Occupy Boston

Welcome to the Occupy Boston Wiki!

We maintain this wiki to promote the transparent and participatory nature of the Occupy Boston movement. The wiki and Occupy Boston itself rely on every individual. Please Join Us!

Occupy Boston

Occupy Boston rises In solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. The origin of that effort was a challenge derived from the social movements of the Arab Spring. The occupation movement employs a direct democracy, in the aim of equalizing the power of individual voices.

• View the Events Calendar or call 617-286-6805 for an automated recording of each day's events.
• Visit the main site, OccupyBoston.org
• Read Media about Occupy Boston and worldwide Occupy efforts.

Participate

Help Build the Movement by occupying or by supporting the Occupation and working with the occupiers. Come to the site. There are events every day, things that we need and work to do at Dewey Square. You can donate too.

Work with the Occupiers by educating yourself and sharing your ideas. Join a Working Group, work in Outreach, follow and Contribute on Social Media or take direct action.

• General Assembly is an open forum - held at 7PM every Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday & Thursday in Dewey Square, aka Tent City. Get Directions.
• Donate - Find out how to donate financially and materially.
• Join one of the Working Groups. You can discuss Strategies, Proposals, Positions, work in Outreach or work with any of the many other Working Groups.
• Take an issue Survey.
• Help out on some Tasks.
• Join this wiki - the Help file will show you how. Then you can contribute content and engage in discussions. There are multiple groups of people working on documents and discussing ideas. Be sure to check the discussion tab on an page that interests you. See what other people are saying about that page, and contribute your comments.
• Please browse Occupy Boston's Wiki Guidelines
• Connect with Communities in need of volunteers
• Chat live with other Occupiers.

Collaborative Education

• The Education page on this wiki collects links to articles related to the We Are The 99%! movement. Check them out and contribute links to cool articles.
• A google doc, Occupy Boston Crowdsourced Reading List helps you get informed and inform others about what's driving the Occupy movements! Read, contribute, and share blog posts, articles, books, multimedia. When someone asks, 'What are their demands?' or 'Why are they protesting?' - pull a few links from the List and share.

Working Groups

Working Groups are the organs which make up the body of the Occupation. You will find resources, discussions, and courses of action in every field. Working Groups are OPEN; Please contribute!

Action and Information Working Groups

Primarily external actions

• Anti-Oppression
• Arts and Culture
• Direct Action
• Press
• Occupy Everywhere
• Outreach
• Tech (to work on this wiki and other sites, not necessarily at Dewey Square)
• Positions, Ideas, Restructuring, Issues? (Title of group is under discussion. Suggested names have been: "Strategies, Proposals & Positions" i.e. SPP, Ideas, Reform, Issues, Statement of Purpose, Why do we occupy?.... We will try to consolidate and organize the information that has sprung up.)

Infrastructure and Onsite Support Working Groups

Primarily internal actions

• Conflict Resolution and Mediation
• Facilitators
• Faith and Spirituality
• Food
• Finance
• Legal
• Logistics / Tactical
• Medical
  
  • occupybosmedic [at] gmail [dot] com
• Safety
• Signs
• Tech
• Transparency
• Winterization

Friends of Occupy Boston

Provides safe space and/or facilitates special events

• Library in Tent City
• Free School University
• Students Occupy
• Occupy Boston Globe
• Also see groups listed in Solidarity.

Wiki Transition

Please be patient with us (OBIT) as we work to make this the best possible collaborative space for Occupy Boston. We're working to get as much of the data from the old wikispaces site to this one, to allow us to be in control of our own content.  Please be aware though, that importing data from the wikispaces will not result in an exact carbon copy of the old pages.