invite to Occupy-Labor Community Assembly planning
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shamus cooke
Jan 17, 2012, 3:45:03 PM1/17/12
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All,
It would be great if a representative from your Occupy group could attend the below planning meeting for a Community Assembly. Feel free to forward to other committees as well.
In solidarity,
Shamus
Who: Occupy Portland’s Labor Solidarity Committee
What: Strategy Session
When: Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Oregon Fair Trade Campaign Office
Address: 310 SW 4th Ave., Suite 436, Downtown Portland
Occupy Portland’s Labor Solidarity Committee invites all people to join us in planning and organizing a Community Assembly to create a people’s budget that works for all of us. Our intention is to launch a campaign to create a platform where working people can come together as a single voice to craft a budget and spending proposal that addresses the primary concerns we all share.
A budget prioritizes how money is spent in any economy. Regardless of whether a budget governs the expenditures of a household, business, city, county, state or Federal government, it must adequately meet the needs of all who rely on it. A budget that instead serves a tiny few at the expense of everyone else fails this basic test; in other words, it fails entirely.
This is where you come in. We invite you to bring your ideas and proposals to shape a budget that works for the rest of us -- a “people’s budget.” Working together, we plan to put forward the appropriate revenue generating ideas that can overcome existing budgetary shortfalls, and provide the appropriate revenue necessary to support services that currently remain neglected or unfunded.
Our intention is to put together an “action plan” aimed at achieving our budget demands. We anticipate our action plan to launch an ongoing campaign focused on achieving our aims. To mark the formal launch of our campaign, we’ll undertake a symbolic action, such as marching to City Hall to present our demands. To ensure we do not lose focus or momentum, we will mark the path to achieving our goals with clear mileposts.
In our lead-up to the assembly, we will strive to bring together a diverse and inclusive group of participants from community organizations, labor unions, Occupy committees, the homeless community and unrepresented, unemployed and underemployed workers for a strategy session on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. The meeting will take place at Oregon Fair Trade Campaign office, located at 310 SW 4th Ave., Suite 436, downtown Portland. Our goal is to proceed with our first Community Assembly on April 7th, 2012 at First Unitarian Church.
The Occupy movement has opened up a conversation that addresses the concerns of ordinary people. In response, unionized workers have joined hands with unrepresented workers, occupiers and community representatives from our neighborhoods, faith groups, small business organizations and elsewhere to demand that City, State and Federal budgets adequately address the concerns we share over high unemployment and inadequate social services.
We envision a budget that is both achievable and practical, one that realistically meets the needs of working people and the wider community. Right now, working people and the Occupy movement have the opportunity to move towards a common purpose and address the many crises that affect us all. We also recognize that it’s our responsibility to insist on nothing less than a fair, healthy and sustainable economic system that delivers its primary benefits to ordinary people and our communities.
As the wider community sees that we’re making serious gains in our fight for jobs that pay living wages, deliver adequate services to our communities and meet other crucial demands, they’re more likely to join the rest of us. Isn’t this, after all, the brilliance of the Occupy Movement: a unified expression of people no longer willing to just sit down and shut up?
Right now more and more of your friends, neighbors co-workers and family members are willing to stand up and be heard. Won’t you join us?
It would be great if a representative from your Occupy group could attend the below planning meeting for a Community Assembly. Feel free to forward to other committees as well.
In solidarity,
Shamus
A Budget for the Rest of Us
Who: Occupy Portland’s Labor Solidarity Committee
What: Strategy Session
When: Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Oregon Fair Trade Campaign Office
Address: 310 SW 4th Ave., Suite 436, Downtown Portland
Occupy Portland’s Labor Solidarity Committee invites all people to join us in planning and organizing a Community Assembly to create a people’s budget that works for all of us. Our intention is to launch a campaign to create a platform where working people can come together as a single voice to craft a budget and spending proposal that addresses the primary concerns we all share.
A budget prioritizes how money is spent in any economy. Regardless of whether a budget governs the expenditures of a household, business, city, county, state or Federal government, it must adequately meet the needs of all who rely on it. A budget that instead serves a tiny few at the expense of everyone else fails this basic test; in other words, it fails entirely.
This is where you come in. We invite you to bring your ideas and proposals to shape a budget that works for the rest of us -- a “people’s budget.” Working together, we plan to put forward the appropriate revenue generating ideas that can overcome existing budgetary shortfalls, and provide the appropriate revenue necessary to support services that currently remain neglected or unfunded.
Our intention is to put together an “action plan” aimed at achieving our budget demands. We anticipate our action plan to launch an ongoing campaign focused on achieving our aims. To mark the formal launch of our campaign, we’ll undertake a symbolic action, such as marching to City Hall to present our demands. To ensure we do not lose focus or momentum, we will mark the path to achieving our goals with clear mileposts.
In our lead-up to the assembly, we will strive to bring together a diverse and inclusive group of participants from community organizations, labor unions, Occupy committees, the homeless community and unrepresented, unemployed and underemployed workers for a strategy session on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. The meeting will take place at Oregon Fair Trade Campaign office, located at 310 SW 4th Ave., Suite 436, downtown Portland. Our goal is to proceed with our first Community Assembly on April 7th, 2012 at First Unitarian Church.
The Occupy movement has opened up a conversation that addresses the concerns of ordinary people. In response, unionized workers have joined hands with unrepresented workers, occupiers and community representatives from our neighborhoods, faith groups, small business organizations and elsewhere to demand that City, State and Federal budgets adequately address the concerns we share over high unemployment and inadequate social services.
We envision a budget that is both achievable and practical, one that realistically meets the needs of working people and the wider community. Right now, working people and the Occupy movement have the opportunity to move towards a common purpose and address the many crises that affect us all. We also recognize that it’s our responsibility to insist on nothing less than a fair, healthy and sustainable economic system that delivers its primary benefits to ordinary people and our communities.
As the wider community sees that we’re making serious gains in our fight for jobs that pay living wages, deliver adequate services to our communities and meet other crucial demands, they’re more likely to join the rest of us. Isn’t this, after all, the brilliance of the Occupy Movement: a unified expression of people no longer willing to just sit down and shut up?
Right now more and more of your friends, neighbors co-workers and family members are willing to stand up and be heard. Won’t you join us?
cascadian mycelium
Jan 17, 2012, 4:02:14 PM1/17/12
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Perhaps we could have a bit of background in respect to a people's budget happening in other parts of the world such as porto alegre where they've been doing it for 20 years....
Street Team
Jan 20, 2012, 12:04:34 PM1/20/12
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I would love to get Outreach involved in helping with the assembly!
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