Announcements:
– Next Saturday, 28th Jan, 1-4PM at the park there will be a General Assembly and march to CNN in solidarity with the arab communities on the anniversary of army and police attacks on the protesters in Tahrir Square in Egypt.
– to submit to the OA Zine email occupyatlzine@yahoo.com
– 100% consensus amendment tabled until next Saturday
Committee Report Backs:
Home Defense:
– need to bring in a whole new layer of people engaging in community action
– Mon 11AM, press conference about the Pittman house at Chase offices 1215 Caroline St.
– Tuesday, training at 60 Walton on how home occupation works for home owners and would be home occupiers
– Jan 27, March on Chase Bank following a rally at the Pittman house 404 Glen Iris Dr. with the goal of getting 100 people to participate
– Thursday 5PM, regular Home Defense Committee meeting
– Feb 7 10AM-4PM, at steps of the courthouse will be another auction protest
Action Committee:
– Tue 24th 11:30AM, at Wells Fargo offices 2 Peachtree St. will be a protest against their investments in commercial prisons encouraging people to pull their money out of Wells Fargo
– Sat, 28 Feb starting 9:30AM with speakers all day, at Ebenezer Baptist Church there will be a summit calling for the abolishment of the death penalty
– 14 Feb (Valentine’s Day) 11AM-2PM, there will be an action at AT&T offices, 675 W. Peachtree St. NW protesting their laying off 740 employees after making record profits in 2011
– 22 Jan at 3PM, at 60 Walton a meeting to form a working group to start planning a SE regional Occupy conference (tentatively planned for March 8-11)
– Tues 6:30PM, at 60 Walton there will be an Action Committee meeting
– Action needs people to spread fliers!!! The Fliers will be provided. If you can post, hand out, or otherwise distribute fliers promoting OA events please contact the Action Committee. Remember, as part of Occupy Atlanta, “We share burdens by taking initiatives to fill roles and relieve comrades.”
Finance:
– Current funds = $4,530.07
– spent $800 for yard signs
– provided $700 for sending folks to Occupy Congress
Proposals:
– Proposal tabled at yesterday’s GA was tabled again.
Other Business:
– concern expressed by the same speakers as at yesterdays GA about a person at Peachtree & Pine kicking out others, calling police to remove others, and assaulting another person
– people willing to come in and train occupiers in NVC, Non-Violent Communications, and Restorative Circles available this week (will try to make a class happen)
– OA bus: We may be able to acquire a bus for OA. The offer is for the donation of a bus (and its maintenance) to OA not money or funds that could be used in some other way. If it works out it would likely be arranged through Jobs for Justice and the Georgia Peace & Justice Coalition. We will need art for the bus (along the lines of making it a “traveling billboard” for OA.) There would likely be three or four folks in OA sharing responsibility for the bus for the sake of insurance.
– When problems with folks or situations arrise lets bring in the concerned parties to clarify accusations. Some of the events described concerning the actions of the person [referred to above] at Peachtree and Pine are incorrect and distort the situation.
