience training. So we’ll repeat emails...Wall street...workers and students come down if possible and we want to hear them ASAP if it happens tonight at 3am what will hapen. (Sorry, interruptions.) <br />
Please bring your video cameras and film film film everything; we want to record what happens. We are nonviolent; ultimately, we cannot fight them violently, we can just let them arrest us. And we want to have key contacts from labor and other groups; it would be nice to get specific people in the groups to mobilize their people quickly, so we can get people down here and get streaming out to get people to see what’s going on. And Anasstassia: there’s one thing I’m missing, what is it?<br />
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Anasstasia: Having all phones on...<br />
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Group : ANd make sure you have your phone on loud, all night, if you’re on a phone tree.<br />
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Anasstasia: So if there is a crackdown tonight, as a GA, we need to find out what we want to do. In our group when we discussed it it was clear that if they come we do want to defend the camp to the best of our personal and social ability. SO no one is saying I will do this or not; this is a general proposal that if stuff goes down tonight, we are proposing that we do try to keep Dewey Square. So that is the proposal that is on the table and we are going to put that through consensus and we’ll decide whether we consent to it or not incase it comes tonight.<br />
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Facilitator: Next group up is Immediate Response, Legal.<br />
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IR Legal: OK, so...we had a meeting on what to do before, after, during a police action and preemptive actions we can take. TO increase our preparedness: legal WG announcements at GA educating people about bail options, incl the bail fund. ANother thing: distribute the NLG phone number to write on your arm before any actions. You can call them if you get arrested. We’ve ben doing this stuff but we want to ramp it up. The NLG number is: 617-227-7335. (This is mic checked and verified by lots of people.) (Varseek is what it spells on your phone...617-VAR-SEEK.)<br />
Civil disobedience training is next on the list. OWS members speak of this; we want to do more training from legal or wherever and just increase the amt of training we do and perhaps get some WGs doing that.<br />
Once people get arrested we can overburden the system by turning down plea bargains and other tactics like that.<br />
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POI: Last time there were mass arrests, the NLG didn’t bail anyone out. <br />
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POI: At this time NLG has lots of money available. RIght now in a safe location to bail people out.<br />
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IR Legal: Legal WG confirms this; basically we want to make the bail fund more accessible. Legal observer training: the folks in green hats are legal observers. The NLG offers training to become a legal observer and we recomend that we start doing that training here at camp. Disseminating literature, like flyers, that help you know your rights and what to do when you are arrested, and helping you to know what your options are once you are arrested. Also, using the text message system earlier to call for emergency donations to bail fund if we need it. ALso, having a talk from Legal on what services NLG can offer to us so that we can take advantage of these services if we need. Also exploring options in other options, like amicus curae--which is being a friend to other legal actions [ed note: no, friend of the court--think amicus curae brief] ALso we need to make sure we know where people are taken when they are arrested because that was a problem last time.<br />
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Group: Immediate Response AFTER the crackdown.<br />
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IR Postcrackdown, Desiree speaking: The people, united<br />
Crowd: will never be defeated.<br />
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IR Postcrackdown--Desiree: So first, where do we meet after a raid. The next day we would meet at court -- generally it’s all in one jurisdiction, so what if we met at Boston Municipal court the next morning. 2: In regards to bail, we came up with a buddy system; everybody at camp partners with someone offsite who is the ir bail buddy; the bail buddy bails you out after the raid. FAWG general fund, legal bail fund--the general fund requires GA consensus, but in a worst case scenario--like if there’s 200 people who need bail and we don’t have enough in the bail fund--we’d like FAWG and legal and us to vote on making it automatic.<br />
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FAWG rep: it is automatic, no need to vote, it’s taken care of. <br />
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IR Postcrackdown, Desiree: 3, to have GA at 7pm the next day at the Common. (I.e. the day after the crackdown.)<br />
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Facilitation: Now you’ve heard what we’re going to be consenting on later; we’ll go through the proposal in the usual consensus process later, please stay. Horizontal democracy takes a long time. It takes longer but hopefully it sticks better.<br />
