Next Steps for Occupy Salem: Forum and Focus Groups
Salem Public Library 7 pm – 9 pm
December 7, 2011
Attended by approximately 100 concerned citizens
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Topic: Money does not equal speech (Corporate Personhood—Move to Amend.org)
Ideas:
· Salem Resolution (city) collect signatures to convince Salem City Council to place Move to Amend’s amendment on the May 2012 ballot
· Petition for Salem City Council see Sandy for sign-up
Next Step: Occupy the Courts January 20th in Portland: mpmovetoamend@gmail.com
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Topic: Don’t Waste Food
Ideas:
· Gleaning Movement
· Talk to your neighbors; start a “left-overs” trading posse-
· SODEXO can help. Talk with their P.R. Dept. to get wasted food into hungry mouths
· Restaurants and Food Store give-aways
Next Step: “Dead & Dying” Food Alerts: Call each other! (no date listed)
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Topic: Accurate and current news (communications)
Ideas:
· SJ/Media relations
· Website, Forum, FB page, Mailing List
· Occupy Radio? Nyla
· KMUZ radio, CCTV
· “Assignment Editor”- Press releases, Op Ed etc
· Art Show in businesses
· Meeting Facilitation Event
· Work with GA and spokes council—inter-committee communication
· Good Dataà writers, spokes council, GA-“institutional memory”
Next Step: Meeting, Event Facilitation Documentation and Publishing (no date listed)
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Topic: Art and Occupy
Ideas:
· Library – gallery space, poetry readings West Salem drum circle 99%
· Document – photography, video
· Communicate – inclusiveness music, Marching Bands, stereotypes, have a presence
· Community – Dances of Universal Peace, music
· Church Youth Group
· Bush Art Showing, Clockworks, Face of Salem
· Boys and Girls Club
· {give} cameras to (non) photographers: kids, disenfranchised, photo voice
· Find gallery space and reach out to artists who want to show
Next Step: beth.malouf@comcast.net 1:00 Friday 12/9 at the Ike Box
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Topic: The Earth Charter
Ideas:
· Summarize the EC to fit on one page – Each person take a shot at it and combine on Google docs. (get this done by 12/21)
· Attach every Occupy program to the EC
· Translate EC into the mission statement of OSO
· Get OSO to adopt the EC
· Then get it published in the Salem Weekly
· Ask businesses to post the EC in their windows
· Learn more about the org. structure of the EC in the US
· Who else has adopted the EC?
· Get orgs and businesses to endorse EC
· Find ways to get other Occupy groups to look at the EC
· On 12/21 look at list to possible business and organizations
o Life Source
o AJ’s Auto Repair
o Trader Joe’s
o Clockworks
o S-J
o Salem Keizer Schools
o WU
o Crystal Power and Light
o Indigo Wellness
o Straub Center
o CCC
o Chamber of Commerce
o City of Salem
o YMCA
o U.U. Church
o First Congregationalist Church
o First Methodist Church
o First Presbyterian Church
Next Step: Meet again 12/21 at 6:30 pm in the Oregon Peace Works office
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Topic: Shop Local (Long Range Planning)
Ideas:
· “Scratch the surface”
· T-shirts—hats—marketing
· Meaningful change NOW in the lives and choices of individuals
· Money/investment strategy
· “putting my biomass where people don’t want it.”
· “Home warrior (reading, researching, writing)
· “The Power to F**king refuse!”
· Connect Occupy with Patriotism, USA and loyalty
· Debt{is the}new slavery
· GA each Tuesday 7 pm at Ike’s
Next Step: Long Range meets Tuesday Dec 13th at 1:00 pm at Ike Box
Topic: Stop Foreclosures
Ideas:
· How to get ahead of it?
· Contact national group that works on this for info (stopforeclosurenow)
· Get a space on OSO website about our interest in action on this issue (contact oso web person) – Ian (Kirk)
· Educate ourselves of FC process (All)
· Meet as a group again?
· Check with city advocate? (Nancy)
Next Step: (no date listed)
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Topic: Faith Community (MLK solidarity)
Ideas:
· Networking – among religious leaders
· Planning
· Stay on Focus: Economic Justice
Next Step: Follow-up email. Final step MLK Day Service
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Topic: Occupy Oregon (Legislation)
Ideas:
· Save the Planet
· State Lever Prohibitions Per Corporate Personhood
· State Policy based on Beyond War to lower dollars to war
· Economic Reforms
· Protect children from sex abuse
· Expand drug education Tx
· Raise Mandatory Report Standards
Next Step: Fridays – Brown Bag – 18 – State Library
Feb. 1 – State Capitol Meeting
Feb. 1 – 30 Tent Camp
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Topic: Photos in Store Windows
Ideas:
· (Combined with Art and Occupy group)
Next Step: (see Art and Occupy notes)
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Topic: Occupy and Politics
Ideas:
· Regulated Capitalism
· Human needs and human happiness over profit
· Non-ideological legislative action
· State Bank/move your money
· Can we support a political party or candidate (endorse candidates?)
· Create candidates out of Occupy
· Legislative report cards
· Push our agenda at public forums with candidates
· Learn more about how political process works and how it has changed
· Do an “Idiot’s Guide to How the System Works.”
· Training on how the system works
· Radical politics and radical economics: do and analysis
· Grasp economic reality
· Regulate the banks—make this a priority issue
· February Legislative session—be there!
· Organize Town Halls on occupy and local issues
· Target Kurt Schrader for political pressure
· Re-instate the Glass-Steigle Act
· Consistently anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist
· Constant contact with legislators
· Take money out of politics
· Build our committee – meet again – build a program
Next Step: {Meet} 12/17 at 10 am at Clockworks
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Topic: Spirituality and Occupy
Ideas:
· Collect completed questionnaires on spirituality from Oregonians
· Identify what spiritual principles are expressed in the Occupy movement
Next Step: (no date listed)
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Topic: AIM march on DC: Occupy and Human Rights
Ideas:
· Joined Occupy and Politics group
Next Step: (nothing recorded on chart) May date for DC march and also Alcatraz was mentioned orally.
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