Occupy Colorado
State Meeting 1.0
Dec. 18: Denver, CO
Organize Locally! Organize Regionally!
Organize Nationally! Organize Globally!
Organize Nationally! Organize Globally!
Upcoming Meetings/Connecting Opportunities:
Occupy Colorado State Meeting 2.0:
Location: Pueblo Date Options: January (7, 8, 14 or 15)
Agenda Document in Google Groups will be started by Occupy Colorado
Agenda Document in Google Groups will be started by Occupy Colorado
Occupy Colorado People’s Convention 1.0 (or name TBD):
Location: Boulder Date Options: January (21, 22, 27 or 28) or February (4,5)
Planning Documents and Google Groups will be forming watch for them, get involved!
Planning Documents and Google Groups will be forming watch for them, get involved!
Occupy Colorado conference calls:
Facilitated by I/O ( Inter-Occupy), www.interoccupy.org.
Frequency: 1-2x/week. Need more people to learn facilitation software .
Dec 19-24
Dec 25-30
Jan 1-6
Jan 8-13
Jan 15-20
Jan 22-27
Jan 29 – Feb 3
Occupy communities/organizations with someone "connected" present:
(Occupies, please fill-in missing or correct any information in this document to have clear lines of communication and contacts)
~OccupyDenver (hosts)
~OccupyPueblo
~OccupyCoSprings
~OccupyGreeley
~OccupyAruoria
~OccupyDU
~OccupyAruoria
~OccupyDU
~OccupyFortCollins
~OccupyResearch
~InterOccupy
Announcements and Individuals to Contact:
Occupy Colorado has yet to make solid contacts with:
~OccupyAspen
~OccupyGlenwood
~OccupyLittleton
~OccupyGrandJunction
~OccupyDurango
~OccupyChaffee
~(many more....please fill us in)
~OccupyAspen
~OccupyGlenwood
~OccupyLittleton
~OccupyGrandJunction
~OccupyDurango
~OccupyChaffee
~(many more....please fill us in)
Announcements and Individuals to Contact:
~Pat, Occupy Denver, is working on creative projects with (New) Film and Video Working Group. One project they want to promote now is the coffee house discussions (out-reach model project also). This is a relationship building (perhaps think “cash mob” from your friendly Occupy supporters) and educational and community activity...Occupy Colorado Cafe Squads are in the works. Are you comfortable doing this in your community? Please get in touch for support and resource base in development. Occupy Colorado Cafe Squads can hold round-tables, open discussion, poetry readings, book clubs, open-mic, short documentary discussions, etc.....(BYOB-Bliss)
(Note to Film/Video Working Group: Bob from Occupy Fort Collins can facilitate getting film projects running on public channels in Fort Collins.) FreeSpeechTV is working on a six series pilot of round table discussions about Occupy...talk to Brandi about that one.
Inter-Occupy: (I/O contact: Brandi)
has weekly calls for many working groups. If you want a call they have a simple request form available and will help promote it.
Weekly media/PR calls are set up and on going. Sometimes these calls work with Independent Media outlets globally. Regarding "Occupy movement "big players" they are involved in this call and frequently have discussions around national dialogue and writing the narrative and talking points for MSM and upcoming commercials.
Weekly calls for Occupy Latinos forming.
Occasional calls for Artist supporting or involved int he Occupy Movement is forming a national conference call.
Many common working groups already have calls in the works and all are looking to get more connected and get more helpers on board! (Direct Action, Out Reach, Fore-Closures, Legislation, Education, Community Building, Spiritual/Heart-Keepers, Meeting Makers, etc)
GET INVOLVED! BE PERSISTENT! LOOK FOR OTHERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELF!
AND: (Demand is heard for many break-out groups and/or think tanks)
(Note to Film/Video Working Group: Bob from Occupy Fort Collins can facilitate getting film projects running on public channels in Fort Collins.) FreeSpeechTV is working on a six series pilot of round table discussions about Occupy...talk to Brandi about that one.