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IR Medical eand Personal Items: It was a very small group but we came up with some good ideas. If we have time (like an hour) we’ll get personal possessions out and inventory stuff beforehand. We need to know from ppl what they want taken out of here; what is important to you and what you want to get out of here. Then a separate census/inventory for every WG, what the working groups really need taken out in the event of a raid. THen, determine a location; where can the stuff be carted temporarily to be retrieved at a later date. We discussed the option of cargo bikes so we could get stuff out of here quickly, and volunteers to ride the bikes out if we have time to get out. As far as Medical: they might gas from three sides inward, and so we want to get simple doctor masks for every tent; it’s a viable solution. Earplugs for sound cannons. Brainstorm to get pamphlets out on tactics to protect yourself. ALso, people designated to help folks who can’t easily get out of camp themselves (i.e. disabled) so they can get out quickly and easily.<br />
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Facilitator: Long term strategy after the crackdown is next. ALso a word about ourselves dring the crackdown. Try not to have earrings, necklaces, scarves around you because they can be used to grab you; we’re going to try to make a list of these suggestions. If you’re wearing contacts and you know it’s about to happen; contacts are bad and can cause permanent eye damage if you are tear gassed or pepper sprayed.<br />
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Long term strategy rep: One of the first things is the idea that if Dewey was taken they would erect fences; do we try to scale the fences or pick a second site. We then talked about neighborhood committees--occupy JP, occupy somerville, etc., more important in the case of a crackdown and also as it gets colder. We need a definitive day after plan, like maybe a march 48 hours later, and then we put out a location for the march. If we have the numbers, we could fragment into different groups and use civil disobedience and go and occupy other areas and disrupt life for everyone. For this we need more numbers; we have resources within Labor Outreach and lots of Unions supporting us, which we need to utilize. In other occupations, when there have been evictions, the numbers pick up and we can get the unions’ help. We also discussed--do we need to occupy a single site if we’re ejected from this one or can we scout things out in different places. Dewey is the heart and soul of things here, not only because we’re here but also because we’re raising money to restore the greneway. Occupy Harvard had a huge turnout, and could also be an option not only for people but also for storage, donation, allies. THis goes for other university/college occupations too. We talked a lot about nonviolent civil disobedience; we talked about the “way bigger picture” not just in the days following this but also in the longer term; we don’t have the answers yet, but we want to bring this up.<br />
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Facilitator Angela: We’ve done good. We did real good. I know the cops are always listening to us one way or another; let them know how prepared we are. OK. What we’re now going to do is give a moment or two or three to share things that are very essential that we may have overlooked. Please raise your hand if you have only those kinds of points.<br />
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Greg from FAWG: I want to clarify the relationship on money. There is a legal fund with $12000 in it. There is a general fund with around $40,000. If a thousand people get arrested at fifty bucks each that pretty much taps us out. The legal fund is set aside for legal shit. If people need money from the general fund for legal purposes, we need to run it through consensus. THat’s all.<br />
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Facilitator Angela: That can be done quickly, I imagine. OK, more essential points we may have overlooked. <br />
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Point: Have we acknowledged we need to livestream another breakup?<br />
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Point: In terms of coverage if any of us know someone with access to any of these buildings that would be excellent to set up. <br />
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Point: If I’m not mistaken the NLG last time was more of a voicemail people called to tell them that this many number of people were arrested and these were their names. That being said it would be important if we had a team of multiple people who people can call in case they get arrested so they can disperse throughout the different jails and bail out those people. <br />
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Point: I want to make sure that part of our discussion is how we can grown and expand. The future of any crackdown’s response will be dependent on our size whether it’s the day, week, or month after. I think that November 17 this Thursday at 4 pm, should be billed as hugely as possible in the context of a potential crackdown of our movement. <br />
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Facilitator: are there people who can talk about that?<br />
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Point: Has there been any discussion of a long term response that would involve moving people to washington DC?<br />
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Facilitator: Not aware of that. I’d encourage you to keep looking to see if you can find an answer. Could anyone help with this? <br />
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Eden: Interoccupy comms--get on the mailing list.<br />
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POI: … you can sometimes bail yourself out if you have bail in your pocket. Minimum bail is $40, so keep your cash in your pocket to get bailed out more efficiently. <br />
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POI: Note takers are having trouble getting those. (Oh, good, there’s more than one.)<br />
