The Occupy Wall Street group is experiencing some growing pains; the same sort of issues that the Finance Committee will be dealing with here. The protesters are also dealing with near-freezing temperatures without tents. The weather will continue to be a major contributor to the course of events.
We hope that Occupy Wall Street will not become casualties of their own efforts; that they will work out an organizational structure that meets the needs of their group. All organizations have to find their own solutions to regulatory issues, political considerations, health department compliance, financial concerns, and so on.
But even if they are forced to find shelter elsewhere, the Occupation Movement has progressed to the point that it is self-sustaining, a global movement with broad support according to polling data.
As we and our brothers and sisters in other locales find their way through the hazards of growth, let us remain focused on our purpose and principles. Let us continue to share views and engage in the intelligent discussion that I’ve been privileged to witness here.
There will be an action today that was not announced for logistical reasons, however a report will be forthcoming later if it happens.
The Finance Committee will be meeting on Tuesday, and we’ve been told they have fashioned a system to deal with finance issues that maintains transparency from the various proposals that were submitted.
We have also been told the “90% Resolution” will be considered again at the General Assembly, the two hard-blocks concerned with peripheral issues that can be resolved.
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Demands Committee proposal sans the rich text garble
Submitted by jamesrroberts on
Demands committee Proposal #1
We need to develop a new economy. First of all, we need to create our own currency. For Los Angeles, we should call this currency CLAWS. Currency of Los Angeles Occupy Wall Street (or make up something else that you like). We then need to be able to standardize the trading of this currency with all other Occupy movements in the US. The first proposal suggests asking other #occupy movements about the idea and see which ones will join this new currency, and also to add new ideas to it. This will require an internet collaboration.
Demands Committee Proposal #2
Secondly we need to strategize a completely new economy based upon bioregional local resources using energy economies of scale, not political boundaries to organize our economies. This will require re-forming and re-shaping our economies based on geology, soils, plant types, elevation, and seasonalities of each ecoregion. Subregions of specialized ecosystem types will also be managed, preserved or used by implementing another layer of economic sanction similar to county level departments of commerce. This department would involve managing commercial activities within an ecoregion through networked GIS databases collected throughout the world. This information would be used to connect up to other database type within other government agencies as information sharing. All segmented by departments but easily accessible in multiple formats for different use types (i.e. Ipads, cell phones, PDA’s, PC’s at home, etc.) GIS clearinghouses would be set up for each individual bioregional control centre. Each bioregional commerce station will implement collection and dissemination duties for each ecoregion. Each GIS database will coordinate within a closed national shared database that would in turn disseminate non-sensitive data about each ecoregion via online database queries. GIS clearinghouses would require a much larger project of demanding and implementing trun information sharing between all government agencies. This is another project related to the long-term success of a complete GIS-based bioregionally managed ecocracy. Each ecoregion can develop job opportunities based upon the local and regional resources cataloged and developed for the purposes of community development. Taxed forms of economies will include industries that are ecologically damaging, militarized for the purpose of killing people, and socially damaging industries (this is a grey area that still needs heavy work to implement).
So the second proposal is to develop a working group to start the process of long-term planning a new economy based on science, equality, and ecological diversity. Basically creating a new working group called “Economic Alternatives”.
James R Roberts∞
Have you checked out the
Submitted by Laura on
Have you checked out the beginning steps of this group? I think they have some good points, but are willing to take the long road, which has proven ineffective in the past: http://www.coffeepartyusa.com/mission-statement
Although this group is not yet supportive of Occupy, they will be ready in a year or so, after banging their heads on the brick walls of Washington D.on't C.are; and I believe Occupy should show support of their October 29th gathering in D.C. Their long-term goals are not much different.
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. ~Ralph W. Sockman
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