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<p><b>Mission Statement:</b>
== Upcoming Public Discussions ==
</p><p>The Ideas working group actively seeks contributions from the Occupy Boston encampment, its community of supporters, and society at large. It develops transparent and inclusive methods for organizing these ideas in order to facilitate their exchange and development. It also hosts open discussions on concerns, values, and strategies. (Help improve this draft here: <a _fcknotitle="true" href="User:WG-Ideas">User:WG-Ideas</a>)
</p>
<h2>Meeting Time(s)</h2>
<ul><li><b>Sunday, November 6 9:30 pm</b> (after the last proposal at GA) - <b>Location: meet at the Gandhi statue</b>, move indoors from there.
</li></ul>
<p><br />
</p>
<h2>Upcoming Public Discussions</h2>
<ul><li>Held in the GA area, unless otherwise specified
</li><li>There will be FREE HOT FAIR-TRADE COFFEE AND TEA!!
</li><li>Topics set based on suggestions collected online <a href="http://wiki.occupyboston.org/index.php?title=Vote_here&amp;action=edit">vote here</a> and on the whiteboard outside Media tent
</li></ul>
<p><b>Friday, November 4, 7-9 in the GA Area</b>
Topics:
</p>
<ul><li>Overall Strategy
</li><li>Specific Actions &amp; Tactics (formation of task forces to implement the best ones!)
</li><li>Addressing the growing divisions and promoting unity within the movement
</li></ul>
<p><b>Monday, 7 November</b>
Topics:
</p>
<ul><li>What are Occupy Boston's Values
</li><li>Updating and Evolving the Occupy Boston <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Statement of Purpose">Statement of Purpose</a>
</li></ul>
<p>Order of Events:
</p>
<ul><li>Explain goal of the evening: have everyone collectively generate a statement of Occupy Boston's values that can act as a guide of what to add to the <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Statement of Purpose">Statement of Purpose</a>
</li><li>Why not focus on actions, demands, methods tonight?  One of our goals in the Ideas group is to <i>try</i> to help grow a statement that all of Occupy Boston can get behind.  One idea to do this is to start with VALUES.
</li><li>We will have 3 parts of the meeting:
</li></ul>
<p>1. Overview of collected responses for the past few weeks to the question: "What are the values that we, as Occupy Boston, all share?"
here are word clouds made from this collected information:
<img src="/images/7/77/Ideas_values_raw.png" _fck_mw_filename="Ideas values raw.png" alt="RTENOTITLE" /><img src="/images/7/79/Ideas_values_reworded.png" _fck_mw_filename="Ideas values reworded.png" alt="RTENOTITLE" />
</p><p>Want to set the agenda for future Public Discussions?
<a _fcknotitle="true" href="Vote here">Vote here</a>
</p><p><a _fcknotitle="true" href="Join the Ideas email list">Join the Ideas email list</a> - email your ideas, join the online conversation, and view the archive of discussions
</p><p><a href="http://wiki.occupyboston.org/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&amp;type=signup&amp;returnto=Main_Page">Join the wiki</a>. Have some ideas you are developing? Consider putting a link to them in the group workspace: <a _fcknotitle="true" href="User:WG-ideas">User:WG-ideas</a>  You can also create your own user page by clicking on your name in the upper right.
</p>
<h2>Meeting Notes</h2>
<p><a _fcknotitle="true" href="Ideas Working Group Meeting Notes">Ideas Working Group Meeting Notes</a>
</p><p><a _fcknotitle="true" href="Ideas Public Discussion Notes">Ideas Public Discussion Notes</a>
</p><p>Below are some ideas we have been discussing, voting on, and collecting. Check out the Discussion tab for more.
</p>
<h2>Discussion and Background about Demands and Values</h2>
<p>- The approved <a href="Road Map">Statement of Purpose</a>
</p><p>- SPECIFIC PROPOSED LANGUAGE for a <a href="Road Map">Message Statement</a> (aka "the Roadmap") and associated edits/discussion. Detailed workpage on <a href="Ideas Statement New Title">a new title</a>.
</p><p><a _fcknotitle="true" href="Message Statement by Author's Group One">Message Statement by Author's Group One</a> Draft Mission Statement for Author's Group One: To usher this Message Statement through the OB Statement Process, starting with the Ideas discussions.
</p><p>- <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Human Rights">Human Rights</a> workpage
</p><p>- <a href="Strategies, Proposals, Positions">Other ideas/reforms and discussions</a>.
- DISCUSSION ARCHIVES
</p><p>Older <a href="Talk:Statement of purpose">discussions</a> about the original statement of purpose
</p>
<h2> <a href="http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Education">Education and Reading</a> </h2>
<p>A list of interesting reading and analysis.
</p>
<h2>Transcribed banners</h2>
<p>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<b> (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.</b>
*Held in the GA area, unless otherwise specified
</p><p>Also check out www.wearebeings.org for more cool word clouds
*There will be FREE HOT FAIR-TRADE COFFEE AND TEA!!
</p>
*Topics set based on suggestions collected online [http://wiki.occupyboston.org/index.php?title=Vote_here&action=edit vote here] and on the whiteboard outside Media tent
<h3><a _fcknotitle="true" href="What's Wrong with our Country?">What's Wrong with our Country?</a></h3>
 
