NEXT MEETING & MINUTES

[Cara Hartley]

So hello today we discussed lots of things and came away with some action items.  These things and items include:

 

Are we working on a consensus model, and is it 9/10ths or 8/10ths consensus? 

 

Develop a process for adding and subtracting members--Ben & Cara

 

Process for how to buy things, general ethic for getting supplies --Negesti

 

Think about and plan work schedules and guidelines for group membership --  ??

 

Investigate other occupy groups who may be doing parallel work (print coop, OYWP)  --Courtney & Cara, anyone else!

 

People who we think are still on board:  Courtney, Cara, Ben, Ronny, Negesti, Leah, Ian, Sumumba

 

Look for 7 step guide to starting a co-op:  Courtney & whoever else was at Colors thing

 

Contact Alex Nicoletti about underground businesses--Courtney or Leah

 

REGULAR MEETING TIME:  MONDAY AT 2:00, YIPPIE CAFE

[Ian G. Williams]

Hey All,

I completely forgot to chime in about the meeting. Ended up spending an extra day in DC to scope out a congressional hearing on Chinese repatriation of North Korean refugees. Very interesting to be inside the Capitol listening to former refugees, NGO advocates, politicians, and analysts discussing prison camps in NK borderlands and the conditions that people are subject to when sent back home by the Chinese state. In the 100 days of mourning for Kim Jong Il's death, anyone caught leaving the country or sent back home will be killed, along with three generations of their family.

The argument leveraged by Chinese immigration authorities is that NK refugees are "economic migrants" akin to undocumented immigrants from Latin American countries in the US. While undocumented migrants here don't get put in torture camps - or get summarily executed - back home simply for leaving the country, the similarity of situations (economic and political disparity that pushes people to cross borders and states having a pissing match over their respective policies) give me somewhat of a stronger sense of the value of anti-statist broad-based organizing. AIPAC's presence this weekend, essentially pressuring the US into war with Iran on behalf of Israeli state interests, also played into my current sentiments. Huzzah anarchist internationalism.

Anyway - that's an aside, but an interesting update on some things going on in the world and how the US state is relating to them.

I'll be back in NYC tomorrow so if anyone wants to chat about the current state of the project, give me a ring at 802-399-9997 and we can talk co-ops. I've been out of the loop but am still on board with this awesome project.

Ian

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Ian G. Williams

[Courtney Burke]

Hey everyone

Yesterday only Ben and I were at the  meeting.  So we briefly discussed our findings--I did find out about the other co-op groups and when they meet,--(7 on Monday evenings is the Occupy-wide meeting of co-ops, and then the other groups have different meeting times, I believe the other restaurant meets Thursday evenings.,) and although I didn't make it last night, I told them we exist. 

I didn't find the 7 step guide, found a different 7 step guide, and that plus my notes from last time give us a pretty good idea of what we have to do, and what would be a good order to do things in.

Ben looked up the ways that co-ops typically add and subtract members--he can tell you more about that. 

We didn't set an agenda for next week, but we did say we'd take some steps in how to know if your project fits into the existing market.


Courtney

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Cara Hartley <cararos...@gmail.com> wrote: