706pm: start of GA *Introductions+welcoming* (going over consensus process, hand movements/motions/gestures, conditions that undermine the process, etc) tonight's agenda committee announcements general announcements proposals: 1. update from media team re: financial team 2. communications announcement 3. GA strategy session cameron: evolutionary committee directory to help with locating committee members. ?oko: action committee: announcement of march meeting at naito and salmon; march to convention center during BofA convention, moving to occupy pearl afterward. Announcement of zombie occupation for halloween, nov 5th demonstration, nov 6th: hands around federal building in solidarity with keystone pipe* (pls clarify) shepard: art and culture committee will be holding events in amphitheatre on tuesdays and thursdays before GA, sat-sun 1-6pm. peter from art and culture committee encourages participation in arts and culture eventsd. peter works in outreach for this committee. Rally & pink martini noon friday oct 28th. help in sanitation stressed from occupiers. randy: we have no arrests; leading the nation in non-arrests in occupy movement. mentioned that 2 paralegals and 1 attorney live on site @ occupy camp. mentioned trying to work in conjunction with peace and safety; emphasis on protest, march, peach and non violence roger whitner: worked as a public prosecuter. was once jailed 70 days in order to censor his information. "there is no opposition now when i go to the courtroom" (?) public employees (police) work for us, we have rights, if we obtain a ny injuries, we can file it with the court. must go as a group!! contact him at 503-933-9792; also has youtube page under his name. riana: art committee: art tent is neglected. half of all incidents incorporate the art tent. we need volunteers. as we restructure camp, we will be albe to form a commiittee for this tent. (from notetaker (tracy): i will volunteer; i will also ask my gf to participate) General announcements 10-27 at 1pm at terry shrunk mtg about emergency contingent plan as part of the proposal i was presented yesterday by peace and safety we have formed a proposal deveolping longterm sustainab le plan of the occuppation due to alck of communications between committees. anybody interested feel free to contact (peace and safety). rising tide org. will be coming back to camp to do workshops sunday 10-30 bank demonstration friday noon at BofA 6th and main (demonstration and pink martini going at the same time) colin: Introduces Levi, a descendant of ben franklin. encourages us to cirlce camp with american flags, saying nobody will take them down. Agenda & proposal announcements: Jordan: update on financial committee here to convey factual info. will answer a few questions after he's done with announcement. on sunday, mtg w/reid jackson (finance committee) and anyone who's concerned was held. ried was attack personally. we had no immediate plans but paperwork filing started on friday. ried and brian to retain control of web domain. no oversight or transparancy in this group. oregonian was tipped off before everything was clarified. anonymous posted communication that accussed people of several things. some information was true though people who were named in communication was not able to be reached to clairfy what happened. Brian from finance committee to answer questions. brian howard. volume of donations were not expected; he would like to be relieved of liablility with finances (?). asking comjunity to come up with solutions for fund allocation. -is it considered a nonprofit corp, and was the finance committee divided. a nonprofit corp was created, not by brian, but by other well intentioned people. he is not aware of the by-laws. -501c4: given that money is already in corp, what issues may arise by puttin in money and taken out? there have been no money transferred to said entity. -who;s got the money? *brian points to self* (elona verifies that the money is in brians paypal account) -can another entity shelter the money ike the first unitarian church? it is possible. *we need committee members and bylaws and board members* working grou0p is proposed for allocating of money tomorrow 3pm terry shrunk; mtg for working group for financing/etc. -someone took it upon temselves to open a non profit without giong through the GA, and you're looking for a body of people to come up with a democratic process? it should go through the GA. we need to come up with a consensus to move forward. -suggestion to look into other occupations for ows is using glovbal justice alliance. 1st unitarian and other organizations have been suggested. -friends of last thursday have gone under a non profit umbrella...maybe we could do this? -(80856793) - flyer for occupy portland incorporated... are we aware of this? we need to dissolve this "corporation". we are not endorsing thepping up and brian stm. -you are not going to put the money in the 501c4 until the decision has been made in this process? please guarantee this. moey will not be transferred into the corporation. -why did the domain ownership change? concern came from the ownership bei under one individual. after talking with communication and media team, we are aware that the wrong approach was taken. - -are there any other members of fin. com. to answer for their actions? genie: we're perfectly human and perfectly imperfect. things are moving fast, we've been busy, reid has apologized for any mistakes and oversight that shoudl've been done differently. *discussion* 3pm tomorrow for a workgroup to resove financial issues. -suggestion to desolve entity, to have symbolic sacrifice to show we are killing the corporation -suggestion: anybody who comes to the meeting tomorrow, come prepared with facts, ideas and strategies. -randy has an attorney on board, available to answer questions regarding non profit statuses, etc. -want to ask live cam folk; will