WG/Strategies/Ideas
Mission Statement:
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: User:WG-Ideas)
Meeting Time(s)
- 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
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.
- 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:
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
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 Draft Mission Statement for Author's Group One: To usher this Message Statement through the OB Statement Process, starting with the Ideas discussions.
- 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)