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]

Hello from the Occupy Jacksonville Education group,

A new effort has been started related to Occupy The Constitution. This effort launches a new Direct Democracy tool called the National Opinion Collection System ( NOCS ). This tool creates a process to capture comments from EVERY individual citizen about major social issues, elections and bills…[Read more]

”Powerful people cannot afford to educate the very people they oppress. Because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.” – John Henrik Clarke

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]