User:OneKarma

Contact: onekarma.ob@gmail.com

Eric is in the process of unifying the movement's many communication mediums within this wiki in order to host a more open forum. It is only in the existence of a public forum (avoiding the time constraints coming from daily/weekly meetings) that a true quorum of the 99% may be established.

The theory behind my proposal is that knowledge is power. The transparency of and the access to information, therefore, should be absolute. The Occupy movement, with its great number of supporters, has a chance to embrace advanced communications technology as a primary organizational tool. Information should be made as open and equally accessible as possible, and to be equally accessible it first must be simple and easy to use. I believe that the best tool for our collaborative effort can be this very wiki. The nature of a wiki is both collaborative and autonomous. It offers space for known facts and agreeable solutions, as well as for in-depth discussion. There are essentially no limits to the potential size of the website itself, nor to the number of collaborators. The open discussion space provided by the wiki is the most important ingredient. It means every issue can be hosted in its own space, but also grouped by relevancy. If the community truly supports discussion, it may automatically birth documents appealing to the peaceful transition of our society.

Projects

Forum

Examine the nominal benefits of converging local Occupy conversations within a single, organized, online space - to be aided by the creation of local 'offices' for making access to info for those who may not have internet access.

User:OneKarma/Forum Table of Contents

• User:OneKarma/Forum - an introduction to the concept of an open forum, and utilizing this wiki as such
• User:OneKarma/Forum/Functions - the functions that an open forum should perform in order to be successful
• User:OneKarma/Forum/Demo - a 'prototype' for how working pages can be organized in an open forum

Concepts

• User:OneKarma/Philosophy - as working group?
• User:OneKarma/Global Forum - too grandiose, use only for reference

Help/Nav

• User:OneKarma/Help
• User:OneKarma/Help/Navigation Tree

Tasks

1. present http://project.occupymediawiki.org/wiki/Main_Page somewhere on OBwiki
2. convert forum pages into readable essay (write forum walkthrough), update bottom of philosophy page
3. 'got mine' attitude essay
4. Update Calendar details - how to edit, who to contact, what contact info...
   1. entirely new calendar?
5. Update all consented documents, 'sync' with the blog
   1. 'press releases' section from ga page
6. Update Media and Education sections
7. update side-bar with 'education' and 'documents' link
   1. move 'primary tools' above 'links'
   2. add to primary tools?
8. increase transparency
9. update personal section

References

• OneKarma's 'User Contributions'
• Pages from "User:OneKarma" to "User:OneKarmb"

Tools

• pad.riseup.net - for hosting live-draft docs
• MediaWiki:Sidebar - inaccessible; need 'admin'
• Wiki User Rights - inaccessible; need 'admin'

Other

• http://www.occupyboston.org/2011/11/23/statement-autonomy-consented-112211/?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=twitterfeed
• http://www.occupyboston.org/2011/10/07/statement-of-diversity-of-tactics/

A Personal Note

I was recently asked to explain a comment of mine which said, I do everything for myself. Please consider the following a proper response to that request:

I am discontented by much of society: I observe objectively the actions of those who surround me, focused on comprehending motivations; I seek to understand the flow of histories, both personal and ethnographic; I feel the pressures of society from every angle. I am drawn to helping society evolve on a massive scale, but I am held back by the many established 'requirements' of attaining a notable niche in the arena. I look up to those who exemplify the change they wish to see in the world, and I am determined to fight on my own terms.

The Occupation's views appear to be very nearly congruent with my own. It is the first occurrence in which I have felt truly able to contribute to society on a more than inter-personal basis. It is a chance to make a large-scale change that indefinitely improves the life of every human. When I note influential peoples, they almost always hold doctorate degrees in a social field. Almost all of them are professors, researchers, or both, and I wish to contribute to their practices. But I cannot outright contribute to their practices because society views me as nothing more than a high school graduate, and I am therefore limited to only the most menial and depraving work.

It is by this awareness that I have constructed the following pages. I wish for a free and just world, and I believe a global forum is the only way to accomplish such a goal. The health and evolution of the human species relies on cooperation, but the current division of nations and socio-economic levels destroys our cooperative potential. The species cannot evolve within these affairs, and I cannot consider any contribution of mine to be valid unless it contributes to the evolution of society. The process by which people in the 'modern' world are meant to 'lift' themselves is oppressive, and the acceptance of such a super-structure is effecting a global collapse.

I ponder and weigh ideas only to increase my chances of feeling human. I employ the 'compassionate humanity' argument because I see it as the only means of establishing my own comfort. I wish that all suffering would end only because I consider all suffering my own.

"I am He, as You are He, as You are Me, and We are all Together." All is One. This is the ultimate meaning of my existence.