Proposal for tonight's GA

[Leo Goldberg]

Hey Direct Action working group and Occupy Your block planning crew and working group,

There have been discussions bouncing around our Brooklyn emailspheres about doing solidarity actions In the immediate next few days.
If we really want to do something soon, it would be best to be able to propose it formally at the GA tonight so that the whole community knows and we could push it forward pronto.

That being said, the GA is in 4 hours. Maybe we could have a quick conversation here and see if any good ideas come up. If there's a compelling idea, I'm down to meet with anyone at 6 or 6:30 to flesh out a proposal.



Keep in mind that there's a big day of action tomorrow that involves Brooklyn (and the other boroughs).



If we decide not to to any immediate solidarity rallies, lets make a meeting (this weekend?) to plan a bigger event, like Robert suggested on another thread.
Sunday evening work for anyone?

[Dara Silbermann]

I can (mostly likely) meet before the GA this evening. As for other planning, Sunday works for me!

[Alessandra De Meo]

Hey cew! Glad we have our park back...in some small form...tomorrow should be a day of both celebration and outrage! With that in mind we could get lots accomplished....as far as I'm concerned I'm In for anything as long as actions do not involve asking permission to any of our local politicians no matter how cool and great we think they r...this is why I kind of stayed out of occupyurblock..(I did canvass the shit out of bklyn for the event though) I think this is something I'd like to see on the agenda at some point. in any case let me know when the next meeting will be if u will have one soon...
Thanx
Alessandra

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[Robert Pluma]

We should certainly organize for tomorrow's actions, plan acts of solidarity with OWS and start communicating regularly and directly with them (with individuals and through announcements and proposals at the OWS GA) to get their members involved in Brooklyn. Perhaps it's time for an Inter-Occupation Communication contingent within Outreach.

We should also communicate with groups already involved in opposition to Atlantic Yards, including and especially those who just filed the lawsuit.

In addition to direct actions against Atlantic Yards which require physical presence, I would like to see a petition to Jay-Z demanding that he rescind his support for the project. Jay-Z is a minority stakeholder in the New Jersey (soon to be Brooklyn) Nets.

I would also like to see petitions and letters to current and former politicians who have supported Atlantic Yards (Marty Markowitz, Charles Schumer, George Pataki, Elliot Spitzer, and Michael Bloomberg are a few), explaining just how much harm this already has and will continue to do, and demanding that space be re-designated for actual affordable housing, low-cost office space for non-profits, and large indoor and outdoor public spaces which are open 24 hours.

Petitions may seem hokey and pointless, but now with websites such as change.org you can quickly get thousands of signatures if your cause has strong public support and they are actually quite effective.

Sunday DA meeting after the GA sounds good.

=RP=