| | class="Bu" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: top; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" | <div class="nH if" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 16px; position: relative;"><div class="nH"><div class="nH hx" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><div class="nH"><div class="h7 hn" style="clear: both; padding-bottom: 0px;"><div class="Bk" style="position: relative; margin-bottom: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); border-right-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; width: 680px;"><div class="G3 G2" style="padding-top: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); border-left-color: initial; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><div><div id=":141"><div class="adn ads" style="padding-bottom: 20px; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: transparent; padding-left: 8px;"><div class="gs" style="margin-left: 44px;"><div id=":143" class="ii gt adP adO" style="font-size: 13px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 2;"><div id=":142"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div><div><blockquote><div style="word-wrap: break-word;">Dear Congressman,<div><br/></div><div>Congratulations on your fine work securing America for the right sort of people.</div><div><br/></div><div>The time has now come to consolidate our dominance over the nation's symbolic ritual as well as its wealth. You will soon be hearing from our lobbyists directing you to sponsor legislation amending the <span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">Pledge</span> of <span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">Allegiance</span> to the Flag. What the country now needs is a<span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">pledge</span> that more accurately reflects the realities of today's America and our control over it. We believe the following revision will accomplish the desired effect:</div><div><br/></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: 12px;">'''I <span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">PLEDGE</span> <span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">ALLEGIANCE</span>'''</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: 12px;">'''TO THE FLAG'''</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: 12px;">'''OF THE CORPORATE STATE OF AMERICA'''</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: 12px;">'''AND TO THE PLUTOCRACY'''</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: 12px;">'''- FOR WHICH IT NOW STANDS -'''</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: 12px;">'''PILLAGING THE NATION'''</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: 12px;">'''UNDER MAMMON'''</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: 12px;">'''FACELESS AND INVISIBLE'''</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: 12px;">'''WITH LIBERTY FOR THE RICH'''</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: 12px;">'''AND JUSTICE FOR NONE'''</div></div><div><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"></span><br/></div><div><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: 12px;">Be sure to include a provision in the bill </span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: 12px;">mandating daily recitation of the revised <span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">pledge</span> of<span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">allegiance</span> in the nation's schools. This will serve to instruct America's youth about the kind of society they will inherit.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: 12px;"></span><br/></div><div><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: 12px;">In Solidarity,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: 12px;"></span><br/></div><div><span style="line-height: 14px;"><font face="Noteworthy">Forbes</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: 12px;"></span><br/></div><div><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: 12px;">Forbes Morgan-Sachs,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: 12px;">Chairman and CEO</span></div></div></blockquote><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">The Bankfein-Bandit Group</span></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
| | * [[Ideas Working Group - Diversity of Tactics 3/21/2012]] |
| Forest –overview of what the ideas group is—not decision makers, but aiming to create times and spaces for discussion *Want to create the right structures that would allow people to start initiatives on their own-working groups, task forces. *We don’t talk about ideas, we talk about facilitating discussion. Marty—Tonight’s discussion-- experiment with open space *The premise is that everyone has something to bring to the table--whoever comes, are the right people, whatever happens is the only thing that could have, when it starts is the right time, when its over its over. loosely structure topics, then invite you all to prompt discussion *“Law of two feet” –don’t like the discussion, must use their feet to move to a more productive place. Invite a stack system, Introduce the three points of discussion and then start--this meeting has three themes—overall strategy for occupy boston, specific actions and tactics, addressing the growing divisions in our movement/promoting Unity in our movement. Forest—This is also in regards to online offline, onsite, offsite, seeing and doing divides. Marty—Introduction of marker and paper, idea of stepping into different spots for discussion ((Interruption))—Announcement about stolen green fly and orange footprint of tent, camper traveling from Canada—contact info at Logistics. ((Interruption))—Man talking about Mitt Romney, fall river, paper clips on the poor’s teeth(?) Want to organize a “strike team” about this. Duncan—Want to discuss shift from old paradigm to new paradigm ((distinguished location for small discussion)) Oryan (sp?) – Want to have a discussion on unity – functionally—look at spokes-council model @ occupy wall street—could talk more broadly about this—discussion on functional unity ((distinguished location for small discussion)) Chris – Marching to the school board meeting and protesting the closing of schools –connect with more local issues—especially poor working class and communities of color—local issues action ((distinguished location for small discussion)) Individual –talk about the camp itself to increase communication—to help us all get along a little better—((went to oryans group with functional unity)) Tom – in the labor working group—forming more practical links with labor groups—interested in occupy oakland resolution supporting the occupation of foreclosed properties—may fit in with local issues, fits in with anti-oppression ((opted to join local issue group)) Forest—temp check to see if everyone had a group they wanted to meet with—looked good
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