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POI: NLG now has a 24 hour staffed hotline. <br />
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POI: I think it is important that those who are being consciously arrested are willing to face the facts that they will be charged, and should not accept any bargain, to stand in solidarity, with those who are arrested, because if people take the bargain, it isolats those who do not, and makes their case much more difficult, and kind of negates the point of being arrested.<br />
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Point: Two quick suggestions regarding arrests. Other occupy movements have done mic checks asking those being arrested what are their full names and they are documenting that on paper so they have an official list. Second point: livestreams, we can and should have many and many of us can upload video from our phones and put it on Youtube or anywhere else. It is equally effective, maybe more so. <br />
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Point: It is important to not upload videos of arrests immediately after they happen assuming people will not take the bargains because they could be detrimental to these people’s cases.<br />
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Point: I cannot reiterate the importance of building … for November 17 for the labor march that’s happening at 4pm. We’ve seen across the country in different occupy movements that the first battle to save Zuccotti Park (NY) when labor mobilized their numbers. Oakland, with 15000 people shut down the fifth largest port in the country and the police couldn’t touch us. And they can go out and tear thousands of books at Zuccotti and a judge can dismiss our basic civil liberties, and it’s so important for us to be able to show them that we are growing and mobilizing more people.<br />
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Facilitator Angela: I am an onsite occupier and I am very concerned that I don’t see many campers here. If you are an onsite occupier please ID yourself. [Not many.] We have a campers GA tomorrow morning and we should cover that here as well. THis idea of the buddy system, I can’t stress it enough. There are people who have all their stuff here; people who don’t have outside contacts; people who don’t have resources. We can deepen our awareness for us onsite; some of us are homeless, some of us are not. THis is real, thank you for listening.<br />
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Point: Due to the recent conversation I have to ask you if you are so afraid of being arrested then why are you here? Civil disobedience is as simple as marching. Which you can be arrested for. So why is this being brought up. ...PC crap...<br />
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Facilitator: We are taking direct questions at this point to clarify what the group delegates discussed. We’re also taking points of information--facts.<br />
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Point: Every time we go out to march we could all be arrested. Everyone acknowledge that.<br />
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Facilitator: Now we need to hear and consent on the proposal for what we do immediately following an eviction or disruption of our presence here. We need to move to the proposal process now concerning this specifically. David, or anyone on legal...<br />
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Facilitator Angela: First, an all hell out mic check to bring other onsite occupiers to GA now--hi there out in the tents, we’re about to make some decisions about what happens if and when the cops do a crackdown. Please come forward, this most affects us who live here. You will then have a voice in making these decisions. We will give a few minutes to get you out here. Thanks.<br />
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Greg from FAWG: Come to GA! Come to GA! Come to GA! <br />
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Facilitator Jorge: We will now hear the proposal. <br />
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Proposal from Legal: If this camp is torn down tonight, two things ill happen tomorrow. 1. If possible, go to the courthouse where people who have been arrested will be arraigned. Last time it was the New Chardon Courthouse, four blocks that way. 2. At 7pm the day after, we will convene a GA at the gazebo/bandstand/grandstand at the Boston Common. We know the police will know--they’re listening now. They will always know where we will be. We will assemble peacefully and speak at that GA about what came up about what happened the night before. At that GA we will make serious decisions about what happens next--reoccupying, etc.<br />
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Call for Clarifying Questions (CQs).<br />
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Facilitators and crowd are reviewing the hand signals. Clarifying Questions (CQ), POI (facts), amendments, points of process (POP), happy, middle, and sad fingers, blocks. <br />
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CQ: Where is the courthouse and what time do we get there?<br />
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It opens at 9am. <br />
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Response: New Chardon Courthouse is a few blocks down Atlantic Ave, on the corner of New CHardon and Washington Street. It’s the brand new courthouse built down there; if you hit the Fleet Center you’ve gone too far. It’s right by the Haymarket T, called the Brook Courthouse. <br />
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POI: Show up at 9:30 because people are arraigned at 10. There’s nothing you want to se more than your people waiting for you when you’re about to be arraigned.<br />
