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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.

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.

Guidelines (8:18 pm)

Announcements (8:20 pm)

• Several announcements about people’s personal missions, and wanting support and to sign petitions.
• Sally reiterates the point of our guidelines, and their necessity in making sure we include all types of people, and don’t alienate people with profanity and targeted speech.
• Steve reiterates that committees need to join up on the website as a tool for strong internal communication

Report Back (8:45 pm)

Coordinating and Quick Action committees:  We STILL need bottom liners of committees (at least 2) to give their contact info so we can contact them to know what’s going on, and to assemble the Quick Action committee in emergencies, such as arrests.  We also have occupyatlanta.org committee email addresses to give out.

Medical: We need more medics, and it’s not necessary that you are directly a medic, but have any sort of related skill or interest.

Action: Committee meeting after GA.

Outreach: Set meeting times are Monday/Thursday at 5:30 PM

Unity: No sleeping at AFSC! Need more diversity on our team, so sign up!

Proposals

No proposals tonight due to emergency situation and occupation!have access to 60 Walton.  Darkness seems to inject bad energy into the GA. Discussion on this proposal is delayed until tomorrow

Other business

Tim: We have a spot to occupy tonight!  We have passed the information around!

NEXT GA – 8pm tomorrow at Woodruff park .  We are adjourned.