Occupy Boston

Welcome to the Occupy Boston wiki!

This wiki is maintained by thoughtful individuals who stand in solidarity with the occupation movement. Occupy Boston employs this wiki under the belief that it promotes the transparent and participatory nature of the movement. The wiki and occupations everywhere rely on every individual. Please Join Us!

Occupy Boston

Occupy Boston stands in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, which may be seen as a consequence of the same inspirations that birthed the Arab Spring. In the aim of equalizing the power of individual voices, we employ a direct democracy.

Participate

Please read the Help and Guidelines page before you do any major editing.
Help us build a superstructure of knowledge; educate yourself and others in the unending, compassionate cycle of learning and teaching.

• Learn and teach: Education and Media collect relevant links
• View the Calendar for upcoming events, or call 617-286-6805 for an automated recording of each day's events.
• Visit the home site, OccupyBoston.org
• Come to Tent City (Dewey Square)
  • Meet with Working Groups
  • Participate in the General Assembly, an open forum meeting every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 7:00pm in Tent City (Dewey Square).
  • Get Directions
• Donate supplies and finances
• Join the live Chat (IRC) with other Occupiers.

Working groups are teams of people within the Occupation, each focused on a particular area or task. These groups are the organs supporting the body of the Occupation. Within them you will find resources, discussions, and courses of action in every field.

SCROLL DOWN to see the list of active Working Groups.

Working groups are open, which means anyone can help out, including you! Like the Occupation as a whole, each working group is like a horizontal democracy, with decision-making by consensus and publicly accessible meetings. To join a working group, see its wiki page for contact information and meeting times.

To add a new group to this list, copy and paste this quoted text on the bottom of the working group page: "[[Category:Working groups]]." The wiki software will do the rest. We also maintain a list of Inactive Working Groups, which can be tagged with "[[Category:Inactive Working Groups]]." (For further help with categories, please see Help:Categories.)

Related Pages

• Instructions for starting a working group
• Individual Action
• In Progress Actions Not Part of Working Groups including Pax Centurion
• Strategic Planning
• Transparency and Accountability Standards
• Occupy Other Places for Occupies in Many Towns/Schools
• Old Actions - Complete
• Occupy the Economy
• Occupy Humor
• Discussion and Announcement Lists to Sign Up For
• What Direct Actions Other Occupies are Doing for inspiration
• Working Groups looking for New Energy!

Banking

Working Groups

Working Groups are the organs within 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
• Ideas
• Info Tent
• 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.)
• WG/OBIT
• Nonviolence and Civil Disobedience

Infrastructure and Onsite Support Working Groups

Primarily internal action

• Conflict Resolution and Mediation
• Facilitators
• Faith and Spirituality
• Food
• Finance
• Legal
• Logistics / Tactical
• Medical
• Safety
• Signs
• Tech
• Transparency
• Winterization and Fire Safety

Friends of Occupy Boston

Provides safe space and/or facilitates special events

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

Under Construction

We recently migrated from Wikispaces.com, and we are now hosted by MayFirst.org. Please be aware that the migration did not result in an exact carbon copy of the old pages, so you may find odd formatting in some places.

Please be patient as we work to make this the best possible collaborative space for Occupy Boston. If you have suggestions for changes that you are not comfortable making yourself, please post a note on the Tasks page so that others will become aware.

Thank you!