<p><img src="/images/7/70/What%27sWrong_WordCloud2.jpg" _fck_mw_filename="What'sWrong WordCloud2.jpg" alt="RTENOTITLE" />
'''Friday, November 4, 7-9 in the GA Area''' Topics:
</p>
 
<h3><a _fcknotitle="true" href="What's Right with our Country?">What's Right with our Country?</a></h3>
*Overall Strategy
<p><img src="/images/e/e9/What%27sRight_WordCloud.jpg" _fck_mw_filename="What'sRight WordCloud.jpg" alt="RTENOTITLE" />
*Specific Actions & Tactics (formation of task forces to implement the best ones!)
</p>
*Addressing the growing divisions and promoting unity within the movement
<h3><a _fcknotitle="true" href="Why do you Occupy?">Why do you Occupy?</a></h3>
 
<p><img src="/images/b/be/WhyWeOccupy_WordCloud2.jpg" _fck_mw_filename="WhyWeOccupy WordCloud2.jpg" alt="RTENOTITLE" />
'''Monday, 7 November''' Order of Events:
</p><p>Testaments of the 99% (would not upload)
 
</p>
*Explain goal of the evening: have everyone collectively generate a statement of Occupy Boston's values that can act as a guide of what to add to the [[Statement of Purpose]]
*Why not focus on actions, demands, methods tonight? One of our goals in the Ideas group is to ''try'' to help grow a statement that all of Occupy Boston can get behind. One idea to do this is to start with VALUES.
*Examples of switching&nbsp;actions, demands, methods and statements to VALUES:
**"go after your congressman!" -> &nbsp;value:&nbsp;accountability
**"correct fundamental inequalities" -> value:&nbsp;fairnes
**"shouldn’t demonize conservatives because they disagree" -> value:&nbsp;inclusivity
 
*We will have 3 parts of the meeting:
 
1. Overview of collected responses for the past few weeks to the question: "What are the values that we, as Occupy Boston, all share?" here are word clouds made from this collected information:
 
[[File:Ideas values raw.png|300x358px|RTENOTITLE]][[File:Ideas values reworded.png|300x383px|RTENOTITLE]]
 
We will break out into groups and add change, and discuss this list. We will then come back to the larger group and report on small group break out discussions.
 
2. We will break out into new groups and decide on what values on this list do people feel should go into the [[Statement of Purpose]]. This could be any amount of values, but we are suggesting 2-5 for this first attempt. We will then come back to the larger group and report on small group break out discussions.
 
3. Lastly, we will split again into groups and see if we can write a sentence or two that expresses the values collaboratively decided in Step 2 into the [[Statement of Purpose]]. Groups can start with a BLANK piece of paper, a copy of the [[Statement of Purpose]] to edit, or have an action question that they are answering: - What are the values, that we, as Occupy Boston Share? or: - What is the mission, that we, as Occupy Boston Share? We will then come back to the larger group and report on small group Statements and edits. This will go a long way to adding to the [[Statement of Purpose]] '''Followup''' We will post all of the Statements and notes from this meeting in a new page called [[Values Addendum to Statement of Purpose]] as well as post the proposed changes to the [http://main.wirite.org/documents/20/ Occupy Boston Statement of Purpose] on the site [http://wirite.org Wirite] where the changes can continue to be worked on.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
<br/>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
 
[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup&returnto=Main_Page 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.

Revision as of 16:29, 7 November 2011

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 Order of Events:

  • Explain goal of the evening: have everyone collectively generate a statement of Occupy Boston's values that can act as a guide of what to add to the Statement of Purpose
  • Why not focus on actions, demands, methods tonight? One of our goals in the Ideas group is to try to help grow a statement that all of Occupy Boston can get behind. One idea to do this is to start with VALUES.
  • Examples of switching actions, demands, methods and statements to VALUES:
    • "go after your congressman!" ->  value: accountability
    • "correct fundamental inequalities" -> value: fairnes
    • "shouldn’t demonize conservatives because they disagree" -> value: inclusivity
  • We will have 3 parts of the meeting:

1. Overview of collected responses for the past few weeks to the question: "What are the values that we, as Occupy Boston, all share?" here are word clouds made from this collected information:

RTENOTITLERTENOTITLE

We will break out into groups and add change, and discuss this list. We will then come back to the larger group and report on small group break out discussions.

2. We will break out into new groups and decide on what values on this list do people feel should go into the Statement of Purpose. This could be any amount of values, but we are suggesting 2-5 for this first attempt. We will then come back to the larger group and report on small group break out discussions.

3. Lastly, we will split again into groups and see if we can write a sentence or two that expresses the values collaboratively decided in Step 2 into the Statement of Purpose. Groups can start with a BLANK piece of paper, a copy of the Statement of Purpose to edit, or have an action question that they are answering: - What are the values, that we, as Occupy Boston Share? or: - What is the mission, that we, as Occupy Boston Share? We will then come back to the larger group and report on small group Statements and edits. This will go a long way to adding to the Statement of Purpose Followup We will post all of the Statements and notes from this meeting in a new page called Values Addendum to Statement of Purpose as well as post the proposed changes to the Occupy Boston Statement of Purpose on the site Wirite where the changes can continue to be worked on.






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.

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