Occupy Proposals

Donation for seeds for change
16:11 Wednesday 6th June 2012 by Mark Weaver

Finance request for 100 pounds. Donation for seeds for change to support them as they have given several trainings to occupy london for free. They are currently struggling to stay a float.

strong binliners for Finsbury Square clean up
16:07 Wednesday 6th June 2012 by Catherine Powell

I bought four rolls of strong binliners for Finsbury Square which we put to immediate use tonight having a big team clear up after the arrival of the toilets and our having successfully got our written personal testimonials evidence in to Court on time

A theme for the website
23:56 Tuesday 5th June 2012 by Ludovica

£35 for a new theme for the website

Facebook & twitter
15:26 Wednesday 6th June 2012 by Ludovica

FACEBOOK

Administrator:

Creates and shares content that:

• Must be in line with the Initial Statement, the Autonomy Statement and the Online Safer Spaces Policy

• Must respect decisions made in the GA. Should follow any guidelines provided by the press wg.

Is responsible for moderating the comments of his/her own posts. He/she will be banned if he commits three breaches of the above.

Moderator:

Monitors posts and makes sure:

• They are in line with the Initial Statement, the Autonomy Statement and the Online Safer Space Policy.

• They respect any decisions made at General Assemblies.

May delete immediately any posts that do not respect the above.

Must notify the administrator of the reason why it was deleted.

May ban an administrator if he breaches the above more then three times, and notify the administrator about this after the second breach.

Event manager:

Creates event page.

Assigns event page to host.

Promotes event according to a predefined schedule.

Event host:

Manages their own event.

Content must be in line with the Initial Statement, the Autonomy Statement and the Online Safer Spaces Policy.

Is responsible for moderating the comments of his/her own posts.

Prerequisites for the above roles:

• must not have breached on a number of occasions the Safer Spaces Policy in meetings, assemblies or online.

• must show some knowledge and experience in the use of Social media.

• if no experience can be shown, he/she can go through a test period of a week.

Those who are already administrators of facebook will be responsible for evaluating the requests for admin access, and must provide an explanation in the case they do not want to allow access to someone.

TWITTER

Administrator:

Creates and shares content that:

• Must be in line with the Initial Statement, the Autonomy Statement and the Online Safer Spaces Policy

• Must respect decisions made in the GA. Should follow any guidelines provided by the press wg.

Is responsible for moderating the comments of his/her own posts He/she will be banned if he commits three breaches of the above.

Moderator:

Monitors posts and makes sure:

• They are in line with the Initial Statement, the Autonomy Statement and the Online Safer Space Policy.

• They respect any decisions made at General Assemblies.

May delete immediately any posts that do not respect the above.

Must notify the administrator of the reason why it was deleted.

May ban an administrator if he breaches the above more then three times, and notify the administrator about this after the second breach.

Event reporter:

On a given event, a group of reporters are chosen who will tweet from their own account. The press team will be informed who they are and will retweet posts.

Prerequisites for the above roles:

• must not have breached on a number of occasions the Safer Spaces Policy in meetings, assemblies or online.

• must show some knowledge and experience in the use of Social media.

• if no experience can be shown, he/she can go through a test period of a week.

Administrator access is given only if there is a justified reason. The following are some:

• Livestream: for sharing link of streaming.

• Process: for sharing GA time, location, agenda & minutes.

• Press: for posting content and for promoting events.

• Internal communication: to post time and location of meetings.

• Outreach: for promoting other group events.

• Occupied Times: to promote links to their articles.

Each of the above working groups may chose a maximum of two people to have access to the account, except for outreach and press which may have more.

The press working group will be responsible for evaluating the requests for administrator access, and must provide an explanation in the case they do not want to allow access to someone. The press working group is also responsible for keeping a list of who has access to the account, so that when the password is changed they know who do notify.

Occupy London to back the counter-olympics event
16:12 Wednesday 6th June 2012 by Fanny Malinen

the counterolympics network, which is a coalition of different campaigns and organisations highlighting different kinds of wrongs around the london games 2012 (from leyton marshes to missiles and dodgy corporate sponsors), is organising a demo on the 28th of july. it will be a peaceful, family-friendly event in east london, details yet to be announced. i want to ask the GA to support this event as it could possibly be the widest counter-olympic event this summer, and the issues it tackles are very much occupy as well.

Rescheduling of GAs
23:47 Tuesday 5th June 2012 by Ludovica

Occupy London General Assembly

The Occupy London General Assembly will have the following schedule.

2pm Saturday This GA will be happening every week. Outreach events, teach-outs, outward facing topics will be privileged for this GA. Once a month, preferably the first Saturday of the month, the GA will have the format of the Working Group Assembly.

7pm Tuesday and Friday These GAs will be scheduled only if there are proposals or topics submitted for discussion. Proposals and topics related to Occupy will be privileged for these GAs.

The scheduling of GAs will be decided at the GA planning meetings every Wednesday 7pm. The choice of the day will depend on: - other events planned in that week - availability of proposer - availability of facilitator

Un-scheduled General Assemblies can occur only if they are approved by consensus at a previous General Assembly.

The main location of the GA remains the Steps of St. Pauls. Any location change will be communicated in advance on the website and through the twitter account @occupylondonGA