Guidelines (7:14 pm)
Announcements (7:18 pm)
- Sara – Samhain altar will be built tomorrow in Woodruff Park, starting at sundown.
- Russell – went to breast cancer walk yesterday to show our solidarity with their cause.
- Others went to the Kanye Jay Z concert and handed out 500 flyers, and got a few shout outs on local radio station V103
- Frankie – Tomorrow at 4:20 PM we are gathering at the park, with instruments if you have them, to work on a music project for Occupy Atlanta. We have some studio spaces willing to dedicate time to O.A.
- Tim – Tomorrow 10AM on the 4th floor of Peachtree & Pine we are having an interactive and dynamic organizing seminar to coordinate and make sure we are doing things efficiently.
- Latron – Tuesday 7 PM at St. Philip’s Cathedral Joe Beasley is speaking to the congregration and encourages a delegation of Occupy Atlanta to be there to get the message out.
- Lyndzy – Unity is bottom-lined by myself and Hector, and we are liaisons between OA and the Task Force at Peachtree and Pine. They want us to follow their rules, which include:
- Separate sleeping quarters for men and women.
- Smoke and walk –don’t take up the sidewalk.
- Designated shower times: Women 830 – 1030 AM/1045 PM – 1245 AM, Men 1115 AM -115 PM/115 – 245 AM
- Don’t open windows wide, it’s a hazard.
- ONLY active working people should be staying on 4th floor. Those that are just looking for a place to sleep can go to the regular area of the shelter.
- Stay away from the side parking lot, as it’s still a rather shady area.
There is also a march starting at 11:15 AM on Tuesday, a solemn march to remember the homeless men and women who die every year. 3 coffins will be carried by the procession and dropped off at locations. Buses at 3 PM will take people to St. Philip’s
- Charlie – Revolution books in Little Five Points welcomes the occupiers to come and read at their space.
- Big Softie – Peace and Nonviolence as a Tactic workshop on Tuesday at 3:15 PM and on Saturday sometime.
Report Back (7:38 pm)
Action committee: Organizing 101 seminar tomorrow at 10 am, tomorrow at 3 pm a march of zombie bankers. Tuesday at 10 AM is the monthly foreclosures at the courthouse. We will rally at 9:30 at Woodruff Park and march there.
There is a bank and foreclosure workshop Tuesday at 4 pm.
Wednesday at 3 pm we are rallying at Piedmont Park near 10th and Monroe and marching on Wells Fargo bank HQ at 17th street near Atlantic Station.
Coordinating: If you are on a committee, please make sure you have gotten signed up on the website to keep in touch with other committee members. Please remember to post regular meeting times for your committee.
Legal: Our meetings are at Mon/THursday at 6 PM, 3 PM on Saturday, whereever the General Assembly is held.
Proposals (7:43 pm)
Committee-Related
Graham – Has friends who helped instigate Occupy Miami and Occupy Wall Street. Saturday at 8 pm there’s a solidarity rally with communities across Atlanta, and from 11 pm on we want to reoccupy the park.
Concerns about how to train for mass arrests – we will have a seminar and training this week
Concerns about how to inform the community – Outreach is working on that all this week, and could use all available help. PASSES!
Big Softie – move GAs to an earlier time or make an earlier GA to supposedly get more families involved.
Concern that that will not be good for working people, Process committee doesn’t have the staff to do multiple daily GAs, and the earlier time conflicts.
AFTER DELIBERATION, this will not pass now. But it is reworked so on weekends GA will meet at 3 PM. PASSES.
Elijah – Suggests the color green to unite us visually, especially when outreaching to communities.
Various concerns about colors and their symbolism already. Red hats we have already mentioned. And the lime green that Legal Observers wear. PASSES.
Martin – Suggests we change the park name from Troy Davis back to Woodruff, because other cities do not all change names, it has divided people here and confuses others. DOES NOT PASS.
Other Business
None.
NEXT GA – 7pm tomorrow at Woodruff park . We are adjourned.