you be able to livestream the 3pm mtg tmrw? (yes) -action was not vindctive. actions were taken unilaterally in the groups best interest. -propose to break into small groups and voice concerns within group, reconvene in 10 minutes and address the GA with propositions and concerns. *break* -1 group talked about rogue entity, action was arrogant to go over the heads of GA. mostly agree that instead of putting mmonmey in an umbrella group is a good idea. some group members endorse 1st unitarian. -a lot of institutions to ghet alingned with: unnecessary to create non-profit. appreciate brian for stepping up to speak for the finance committee. we want accountability. reaffirmf that GA may be difficult, but is where we make decisions by consensus. -spoke of dangers with potential dangers of 501c4 in regards of direction of movement. we might have opportunity to disband the org, but find out its mission statement and see if they are alinged with us. 100 percent of funds into camp and to further process which we are set up. -came to consensus that GA should be integral part of managing our finances. questions about web domain: who owned it? how'd they get it? who owns it now? the domain owned by "fern" occupyportland.org; was previously owned by a person in the web team (?)/ occupypdx owned by person in web team. Gambit, Elona, and a fwe others discussed the issue with web domain; web team has secured. -understanding is needed that as passionate as people are about this issue, people are being knee-jerk reactionary to this issue of the non-profit. we n eed a place to put the money. -group is still not clear what happened. write up a timeline and detail what happened with this non-profit to help with transparancy. -web team does have notes of what happened/*maybe they'll come up with a timeline* -reminder: nobody was excluded from finance committee. issues at hand are being solved, tomorrow'smeeting will let us go forward in this issue. software developer will have information tomorrow in regards to this and discovery of information. summary from group meetings: we need Transparancy and public accounting, along with timeline of events that lead us here. this was non-malicious intent, but process undermined occupy pdx movement general appreciation towards brian for putting a face and voice to finance committee. looking for umbrella orgs to host funds and/or disband the occupy. *something about 3 letters*sorry :( g4: brian knows nothing about the g4. 500 dollars spent to buy domain name?: money was not from fund. people questioning 501c3 structure;d oes it represent the spirit of the GA? would it be appropriate to affiliate with a religious org? tbc tomorrow NEXT: proposal announcements -safety team proposes something passed by LA GA; adopt practice of saying "shanti sena". "peace army". say those words when there is a problem or conflict, helps us participate in keeping the peace and maintain non-violence. -man engineer dpet: we don't need money. no cahs. no paypal. we want ideas to help us grow, ahnds to help us build and items requested. most of our money should go to r2d2(?). once we show the 1% that we don't need their money and we don't need them to survive, they will lose their power and we will begin to live free. use our money to buy the "doors"from r2d2 camp, hence keeping all of our money within "?s". -sam w;livestream: our intention is to become a committee to be able to make announcements and acquiring funds for committee and upkeep. committee may become liason for the 'net movement. end of proposals, statement from facilitator: "GA needs to work for everyone". We need to continue on improving on GA process. Discussion of GA, how to improve and how to make it better for everyone has been prompted.... open discussion now: CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS!! -facilitator training @ 2pm every saturdays -GA is not held at a good time; held at kitchen cleanup time. sanitation workers want to attend GA and cannot attend due to this conflict. we need more PR to help with the demoralizing of the people. -a woman is making amends with facilitators; apologizing for being disrespectful in the past -sugegstions for livestream chat for voting; have problems conveying livestream consensus at GA's. bring pillows and blankets to endure the colder weather coming upon us. -3 suggestions: 1.need more clarification on how to become a facilitator; 2. stack keepers need to identify people when they are called on the stack; distinguish people as htey're called on; 3. encourage people to go thruogh a committee to present proposals (for more developed proposals). -people need more patience to be heard. -we need lighting to see speakers. maygbe also working on making GA proposals more public. -a man supports the current state of the GA!! -planting ideas: working on communication. being precise w/your language is important. -GA agenda and proposal deadline @ 5pm, to promote clarity and clear information...? -WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH OAKLAND AND THE WORLD. -giong over the events that happened in Oakland. -gratitude expressed for everyone's attendance at today's march. -we need to do more outreach to the people of portland. maybe a suggestion box in every neighborhood and invite them to meeting at the GA. -pink martini concert, friday noon @ pioneer square. this is a chance to reach out to the community. volunteers needed to engage with other peop;le who are not involved and do not knlow about Occupy; connect with the community at large. -we need better outreach. a man handed out brochures to about 200 people who had no idea what was giong on during hte march. -outreach committee is looking for volunteers (maybe create a call for volunteers bulletin online and at camp) -gratitude towards for everybody at the GA. this igirl is excited to be part of this movement. in order to move forward, we need to be the 100%.