Submitted to Process e-mail by Scott:
The Occupy Atlanta Demands Committing Meeting of Wednesday February 29 came to consensus to bring to OA General Assembly the following statement as our current ‘primary demand’:
“Remove corporate influence from politics and government.”

It is a concise statement that the demands committee believes…[Read more]

I need some help with getting a non profit organization off the ground that is focused on addressing a lot of the issues that occupy is fighting for and plus some. I would go through it all here but it really is a lot of info so anyone who has exp or has the time and interest please let me know at americanbff@gmail.com so I can give you the details.

Proposal for next Saturday’s GA:
We, the General Assembly of Occupy Atlanta, call for the repeal of Georgia’s statutes which suppress worker’s rights in favor of employer’s rights, specifically the ”at-will” employment law and all laws contravening or allowing for exceptions to the National Labor Relations Act of 1935.

This link will take you to a listserv of all the amazing Occupy Movements across the globe and their websites…check it out.

I sent this in last Friday and have already taken amendments.

The GAs should be cut down to twice a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays, including the “on the road” GAs which are held on Wednesdays once a month. To accommodate the need to attend to the business of Occupy Atlanta in a timely way, the hard deadline of two hours should be…[Read more]

It might be time to have a conversation about the role of committees in relationship to the General Assembly. Aside from the assertion that committees have autonomy in their area of responsibility, a notion which different people interpret in a wide variety of ways, we never really hammered that out. Personally, I think that committees have to…[Read more]