GA Minutes Tue June 4 2013

Minutes for 4 June 2013

Details

Location: Community Church
Time: 7pm - 9:10pm
Note taker: Dana

11 people attending.

Summary

Reimbursed for travel to Bradley Manning Support Event

We had a discussion about future of GAs

Announcements

Carlos announced that he will be starting an "Occupy 2" on July 4th of this year. His focus will be on creating a 501(3)(c) non-profit organization under his personal control.

The next Strike Debt meeting is tentatively set for Tues June 18 at 7PM at James' house again. "We had a really good meeting last night working on a draft for the video and we went into considerable more depth on a number of aspects of student debt/other debt etc all of which are important background for a short video. We will be working in the interim on furthering revising/developing the draft in various forms and hopefully some of that can be distributed before the next meeting so people can look at it in advance."

Occupy Boston was invited to be guests at the Episcopal City Mission's 2013 Annual Fundraising Dinner at Boston University’s George Sherman Union. (The keynote speaker is to be Occupy Wall Street activist: Rev. George Packard, Bishop of the Armed Services and Federal Ministries, Retired.) (2 OB members left the GA early to attend this.)

Report Backs

Veteran's for Peace Memorial Day event. Mass Rally for Bradley at Ft. Meade, on June 1.

Proposals

There were three proposals tonight:

• (Carlos) I'd like $500 for an economic equality working group campaign.

Original proposals: ga-proposals-20130507.pdf

Endorse Budget for All

Who's sponsoring the proposal?

Carolyn reads part of a long list. The list is, well, really long.

What does endorsement involve?

We encourage people to participate in the rally, and we're added to the list of endorsees.

Proposal passes in the consent bucket.

Change GAs to 1x/month

Does this imply that GAs are indoors?

I hope that would be a separate consideration. We could have them indoors our outdoors.

What's the rationale for going to 1x/month, from 2x/month?

We have low attendance, and a small amount of business to take care of. I'm hoping that 1x/month might improve attendance, and keep people engaged.

Proposal comes out of the bucket.

Economic Inequality Working Group Campaign

We had a war of independence, not a revolution. The French had a revolution, we had a war of independence. I want to educate people about this.

What's the money for?

To pay people. Speakers, printing, leaflets, go around the schools and talk to the groups.

Who are the members of this group?

I have plenty of people. They're homeless, and they stay in my house.

Proposal comes out of the bucket.

We order proposals. GA, then Educational campaign. We'd planned a discussion topic for this evening. We'll have the discussion first, then come back to proposals as time allows.

Discussion: Working with other activist groups

Proposal passes. Next GA one month from now.