Recorded by Shineh

• Open meeting
• We’ve invited everyone here tonight because as Occupiers
• Agenda items
• Reformation of Media team
• New members for the Media team
•  A lot of talent within
• volunteer sign-in sheet at front table
• Mariska- The reason we haven’t had the list is because it gets moved all the time
• If you want to join the Media team, go see PAm at the front desk
• Go see Gia if you any content, footage anything
• Restablish an infrastructure
• Announcements
• Media training last night
• Free platform studiooccupy.org
• Editing bay Youtube channel for the movement
• Ustream- OccupyfreedomLA
• Droid app is available
• Don’t need external hard drive
• Creative Commons license
• Person retains personal rights
• Sharing it with the Occupy movement, someone else will have access to your footage
• But if CNN wants it they will pay and contact you directly
• Can put your music there and music videos will be made with your work
• opportunity to really advance the movement
• Is there a filter to make sure its Occupy related?
• They have a team that monitors everyday
• Automatically connects to your FB and Twitter
• Working on getting it connected to our website
• Can pull directly into our Livestream
• Magda will create an Occupy LA channel
• Resources
• Our donations have sharply fallen off, every fight we have makes it fall off faster
• Make a video or media- How can we use the resources we’ve gotten so far to make positive
• Question: Way to donate on the website
• We can’t do that because we don’t have bank account
• SD has outside nonprofit that acted as umbrella
• On the phone with other Occupations to figure out how to do this
• Can we have donations just for Media team?
• Clark- we don’t have power, tables etc.
• Someone said it was hard for people to get involved and donate
• We all need to be on each others FB and Twitters and intertwine our networks
• Get the word out
• Have to better job with our collective internal process
• Former marine- know how to operate space with no resources
• Read MLK letter from Birmingham, interesting tactics we should utilize
• Make t-shirts, bumper stickers, pens, bracelets
• Big question right now as outsider, there is no logistical plan in place
• Alyssaoccupyeverywhere- have 3500 friends, put Occupy in your name
• Work with Action and Media
• Black Friday action
• 9:30 tonight meeting at Fed Reserve to work on a song
• Need to get the message out there, work together on everything
• Mariska- Regarding food, there are specific rules
• Resources- if you bring food from your house, it’s up to you to distribute it, can’t do through Food tent
• If from kitchen, they will test the temperature and ask you to distribute
• Don- flew in from Occupy Stanton VA
• one person occupying Court Square in Harrisonberg, been making donations to him
• Do not take the donation from the City
• Have a mentor that is former Sec of National press Club
• About moving from movement to campaigns that can be funded
• Find an umbrella that will let you raise money
• Middle class element that’s missing from the movement
• They live on Main St., wondering when we’re going to start talking to them
• Need campaign to unify Main St. to support the movement
• Bullhorn- Need huge space, use my website
• The world is watching LA
• Rebrand Occupy, turn it into Organize
• Middle class support
• Need go out and speak to people and raise awareness
• Hook up with Outreach Committee
• UCLA started their Occupation on N17
• There is ton of production in this town
• Copost
• Proposal- post a call for donations from production on Copros
• Phone chain with people they can contact to arrange pick-up
• Ramen will take lead on this
• Bill- Media does excellent job reporting what goes on
• Media is the best Outreach Committee that we have
• We need to be able to explain how our actions relate to the movement and why we’re doing something, what it will accomplish
• Thezo, representative of Farmers
• Experience dealing with City Hall
• We were occupying in 2006 for 23 days
• Your visibility is your power- if they bury you in the LA mall, you’re out of sight out of mind
• Stick to your principles, it’s not the end
• We own 85 acres of land
• Ramen- Adding to statement about going out to different places and advertising
• Need t-shirts and nametags
• Shanti Sena video, announced it at Media conference call
• Good PR move to show how we organize peacefully
• She will connect with Clark to put this together
• Need other PSAs, organize daily for fundraising
• Dan- been trying to find Outreach people, put up FB page Occupy Outreach
• About creatively making people aware, occupying a space online, post your videos, events
• Dan will connect with Clark
• Reformation of Media team
• We came here to document what’s going on on daily basis and reshape the discussion in mainstream media to something positive, realistic
• Have opportunity here in LA, they gave us this space
• Need people to come in and help us
• Anyone who can come out and show up for a day, give us resources, time
• Gia- the rules of production are not easily applied here
• Every night we will meet here and talk about content, follow-up and really focus on content
• Each of us is Media
• Let’s talk about articles and how we can put that out there
• Infrastructure issue
• There are people coming here and contributing wonderful things but there is bottleneck in the process, content is not getting out there
• Getting frustrating for people who are working and not seeing their content getting out
• Pam- we’re aggregating a lot of data, but don’t have a story editor to guide the story across the platforms
• 2 journalists on the entire team
• Need team of people to go through the content, take all the data and coordinate focus
• Proposal- come up with internal system, story editor process for all the data to be evaluated how it can be used across platforms
• Team of people to strategically go through everything and gets things out in
• Need a logger
• Volunteer Lisa Scott
• Mariska
• Volunteer- Erin
• Creating content with storylines, episodics
• Revolutionary TV- with independent movies, GA, stories, TV shows
• Need people with equipment, I’m a writer
• Javon
• Media wants to create huge presentation of content so everyone can know what’s going on with our Occupy but hard to do without everyone involved
• Would like to see anyone involved with Media reach out to campers themselves to find out what’s going on in camp, that’s what people want to know
• Proposal- Our media team puts more emphasis on local transparency, content based upon day to day lives of campers here and why they live it
• Use our equipment to sit down with people and say what’s going on
• DR Pam- Feature stories, we only have 1 person doing it, usually in writing
• Need bodies here to do it
• DR Mariska- Livestream we should have one hour a day to interview people on camp
• DR Magda- StudioOccupy, anyone with video on their phone can get this app and put those up on Youtube
• Can also set up Ustream
• We can all be citizen journalists
• Lawrence- run a design firm and video production
• Need a place/office with Wifi
• WE have to go through application process
• GA Announcements
• Giving thanks event on Thanksgiving
• Want to invite PR and Media to cover that
• Need support of Media team