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CQ: What’s your reasoning about waiting until the day after to make a decision as to what we do after they evict us?<br />
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Response: Proposal was to have a GA at 7pm the next day; obviously campers will have to have procedures in place; we need to reconvene as a whole group the next day.<br />
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Lots of remarks from the people.<br />
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CQ: Why can’t we make the contingency plan now?<br />
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Fac Jorge: We are going to hear a restatement.<br />
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Proposal clarifies: We aren’t ruling out what happens during. We’re talking about what to do the next day. We thought that we could definitely know we are going to reconvene the next day.<br />
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CQ: Why did we decide that this is the courthouse to go to? There are a lot of courthouses in Boston, why couldn’t they just drag us to Dudley, West Roxbury, etc. What if we chose the wrong courthouse?<br />
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Response: I don’t know, but everyone arrested last time was arraigned at this courthouse.<br />
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CQ: THat might be a bad idea because we could go to any courthouse, and if they know we’re all going to convene at a given courthouse they’ll just send arrested people there. <br />
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Response: COurts work for specific purposes--criminal courts, municipal courts, etc. But Legal can clarify where to go and maybe we’ll get a text notifying us which courthouse to go to.<br />
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CQ: Just wondering what happens to the direct response (process)?<br />
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Process Monitor: Direct response hand sign is a sign sometimes used in ad hoc discussions but not formal consensus.<br />
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CQ: Inform safety...working at night...so we have a sneak attack if they’re coming.<br />
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CQ: Am I correct in understanding your proposal that all you’re saying is 9am, occupy boston will go to a court or number of courts that people will be arraigned at, and secondly, that at 7pm we meet on Boston Common to have a GA?<br />
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Proposer: Correct. THat’s all our proposal was.<br />
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Now points of information--facts.<br />
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POI: Boston Municipal COurt is in the same building as suffolk probate and family court, at 24 new chardon street at the corner of merrimack and new chardon and congress, next to the Haymarket T. Where people wil lbe called to court is based on jurisdiction of where they are arrested. They might be able to move us but we won’t be able to answer that tonight. <br />
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POI: When people were arrested at Zuccotti journalists within the camp reported that various officers referred to Zuccotti and what was going on there as a frozen zone. No one knew what this was but it was something only used when there is a terrorist threat. I don’t know if this is true but it seems to change the game a little.<br />
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POI: Friends of mine in Zuccotti park were good enough to furnish me with photographs of police in counterrerrorism outfits, logos identifying them as counterterrorist units were photographs and published online.<br />
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Proposer: If you are charged with a federal crime, you might also be brought to the federal courthouse. THat’s the only other court you would be brought to.<br />
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POI: It seems like the rapid comms system we were discussing would make it possible to reroute people to different sites if needed.<br />
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Fac Process Monitor: That sounds like an awesome amendment.<br />
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Fac Jorge: Please stay here to vote and consent upon this critical issue. <br />
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Any strong objections?<br />
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Any statements of support?<br />
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Support: I strongly support this proposal beccause last time it was a hot mess. I was up all night and theruse last time it was ridiculous. We need to pass this so we all know what to do when this comes. (Anastasia)<br />
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Support: I was arrested on Columbus Day. It was a hot mess. I’d like to not be a hot mess. I like this proposal. It has a semblance of organization. We will meet at 9 and then at 7. Sounds like a plan.<br />
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SUpport: I support the second part. People all over the state and NE know Boston COmmon as an activist site of all kinds, so our numbers will be high.<br />
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Amendments?<br />
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Amendments: I’d like to amend that our comms system be used to reroute people if it is needed.<br />
