Forum Post: Delegation/Communications Working Group
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 7, 2011, 12:36 p.m. EST by Borgbox
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from Asheville, NC
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I would like to propose a grassroots Delegation working group among the OWS movement and those in solidarity. Online and physical delegations ought to be exchanged in order to add coherence to the Revolution and aid in stemming infiltration from divisive agents.
It would be a new, separate working group with delegations voted in GA. It would be responsible for coordination of activities between Occupy events, keeping focus among events, and passing concerns from one group in Solidarity to another. It would attend GA in livefeed or person for their selected cities/groups and contact central OWA persons regarding overall consensus with the OWA movement, and relay any local concerns regarding a global movement.
Good Idea? Bad Idea? Repost if in agreement please! Peace, love, unity, respect!
I don't know if this is the right place for a suggestion about "organizing," so please, monitors, place it under its own heading if you think it helps.
There must be 300,000 or more college students within a one hour public transit ride to the OWS site. (And esp. in other major urban areas like DC and Boston.) We need to get numbers up, and broaden our "kids" educational outlook. So here' the idea:
Send an organizer to likely campuses for an advertised rally; explain that you would like each student there to "count-off," 1-7, 1=Monday, 2= Tuesday, and so on...that's their day to show up, help out and learn - a true civic and political economy education.
And that way, they don't have to miss out on their expensive school formalities - they can find a substitute very easily for important classes, tests...mtgs. And OWS builds its numbers and now will have a stream of participants going back to campuses to spread the word; on big event rally days, everyone can attend. This basic format is transferable to other settings besides schools, of course. It is a method to gain support by building a bridge to those who cannot give their total life to the growing cause, but a day a week...
Prisoners451: I really like your Idea and it could absolutely work in tandem with mine. Delegations could be sent out to universities to help organize participation from students as well as from one Occupied city to another. The delegations among groups in solidarity would act more as a communications hub among them and the delegations to universities or into selected urban areas could act as recruitment. We would have to have their functions transparent to keep our message from being hijacked.
Thanks Borgbox; trying to keep it simple and to keep the numbers growing from the groups that stand so much to lose by current arrangements. How do we get this and your suggestion bumped to the "recent suggestions" column which appears to the right? Are there online monitors picking out topics for highlighting or do we send it by Email to the "general" address?
Borgbox: my comment below might work better with your recommendation than in the General Assembly - but in either case it will have to start there.