Thanks for remembering that this self-organization protests have similarities
with OST and for the links, Sandy.
I would like to add another interesting link from the Chicago Tribune online:
Wall Street protests: Video of champagne drinkers makes rounds on Web
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-wall-street-protests-video-of-champagne-drinkers-makes-rounds-on-web-20110929,0,6894107.story?track=rss
So, as it seems that are (still) protestors and there are still bad guys and
girls ;-)
Regards
Artur
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From: Sandy Heierbacher <sa...@thataway.org>
To: OSList@lists.openspacetech.org
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 2:09 PM
Subject: [OSList] protestors and process people on Wall Street
Hi, Open Space and Art of Hosting friends!
I wanted to send a quick message out to both the OSlist and the AoH list to see
if any process experts in these communities are working with the Occupy Wall
Street folks who are doing direct action in NYC right now.
We had a thread on the NCDD Discussion list yesterday (I'm the director of the
National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation, if you've not heard of NCDD)
about the timely opportunity to provide real assistance and advice with process
to these activists. Additional occupations (as they're being called) are being
planned for DC, Boston, and other locations I believe -- and I wanted to check
in with the Open Space and AoH communities to see if process folks were already
involved (if so, let's talk about how NCDD members might be able to help you
out, and stay informed about what you're doing).
The Occupy Wall Street folks are an intentionally leader-less, self-organized
group. Open Space and Art of Hosting-style processes seem like the best fit
for helping them stay that way, continue to give all protestors a voice and to
move more quickly to jointly-identified outcomes.
For those of you who may not be too familiar with what's going on in NYC right
now, here's an interesting part of the listserv thread I mentioned (this
segment is written by Tom Atlee):
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 6 http://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
Best,
Sandy
Sandy Heierbacher
Director, National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD)
email: sa...@thataway.org (switching to sa...@ncdd.org)
website: www.ncdd.org
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