Revised Proposal
Stephen Alrich Marshall
graphic and a form to use to list your local and statewide contacts. The
list of statewide people is incomplete because I am unsure of who is
participating. I will also send this out to more general email lists. If
you want to be part of the network, please help by letting me know. I
can put your information into the list and resend it. Please remember to
talk to your GA and get a list of point persons for active working
groups. Some info about their current activities and needs would also be
helpful and of interest to others.
Everybody is working hard and we love them for it. At the same time, it
means they easily might forget to deal with this, so help them remember.
Remind them, This network will help them connect with folks all over the
state of Vermont, and will support everything we are all trying to do,
including outreach. We just need a couple of folks to gather up the
names of point persons for the various working groups (to keep), and the
name(s) of the person(s) with that list for our list.
Thanks everyone!
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Stephen Marshall
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Burlington Vermont 05401
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mariecountryman
this sounds good to me. stephen, i just got your email about the blog and also another mention of the ring here. anyone else out there? i missed my GA last weekend, got the bug going around my lovely HUD building ...
but
will be checking here there and everywhere and hopefully i will have some things to report, re: the training now set for Occupy Sprimg events.
marie
emily peyton
Stephen Marshall
> Thank You Steve, this is very clarifying, a good vision ! I am
> grateful for your work. It was good to see you at the VY protest. I
> am in the middle of planning an action that I would like People to be
> in on. We are going to publish a statement in the Rutland Herald on
> Earth Day (4/22 a Sunday) and the Times Argus, which puts into words a
> contract on our terms with the DEA and the Federal Government that we
> will be growing industrial hemp in Vermont this spring. Please help
> send eyes to the paper on that day, and look at it as a jumping off
> point for contracting other issues with the government. We hope to get
> a back cover, and Neil will be designing the ads layout. Also I would
> love company and help as I gather signatures to join the political
> races for governor, and senator, and no I don't want to win, but
> rather motivate occupy power in more Vermonters. I will be gathering
> signatures in Montpelier on Monday, I hope outside the coop.
> I can offer a bed and a room here. A half page ad in the Rutland
> Herald that goes in the Times Argus on Sunday in B&W is 1,905.- Can
> we get enough donations, through bake sales to print one on July
> fourth ? Naming the right of People to be democratically involved in
> the monetary system ( or lack of one), and commanding government
> reflection of equality of sexes, and races and economic statuses.
> The printed word has a huge power or creating reality, lets use it
> for our freedom. My web is www/emilypeyton.org
> <http://www.hempfullygreen.com>
> You can see the hemp legal notice there.
> With love, and crows in flight by my shoulder watching over me! I am
> so grateful for the awakening through the occupy movement, it is
> beyond words for me, a true joy.
>
> Emily
> hey all:
> this sounds good to me. stephen, i just got your email about the blog
> and also another mention of the ring here. anyone else out there? i
> missed my GA last weekend, got the bug going around my lovely HUD
> building ...
> but
> will be checking here there and everywhere and hopefully i will have
> some things to report, re: the training now set for Occupy Sprimg events.
>
> marie
have attached an updated version of the table with everyone's contact
information. (Please discard earlier versions.) (Being in html, it can
be viewed directly in your browser and the links will work. )
This is where it begins.
Up above Emily made some requests.
Emily, Your news is good. Could you post it on the OYO blog
(http://OccupyYourOpinion.blogspot.com)? This creates a stable platform
for your information. Then, direct your request for help, via email,
directly to the other people on the ring (this list; we're all
listening!), and tell us who you want to connect with. I think you are
asking for a general announcement to our respective Occupations, and
perhaps for Outreach people or Direct Action people to help you out.
Also, you could attach your petition (use a common format like rtf or
doc) to the email you send out, and the rest of us will have it to send
out to our people.
Also, Emily, It seems you would like to raise some money. Please write a
pitch for donations, that tells everybody what you are doing (an
advertisement), what it will say, and how it will give strategic
advantage in achieving your goal. Those are all things prospective
donors will want to know. If you cannot raise that pretty large amount
of money, what is your plan B? This pitch should be clearly written for
people who are only vaguely aware of your issue, so that any of us can
read it to our people at GA. Good Luck, I'll be on the edge of my seat
to see how this goes!
Marie, and everyone for that matter, the table shows the people on our
STATE LEVEL contact ring (including YOU). These are the people you
direct your inquiries to. But each of us on the state-level ring cannot
possibly be the final target of all of the messages we might be asked to
send. Remember, each of us, when we get a message, usually will pass it
along to other people in our local occupations.
People who do not have experience in differentiated General Assemblies
might not be aware of the various functions people take on. People in
small groups just do it all. Here in Burlington we have Direct Action,
Outreach, FedUp (women's rights), Occupy Voices (singing), Finance
(handles money), Economics (study group), Labor Solidarity,
Environmental issues (VY and otherwise), Art, and numerous other less
active groups. When you are passing along a request, think about whether
it might better be made in the GA, or to a specific working group.
Recipients, obviously, make the final decision of who to forward a
message to.
Right now, Brian Tokar and Jennifer Steckler, who is on the list, are
working on getting Occupy people to come hang out with Transition people
for a weekend. I just wrote a letter to him asking for details about his
request. Jennifer, if you're there, do you want to write some thing up
about what you would like from Occupiers, far and wide?
Finally, with the list of people in the state-ring, you got a blank of
the related form for local people. Use this to collect the names and
contact info of your local point-persons. You need this to do this job!
I was able to print these forms in landscape position.
Take care and good luck, everyone. I'll be trying to learn how to do a
conference call, and when I do, I'll try to arrange one for us.