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March 8th GA Minutes

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Important Decisions:

Create a long term strategy group (PASSED).

Bring student groups together to organize for May 1st starting after spring break (Passed).

Current List of Workgroups:

Outreach (Meet Weds. @ 11 am in Malcolm X, contact outreach@occupysfsu.org)

Visual Communications (Meet Tues. @ 6 pm in Cafe 101, contact VizComm@occupysfsu.org)

Long Term Strategy (Watch for doodle poll, contact LongtermStrategy@occupysfsu.org)

Experimental College (in association with occupysfsu)

Announcements:

1st Annual Women’s Conference (SFSU) Sat. 9am-5pm

Occupy Education Party: 8 PM, 2424 Haste St Apt A15
Berkeley, CA (Be there or be square!)

BBQ/Yard Sale: Sat. 12-3 or 4 at Dolores Park

Radical Campus Newspaper Meeting Fri @ Noon in library

Occupy Monsanto March 16th

Charges being filed against Nov. 9th Occupy Cal Protesters who were beaten by police with batons (the incident where students were jabbed with batons) the first solidarity event is Monday at Noon.

Feb. 29 Minutes and Mar. 1 Schedule

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Sequence of events
10:30 OSFSU meets at Malcolm X Plaza for set up
11:00 Walkout/SQE activities start
12:00 rally @ Malcolm X Plaza
Donna and Lalo speaking splitting talking points (mic check all OSFSU goes on stage with her, we will try to get Lalo to speak also)) PASSED UNANIMOUSLY
12:30 SQE march to reclaim university and OSFSU Leaving for CCSF at Via Passenger van Marchers taking Bart to Oakland/ Other taking van to Civic Center
2:00 people at sfsu leave for civic center from 19th and Holloway via Muni and people at ccsf leave for civic center via van and Bart
3:00 teach-in at the state building
4:00 rally at civic center
6:00 Van leaving Civic Center from Larkin and Fulton to San Pablo (where marcher settle)

Role information and bottom liners
March coordination- Kelly
Police liaison- if anything happens send police over to lalo.
clean up- Jordan running cleanup group (need contact info)
Flier and sign-up contact Terence, table with petitions/info and OSFSU zine outreach pamphlet, Terence can train for sign up sheets. materials: millionaires tax signature collection, oil extraction tax signature collection, march 5th flyers, bus sign up forms, occupysfsu sign up, zine promotional/outreach pamphlet

Occupy SFSU General Assembly Minutes for January 25, 2012

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Here is a link to the full minutes: Jan. 25 Minutes.
Major Decisions (in brief):

-Doodle Poll to set permanent GA time closes Friday, here is link: Doodle Poll. GA’s will be held in front of the library (inside if raining).

-Occupy SFSU authorizes Education Committee to work with Experimental College (ExCo), and post ExCo events on Occupy SFSU Calendar.

-Occupy SFSU endorses March 1 and 5 days of action

-Occupy SFSU supports Occupy CCSF Feb. 7 encampment and party

-Camp maintenance and welcoming workgroup dissolved

-Friday action against bank tabling endorsed

Occupy SFSU General Assembly Minutes for December 16

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Occupy SFSU General Assembly 12/16/2011
@ Malcolm X Plaza
Great notes taken by Dominique (Thank you!!!)
Quick Summary of Proposals Passes/ Consensus Met

Proposal passed regarding encampment over winter break (Dec. 22nd- Jan. 22nd)
Sum up into one proposal: We’re going to stay here during break. Reinstate committees that are action based. Have a calendar of people who are going to stay here during break.
Vote on Consensus with 80 %
20/24 in favor
2 against
2 abstaining

Committees Reinstated

Time Committees Will Meet and Bottom Liners (as decided at GA)

Camp Maintenance/Welcoming (combined) [Donna and Bryan] TBD
Action/Logistics [Lalo, Katelyn, Wiley, Sean, Shaggy] MWF 10 am
Resource [Ivonne and Emily] MON. 4 pm
Agenda/Facilitation [ Aaron and Brenda] M-F 11 am Sat and Sun 9 am
Visual Communication [ Terrance, Breena and Dominique] Mon. 12 noon

ALL GROUPS WILL MEET AT MALCOLM X PLAZA

GA Times for Occupy SFSU

MWF at 6 pm

Decisions in regards to announcements
Occupy SFSU supports Occupy Education day of actions
March 1st: Local one day event. March 5th: Occupy capital building, March to Sacramento. No Blocks
18 votes 100 % consensus
General Assembly 12.16.2011
Facilitated by Brenda, Sam and Terrence

7:44- Share Poem/quote
Break into 4 groups/ elect 1 person per group
Discuss questions amongst the group and then elect one person to report back the collective thoughts in regards to the questions.
Q’s: What drew you to occupy movement?
What do you hope to see out of the movement?