The first event will take place at the Gypsy House on Dec 19, 13th and Marion. These events are on-going and they welcome new help to come abroad. Anthony offered his phone number as a contact for more information:720-544-9872 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 720-544-9872 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Inter-Occupy: (I/O contact: Brandi)
has weekly calls for many working groups. If you want a call they have a simple request form available and will help promote it.
Weekly media/PR calls are set up and on going. Sometimes these calls work with Independent Media outlets globally. Regarding "Occupy movement "big players" they are involved in this call and frequently have discussions around national dialogue and writing the narrative and talking points for MSM and upcoming commercials.
Weekly calls for Occupy Latinos forming.
Occasional calls for Artist supporting or involved int he Occupy Movement is forming a national conference call.
Many common working groups already have calls in the works and all are looking to get more connected and get more helpers on board! (Direct Action, Out Reach, Fore-Closures, Legislation, Education, Community Building, Spiritual/Heart-Keepers, Meeting Makers, etc)
GET INVOLVED! BE PERSISTENT! LOOK FOR OTHERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELF!
AND: (Demand is heard for many break-out groups and/or think tanks)
~ Craig, Occupy Denver, affiliated with Peace and Non-Violence Committee, has special project interest in making sure the legislature returns to Colorado with an Occupy presence at their welcoming (locally and state). He wants to help develop a working group to follow through on visits to offices (and build resource support base) with the demands of getting money out of politics. He and a few others (welcoming more) are drafting a signed letter asking for Colorado reps to not just “say they support it” but to be LEADERS in co-sponsoring Bernie Sanders bill and others decided upon as collective importance. Did not get Craig’s information at the time, but is often found and familiar with Occupy Denver participants and Colorado Progressive Coalition. Will update contact info, as it comes in.
~ Joel, Occupy Colorado Springs, has been working on several projects that he believes with a team across the state could easily be replicated, “sort of like a curriculum”. Some of the projects being developed in Colorado Springs include: Fore-Closure Resistance Assistance for families, Occupy Knowledge (have held successful teach-ins and held talks at high schools and college classrooms), Alternative Currency think tank. Collaborated with OD project members to broaden projects' scope. Expect more information to start coming from this new collaboration. If interested contact: Joel, Co springs, Mikel, Denver. A few others were signing up but new to the Occupy visit. (YAY TEAM)
~ Joel, Occupy Colorado Springs, has been working on several projects that he believes with a team across the state could easily be replicated, “sort of like a curriculum”. Some of the projects being developed in Colorado Springs include: Fore-Closure Resistance Assistance for families, Occupy Knowledge (have held successful teach-ins and held talks at high schools and college classrooms), Alternative Currency think tank. Collaborated with OD project members to broaden projects' scope. Expect more information to start coming from this new collaboration. If interested contact: Joel, Co springs, Mikel, Denver. A few others were signing up but new to the Occupy visit. (YAY TEAM)
~ Jason, Occupy Auroria/DU/Denver, interested in helping to develop discussions around legislation priorities. He is also interested in helping to organize Occupy Colorado People’s Convention. Has been working on relationship building and legislative discussions. Would like to see each community start prioritizing discussions around TOP THREE priorities that could be focused on in Colorado from a legislative perspective. His vision is if we could bring these top three priorities to some consensus in January, we are ready to take it the next many levels. (Example: most people in the US agree on: Repeal of corporate person-hood and repeal of patriot act...that is a start)
~ Tim, Occupy Denver, has felt proud and the show of “militancy” in protecting the camp and its symbolism. He would like to help support further (non-felony) civil disobedience as movement progresses. He feels he can act as a liaison between more radial personalities and other bodies in the group to some degree.
~Visitor, from OccupyAshland traveling to OccupyKC, shares his documents that can be printed from Infocurrency. Com. He believes items like these are useful, resource and could offer alternatives.
~Rachael (+ a HUGE team of people, wish I had written all the names down), Occupy Pueblo, they have made a "Buy Local" commerical. Love it! Give it some webz luv.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwqHQCXEBZw
Ludlow/ Rockefeller Masacre story told:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
Send email to this group: occupycolorado@googlegroups.com
~Rachael (+ a HUGE team of people, wish I had written all the names down), Occupy Pueblo, they have made a "Buy Local" commerical. Love it! Give it some webz luv.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwqHQCXEBZw
~OccupyGreeley has an awesome website with great resources already started and has had several successful actions including the popular Cash Mobs!
