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Welcome to the Occupy Boston Wiki!

This wiki is maintained by thoughtful individuals who stand in solidarity with the occupation movement. Occupy Boston employs this wiki to promote the transparent and participatory nature of the movement. The wiki and occupations everywhere rely on every individual. Please Join Us!

Occupy Boston

Occupy Boston stands in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, which may be seen as a consequence of the same inspirations that birthed the Arab Spring. In the aim of equalizing the power of individual voices, we employ a direct democracy.

View the Calendar for upcoming events, or call 617-286-6805 for an automated recording of each day's events.
Visit OccupyBoston.org.
Explore various Media.

Participate

The best way to support the movement is to educate yourself and others in the unending learning and teaching cycle. Help to build a superstructure of knowledge.

Explore and contribute to this wiki
- The Education page collects links to articles related to the movement.
- Please browse Occupy Boston's Wiki Guidelines
Come to Tent City (Dewey Square)
- Meet with Working Groups
- Participate in the General Assembly, an open forum meeting every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 7:00pm in Tent City (Dewey Square).
- Get Directions
Donate supplies and finances
Join the live Chat (IRC) with other Occupiers.

Working Groups

Working Groups are the organs within the body of the Occupation. You will find resources, discussions, and courses of action in every field.
Working Groups are open; Please contribute!

Action and Information Working Groups

Primarily external actions

Anti-Oppression
Arts and Culture
Direct Action
Ideas
Info Tent
Press
Occupy Everywhere
Outreach
Tech (to work on this wiki and other sites, not necessarily at Dewey Square)
Positions, Ideas, Restructuring, Issues? (Title of group is under discussion. Suggested names have been: "Strategies, Proposals & Positions" i.e. SPP, Ideas, Reform, Issues, Statement of Purpose, Why do we occupy?.... We will try to consolidate and organize the information that has sprung up.)
Nonviolence and Civil Disobedience

Infrastructure and Onsite Support Working Groups

Primarily internal action

Conflict Resolution and Mediation
Facilitators
Faith and Spirituality
Food
Finance
Legal
Logistics / Tactical
Medical
- occupybosmedic [at] gmail [dot] com
Safety
Signs
Tech
Transparency
Winterization and Fire Safety

Friends of Occupy Boston

Provides safe space and/or facilitates special events

Under Construction

We recently migrated from Wikispaces.com, and we are now hosted by MayFirst.org. Please be aware that the migration did not result in an exact carbon copy of the old pages, so you may find odd formatting in some places.

Please be patient as we work to make this the best possible collaborative space for Occupy Boston. If you have suggestions for changes that you are not comfortable making yourself, please post a note on the Tasks page so that others will become aware.

Thank you!

