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WELCOME!
Hi. Welcome to the wiki. This is a wiki for the Occupy Burlington movement! It needs a lot of help, do something! Please change this wiki to make it better reflect our movement as you understand it. (Note that, as a result, this page does not of course represent the official opinion or policy of anyone except maybe the last person to edit it!)
Please check the recent changes often (there's also a Recent Changes link in the sidebar on the left) to keep up with what's happening on the wiki. There you can watch what other people are doing and help them out or you can start your own projects for other people to help with.
What is Occupy Burlington?
Occupy Burlington is YOU! We welcome ALL people- people of all abilities, classes, colors, races, cultures, creeds, beliefs, faiths, genders, sexual preferences and identities, people with disabilities- people from all walks of life to attend our assemblies and join our working groups. We use a tool known as a "general assembly" to facilitate collective decision making in an open, participatory and non-binding manner. In other words, we all just decide together what we all agree we really want, and then we voluntarily accomplish it together. Occupy Burlington is the manifested power of the people.
Connecting to the Movement
ContactUs
Occupy Burlington Calendar
Announcements
Have an Event? Put it here!
Bernie's February town meetings
1. 2/4/12 10:30 AM Jericho Community Center, 329 Browns Trace Road, Jericho VT
2. 2/19/12 10:30 AM Charlotte Senior Center, 212 Ferry Rd., Charlotte VT, free and with brunch! 1/29 12:30: Rally and speak-out against VT Yankee, details developing.
The 1/22/12 Occupy Burlington General Assembly agreed on the following statement: "We condemn Judge Murtha's decision in favor of Entergy against the democratic decision of the people and state of Vermont to shut down Vermont Yankee--a dangerous, polluting nuclear plant that has been plagued with accidents, leaks, poor maintenance, and run by a dishonest company. We stand in solidarity with the Vermont Yankee workers and support a just transition where they receive economic support and retraining."
1/29 2 pm: Our Next GA will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Church!
All of our GAs will be at the UU until the weather warms!!!!
Issue Tracking System
Some of us are planning to start using a simple Issue Tracking System to help us be aware of problems with the Occupy Burlington process.
Outreach Homerun: Winooski HS Multicultural Dinner/Fundraiser...
Cultural diversity in OWS/VT is a good thing. Outreach to a neighboring town is a good thing. Outreach to the next generation of activists is a good thing. Supporting an effort to build a foundation for world peace and justice is a good thing.
Doing ALL of those things at once while enjoying dinner is a really good thing. Winooski HS Multicultural Club/Peace Jam presents an international dinner to raise funds - Saturday, Feb. 25.
Students Fatuma, Amena, Arafat, and Frankie are joining this Sunday's GA to tell us all about it. Their job is selling tickets; our job is buying them. Please to bring cash. Bonus for us: they're letting us occupy an info/outreach table! See the attachment for details, or contact Bill Oetjen @ billoetjen@gmail.com.
http://www.winooski.k12.vt.us/winooski/lib/winooski/Flyer_for_International_Dinner_.pdf
Occupy Your Opinion
Hey! Whenever you have news, remember to OYO, Occupy Your Opinion!
@OccupyBurlVT "Unofficial Burlington Twitter account --> hopefully going to be a horizontal official account
"#occupyvermont" Unofficial Burlington Twitter hashtag
Want to help contribute to our Twitter presence or just talk about it? Join the conversation at the Newly created Twitter page by clicking on the header above!
Blog
Occupy Burlington has more than one blog.
" Occupy Your Opinion is an open community blog where conversations, on any topic of interest to Occupiers, can occur.
Occupy Burlington e-Newsletter!
Subscribe by clicking the button in the top left corner. If you'd like to contribute something to next week's e-Blurb, or if you have comments or questions, please email occupyburlingtonvt@gmail.com or join the Information Working Group (meets weekly on Mondays at 4:30pm at Fletcher Free Library, Burlington).
http://reddit.com/r/OccupyVermont http://reddit.com/r/OccupyBurlington
PiratePad
http://piratepad.net/w5ibdX3SDb
Connecting on Facebook
There are several groups, pages, and events related to Vermont occupations and GAs:
- Occupy-Burlington-VT-updates This page does not show very much activity
- occupyvermontMost recent posts, today.
- #OccupyBurlington 180 Members, 81 Photos, 6 Docs, most recent post: today.
Email Discussion Lists
As well as the mailing lists for the Working Groups, there's also an unofficial, general purpose discussion list on Google Groups for anything at all about Occupy Burlington: http://groups.google.com/group/occupy-burlington-vt
And also one for the entire Occupy Vermont movement: http://groups.google.com/group/occupyvt
Working Groups
What we came here to do Learn, Live, Act.
Anyone can propose a new working group at the appropriate time during the general assembly. Working groups can be focused on logistical concerns, themes, or issues. In addition to drafting proposals, working groups are empowered to brainstorm, organize, put on events, and make decisions related to their issue or function. Most decisions do not need to come before the entire general assembly. Likewise, keep in mind that many of your questions are probably best directed to the relevant working groups rather than facilitators or the general assembly as a whole.
Scheduling tool: doodle.com / polls / wizard.html Very straight forward to use!
ALPHABETICAL ORDER please. :)
Burlington
- Art
- Direct Action
- Economics
- Facilitation
- Feminist
- Finance
- Food
- Immediate Action
- Information AKA Info, including subgroups:
- Calendar
- Outreach
- Supplies & Donations
- Working Group Working Group
- Labor Solidarity
- Library
- Love
- Loving Touch
- Media, including subgroup:
- Poetry
- Process
- Safety
- Spirituality, including subgroup:
- Occupy Burlington Sangha (Buddhist practice group)
- Strategy
- Writing
Proposed
- Childcare
Statewide
Central Vermont
From their visioning process:
Other pages
(Not working group pages)
- Slogan Forest << Please add your slogans here, and find some new ones.
- Special:AllPages << links to an absolutely comprehensive list of all pages. To find pages listed by various criteria, explore "special pages" link to the left.
- sandbox A place to experiment with formatting. Some Html used here.
- Help:Contents A place to get help.
- Photos: Links to photos and to instructions on how to put them on this wiki.
- Proposal_Wizard To help you prepare your proposal. Feel free to copy onto another wiki page, copy it to a word processor, or ask for an .rtf version. Stephen Marshall
Discussion Pages
The General Assembly
The General Assembly (or G.A., or most simply, GA) is the largest and most comprehensive decision making body of Occupy Burlington.
Occupy Burlington fights for YOU!
We are here to help you and to work with you. If you can't or don't want to or don't know how to engage with our other processes, please ask for whatever help you need on the page Requests for Help or simply by emailing your request, suggestion or proposal to occupyburlingtonvt@gmail.com, and we will do our absolute best.
