Thank you Sandy!
Tenneson Woolf [email protected] 801 376 2213 (mobile) www.tennesonwoolf.com www.berkanacollaborative.org www.berkana.org www.artofhosting.org Twitter, Facebook: TennesonWoolf Skype: tenneson_woolf On Sep 29, 2011, at 7:09 AM, Sandy Heierbacher wrote: > NCDDers in NYC might find the occupier community (they call themselves > "Occupy Wall Street") a challenging, exciting context to work in. Process is > being evolved on the spot. The occupiers were using a traditional consensus > process, but the police forbade microphones. So they developed a fascinating > "human microphone" system where the speaker says a few words and the crowd > repeats what was said (which allows those in the back to hear). (You can > watch all this on streaming videos!) But that increases the already > extensive time needed for consensus (checking for concerns, etc.), so the > police have started issuing demands that must be met within 5-15 minutes, > which the crowd can't respond to fast enough without formal leaders, which > they don't want. The evolutionary pressures to develop new forms are > intense. What comes out of that could be very good, very bad, or something > else... > > If an NCDDer joined them and created a self-organized "Talk to the Others" > working group, something might happen along the lines you're thinking, > Stephanie. But there's no one in charge to talk to about getting other > protesters to join in Activity X. It is a self-organized system, for better > and/or worse. > > If you/we want to do something more planned, best to start now planning for > the parallel occupation of Washington DC by hundreds/thousands of progressive > protesters that is about to hit the city on Oct 6http://october2011.org. > > For info on Occupy Wall Street, here's some fascinating links: > http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/7468-occupy-wall-street-take-the-bull-by-the-horns > http://www.readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/64-64/7564-the-whole-world-is-watching-nonviolence-at-liberty-plaza > http://www.truth-out.org/occupywallstreet-more-hashtag-its-revolution-formation/1316784846 > http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/chris-hedges-occupy-wall-street-is-where-the-hope-of-america-lies/ > http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2011/09/20/police-occupy-wall-street-9-20-2011/ > http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/785
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