Principles of Solidarity for Website

[Esteban Gil]

Sorry, I'm too tech-illiterate, can someone put a permanent page on the website for the POS? I'll also be (after today) typing up an overview of our current process so that It too can go on the website as a permanent page!

-estie

On September 17, 2011, people from all across the United States of America and the world came to protest the blatant injustices of our times perpetuated by the economic and political elites.  On the 17th we as individuals rose up against political disenfranchisement and social and economic injustice.  We spoke out, resisted, and successfully occupied Wall Street.  Today, we proudly remain in Liberty Square constituting ourselves as autonomous political beings engaged in non-violent civil disobedience and building solidarity based on mutual respect, acceptance, and love.  It is from these reclaimed grounds that we say to all Americans and to the world, Enough!  How many crises does it take?  We are the 99% and we have moved to reclaim our mortgaged future.

Through a direct democratic process, we have come together as individuals and crafted these principles of solidarity, which are points of unity that include but are not limited to:

• Engaging in direct and transparent participatory democracy;
• Exercising personal and collective responsibility;
• Recognizing individuals’ inherent privilege and the influence it has on all interactions;
• Empowering one another against all forms of oppression;
• Redefining how labor is valued;
• The sanctity of individual privacy;
• The belief that education is human right; and
• Endeavoring to practice and support wide application of open source.

We are daring to imagine a new socio-political and economic alternative that offers greater possibility of equality.  We are consolidating the other proposed principles of solidarity, after which demands will follow.

[Jon Raymond]

Sure. You an create a post or just email me the content and I will make a page. Or to make a page yourself go unto the WordPress dashboard and choose pages and add a page. Pages are linked by menu. So them you would need to go into menus and add the page to either the main menu or the other one (which appears on the right side bat where you see meeting notes).

When you add a page you have to also add the page to a menu. The main menu is the tabs at the top. The sub menu is currently in the widgets on the right sidebar. I added the two pages submitted to these menus. You can always change them.

I added the text below to the About page which I also renamed “Who are we?”. Of course, you are free to change any of this. I’m pretty fast at this stuff so I thought it would help. Sorry I can’t make the meetings, I am really slammed with the stage production I’m working on. We are opening Friday in Long Beach http://longbeachrepertorytheatre.com/?page_id=689.

Also if you post something as a “POST”, there is a check box to make it a STICKY post, so it will remain at the top. I suggest you update the minutes PAGE with minutes each week, or you could post minutes as a post as well.

[Esteban Gil]

Thanks Jon! Your help is super appreciated!

So has the Proposal Submission Process been put up on the main menu?  I can't find the button on wordpress that marks that!  Sorry for all the questions!

-Estie

[Esteban Gil]

Can you also put a tab up for "Upcoming Proposals" Like they do in NYC?  and "Proposals Consented To"?

Tomorrow I'm going to write up an Assembly Guide (based on our own processes, links to other GA's and what they do, hand-signals, etc), I'll try and put it up as a main tab as well (and send it your way since I probably won't get it right....)

Mile Grazi!
-e

[Esteban Gil]

I think perhaps we should make the Minutes and Proposal Submission Process their own tabs (like Calendar, etc...)  Just because those things are really 'official' as it were.  Because if the 'Reading List" is on the same bar as proposal process and minutes, i think it confuses people a little bit....

I'm still trying to figure out how to change it to make it so, if there's no objections.  But any instruction could help!

-estie

[Sharon F]

I assume that the new tab "future Proposals" would be where people could put proposals they wish to put before the GA?

[Esteban Gil]

figured it out!

And as to Sharon's question, check out the website...we consented to a proposal submission process that's pretty straight forward.

-Estie

[Esteban Gil]

OK! I cracked this here code!  Put up some new menu tabs...
the only thing I couldn't figure out is how to take away the 10/30 minutes and the Proposal Submission Process thing off the tiny box to the right with "reading list"

tomorrow I'll write up a Guide to the General Assembly with outlines of discussion process, hand signals, model order of the day, etc!

wohoo technology!

