Half 1/6 - Occupy Richmond Common Meeting - Oct. 19, 2011 - Richmond, Virginia

Half 1/6 - Occupy Richmond Common Meeting - Oct. 19, 2011 - Richmond, Virginia

Day four. Eleanor opened the Common Meeting and defined the method and pointers to the group assembled.

From Official Minutes, not accepted as of Oct. 20, 2011 11:16 *with Private corrections to names the place I can.
https://docs.google.com/doc/pub?id=1fiyvA4k-N5hqR6XvU-onPUWuhjMPlwcd70fqrAgo27A


10/19/2011 Common Meeting

Agenda:
Intro & course of & pointers
Working Group Bulletins
Common Bulletins
Casual Proposals (Three min every)
Particular Announcement: Police Liaison
Formal Proposals (30 min)
Eight:07pm—Introductions

Eleanor (moderator), Kenny (moderator), Janessa (agenda scribe), Zach (temp examine), Victoria (scribe), Vanessa (stack)

Eight:17pm—Kenny reads by way of agenda

Eight:19 Working Group Bulletins

Whitney (Media): “That is on behalf of considered one of our Media members, Shelton Bumgarner. He want to begin a zine for Occupy Richmond. He wants author and artists. He proposes that it's basic in nature and never strictly about Occupy stuff. It could function articles that will get folks considering generally. He as an e mail arrange: richmondoccupier@gmail.com. That’s the title that he proposes for the zine.”

Kenny: “Every thing that’s been mentioned tonight will probably be viewable as minutes accessible on the web site and the bulletin board.”

Stephen (OPP): “Tomorrow morning shiny and early we’re assembly on the nook. Convey your indicators and plenty of power trigger we wanna be heard.”

Ramey (Safer Areas): “I’ve had considerations delivered to me about escalating hostile conditions. I do know it’s laborious to not react with violence when folks convey that to you, however it’s essential to take into account that many individuals are uncomfortable with aggression. I’m not saying you shouldn’t communicate your thoughts, however there’s sufficient concern and anger being directed in the direction of us that it’s pointless to create extra unfavourable power.”

Kenny: “Can I get somebody to depend the variety of folks right here?”

Alan (Outreach): “I need assistance! A bunch of individuals signed up for the workgroup e-mail and I haven’t seen them since. We have to attain out to teams with established bases. Most of all we want them due to nights like tonight—it’s raining! We'd like them to present us locations to satisfy in neighborhoods throughout town. Fb: Occupy Richmond—Outreach.”

William (transportation): “In case you’re planning to depart by foot, I extremely suggest you come see me. I’ll provide you with a trip if it’s within the Richmond space. If in case you have a automobile and are keen to assist, please come see me. We had a lady yesterday who was hit by a automobile. She’s okay, however it’s proof that accidents do occur and I need to see you all come again tomorrow.”

Invoice (Police Liaison): “I’d like to deal with some rumors. I’ve talked to Main Drew and he has knowledgeable me that there is no such thing as a plan to raid Occupy Richmond. I’d additionally wish to dispel one other rumor that has to do with a police officer named Captain Will Smith. Mr Smith was stated to have been demoted for serving to OR. This rumor is fake and I'll concur additional to say Captain Smith is on element serving to the President.”

David (Meals): “I’m having issues bc lots of people signed up however didn’t present up. So we want extra volunteers! Those we've got which have labored so laborious up to now, we need to preserve them, however not overwork them! I see you’ve finished an important job up to now of getting issues finished for yourselves. That’s excellent! I actually preferred the chili. So what we’re gonna do after the GA: I want 6 folks to come back be a part of me. We’re going to arrange issues for Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I wil not have the ability to proceed to handle your entire group on my own so I’ll want another person to step up and take a secondary place in that.”
(Finance): “I want folks to affix me in establishing a finance group. I want about 5 folks to satisfy me after the GA and the Meals assembly to assist set up procedures for managing finance processes to return to this group. Please be a part of!”

POC [Point of Clarification]: “The place can we discover you?”

“I’ll be round these timber after the assembly.”
Gabby (Medical): “Now we have loads of ibuprofen, cleaning soap, toothbrushes, handwarmers... We're camped out over previous the ampitheatre within the yellow tent. Our desk is below the tarp. I additionally need to thank everybody who gave donations.”

POC: “This morning I obtained stung by a bee and I obtained stung by a bee and I used to be on the lookout for Medical and couldn’t discover them. May you please improve your visibility?”