Out-Reach Discussion:
~ so many good ideas and discussion, what is needed is more people willing to make commitments to be a part of the relationship building activities that are generated from these ideas. So many great ideas, I don’t think everyone even spoke to them. We hear a call for Break-Out Groups and Think Tanks to get more voices on the table. Empower each other!
~So we shall begin!
Outreach Models/Elements:
1. Education: teach-ins, classes, conferences, activities, talks,
2. Educational Points: corporations and corporate personhood; money in politics, health and well-being of corporate model infiltration into our lives, commercialization of our humanity, health;
3. Relationship Building, Community Bonding: Local Business-cash mobs, commercials, resource fairs…Native Americans want to be recognized, movements from before and across nations want to be recognized, reduction of police presence request,
4. Locations: schools; book clubs, writers’ groups… talks/discussions;
5.
6. TARGET (for each activity) Audiences: teachers, students, homeless (teach “having voice”, empowerment, special request for arts and crafts by several different people on the street), POC, baby-boomers, women, students, youth 18-21,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
- MEDIA! Melissa Johnson <melissa@freespeech.org> My name is Melissa Johnson and I am the Booking Producer for Free Speech TV's pilot show called Occupy the Media. We have 6 pilots slated for the upcoming months. This show will be a roundtable discussion on topics ranging from Occupy Wall Street and all hot topics that surround this movement. We have a show coming up on Wednesday, December 21st where we will need a Skype guest who can speak on the Occupy the Ports event that happened recently or if you know how to get me in contact with someone who was there. We want people to come on the show who are willing, passionate and feel like that have something to share with us. If you are interested in participating in this show or any future ones please contact me for more information.
Get Connected:
1. Be persistent. This is all run by volunteers that were strangers just a few weeks ago.
2. GA
3. Working Groups:
a. Websites: OccupyColorado.blogspot.com, Occupydenver.org, InterOccupy.Org, Occupytogether.org, OccupyCafe.org…
b. Twitter: @movementco is a twitter account working to connect all the Colorado twitter accounts together. Many “official” and supporting accounts can be found @OccupyDenver, @OccupyPueblo
b. Twitter: @movementco is a twitter account working to connect all the Colorado twitter accounts together. Many “official” and supporting accounts can be found @OccupyDenver, @OccupyPueblo
6. C. Google Groups: Occupy Colorado, InterOccupy.
7. D. FaceBook:
8. E. Alternative Media:
9. F. Local Activists Groups
G. Blogs: OccupyColorado.blogspot.com
G. Blogs: OccupyColorado.blogspot.com
Occupy!
Guide to the International Occupation Movement 2011
Booklet passed around. Thank you for that!
Guide to the International Occupation Movement 2011
Booklet passed around. Thank you for that!
Occupy Research is looking for teams of people to collect data and interviews. Mailing list: occupyresearch@autistici.org
Occupycafe.org hosts national calls regarding thought and discussion. InterOccupy hosts calls regarding business and connecting working groups.
NEEDS:
* newsletter team, calendar,
* media, tech
* planning logistics, location schedule, contacts, organizatioanl needs, office supplies, tech requests, etc
* planning: education, speakers, schedule, topics, curriculum, relationship building, break-out organization
* planning: arts/culture/entertainment
* working groups: a, b, c...
* commitments: registration.
* comfort: food, drinks, overnights, carpools, emergencies, safe spaces.
* newsletter team, calendar,
* media, tech
* planning logistics, location schedule, contacts, organizatioanl needs, office supplies, tech requests, etc
* planning: education, speakers, schedule, topics, curriculum, relationship building, break-out organization
* planning: arts/culture/entertainment
* working groups: a, b, c...
* commitments: registration.
* comfort: food, drinks, overnights, carpools, emergencies, safe spaces.
Send email to this group: occupycolorado@googlegroups.com
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