WG/Strategies/Ideas

Ideas Working Group

Provisional Mission Statement: The Ideas working group will actively seek out the contributions from the Occupy Boston encampment, its community of supporters, and from society at large. It will develop transparent and inclusive methods of organizing these ideas in order to facilitate their exchange and development. We will also host open discussions on widely held concerns and values, as well as around important questions of strategy.

The next OBIdeas Public Discussion will be: Friday, 28 October, 7-9 in the GA Area. Topic: How does Occupy Boston preserve it's momentum?

Working group meetings (open to all): Sunday, 31 October 9:30-11 pm location: meet at the Gandhi statue Wednesday, 2 November 6-7 pm location: South Station Mezzanine (2nd floor above/behind McDonalds)

Mailing List: ideas@lists.occupyboston.org To join the working group, go here: [1]

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Below are some examples of the ideas we have been collecting:

Statement of purpose

We will continue to post questions on whiteboards, banners, and the giant notepad in the Library, transcribe them and explore new and useful ways of presenting the ideas. Here are some examples:

What's Wrong with our Country?

What's Right with our Country?

Why do you Occupy?

Testaments of the 99% (would not upload)

Agenda

Wed Oct 26

-Friday night discussion

    ~Next strategic steps ( how will occupy boston develop?)
        >our camp
        >indoor space
        >model change
   ~Move your money / Banks
        >alternatives
        >nonviolence
        >partnership with DCU / Liberty
   ~TBD friday night
        >small group
        >input on agenda items
        >hot or not model
   ~How does Occupy Boston preserve it's momentum?
        >( temp check taken and this will be our discussion topic)
        > Publicize on Facebook, twitter, wiki, whiteboard, APB to working groups.
        > Format of discussion
             - Stated that the goal of this discussion will be to bring out and foster the seeds of autonomous actions, working group proposals, positions
             - Small groups, time check in with temp check, Step forward step back
             - Facilitated by Noah and Andrew, Note taking and time keeping by Laura and George
    ~ Planning subsequent topics
         > Word clouds (pass around sheet)
         > Head to Head (hot or not)
         > Online/ whiteboard 

-Contingency plan -Next steps (winterization/other strategies) -Move your money day -living document -Name of group -Strategy/expansion

     ~New methods
   ~validating
   ~collecting other people's ideas

-Meeting time

     ~Wed 6pm / Sun 9:30 pm/ dicussion fri at 7