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-__NOTOC__=== Welcome to the Occupy Boston Wiki! ===
+__NOTOC__===Welcome to the Occupy Boston Wiki!===
+This wiki is maintained by thoughtful individuals who stand in solidarity with the occupation movement. Occupy Boston employs this wiki to promote the transparent and participatory nature of the movement. The wiki and occupations everywhere rely on '''every individual. Please [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup&returnto=Main_Page Join Us]!'''
-We maintain this wiki to promote the transparent and participatory nature of the Occupy Boston movement. The wiki and Occupy Boston itself rely on '''every individual.''' Please '''[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup&returnto=Main_Page Join Us]!'''
+==Occupy Boston==
+[http://occupyboston.com/ Occupy Boston] stands in solidarity with [http://occupywallst.org/ Occupy Wall Street], which may be seen as a consequence of the same inspirations that birthed the Arab Spring. In the aim of equalizing the power of individual voices, we employ a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy direct democracy].
-==Occupy Boston ==
+*View the [[Calendar]] for upcoming events, or call 617-286-6805 for an automated recording of each day's events.
+*Visit [http://occupyboston.org/ OccupyBoston.org].
+*Explore various [[Media|Media]].
-[http://occupyboston.com/ Occupy Boston] rises In solidarity with [http://occupywallst.org/ Occupy Wall Street]. The origin of that effort was a challenge derived from the social movements of the Arab Spring. The occupation movement employs a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy direct democracy], in the aim of equalizing the power of individual voices.
+==[[Participate|Participate]]==
+The best way to support the movement is to educate yourself and others in the unending learning and teaching cycle. '''Help to build a superstructure of knowledge.'''
-*View the [[Calendar|Events Calendar]] or call 617-286-6805 for an automated recording of each day's events.
+* Explore and contribute to this wiki
-*Visit the main site, [http://occupyboston.org/ OccupyBoston.org]
+** The [[Education]] page collects links to articles related to the movement.
-*Read [[Media|Media]] about Occupy Boston and worldwide Occupy efforts.
+** Please browse Occupy Boston's [[Wiki Guidelines|Wiki Guidelines]]
+* Come to Tent City (Dewey Square)
-== [[Participate|Participate]] ==
+** Meet with [[Working Groups]]
-Help Build the Movement by occupying or by supporting the Occupation and working with the occupiers. Come to the site. There are events every day, things that we need and work to do at Dewey Square. You can [[Donate|donate]] too.
+** Participate in the [[General Assembly]], an open forum meeting every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 7:00pm in Tent City (Dewey Square).
+** Get [[Directions|Directions]]
-Work with the Occupiers by educating yourself and sharing your ideas. Join a Working Group, work in Outreach, follow and Contribute on Social Media or take direct action.
+* [[Donate]] supplies and finances
+* Join the live [http://www.occupyboston.org/irc-chat-live/ Chat] (IRC) with other Occupiers.
-*[[General Assembly|General Assembly]] is an open forum - held at 7PM every Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday & Thursday in Dewey Square, aka Tent City. Get [[Directions|Directions]].
-*[[Donate]] - Find out how to donate [[Monetary Donations|financially]] and [[Material Donations|materially]].
-*Contribute your [[Ideas]]
-*Join one of the [[Working Groups]]. You can discuss [[Strategies, Proposals, Positions]], work in [[Outreach]] or work with any of the many other [[Working Groups]].
-*Take an issue [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dHhSSGl1dnVsVFVaOTlUa3RFck04RHc6MQ&ifq/ Survey].
-*Help out on some [[Tasks]].
-*Join this wiki - the [[Help:Contents|Help]] file will show you how. Then you can contribute content and engage in discussions. There are multiple groups of people working on documents and discussing ideas. Be sure to check the discussion tab on an page that interests you. See what other people are saying about that page, and contribute your comments.
-*Please browse Occupy Boston's [[Wiki Guidelines|Wiki Guidelines]]
-*Connect with [[Community|Communities]] in need of volunteers
-*[http://www.occupyboston.org/irc-chat-live/ Chat live] with other Occupiers.
-==Collaborative Education==
-*The '''[[Education]]''' page on this wiki collects links to articles related to the ''We Are The 99%!'' movement. Check them out and contribute links to cool articles.
-*A google doc, '''[http://tinyurl.com/occupyboston/ Occupy Boston Crowdsourced Reading List] ''' helps you get informed and inform others about what's driving the Occupy movements! Read, contribute, and share blog posts, articles, books, multimedia. When someone asks, 'What are their demands?' or 'Why are they protesting?' - pull a few links from the List and share.
 ==Working Groups==
-Working Groups are the organs which make up the body of the Occupation. You will find resources, discussions, and courses of action in every field.
+Working Groups are the organs within the body of the Occupation. You will find resources, discussions, and courses of action in every field.<br>
-'''Working Groups are OPEN; Please contribute!'''
+'''Working Groups are <u>open</u>; Please contribute!'''
 ===Action and Information Working Groups===
-''Primarily external actions''
+Primarily external actions
 * [[Anti-Oppression|Anti-Oppression]]
 * [[Arts and Culture|Arts and Culture]]
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 ===Infrastructure and Onsite Support Working Groups===
-''Primarily internal actions''
+Primarily internal action
 * [[Conflict Resolution|Conflict Resolution and Mediation]]
 * [[Facilitators|Facilitators]]
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 *Also see groups listed in [[Solidarity|Solidarity]].
-== Wiki Transition ==
+==Under Construction==
-Please be patient with us ([[WG/OBIT|OBIT]]) as we work to make this the best possible collaborative space for Occupy Boston. We're working to get as much of the data from the old wikispaces site to this one, to allow us to be in control of our own content. &nbsp;Please be aware though, that importing data from the wikispaces will not result in an exact carbon copy of the old pages.
+We recently migrated from Wikispaces.com, and we are now hosted by MayFirst.org. Please be aware that the migration did not result in an exact carbon copy of the old pages, so you may find odd formatting in some places.
+Please be patient as we work to make this the best possible collaborative space for Occupy Boston. If you have suggestions for changes that you are not comfortable making yourself, please post a note on the [[Tasks]] page so that others will become aware.
+Thank you!