(7:30pm – 8:30pm)
WELCOME
ANNOUNCEMENTS (10 MINUTES) – ONLY THINGS HAPPENING WITHIN THE NEXT 48 HOURS
- Medic Committee is doing a Health/Safety training at the table at 1:00pm – how to protect
oneself in event of an eviction
- Childcare Safety training at 60 Walton Street tomorrow
- Jewish holiday observance in the park at 1:00pm on Sunday
- The homeless playing chess in our park have been kicked out every night by security;
the occupation will lend its support and allow them to stay
- City of Atlanta wants to clean park by 10:00am – discussion on proposals postponed
until after the GA
- Tactical Unity is having security issues and needs more people on committee to avoid
people being burned out
COMMITTEE REPORT-BACKS (20 MINUTES)
- Media/Outreach/Arts + Literature
- Demands
- Logistics/Finance
- Tactical Unity
- Process
- No real report-backs; became a continuation of announcements.
BREAKOUT (15 MINUTES)
(GA discussed in small groups ways to possibly make faciliation/process run more smoothly)
BREAKOUT REPORTS (10 MINUTES)
(These are all suggestions, not necessarily proposals.)
- Make beginnings of GAs more welcoming – quick runthrough of hand-signals at each.
- There should be a compilation of minutes and recaps at the beginning of GAs so we do not have to repeat
the same rules/discussions over and over.
- Rotating speakers and facilitators to avoid both emerging “leaders” and to prevent
facilitators from being burned out.
CLOSING/DISCUSSION ON CITY OF ATLANTA CLEANING
(Proposals)
- Move to warehouse.
- Stay where we are and clean the park ourselves.
- Go into all tents and lock arms.
- “External cost” to include those maybe inadvertently harmed (?)
- Have demands (a just cause).
- Allow the city to clean the park; help them.
- strategic compromise
- clean the park because it is the peoples; do not pack everything up
- Do we know what the park maintenance procedure entails?
- What exactly about leaving is thinking tactically?
- What is important to the city?
- We have a right to ask about the schedule and what is involved; and to identify
legitimate needs with which we could cooperate
- Plan B for people who want to camp but don’t want to camp here.
- Leave the park for the capital; if we leave it has to be our choice.
- We don’t move to the capital; go to Hurt Park.
- March @ 11:00am work with cleaning crew one tent at a time.
