WG/Strategies/Ideas

Ideas Working Group

Ideas 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. (Help improve this draft here: User:WG-Ideas)

Next Ideas Working Group Meetings (open to all!)

• Sunday, November 6 9:30 pm (after the last proposal at GA) - Location: meet at the Gandhi statue, move indoors from there.

Upcoming Public Discussions

• Held in the GA area, unless otherwise specified
• There will be FREE HOT FAIR-TRADE COFFEE AND TEA!!
• Topics set based on suggestions collected online vote here and on the whiteboard outside Media tent

Friday, November 4, 7-9 in the GA Area Topics:

• Overall Strategy
• Specific Actions & Tactics (formation of task forces to implement the best ones!)
• Addressing the growing divisions and promoting unity within the movement

Monday, 7 November Topics:

• What are Occupy Boston's Values
• Updating and Evolving the Occupy Boston Statement of Purpose

Want to set the agenda for future Public Discussions? vote here

Join the Ideas email list - email your ideas, join the online conversation, and view the archive of discussions

Join the wiki. Have some ideas you are developing? Consider putting a link to them in the group workspace: User:WG-ideas You can also create your own user page by clicking on your name in the upper right.

Meeting Notes

Ideas Working Group Meeting Notes

Ideas Public Discussion Notes

Below are some ideas we have been discussing, voting on, and collecting. Check out the Discussion tab for more.

Discussion and Background about Demands and Values

- The approved Statement of Purpose

- SPECIFIC PROPOSED LANGUAGE for a Message Statement (aka "the Roadmap") and associated edits/discussion. Detailed workpage on a new title.

[{Message Statement by Author's Group One]]

- Human Rights workpage

- Other ideas/reforms and discussions. - DISCUSSION ARCHIVES

Older discussions about the original statement of purpose

Education and Reading

A list of interesting reading and analysis.

Transcribed banners

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. To contribute to the wordclouds below, click the question at the left, click edit on the top right, and then add your response (Note: you must first create a user account before you register. Please do!). We will periodically update the wordclouds until we figure out a way to have them update in real time.

Also check out www.wearebeings.org for more cool word clouds

What's Wrong with our Country?

What's Right with our Country?

Why do you Occupy?

Testaments of the 99% (would not upload)