John: Recitation of the Declaration of Occupation in NYC
http://occupywallst.org/forum/first-official-release-from-occupy-wall-street/
Whats the order of this meeting?
Mon: wouldn’t call it a general assembly meeting, more of a way to communicate with the different committees. Compile definite list of contacts…There’s information that needs to get across the groups. Need to deal with communication. Figure out what would be the best way to delegate responsibilities in an efficient way. Created a WePay account; there’s been a donation of $50. There’s a lot of organizational tasks that need to be handled.
Tim: 2 things need to happen- figuring out if we are going to have an occupation tomorrow and two- figure out the organizational tasks.
Facilitator: Tim Squire
Stack: Taylor
Sarah: suggests that the different groups give a status report.
Morgan(tactical unity committee): if there’s an occupation tomorrow, will there be a march? their group will only have 12 people to keep people off the street(?). We don’t want to get the police angry. They are responsible to keep the people safe. They want about 18-14 people.
Proposals for the agenda:
Point to make sure that we keep the building clean.
Declaration, can it be changed?
Group for the new people to explain to them what is going on and the process.
Press and representation, getting the right message across.
objection to make decisions right now because it was not discussed in the promotion of this meeting that decisions were going to be made. Not a call for general assembly
Proposals that will given at the general assembly
Have a few RIC channels, better usage of them.
Discussion will include who will be handling twitter, facebook, atlanta.org, treasury committee wepay account, etc
Possible proposal to change the name Tactic Community to Occupation Police-force 
..possibly
John is very overwhelmed and bit off a bit more than he can chew trying to organize as much as he can due to his excitement but now needs help. Would like to figure out how to delegate these tasks. Also, he would like to apologize for possibly bringing any negative energy due to how stressed he has been preparing the space we have now.
Committee Report-Backs
Legal: lawyers working with us, if people are put in jail there will be ready to get them out. There will be a google voice # LEGAL TEAM IS PREPARED
Logistics: Will have space for donating food. Currently looking for refrigeration. Establishing contacts with restaurants for food. “Random Acts for Pizza” for pizza deliveries. Any canned food is being accepted. Crystal will set up an occupyatlanta gmail
Demands: met 3 days this week, will present guiding principles tomorrow.
Medic: there will be first aid set-up. Time consuming to train, there will be abbreviated street training. This could happen this weekend. Hector brought some first aid bags. Crystal is CPR certified. 12-4 there will be a training for basic first aid at AFSC
Tactic Community: largely communicated through e-mail. Try to keep group cohesion, try to settle problems in a peaceful way. Code of Conduct, they have it printed out and will present it tomorrow. They will be using blue bandanas and they will have badges as well.
Process: Facilitation committee formed out of recognition that our meeting process needs to improve. They came up with a solid proposal, we are asking for that at the beginning of the next gen assembly, there will be a proposal if there’s acceptance then they will run with that process. KEY !working groups: consider proposals in advance and sent to compile beforehand. BE PATIENT!!
Media: press@occupyatlanta.org -really appreciated if we allow them to do their thing. talk to us! Redoubling efforts. Talking to press: they are preparing materials for press. If you wanna help, help is needed. Talk to us to see how we can help. For every committee, can we have one person (or preferably a list of people to rotate or to pick from) that is ready to talk to press when time comes. Need: fluent Spanish speaker. SUCKY SPANISH TRANSLATION ! E-mail is making them insane. They have banners and posters asking group to take them and spread them around, more will come. Need street theater stuff, singers etc. PEOPLE THAT CAN SING!!!! Need extra laptops, need full time doing facebook and twitter. Physically come down here, there will be someone here most of the time. If anyone have ideas for cool fliers, if they ask you for a contact information please give them press@occupyatlanta.org
Art: Krog Tunnel was painted. They have a huge banner that says occupy atlanta that will be dropped at 5 am.
Outreach: passed out fliers at local universities.
Tech(subcommittee or separate committee? tech@occupyatlanta.org): We have created IRC channels, websites, twitter, listserv but something went wrong with the listserv at riseup. Would like to help setup sites for easily streaming photos, videos, etc.
* what is tactically unit doing:
broader discussion but is it overstepping bounds?
(Vote to take on tomorrow)
* 4 or 5 Committee Proposals:
1. Orientation being as part of facilitation committee: info be separate from intro people to the process and be in another part like outreach. There are four roles in the process, they don’t know if they’d be able to do that effectively.
For GENERAL ASSEM TOMMOROW….. they will give a presentation on how they wanna run the proposals.
Task to be designated (spelling?):
1. Twitter: extensive experience managing, understanding how to monitor hashtags, mentions, direct messages, catching hashtag patterns, have certain tone that we feel is representative, distribution of media via twitter as that is happening in real time. Media Comm will find someone to handle before general assembly tomorrow. Not one person only handling. 1 person has volunteered but media will continue to search for more to help.
2. Facebook: situation is a bit complicated,
(MEDIA COMMITTEE NEEDS MORE PEOPLE – SIDE NOTE)
3. We pay: need to have a funding committee.Very difficult bc whoever is handling needs to have a lots of trust!!!!! Making a Funding Committee has been proposed for G.A tomorrow. Legal committee has already seen the implications for funding.
(raise your hand up high)
Occupation Discussion: 30 minutes at 1:15 am should make a decision.
People in favor of having an occupation tomorrow.
we are trying to act as a group, we would need consensus. Under the impression that because of the variables. Serious objection to pre-determine what we are going to do. Everyone has their own opinions, but some people are saying the people have already decided what is going on.
We are not making a decision – having a discussion. Meeting was called that committees were meeting, this question was raised as agenda was created. Nothing binding will come out of this tonite, and tonight should be used to sleep on these new ideas.
do we have someone to stream KYR (Know Your Rights) trainings? Do we have computers set up for the stream?. I feel there is not a lot done, even though we are working in to it, we shouldn’t jump the gun. Legal is ready, we should expect it to happen in the next 17 hours, and we should see what is other teams need. There’s seems to be tension on whether we are ready or not, but also understanding that we are never going to be “ready” and that we should roll on what we have and hope for mass organization as we “walk”.
We need to increase positive energy. Atlanta ought to be leading the way in the language of MLK. Concerns of specific location, depending on where we decide, we might need a certain # of people to hold it down. Some people are trying to get space at the MLK Center for civil disobedience training, they would like to have this first, BUT if they have to roll, they will roll.
Process/facilitation are prepared to propose how to facilitate tomorrow’s GA in case thousands show up tomorrow.
Can we hear from each committee if they are ready.
15 READY in this meeting to occupy as of tomorrow. 1 DEPENDING ON LOCATION.
Process:ready
medics: ready
demands:ready
media: ready
Committees are ready to fucking rock!
Josh: Spread the word for our IRC channel since people have already come in looking for information and ways to get involved. This could help committees gain additional members, as well as increase the participants of tomorrow’s possible occupation.
IRC Server chat.indymedia.org
Channel: #occupyatlanta
Mobile IRC App for android users: AndroIRC
Announcement by John: If a big turn out we NEED to have a livestream. We need hardware. We have a site setup, but we need equipment like web cams or something. ANYTHING!
