Effie

Effie replied to the forum topic Violent speech defined in the group Media October 27, 2011 11:38 pm

How is ”F**k not profanity? How is F**K the Police not targeted profanity? Do you really believe families and elderly will join marches and rallies where F**K the Police is chanted?
Effie posted a new activity comment October 27, 2011 6:03 pm

In reply to: Alex Hardman started the forum topic Violent speech defined in the group Media What does verbal violence constitute? ”We” agreed that we’re against it, but we didn’t define it very clearly. Some think that […] View

Once again have you read OA’s pledge, approved by consensus!
I want families among us. I want my child’s children children engaged.
Absolute respect.
We encourage all voices.
We AVOID labeling and targeted PROFANITY.
We resist learned prejudices.
Effie posted a new activity comment October 27, 2011 11:45 am

In reply to: Effie posted an update Temperature Check: Can we please discuss the proposal I have brought to the 3rd, 4th and 5th OA GAs? Occupy the streets, folks. I’d love to see folks working in shifts so all 4 corners of […] View

We keep shooting ourselves in the foot, I for one have been saying this over and over, we need to engage our stakeholders. By allowing a fraction to ignore our own pledge, we will never have the people needed to move forward.
Effie posted an update October 27, 2011 10:58 am

Temperature Check:
Can we please discuss the proposal I have brought to the 3rd, 4th and 5th OA GAs?

Occupy the streets, folks. I’d love to see folks working in shifts so all 4 corners of the FED, Circuit Court, Capital, etc, are occupied 24/7.

Occupy the neighborhood parks and invite Atlanta NPU’s homeowner associations for Tech-Ins, Flash…[Read more]
- Jim replied 21 hours, 13 minutes ago
  
  I like this idea: Occupy the streets, folks. I’d love to see folks working in shifts so all 4 corners of the FED, Circuit Court, Capital, etc, are occupied 24/7.
  
  I’d be willing to do some shifts Midnight-3am shifts (my shift at work starts at 4am)
- SaraA replied 20 hours, 53 minutes ago
  
  Some of this stuff is already being done; I’m in Arts and Lit and we do have music and other things going on, there are sustainability things going on, etc.. The main thing is that we do not have the MANPOWER to do all of that. We are spread too thin already. Suggestions about what we “ought” to do don’t help if they aren’t backed up by…[Read more]
  - Effie replied 20 hours, 41 minutes ago
    
    We keep shooting ourselves in the foot, I for one have been saying this over and over, we need to engage our stakeholders. By allowing a fraction to ignore our own pledge, we will never have the people needed to move forward.

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