“There was an indication down right here one time that stated BEES. There's a nest of yellowjackets. I personally am extremely allergic and loads of it's possible you'll be allergic to stings of yellowjackets. Simply watch out—they’re there.”

Bobbie (Authorized): “I have to know if any of you may have crammed out these Jail Assist Types. If in case you have not, please see me after GA. It's merely a type for emergency contacts in case the police are buttheads.”

POC: “There's an orange bucket, that’s the place the bees are at.”

“For working teams that would love us to satisfy them after the assembly, please say a spot! This park is large!”

Jason (Sanitation): “I work throughout the day so I miss loads. So anybody concerned about working with Sanitation come see me over there after GA.”

Eight:35—Common Bulletins

Joe: “I’m right here to do free bike tune-ups. My arrange is slightly ehh due to the rain, however I’ll have it arrange as quickly as attainable with an indication. If anybody desires to donate bike elements—grease, tubes, all that, please come see me. In any other case, I’m losing interest, and I like bike restore, so when you have one please come see me!”

Claire: “I printed off some stuff from NY GAs—I’m going to place it with info tomorrow in case you need to educate your self. There’ll be full minutes from one assembly, and a brief listing of how Individuals’s Consensus GAs usually work. I’ll even have some data on points in Virginia.”

Mess: “Me and Stephen are operating the Cigarette Committee. Since you guys are superior, we've got a lotta kickdowns, so in case you guys want cigarettes, we've got lots. We’re round, hit us up!”

Jason: “It’s been a ache within the ass selecting up cigarette butts. Please choose up the cherries and throw them away!”

David: “Me and another folks began a folks’s bulletin board on the spherical column factor. If in case you have something you need to say/announce, simply staple it up there!”

Kenny: “There isn't a smoking within the basic space of the GA, so take it to the sidewalk! Thanks.”

Nathan: “I simply need to make it possible for all the brand new people and everybody else keep in mind that we’re making an attempt to maintain a sober camp. If you should try this stuff, please go off camp. We love you all and we’re not judging, we simply don’t need to give the cops an excuse to bust us.”

Josh: “Now we have an handle now! 3126 W Cary St, Field 442, Richmond, VA 23221. Additionally, upcoming this Sunday, we've got large stuff occurring. Calling all humanitarians: from roughly 12-Eight, we’ll have plenty of audio system, we’ll have some music, it’ll be a helluva good time. We obtained a message and a few donations from our friends in Jackson Ward.”

POC: “Can the handle settle for packages, or simply letters?”
“It will probably settle for something! Please ship us issues!
We filed a allow at present, we should always hear again tomorrow!”

Megan: “I’m from Conscious Liberation Mission. In solidarity with safer areas and to assist the psychological well being of Occupy Richmond, we’re going to be internet hosting our peer assist teams right here at Kanawha Plaza. Our subsequent conferences are this Sunday and Tuesday 5-7pm below a banner that claims ‘The Icarus Mission.’”

POC: “So the assembly is a counseling session? Or is it a gathering for Safer Areas?”

“Individuals can meet me afterwards if they've questions, however usually will probably be to assist folks deal with any kind of emotional stressors they've whereas they’re right here.”

Steve: “I need to manage a solidarity march tomorrow to go right down to an superior live performance with an important trigger. Icon Gallery, SOMA, and Woah are enjoying at Nile on Laurel St. It’s a fundraiser for our pal Jeremy. The cops are urgent him with authorized fees for one thing he didn’t do. The cash goes to his authorized assist fund.”

Kenny: “92 folks right here, not together with facilitators, 110 folks roaming the park.”

Eight:47pm—Casual Proposals

Sur: “I simply need to say that I like all of you.”
“We love you too!”

Elizabeth: “I suggest that all of us concentrate on the inhabitants that has lived right here for much longer than we've got. When you're establishing your tent, be certain that to ask round so you aren't in somebody’s area. If we've got to crowd collectively, it’s extra essential to me than to crowd them out. So I suggest that we make an announcement that it is a rule.
There are additionally residents that go to mattress early. They've finished this earlier than we obtained right here. I suggest we set quiet hours between 10pm and 8pm for our older people, individuals who have to get to mattress, and our particular long-time residents that we love. We care about them.”

Kate: “It’s been delivered to my consideration that a few of the feminine members right here have felt slightly uncomfortable with a few of the sleeping preparations. I suggest we make a secure area for folks to sleep in the event that they really feel uncomfortable.”
Eleanor: “I feel it’ll take a while to get off the bottom, however my thought is to give you a child’s area, a spot the place children would have actions, be supervised, be engaged with, the place dad and mom really feel like they'll go away their children, and a extra child-friendly tradition is in place.”

