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- WHAT DO WE NEED NOW?
- * Organization
- * Connecting with other groups
- * Better information about how people who are not camping can participate and help
- * How to avoid the message being distracted, the media being distracted from message by behaviors that are noteworthy on the media
- * Strategic plan with list of outcomes
- * We have to be careful not to thing that we as the movement consisting mainly of middle-class and white and more male than female people, plus homeless contingent, represent the whole 99%, and so just generating wishes based on our perceptions, maybe exclusive rather than inclusive. More creatively involve people who may not identify as Occupy but who are actually part of 99%
- * In light of all the egregious stuff continuing to occur, we do need a few demands to slow or stop that such as "Prosecute Wall Street"
- * A winter plan, which might be to occupy a closed school or closed library
- * Leave the square on our terms
- * Continue to educate (broadly, not just social media)
- * Draw attention to specific legislative actions - repeal or support
- * Build democratic workplaces
- * And support more individual economic action - be more conscious how we use money
- * More conversations like this
- * Supporting candidates or focusing on specific legislation
- * Supporting other groups that may be occupying foreclosing buildings - City Life, Mass Uniting
- * Getting numbers - petitioning for support for camp, reaching out to broader community for suport
- * Massive winterizing tent at once, so cops can't stop us
- * Organizing Red Cross and union presence
- * Set up a Christmas tree to set up at campus so cops can't bulldoze it
- * Restore the social programs and economic programs that we've lost in the last 50 years
- * Win what we have not yet won
- * Intergenerational dialogue
- * Active listening
- * Accountability
- * Take money out of politics
- * Taking buildings
- * Guerilla occupations
- * Demonstrating what we have accomplished, the things that the liberal discourse doesn't recognize as accomplishments such as rebuilding community, mutual aid
- * What to do when we win a victory
- * Thinking of demands that don't put a stress as liberal reformism -- create real change, not bolster existing institutions
- * Non-police ways to deal with disruptions at camp
- * A process to communicate internally that addresses oppressions and hierarchies at the camp and in the movement
- * Addressing divisions that are emerging so we don't fall apart
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