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Amendment: I’d like to add a jail solidarity. Some of us .. may not be in court at that time. It’s really nice after spending the night in jail to see friendly spaces. ANd coffee and solidarity. That would be awesome.<br />
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Amendment: Rather than state a specific courthouse we state a specific location at an earlier time to meet, because by 8am we will know which specific courthouse or courthouses to send people. <br />
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Amendment: Is it possible to add an alternate site in the case that … put something up around the Common? (If they barricade the Common, I think.)<br />
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Chant: Tell me what democracy looks like; this is what democracy looks like. <br />
JohnFord: Constipated clusterfuck<br />
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Chant: This is what democracy looks like, in Spanish. Led by Facilitator Jorge.<br />
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Fac Angela: If we get to Saturday, there is a summit, 2-6 on Saturdayhe quincy community school down the street. This will be a time for conversation. I know GA can be frustrating because it doesn’t allow for conversation that we might want. We’ll have small tables, so 6 or so people will be in small groups, so you can really have your voice heard. November 19, 2-6, OB summit at the Quincy COmmunity School.<br />
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Fac Jorge: Please stay and move back in. The proposal is just being amended right now. It was Angela’s birthday yesterday. (We are now singing Happy Birthday. Transcriber note: I love Occupy Boston.)<br />
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Fac Angela: Thank you. I’m going to make a proposal to Social to have a birthday party for everyone whose birthday is in the month, each month.<br />
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Fac Jorge: The proposal will now be restated. <br />
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Proposal: We don’t think that an alternate site is a good idea because it might give them a reason to block off the Common if we have somewhere else. It would be hard to block the COmmon. If they block the COmmon we’ll go on the streets, and if they block the streets we’ll go somewhere else. We will find somewhere to go and the media will follow us because we will be a force to be reckoned with. We can make a decision on the spot if the Common doesn’t work. If we’re a big enough group they will have to deal with US, we won’t have to deal with them. With respect to meeting at one place rather than at the courthouse, we will know where ppl will be arraigned right away. When you arrested you get paperwork and you are told where you will be arraigned. Unless the charges are federal we will go to New CHardon. But if they change it somehow we can put this out via text. Remember this is not a two minute process; each person is arraigned individually, so we can get there eventually. We may not need a statement of solidarity-<br />
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Prev Amendment: It wasn’t about a statement of solidarity it was about jail solidarity. We wanted to add the idea of going to the actual jail.<br />
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Proposal: The only problem there is that that is multiple locations. I don’t know that we’re going to include that in this proposal but it can be part of a different proposal. So the proposal is: <br />
the day after this camp is ejected:<br />
1. We go to the courthouse at 9am to show support to arrested people<br />
2. We hold a GA at 7pm on the Common.<br />
We can get more detailed when this happens but we need to know that this happens.<br />
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And back through the process!<br />
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CQ: What time in the morning at the courthouse, 9? <br />
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Proposal: Yes, 9 will give us enough time to get through metal detectors and get into the courthouse.<br />
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POIs?<br />
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POI Alex P.: First POI is a contradiction to the point that when you get arrested you get paperwork and know what’s happening; that’s false. 2. … they hold people as a group separate from criminals, book you one at a time, put you back in the group, and you don’t know anything. So the plan needs to take this into consideration. The second POI is contradicting the point that people who are arraigned go one at a time. After the raid arraignments were made in groups, a number at a time, up to 7, so my personal experience with being arrested, I would say, that going to the jail, is NOT a good idea, because when we were arrested, we werea at 9 different jails across the city. Going to the courthouse should be the only suggestion.<br />
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Other POIs?<br />
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POI Anasstasia: Since the proposal is not about jail, but about the court and then meeting at 7 for GA, let’s focus on that. THe really important thing is that people who didn’t get arrested knew the jail and courthouse locations by 3am after 1am arrests.<br />
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Any objections?<br />
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Support? <br />
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Support: I finally spoke to my wife today. They didn’t get charged for trespassing...they got charged with a felony but plea bargained down to trespassing...if they see tents and food you will be charged with a felony...they took down NYC, where they started...<br />