Joe: “One of many issues that I see on tv networks is that we've got no targets! I suggest that as a starting proposal, not a ultimate/absolute proposal, we suggest that no authorities entity, politician, choose, anybody related to authorities be allowed to obtain any funds from any company establishment, Wall St establishment, or any of their servants. Interval! That’s it! And in the event that they do and I suggest this be made an modification to the US Structure. Which will be finished!”

Nicole: “I’m an artist, and I’m conscious that there are different artists right here too, and I suggest we make an artwork gallery for this camp so folks can come see our creativity. I’m additionally engaged on a challenge for my sculpture class and I used to be questioning if I may get your assist. I’m making a tent to occupy my print room. I’m going to be constructing it right here this weekend, so in case you see me, please come and write on it!”

Graham: “I’ve been gone a lot of the final two days, and it’s actually superb to see what persons are doing. This place is magical, and it has every part to do with you. So thanks for the inspiration. I need to take all of the superb issues and ask you to dream actually large! A really thrilling factor that basically obtained me going about Occupy NY was that they began their very own newspaper. They purchased a printing press! That's critical! So what I’d wish to suggest is that we begin a Kickstarter to dream actually large! What’s a giant ticket merchandise that we’d all wish to have right here?”

POC: “Are you able to clarify what Kickstarter is?”

“It’s a fundraising platform often related to creative or community-orientated tasks. It’s actually cool. There’s plenty of nice folks, an enormous group, that’d in all probability come collectively from throughout the nation to assist us if we had a giant thought. So suppose/speak about this. What can we do collectively? If in case you have options, take them to the Finance Committee.”

Megan: “Kickstarter denies all political tasks.”

Michael: “I see lots of people right here from totally different backgrounds & sources of data. To advertise solidarity amongst us, I suggest we begin a skill-sharing workgroup. If anybody feels they've any abilities they'll train, I’ll be round after GA.”

Greg: “I’m travelling round on my bicycle, I’ve been vision-questing for a couple of yr now. I’ve been in Richmond for about 2 months. The way in which that that is going, the chances I see if it retains going, it may open up the universe.”

Sur: "Good night, my title is Sur. I am completely satisfied to be right here. I wanna inform everybody you are superb, that you take half in a worldwide motion. This motion is worldwide. think about that. level of seriousness: resulting in my proposal: once I heard the report about females not feeling comfy in an space I occupy for within the basic space of the park, I grew to become extraordinarily offended. very very offended. so I sat take into consideration how one can channel this anger into one thing constructive. low and behold right here it's as a result of all of us are people subj to morality and immorality it have to be addressed. I’m not having it. ladies wLL really feel comfy and revered. we is not going to disrespect them. in case you're a person you do have a mom proper? I suggest we begin a wellness and accountability group. we as a group can maintain one another accountable for our conduct. its unacceptable that ladies really feel threatened by unintelligent males. it’s illogical. bear with me as I communicate my thoughts on how one can cope with these points.

Victoria: we're on twitter. #occupyrva. I counsel folks reside tweet our experiences. don’t should have a laptop computer—can tweet from cellphone or by textual content. So easy, so good.”

Josh: “The homeless group that was right here earlier than we obtained right here deserve tents.”

Zach “I simply need to thank everybody for being right here and being collectively.”

Kenny: “Main Drew needs to deal with the GA.”

“Can we make a time restrict?”

Eleanor: “I understand that we’re below loads of stress and this won't be possible, however I imagine that if this gentleman needs to deal with the GA he ought to accomplish that as a person, not as an official.”

POC: “He’s right here to talk on behalf of the PD I assume. Due to this fact we shouldn’t prohibit him/label him as a person however permit him to talk for the establishment he represents.”

“May this probably occur on the finish of GA?”

“I don't suppose we should always ask him to talk as a person as a result of he's on the clock. That doesn't imply that I or this group assist police brutality or how the PD operates. What it acknowledges is that he’s a person a part of a system he doesn’t have management of.”

“No particular person is extra essential than anybody else. Now we have dialogue time on the finish of GA. That's when people communicate to the group about issues not on the agenda.”

“Why have they got to ask permission? Is there an us and them feeling between companies and us—they're a part of the identical world we're a part of. Now we have simply found the way in which they're going is unsustainable.”

