I. Proposal Process

A. Proposals to the General Assembly shall be submitted in writing via the website, process committee email, approved proposal drop boxes, or in person by the time of the Process Committee meeting held one hour before the General Assembly at the location of the General Assembly. All proposals must include a way for the committee to contact the proposer or working group that created the proposal.
B. At the time of the meeting, the committee will evaluate the proposal for completeness. If determined incomplete, the proposal will be referred to relevant committees and the proposer or working group for reconsideration. If, for any reason, the proposer feels as though this is not desired or needed, the proposal will be placed on the agenda for the general assembly.
C. Once determined complete, a proposal shall be placed on the agenda for the General Assembly occurring directly after the process committee meeting unless the proposer(s) request a later date. If a later date is requested it is the responsibility of the proposer(s) to provide a written copy of the proposal on the later date.
D. A proposer may request that a member of Process Committee that is not acting on the facilitation team present a proposal at the General Assembly in the event that they are not able to attend, but the request is made with the understanding that the Committee member may not be fully briefed on the details, scope, or intent of the proposal and therefor may not be able to properly express those concepts.

II. General Assembly Agenda

A. Call to Order/Introduction of Process

1. A short time before the General Assembly there shall be a call to assemble.
2. Once time has ben allotted for interested parties to assemble, the Moderator chosen at the Process Committee meeting shall call for volunteers for the various facilitation roles. The general assembly shall not progress until all roles are filled.
3. Once all roles are filled, the facilitator, using the people’s mic, shall read the Occupy Atlanta pledge, currently:

• “We unequivocally oppose transphobia and homophobia. We are in solidarity with the LGBTQ community. We unequivocally oppose sexism, racism, ableism, and religious intolerance.
• Absolute respect.
• We recognize and embrace the equality of our diversity as Atlantans.
• We resist learned prejudices.
• We share burdens by taking initiatives to fill roles and relieve comrades.
• We encourage all voices.
• We discuss ideas, NOT PEOPLE, and disagree without being disagreeable.
• We avoid labeling and targeted profanity.
• We maintain a positive expression of the “message” by not engaging unstable or volatile people.
• We do not accept physical or verbal violence.
• We avoid conflict through active listening and awareness of body language and emotional responses.
• We seek to grow from our mistakes; conflicts within Occupy Atlanta are opportunities to learn.
• We are either all leaders or none of us are leaders.
• Make friends! Make an effort to get to know people and HAVE FUN!”

4. The facilitator or their designee will then give a brief description of the process including hand signals and the meanings of stand asides and blocks.

B. Announcements
1. Following the Call to Order the Facilitator will open stack for announcements. Announcements should be completed plans or passed proposals that need no further discussion and should be purely factual. Any opinions or proposals in the process of formulation should either be referred to the Other Business Agenda Item, relevant committees, or Soap Box.
2. Clarifying Questions and Points of Information may be addressed during Announcements.

C. Committee Reportbacks
1. The individual committees shall report back their actions to the whole of the general assembly.

Website Team Process

ACCESS TO POST:

Ideally, to start off, all BottomLiners will first be made Admins of their groups. If your group doesn’t have a Bottomliner, that’s okay, simply choose one or two people to manage your Group space on the site.

Whoever your group chooses to manage your group space, they must first Join the Group, then contact us at website@occupyatlanta.org with their username and group name. In order for them to be able to add events we must then change their WordPress user role to “Author”. This gives them access to add events as well as a few other things. Those other things will be discussed with each person individually as needed.

Once a BottonLiner or designated group Rep is an Admin of their group they can add more Admins or Moderators to help keep their space organized and up to date. When they do Add new Admins, they only need to let us know if those new Admins need to be able to add events.

It was decided by 100% consensus in the Website Team that the Media Committee would decide the appropriate content for Headline Events and Headline News. However, since Media sometimes runs low on help and response time, and both Outreach and Action seem capable of making that decision as well, they are working with Media to determine the correct items for these areas. (Headline Events and Headline News are ONLY Press Releases, Occupation Wide Updates, Announcements, and Events – not Committee Meetings).

Generally, only Committees and Working Groups that have been approved by the GA will be added as a group on our website.

If anyone comes to us for access to post, an email account, or wanting an additional Group added, we will immediate ask for confirmation from Process.

Above all, we as the Website Team do not decide what information gets posted where on the website. We are the builders and modifiers of the website, we make the website look good, function properly, and we are here to assist those who need to learn, learn how to use the website.

WHAT GOES WHERE:

Main Page –
1 – Headline Events are ONLY for Occupation Wide Events, not committee meetings.
2 – Main Page Posts are for Press Releases, Occupation Wide Updates and Announcements.

Groups –
1 – Group Description – Keep this short! The first line should be Contact Info followed by Meeting Times and your Minutes link. (if you need more space for this area add a Doc with your extra info, then add a link in your Group Description to that Doc) Edit this by clicking on the Admin tab of your group.
2 – Updates and Announcements – for sharing Updates, Announcements, Photos, and Videos about your group.
3 – Forums – for heavy discussion topics. There’s voting and File attachments here.
4 – Docs – for Meeting Minutes. While editing your Doc click the HTML tab and embed Google Spreadsheets, Google Forums, and More!! Add Tags for easy sorting. Under Docs Settings choose who can edit, view, and comment on your doc.
5 – Events – When you add an Event choose the Group it belongs to and it will show up here. You can also edit and duplicate events here.
6 – Members (Click Admin, then Members) You can kick and ban, promote, demote, and change the email settings of all members of your group here.
7 – Email Options – You can send out an email to all members of your group at once. Use with discretion.

Anytime you need help with anything concerning operation of the Website occupyAtlanta.org email Website@occupyAtlanta.org – Someone will help you get things figured out asap. IF we do not respond within 2-4hrs hours there is something wrong, please contact other people to find out what the issue might be.

SITE MODERATION:

All users of this website are moderators of the content posted on this site. This is a peoples movement and this is the peoples website! All content has a “Flag as Inappropriate” button for this purpose. After several users have Flagged a content, the posting user of said content will be sent an automatic email notifying that user. They will be given a link to the content in question as well as this statement: Several users reported one of your posts as inappropriate. If your content is removed, on your second warning your account might be marked as spam.

This is a community website, not a platform for political parties, nor a market for corporate advertising or sponsorship. Any user posting this type of content will marked as spam immediately.