Priority Proposal Process - public Working Group meeting on 10/24/11, @ 7:00 PM

[Gregory Murphy]

Fellow Facilitators - please help me distribute this notice of the public Working Group meeting (and the attachment,) far and wide, to your OB comrades and beyond . . . and please send it to all the working groups you belong to.

FYI - I have cc'd Ideas, Liaisons and Finance

PUBLIC MEETING

TO REVIEW THE ‘PRIORITY PROPOSAL PROCESS’ PROPOSAL

SUBMITTED BY OB’S FACILITATORS WORKING GROUP

 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 24 @ 7:00 PM

FEDERAL RESERVE PLAZA

PROPOSAL

To strive for an inclusive consensus process, to allow the Assembly to be more informed about, and better prepared for hearing and voting on proposals, to help OccupyBoston participants to be able to plan to be at specific General Assemblies to vote on proposals of interest, and to better the likelihood of passage ....

The Facilitators Working Group proposes that pre-announced, pre-posted, pre-scheduled proposals which have had publicly announced meetings and passed consensus at a public Working Group meeting, will be considered prior to other proposals, at General Assemblies. Working Groups and individuals may still bring proposals to the GA, without submitting to this new process. Emergency proposals, e.g., from Safety, Medics, Legal, etc., will continue to get immediate attention.

The Facilitators Working Group proposes the following process for preparing proposals to be taken through consensus at at General Assembly:

1. First Steps (at least one week prior to presenting at GA):
• post the proposal on the OccupyBoston wiki and make physical copies available at camp;
• schedule and post online, the date of the GA at which the proposal will be presented;
• do outreach to all WGs to let them know you have a proposal in the pipeline and would like their input;
• schedule and post online, the date of a public working group meeting, at which the proposal will be reviewed and taken through the consensus process. (Individuals can host meetings, they simply become a working group once the meeting begins.)
2. Announce at the earliest possible evening GA,
• that you are preparing a proposal,
• the subject of the proposal and that it is posted online,
• the date of the public working group meeting,
• and the date the proposal will be presented to the GA;
3. Conduct a full consensus WG meeting.
• Document all objections and amendments.
• Explain how objections were addressed
  (Objections must remain on a public list so that if the proposal cannot address them, and is still consented to, the community knows that there are outstanding concerns/objections to address.)
• Explain whether or why not amendments were adopted.
4. If the proposal has passed consensus in the public working group meeting, present at the pre-scheduled GA;
5. If the proposal did not reach consensus at the public working group meeting, post that result online and announce at the next available GA that the proposal will not be presented on the previously scheduled date.

See Google Doc:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZrCOZelyypZhmD1zXf0HvD1TENrGIyJpDpzDDJ8I8Dw/edit?hl=en_US

 

See Proposal on OB Wiki:   http://occupyboston.wikispaces.com/message/view/Facilitators/44687706

 

See #4 in this link:  http://takethesquare.net/2011/07/15/how-to-cook-a-pacific-revolution/