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Support: This is a great idea, let’s just do it. (Referencing the proposal.)<br />
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Amendments?<br />
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Amendment: I’d like to suggest based on the facts that her story suggested an arraignment could happen more quickly than we think, that we do plan to meet at the courthouse a little early in case we need to go somewhere else. Let’s meet at 8 or 8:15.<br />
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Fac Jorge: Now we need to talk about blocks; if this proposal will cause you to walk away from this movement; if it poses a mortal danger to this movement, then block it.<br />
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Proposal restated: Meet at the courthouse at 8:15am now to give us extra time, meet at 7pm at the Common bandstand for GA, all this happens the day after the arrests/disruption.<br />
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Fac Jorge: [Explaining blocks and how you do them] I see no blocks. Let’s move to consent. Now we will go through the consensus process. We need 75%. <br />
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Facilitator: This isn’t voting, it’s consensus. If you can live with this proposal, raise one hand. If you can’t, don’t raise your hand. THis isn’t a temp check. If we see consensus we will verify with you that you see consensus. If you acknowledge it then we have consented.<br />
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Restating the proposal: On the day after the camp is raided and taken down, we will meet at 8:15 at thw courthouse where people are being arraigned to support them. Then at 7pm we will meet at the Common at the bandstand to hold a general assembly. That’s all, just meeting at two places.<br />
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Fac Angela: Okay, if you can live with this proposal then raise one hand high above your head. Please look around. Do you see 75% consensus?<br />
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Fac Angela: WE HAVE REACHED CONSENSUS.<br />
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Tell me what democracy looks like?<br />
This is what democracy looks like!<br />
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Fac Jorge: If you were in one of the working groups please exchange information; these are ideas that will continue to be worked upon as we go forward. We will continue to work on this.<br />
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Emergency proposal from Bill from Medical: We have licensed EMTs, we want to be wearing EMT vests when this goes down. What we need is 5 EMT vests, 2 sets of pen lights, masks, chest pads. We need $262 for this so that when the EMTs come here on site, they recognize us here as EMTs. We need a bag valve mask in case people pass out or stop breathing; this is a medical supply. I want to order this tonight so we can get it in a couple days. <br />
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Fac Angela: So this is a proposal. First, clarifying questions.<br />
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CQ: Has Medical spent $100 last week and this week?<br />
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Medical: We’ve only spent $45 total ever; everything we have has ben donated so far. THis is a one time thing.<br />
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POP: It is true that working groups receive $100 a week to begin with. This doesn’t seem urgent given that. <br />
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Greg from FAWG (Finance): I know how this works. WGs get up to $100 a week, there is a process for that. THat money doesn’t roll over if you don’t spend it. If you have an expense over $100 it needs to be consented upon. <br />
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Fac Angela: Does anyone have concerns?<br />
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Point: I just want to say that the gypsy squad has been working in the community nonstop and we have not been recognized or given any kind of funds. Anything I have or my tentmates have I bought with my own money. So, if I am a working group you approve of and I’m supposed to get the $100, give it to medical. (Effecitvely, support.)<br />
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There is a small conflict over the use of point of process perceived as an act against a gypsy squad member.<br />
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Anasstasia: You need to surround the person and not talk to them when someone disrupts the GA.<br />
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Gypsy: I am a working group...<br />
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There is much shouting which the transcriber cannot hear between the PRocess Monitor Facilitator and the Gypsy Squad member who spoke earlier. This is persisting for above 3 minutes.<br />
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Fac Angela: Your willingness to contribute is really appreciated. I think we can quickly go through consensus on this. First, temp check on this to see wherher we can go through a decision. <br />
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(Yes, high temperature--lots of happy fingers.)<br />
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Call for consensus. 75% consensus achieved. This is passed! <br />
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Medical: Thank you!<br />
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Various people: THank you, Medical!<br />
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Fac Angela: The onsite occupiers GA is at 11 or 11:30, not 10am tomorrow. This is a corrective to what I said earlier.<br />