A’s:
Leticia: Occupy feels like home and change/be inclusive /equitable society- we have to question our ideology.
Delta: fight for workers rights/free education/free healthcare. Political change of “revolve” into “evolve” for a permanent change.
Aaron: need affordable housing, decentralized gov./direct action/ we no longer have human rights/solutions come from people/bridge gap between communities
Orlando: show other people the illusions that are put in front o us/ we can create a better community/ be a part of the solution and educate others

8:10 – Give history of Occupy SFSU
Re-read rules to newcomers/welcome
8:12 – Announcements
Orlando- President Corrigan isn’t retiring until May
Sarah- start music group/put on website
Andrew- 12/17 Berkeley City College meeting for march on March 5th 12 pm-3 pm.
Delta- Can people bring more supplies?
Shaggy- Start bicycle generator for break
Breena- Salvadorian Student Union Jan. 24th huge march for children to the state capital, sign up for group on google docs on Facebook, take kids to REPS to share stories. Contact Breena
Sabor- Global Reoccupy starts 12/17/11. Many will be arrested. Occupy Sf-ers will flee to Occupy SFSU.
Sean- Berkley Group will be meeting 12/17/11. March 1st: Local one day event. $633 Million cut from edu. Trigger cuts. $83 million from prison.
March 5th: Occupy capital building, March to Sacramento. Vote for Occupy SFSU support
No Blocks
18 votes 100 % consensus
Katelyn: Corrigan asking people to write letters. He will write a letter to the CSU Board of Trustees and put his letter on top with ours at bottom. Contact her to forward it to him.

Go Around Question
1) Will you be at the encampment over break?
2) How much of your time will you be able to give in participating towards encampment?
3) Do you feel the camp should continue over the break
8:48 end

Total Results
1) After Jan.6th-8th: 4 votes
Will be here: 11 votes

2) A lot of time: 15 votes
None: 0 votes
Some time: 6 votes
3) No: 2 votes
Yes: 16 votes
Unsure: 7 votes

Andrew: we should be here but focus our energy on organizing camp to continue throughout the break/ to focus on organizing direct actions, have an action counsel separate, action focused GA’s. Three days a week for GA

Proposals created by groups for what to do over break
9:12- Proposal 1: forming a calendar with people who will be there for the night; form a break committee; make an email list/physical meeting
Proposal 2: reinstate committees to continue camp: additional fundraising committee/resource committee \\; rent a generator
Proposal 3: Stay over break and focus on intense organizing, 3 day a week GA and focus on being in solidarity with other occupiers, focus is on organizing 2012. Daily GA

9-:19 Open for clarifying questions

Sum up into one proposal: We’re going to stay here during break. Reinstate committees that are action based. Have a calendar of people who are going to stay here during break.

Comments
Leticia: I agree w/ proposals
Lalo: Sure everyone is committed, logistics add another obstacle
Shaggy: I am going to be here
Murphy: the consensus for people to stay is beautiful, it’s good to have a physical presence.
Shaggy: we are like a puppy, we need to take care of ourselves
Brenda: I agree w/ Lalo, we need dedication from everyone, we have to be consensus we have to be dedicated or we will get squished.
Wylie: post bulletin-board on a big piece of wood
John: I agree if were going to be here were going to be direct

Vote on Consensus with 80 %
20/24 in favor
2 against
2 abstaining
9:33- Forming Committees
1) Art – flyers/banners/beautifying campus
2) Media
One group: Twitter, FB, website, outside media
Sec. Group: Zine making, producing our own media
3) Education- Teach Ins/workshops/lectures/outreach to faculty for outdoor classes next semester
4) Resource- TRANSPARENCY/ look to resource group to fund events
5) Action/Logistics- Rally/Events off and on campus
6) Administration- talking to Admin. On campus. TRANSPARENCY
7) Welcome- introduce rules to new arrivals/make sure there is a place for them to sleep at night
8) Green- reduce waste/become more self-sustainable/become energy efficient
9) Agenda Forming- form daily agenda on camp and organize GA’s
10) Medical/Wellness- safe space/healing area
11) Outreach- to students on/off campus/ other occupy camps
12) Camp Maintenance
Five committees to focus on establishing tonight, decided by consensus
Bottom Liners next to Committee
1) Camp Maintenance/Welcoming (combined) [Donna and Bryan]
2) Action/Logistics [Lalo, Katelyn, Wiley, Sean, Shaggy]
3) Resource [Ivonne and Emily]
4) Agenda/Facilitation [ Aaron and Brenda]
5) Visual Communication [ Terrance, Breena and Dominique]

Time Committees Will Meet (as decided at GA)

Camp Maintenance/Welcoming (combined) [Donna and Bryan] TBD
Action/Logistics [Lalo, Katelyn, Wiley, Sean, Shaggy] MWF 10 am
Resource [Ivonne and Emily] MON. 4 pm
Agenda/Facilitation [ Aaron and Brenda] M-F 11 am Sat and Sun 9 am
Visual Communication [ Terrance, Breena and Dominique] Mon. 12 noon

ALL GROUPS WILL MEET AT MALCOLM X PLAZA

GA Times for Occupy SFSU

MWF at 6 pm

Special Occupy SFSU General Assembly at 7pm on Friday

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A special Occupy SFSU General Assembly meeting from 7-9pm this Friday, December 16, will address the issue of whether to continue the Occupy SFSU camp over the holiday break or come back at the start of the Spring semester. This is an important decision that we want everyone to be a part of. Please come with ideas, suggestions and proposals!