Hello Occupiers,
If
you are excited about talking Politics and how we can Occupy the Ballot
Box of the current outdated system of representative democratic processes, JOIN US :)
First National Occupy Politics Call:
Friday January 27th, 2012, 4pm PST, 7pm EST
Scheduling Link to Vote for Future Meeting Time:
Email List for continued Communications:
Occupy
Politics is a space to help connect the "Political Branch of the Movement", and does not and will not represent the Movement Itself.
The http://www.OccupyPolitics.info
web portal will be a hub of links and information about all the
direct political voting box activities going on. This portal will
become a hub for all Politically related Activities including
Candidates running for office in alliance with the Occupy Agenda,
Ballot Measures, as well as Legislation, Constitutional Amendments
& Conventions. Basically anything Occupy that relates to the
Ballot box.
In
my understanding of our movement, the foundational principles are
based on attending to the basic needs of people and creating new
systems that empower us to meet our own needs, including participatory
and direct democracy through Local General Assemblies.
Simply
stated, the foundation of this movement is not a political agenda
within the traditional system of Representative Politics, voting,
candidates and Elections, but we do have many political activities that
interlace with the broader goals of the movement.
We
encourage all of you interested in political activities to get
involved and to even run for office from within the movement itself.
So
there are many discussion points, but our main goal is to get all the
people within the movement who are running for office, running ballot
measures, working on legislative bills, or planning constitutional
amendments to get together and collaborate on everything from
collecting signatures to calling representatives.
Lets start collaborating between all the big ballot box and legeslative activities in the movement.
Jay