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= Minutes for 10 April 2012 =

== Details ==
Location: Camp Charlie <br/>
Time: 7pm - ? <br/>
Note taker: Steve

== Working Group Announcements ==

'''Facilitation.''' As an organization, we need to make a decision
regarding the churches we've been renting meeting space from. There
are three spaces in question: Emmanuel Church, the Arlington Street
Church, and the Community Church of Boston (we've already taken care
of St. Paul's). Now that the weather is warm, do we want to have GAs
outside? (until the weather turns cold again) If we have GAs outside,
should we hold them at one place? In several places? Should we
rotate places?

Should we hold SAA outdoors, or continue to use the Community Church
of Boston?

Starting on May 4th, community gatherings will be held at the
Community Church of Boston. Community gatherings will stay indoors.

If we move GA outdoors, we should decide on a date, and let the
churches know. We want to maintain a good relationship with the
churches. Eventually, the weather will get cold and we'll want to
move back inside.

Please think about these questions between now and Saturday.

'''Decolonizing Boston.''' Two people spoke on behalf of the Coalition of
Immokalee Workers. The coalition of Immokalee workers is a coalition
of farm workers. Workers have experienced wage theft, physical
violence, and more extreme abuses. Both men and women have
experienced these abuses. Women have also been subject to sexual
abuse.

The workers want a better future. They are asking corporations that
buy tomatoes to make some changes. Ten corporations have agreed to
these demands, including paying $0.01 more per pound, and signing on
to an agreement that respects workers rights.

Stop and Shop refuses to sign on to this agreement; we will have an
action in protest of Stop and Shop's position. The protest is
Thursday, April 12th at noon, at Stop and Shop headquarters in Quincy.

See also: http://www.ciw-online.org

'''MBTA.''' The MBTA has proposed a 23% fare hike. This is a stop gap
measure, and affects only the current year; we'll be back in the same
budget crisis situation next year.

Our MA legislators have seen over six thousand people turn out for 31
hearings on the MBTA service changes. And they have done nothing.
We're camping here until April 15th, to protest the legislature's lack
of action.

There is a hearing tomorrow about a transit bill. Tomorrow, we'll
also hold teach-ins, and ride the rails to spread awareness. We'd
love to have your company. We'll also bring forward a proposal later
tonight.

'''Safer Spaces.''' Safer spaces is the most fantastic working group in
Occupy Boston. We'll be meeting at Camp Charlie every night at 10:30
pm.

'''Anti-Oppression.''' Tonight, we'll make a proposal on behalf of three
working groups: Anti-Oppression, People of Color, and Decolonize to
Liberate. We've been doing a lot of education. We've had difficulty
borrowing overhead projectors; we'll make a proposal to purchase and
overhead projector, a screen, and a video camera.

'''Ideas.''' We're meeting tomorrow night, 7pm, in room 505, 38 Ash Street,
which is in Chinatown. We'll have another installment in our series
of difficult conversations about difficult topics. This time, we'll
be talking about values, autonomy, and consent. Please join us.

'''Radio.''' We're still around, and we need more people to produce and
host shows. We meet Monday and Friday (?) at 7:00pm, at E5. We'll
also host two training sessions, where we'll show people how to
produce their own shows. These training sessions are tomorrow at 6pm,
and Saturday from 10:00 - noon.

Our schedule is online. You can find it at http://obr.fm.

'''Boston Occupier.''' The next issue of the Boston Occupier will come out
on April 18th. We're printing 10,000 copies, in color.

We're going to try a new distribution strategy. We've made up a bunch
of Boston Occupier bumper stickers, and we'll try to reclaim abandoned
newspaper distribution boxes around town. These abandoned boxes
should be more than just an eyesore; we can use them to distribute the
Occupier.

If you'd like to submit an article, the print deadline is Thursday.
Try to submit before then, to allow time for editing.

'''Media.''' Our web submission forms died over the weekend, but they're
working now. We have a backlog of calendar postings and such to work
through, and we're going through that backlog now.

'''Legal.''' The NLG would like us to participate in their gala on the
12th. The details are on the Occupy Boston calendar.

'''Local Currency.''' We're printing "dollars", whose value is associated
with a time bank. These are modeled after the Berkshire's local
currency, which has been around for years. Have a look at our wiki
page if you'd like to find out more, or if you're interested in
participating.

'''Facilitation.''' We meet three times a week. Tomorrow, we're meeting at
5:45 - 6:30. We also meet Thursday at 5pm and Saturday at 3pm. All
meetings are at city place.

On Thursday, we'll have a proposal regarding churches and indoor
meetings.

'''Food.''' We're rolling out food 3.0, and we'd like you to be involved.
Contact me at amberpaw-AT-gmail.com. You can help by cooking things at
home. Thanks to all the food people. We have a limited ability to
store leftovers, so please eat.

== Individual Stack ==

'''Aria.''' Occupy JP is working on a tax day rally. The rally will be
April 17th at Dewey Square, at 5pm. Please come. We may do some
building projections after the event.

For May day, we'd like to occupy the airwaves. Call your favorite
radio station, and request your favorite radical song.

'''Tess.''' We're working on a priority process proposal, to make GA more
about planning.

'''Bill.''' We had a memorial service for Andy.

'''Matt.''' A lot of anarchists are organizing for May Day. I'll post
details on twitter. The organizing involves a lot of theatrics and
street theater.

'''Rich.''' On April 24th there will be a full day teach-in at Brandeis
University -- 10am to 8pm. There's details on the Brandeis college
website.

'''Daniel.''' I'm building another giant puppet. Come help build it.

== FAWG Discussion ==

We spent the next two hours having a discussion about FAWG, how Occupy
Boston spends (or could spend) money, etc. FAWG will make details of
this discussion available.

== Proposals ==

There are four proposals tonight. (The note-taker had to leave;
hopefully someone can add notes about the proposals.)

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