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Fac Jorge leads “Show me what democracy looks like/This is what democracy looks like.” Fantastic job of horizontal democracy tonight with those two proposals.<br />
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Fac Jorge; We have an emergency GA tomorrow; it will deal with most of tonight’s “regular business,” the announcements from WGs, proposals, individual announcements and proposals, etc. So please be here at 7pm tomorrow night, Wednesday, for GA.<br />
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Fac Jorge: So if they come tonight, will we defend the park? Will we defend the square? Always and everywhere! Folks, thank you for coming tonight, thank you for doing the work of horizontal democracy. Remember the 4pm Thursday march right here, heading to the Charlestown bridge on north Washington street and heading back to Dewey Square. As always, you are welcome to come up here for open mic (sans an actual microphone). <br />
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Lots of voices thanking Facilitators Jorge and Angela! <br />
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And one very kind voice thanking the friendly transcriber and livestream folks. Thank you, Mr. bodyguard/coordinator/message carrier of awesomeness. You are awesome.<br />
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And we’re out!<br />
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<div>The Food Working Group runs the Food Tent at Occupy Boston. We are the primary source for collecting, preparing, and serving food and drink to the protestors and guests at Occupy Boston. We serve free food and drink every day and can take-away groceries as our capacity allows. We usually close the tent down in the late hours of the night (around midnight or 1am) until the early morning, but drinks are available 24/7.<br />
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==Want to join or volunteer with the Food Working Group?==<br />
The Food Working Group is open to all. <br />
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Help is needed both offsite and at the Food Tent itself. '''One of the best things you can do, is cook meals on your own and bring them to Occupy Boston's food tent.'''<br />
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If you'd like to help at the Food Tent, come stop by the Food Tent, introduce yourself, and ask to speak with a Food Tent volunteer who understands our ways of doing things there. They'll give you a quick training on our procedures (greeting donors, wearing gloves, serving guests ourselves, asking guests to use hand sanitizer, how much food to offer people, our washing system, tent organization of supplies, etc) and they you can start helping right away.<br />
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'''The food tent constantly needs volunteers to do the following:'''<br />
* serve food.<br />
* wash dishes.<br />
* organize our supplies.<br />
* keep the general food tent area clean.<br />
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Volunteering at the Food Tent is a great way to meet people at Occupy Boston. Just about EVERYONE stops by the food tent for a bite to eat or something to drink!<br />
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'''Help offsite is also needed:'''<br />
* using your car/truck/bikecart to transport food across town.<br />
* soliciting food donations.<br />
* cooking meals offsite and bringing them to the Occupation.<br />
Please email us at [mailto:occupyboston.food@gmail.com occupyboston.food@gmail.com] if you are interested in doing offsite work such as this or have any ideas of your own.<br />
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==Food Working Group Meetings==<br />
The Food Working Group meets Mondays from 6pm-7pm at the Food Tent. We may move locations after meeting in the tent if not having enough space is an issue. If you show up late and don't see us, ask someone in the Food Tent where we went.<br />
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==Want to Donate? - Our Needs... == <br />
Last updated 11/10/11<br />
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(See also: [[WG/Strategies/Direct Action/Occupy Thanksgiving|Occupy Thanksgiving]] -- preparations in progress for a Thanksgiving cookout for Occupy Boston!)<br />
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'''Please bring all donations to the Food Tent at Dewey Square.'''<br />
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''Please list the ingredients in dishes when possible and avoid common allergens (eggs, nuts, dairy, wheat etc.)!''<br />
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'''What we need the most:'''<br />
*Prepared, ready-to-eat foods (hot meals, sandwiches, snacks, fruit, baked goods).<br />
*Produce (vegetables that we can cook offsite for the Occupation, or use to make cold dishes onsite)<br />
*Drinks (Bottled Water, Hot Coffee, Coffee Grounds, Juice, Dairy and Non-Dairy Milk)<br />
*Dried Goods (Dried Rice and Beans)<br />
*Peanut Butter and Jelly<br />
*Canned Tuna Fish<br />
*Canned Beans<br />
*Bread<br />
*Latex or Vinyl Gloves for Safe Handling of Food<br />
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==Contact Us== <br />
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Email us with any questions at [mailto:occupyboston.food@gmail.com occupyboston.food@gmail.com]<br />
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We can answer any questions you have about donating food, volunteering, interviews regarding Food at Occupy Boston, advice for other Occupations, etc.<br />
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==Join our Food Working Group Email List==<br />
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