-estie

[Esteban Gil]

Only thing I haven't figured out is how to add the outreach comm's google group to the top right with the others....http://groups.google.com/group/pga-outreach-committee

anyone wanna tackle that?
-e

[Sharon F]

I haven't figured it out either.  Trying to add my focus group - PGA Civil Disobedience Safety Group.  

[Sharon F]

"And as to Sharon's question, check out the website...we consented to a proposal submission process that's pretty straight forward."

That wasn't my question.  There are two tabs.  One about the process and another about "future proposals".  I've read the proposal before and after it was accepted today and it's hardly straightforward.  What will be under future proposals?  Ones the facilitation committee has approved to be presented?  Ones given to the facilitation committee for consideration?

Where are the proposals sent?  They have to be gotten to the facilitation committee 24 hours before the GA.  How does that happen?  Is there an email address for it?  We don't have a camp.. who do they hand it to?  Are we giving that persons's address so the proposals can be hand carried if someone doesn't have internet access.  

These are questions I would have asked had I been there but, since I wasn't I'll ask them here.

Sharon

[Esteban Gil]

Sharon,

Future proposals would be proposals that are complete (what/how/why) and submitted to facilitation

There's an email on the proposal process explanation (pga-facilitat...@googlegroups.com)

You're right, it's difficult to get a hard copy to facilitators since we don't have a occupation set up yet....but that's why we had an "and/or" for electronic/hard copy submissions....if people don't have internet access, they can go to the facilitation workshop on Wednesday (which, granted, is only advertised online currently...) but we hope to make it a regular thing.  In either case, proposals require co-signers, so if you don't have internet access, chances are one of your cosigners does and can send it in.

Completed proposals will be put up under future proposals according to the order they were submitted.

If/When we set up an occupation, we can have a proposal submission box at central location with a description of how to submit etc...pretty easy to set that up

-E

[Sharon F]

I did read it.  I read the old version you sent out before the GA and afterwards.  I totally understand it and why it has been implemented. But onward:

I feel we do need a link for people to submit their proposals to the facilitation committee.

[Esteban Gil]

you mean like...other than the email that's on the site? that sounds rad!

[Sharon F]

It could be something as easy as a link that's with the new procedure that says "to submit a proposal click here" or I suppose we could have a form that includes the parts of a proposal and the names of the supporters where all fields are required.  That would save a lot of going back and forth getting people to get all the parts completed.

(I'd also include a printable version in a pdf file that folks can print and fill out.)

Just an idea and it's another job for poor Jon because I'm having a time figuring out the ins and outs of the website.  Never worked with Wordpress before except to install it.

[Carrie Arnold]

I love the idea of a form!! That way people can't leave anything off.
I've never worked with wordpress before, but I will try and figure it
out later. If someone beats me to it though I will not complain. :-)

[Paul Jenvey]

I think the form would be fantastic and would promote better proposal submissions, as it would prompt the submitter for all of the relevant info.  Id say it would be even better than email.

[Saro Paparian]

This is an awesome idea.

I would like to format a draft for the proposal form, unless someone else already has a handle on it. We can have these forms ready to hand out during GA and we can also have a copy on the website.

-saro

[Esteban Gil]

Can somebody tackle this?  I'm a bit busy with some job-hunt crap and preparing this workshop wed.  That and I'm damn near illiterate with website issues.  Anyone willing to bottom-line this?

Great ideas all!  See you wednesday!

 Also, do you think maybe we could have a communications meeting during the week?  This way we can put it up on the calender/facebook/website every week to get people plugged into our organizing? And also increase more face-to-face work (like what we'll be experiencing if/when we occupy.

-Estie

[Saro Paparian]

I'll format a .pdf proposal form. then look into getting it on the site.

I'll have the form done by wednesday night.

-saro

[Carrie Arnold]

Hey Saro thanks so much for taking this on; I appreciate it!!