Guidelines (7:02 pm)
Announcements (7:04 pm)
- Barbara – Jobs with Justice, on the 1st Friday of the month, November 4th at 10:30 am will be protesting, with an emphasis on inequality and unemployment.
- Sara – Samhain ritual tonight after the GA, starting about 9:30 pm.
- Daniel – Last night we reached consensus to reoccupy on 11/5. We are hoping to get at least 100 people who are devoted enough to risk arrest should it come to that. Please see me if you are willing to risk it for this movement!
- Lyndzy – Unity is the liaison between Task Force and OA — reiterating the rules stated by the Task Force at Peachtree and Pine (see last night’s GA for the rules of being at 4th floor of Peachtree and Pine.
- Lillie – getting word out about November 5th reoccupation and we need fridge boxes — donate if you have them. Trying to make the 4th floor of P&P more homely — looking for furniture and carpet donations too.
- Softie – Workshop – Peace and Nonviolence as a Tactic tomorrow 3:15 PM. It’ll be fun!
- Anna – Have a donation box here ifyou want to donate! Finance is researching credit unions and community banks andmakingpolicyprocedures. Finance meetings are M/W/F at 5:30 pm
- Latron – Those getting arrested on Saturday, Legal is preparing but has limited resources at the moment. Prepare to stay til Monday possibly. We will have Jail Support Training Thursdayor Friday.
- Tim – Excited about reoccupying, doesn’t care if jailnis for a few days or a week — this movement is worth it. Bernice King of the King Center talked with me and is excited for what we’re doing. They are sending a great nonviolent trainer, Charles, and we will publicize this and hope to get out 50-100 people to train. It will be on Thursday at P&P around 4 pm.
- Sara – Joe Beasley at St. Philip’s tomorrow at 7 pm. Also at 7 pm at St. Mark’s, Kasim Reed will be answering questions in the aftermath of the Eagle Raids, and Queer Justice League has invited us to come and attend.
- Jonah – Working on building bikes, resurrecting a collective effort between the Task Force for the Homeless and SoPo bike collective.
- Lillie — Outreach committee is working overtime andis extremely important this week. Meetings are Monday/Thursday 5:30 pm.
Report Back (7:39 pm)
Legal and Finance: reported back during announcements.
Unity: Currently still has most of our peoplestill at Walton street, and are working to move them to P&P 4th floor. But we need more people! Security is EVERYONE’S job. Please remember that. And we need diversity. Women, please join up and represent!
Action: Rally at 9:15 am to march on the courthouse foreclosures tomorrow at 10 am. Workshop on banks on foreclosures tomorrow at 4pm.
Media: March to courthouse at 10 am tomorrow where we will also have our press conference. More stuff is being added to the website, such as stories by Sara.
Proposals (7:46 pm)
- Have voter registration down in the park. PASSES!
- Businesses to offer food, but has logos all on it still.
- Concerns about corporate sponsorship and takeover
- Concerns that we already use products made by corporations and people give us food with corporate labels.
- Regardless, all these people who say what we should/not accept are not on the Food Committee and WE NEED HELP! If you think we can’t accept this food, then step up to help feed everyone! TABLED so others will hopefully help out on Food Committee – talk to Will william.j.stamp@gmail.com
- Proposal to move the reoccupation to November 7th.
- Concerns that wheels are already in motion, many already told and mobilized. DOES NOT PASS
- Proposal to move next occupation to the front steps, or occupy the space of those corporations that are running the mayor and this city.
- Concerns that that is private land, where we have no rights.
- Concerns that we are already reoccupying this park for long-term, and it is off-point to consider that. DOES NOT PASS
Other business
Sara: Tomorrow night we have TWO events at 7 pm. So we should hold GA at 9 pm to allow people to return from these events.
NEXT GA – 9pm tomorrow at Woodruff park . We are adjourned.
