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If you are an avid reader of the notes from G.A.’s and Spokes Councils, you may have noticed that not every day is recorded. Or it may have gotten recorded but notes were never delivered to the web team. Thankfully, facilitators have stepped in and will give us a run-down of the major happenings at Spokes Council on a regular basis.
Here’s a start: Friday, Nov. 25 and Sunday, Nov 27. (Full notes can be found here.)
Friday Spokes Council (11/25)
Attendance ~100
Major Decision – Decision was made to move ahead with renting a space for $ 800/month at St. Francis Church to serve as a work space, place for meetings, etc. It is not available for any sleeping. One group in disagreement (Tribes), the rest (13 or 14) in agreement (exact details to come in full notes). Amendments were to have a special donate button on the website for rent, re-assess how this is working for the movement after two weeks and to ask if we can get lower rent.
Sunday Spokes Council (11/27)
Attendance ~50
Major Decisions – None
Major Discussions – The primary discussion of the evening was about creating intentional space within specific Spokes Council meetings for discussions. The synthesis of ideas and discussions was to have the Sunday Spokes Council reserved every week for the following (1) Decompression/Debriefing (what happened over the last week, what worked, what didn’t, what can be done better – i.e. coordination, tactics, etc.), (2) Looking Ahead (what actions/events are coming up, how can different committees – i.e. outreach, PR, media, help spread the word – how can we think about coordinated messaging for our movement, how does this connect to the larger vision of our movement). This will be revisited on Tuesday and their was some discussion about how parts of this (i.e. visioning) might occur every other week or at other intervals. We would also seek to set the agenda for the Tuesday and Friday Spokes Council during this meeting.
Agenda for Tuesday (11/29) Spokes Council – (1) Discussion/proposal on coordinated decentralization of Occupy Portland in different quadrants of the city and (2) Sunday Spokes Council Proposal (see above).