Kenny: “There's nothing that may’t wait til the tip of the assembly that the police liaison can’t relay to us later. Transferring on!”

9:12pm Formal Proposals

“I suggest that we come to consensus that w/r/t long-term residents: We attempt to get them tents, we set up quiet hours, and socially set up that any new folks be certain that they ask earlier than they sleep/put a tent down. In NY, all of the drumming stops, all of the yelling stops. Every thing is dropped at a low hum from 10pm-8am.”

“For these quiet hours, would there be an exception for circumstances after we want folks’s mic?”

“I might counsel throughout quiet hours we don’t use folks’s mic except it's an excessive emergency and please relegate it to EXTREME emergencies.”

POC: “What about guitars & music? Aside from drums? They’re not that loud and so they’re all acoustic. I feel that it wouldn’t be an issue.”

“Ought to we've got somebody to talk to residents for us? Or ought to all of us speak to them ourselves?”

“We're all accountable to speak to everybody. You might be accountable to speak to everybody and look after them as in the event that they had been a member of this group, bc now we're members of their group.”

Kenny: “This isn't a proper proposal, it must be hashed out. I counsel this get hashed out outdoors of GA.”
“This must occur very very quickly. I suggest we vote on it now.”

“I simply needed to make clear that from 7:30am we've got a rally on the nook. How can we've got quiet hours? I suggest we alter them to 10pm-7:30am.”

Debate over whether or not or not there may be a longtime course of.
9:23pm “I formally suggest w/r/t long-term residents: 1. They're added to our tent listing. 2. Now we have quiet hours to respect sleeping from 10pm-7am. Three. We socially implement that nobody is taking a long-term resident’s area.”
Vote taken—accepted.

Josh: “Metropolis council in addition to RPD have been working with us exchanging some data. They've requested we type a small Three-person liaison group so we will proceed to get sources and be allowed to remain right here w/o the police kicking us out. I'm merely delivering a message—the formal proposal could be that we've got Three folks on a liaison committee accepted by way of the group nominated reached by consensus to speak with metropolis officers.”

POC: “What did you imply by sources?”

“Now we have electrical energy, portapotties, and so forth.”

“Is a part of this proposal that nobody outdoors of this committee focus on issues with police?”

“This isn’t about police, that is about metropolis council.”
“Would it not be the identical Three folks the entire time?”

“I feel it might be acceptable for the GA to sometimes reopen nominations.”

9:31pm “I suggest the formation of a liaison group consisting of three folks to report back to metropolis council solely issues which were consented in GA so we've got a transparent type of communication. We will nominate these people tomorrow or they'll nominate themselves tomorrow.”

“Why couldn’t Media fill that function?”

“As somebody from Media, we’re already unfold too skinny.”

“If we’re voting on this tonight, ought to we additionally set up phrases for liaisons?”

“I suggest 2 weeks?”

“I oppose as a result of when coping with bureaucracies it’s good to allow them to get to know people.”

9:37pm “I suggest a three-person liaison group to speak to metropolis council.”

Vote taken—accepted.

Alan: “I suggest the daytime GA concentrate on camp-based wants at first and permit night GA to concentrate on bigger problems with general motion.”

“What about individuals who can’t be right here at evening?”

“All of us have limitations. Some will be right here extra, some can’t. Now we have to belief.”

9:44pm “I suggest that daytime GA concentrate on points w/r/t dwelling right here, and night GAs concentrate on bigger points. That is as a tenet, not a rule.”

Vote taken—accepted.

“Lots of people didn’t vote, so I feel we should always focus on this someday.”

9:47pm “I suggest that we've got a Wellness and Accountability group that meets twice per week to debate security & safety within the group.”

POC: “What day?”

“Sunday and Saturday.”
“How would this group be totally different than the safer areas group?”

“I’m not solely clear on the ideology and technique that Safer Areas implements. I suppose if it’s essential I'll retract/rescind my proposal till I’m clear on that. And I like y’all!”

9:49pm “I suggest we finish GA and transfer into casual dialogue.”

Vote taken—accepted.

9:50pm Police Liaison Announcement

“Main Drew stood out within the rain for a very long time. He was ambushed by a bunch of individuals, which is in opposition to what we've got voted for. He particularly requested that we take down the tarps and the tents. That is no shock. I imagine he's going to say that for fairly a very long time. Subsequent, Main Drew says there is no such thing as a raid. He desires to get rid of all of the rumors. He would have stated it himself and agreed to however this GA refused meet with him. I personally discover this to be sort of an insult.”

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