From Anonymous to Occupy Portland

Anonymous has heard about the recent actions of portions of the Finance Committee for #OccupyPortland forming it's own corporation,and the subsequent theft of both the #OccupyPortland funds and the movement's primary domain name.  These actions are not acceptable.  The will not be allowed to stand.

The "Occupy Portland, Inc" entity was formed by Brian Howarth, Viani Rivier, Julio Granda, and Reid Jackson.  Any claims of one of these people they did not know what another was doing are false.  These people have been in constant communications regarding all their actions.  The theft of the domain name was planned and orchestrated by all of them.  The $500 used to purchase the domain name came out of #OccupyPortland funds.

Three of these people are meeting their corporate attorney at 2pm on Wednesday, October 26th:
David Shaw
421 SW 6th Ave, Suite 1150
Portland, OR 97204

These people, and others that are part of the "Global Occupy Focus Group" have persistently acted against the best interests of the #OccupyPortland movement, including making a directed attempt to destroy the GA and facilitation process, in order to replace it with their own.  These people must be rejected.  These people have committed fraud against the 99%.  These people have been bought out by the 1%.
Other members, besides those directly involved in the corporation, include:
Bosh Paro
Chase Wilson
Chiara DeLucia
Narco Corrido
Peter Davidson
Priscilla Schmidt

We are the 99%. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.

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The receipt transfering the occupyportland.org domain to "Occupy Portland":
http://suxorz.com/?v=note.jpg

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Notes from some of the "Global Occupy Focus Group" meetings:

10/13/2011


1.  Current facilitators are inexperienced. The GA need experienced and professional facilitators for the assemblies.

Problems within the GA process:

a.        How often should official GA's be held- what should the purposes of each meeting be?

b.        Talking over people, lack of respect, boundaries

c.         Time constraints- timeline- clear starting and ending point

d.        Audio Quality; mic check, speakers, etc

e.        physical location- where are we allowed to meet and stay focused

f.      Clarification of the rules to the general assembly- possible a daily overview of the guidelines

g. publicized minutes with a summary of each meeting

g.        training- videos, etc.

i. Sobriety rules for GA meetings

j. Designated area for speakers/ facilitators

k. video projection

l. lacking a sense of predictability within the meetings- what is the agenda and purpose for each meeting

m. conclusion/end time for each GA with a clear recap of the meeting


10/14/2011

1.        Suggestion that proposals be submitted to website prior to GA. Possible posting on website so they can flush it out.  Proposal posted 72 hours so that people can comment, and the person who wrote the proposal has opinions of others and can craft a better proposal that is well written and possibly address the pros/cons of their proposal.

2.        Facebook changed back to Admin only postings.  People wanting a streaming chat.

3.        Structure of camp and how flow of information is used so it doesn’t become a way to cock block information to the masses.

4.        Transparency of faciliators and leaders.

5.        Meeting Place- Pioneer Place.

Apollo suggested that the previous nights topics could be put in to four possible categories to tackle.

¨     Meeting formats

¨     Structure of the GA

¨     Communication

¨     Facilitation

6.   Break and then fix the GA. All stand around. Lots of discussion about timeline to break the group and fix it. Must have a plan in place immediately to deal with the group post break.

7.        Unless challenged consensuses is consensus.

8.        John Townsend- 503-650-3843 Possible facilitator

wants to observe the group then proceed.   Www.agreementswork.com

9.        Possible facilitator between the city and the OPDX.

10. Good relationship with Sam Adams and the Group. Continue to foster that relationship with the city and Adams.

11. Physicial Setup- Pioneer Square.  Possibly other locations due to up coming holiday.  AM camp issues.  PM Pioneer Square movement.

12. Partiers- Ancharchist groups, drunken homeless, shooting up, etc.

a.        Classes attend, arm bands like the lives strong bands. Take classes, participation before physical needs are met.

13. AA Tent, Psych tent, NA tent- Can we set those up to address those folks or find alternative resources for them? Community folks brought in to deal with these people?


10/16/2011-

1.     Camp Issues-  Drugs, alcohol, sexual assaults, etc.

A.     Registration of occupiers.

B.     Chow times demographics

C.     Police ourselves unless it’s life and death

D.    GA Doesn’t support kicking out people out of the collective.

E.     Camp issues holding back moving Globally.

F.     Suggestion of collecting demographics from people in chow lines.

G.     Good Neighbor policy-Police allowing us to police ourselves.


2.     GA Meetings- Fix the Facilitators are in place for train the trainer.

a.     Set up facilitators to understand that they are non-bias.

b.     A lot of energy.

c.      Meeting minutes are now being taken and published. Possible own web page like    NYGA.  NYGA has possible structure we can use.

d.     Vote of non-confidence.

e.     ISO-

f.      Chipping a way at bad facilitators

g.     Empowering general audience.

h.     Plan B- Facilitation training. Internet voting.  Protect voting.

i.       Go in to the caps and talk to the key people.

j.       Re-invite people back to the GA’s after they are fixed.

k.     Proposal written for GA about separating AM/PM

l.       Professional facilitators John Townsend and Mary Forst have volunteered to attend some GA’s, and then do some possible train the trainer sessions with the current facilitators.