[OccupyComms] Anyone up for a visit to Brighton?

Tue Jan 31 19:12:00 GMT 2012

Hi Jon,

Good to hear that some of you are still keen to carry on in some form! 

Thought I'd share with you the success story (so far) that has been the Occupy-inspired Bath People's Assembly. It's a democratic forum for all people of Bath to talk about the local, national and global issues and to find what we can do about them. We meet twice monthly and the meetings are open to everyone, we advertise on all of the local What's On guides and have regular features on the local radio station, as well as the occasional article in the local paper. We've even had local councillors attend, and occasionally invite guest speakers, such as one of the organisers of the local Bath currency "The Oliver" and a councillor from the Frome Independents Group, a local democracy group that now have the majority on Frome council. We currently have several projects in the planning stage, the big one at present being an event for all of the local groups (e.g. Occupy, Stop the War, Greenpeace, UK Uncut, Amnesty, resident's groups, local activist groups etc.) to have a free stall for a day and opportunities to speak to the public, followed by a big meeting where we can all discuss ways in which we can work together (e.g. local environment group may have a project, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth members could give advice and help out, and resident groups could chip in etc.). Our website is www.bathpeoplesassembly.org and the minutes of our meetings are on there (latest minutes coming soon). Occupy Bristol are now in the process of setting up a network of People's Assemblies and have attended our meetings to see how we do things. The meeting format is one all of the Bath Occupiers are familiar with (hand signals etc.) and it has caught on amongst the non-occupiers. 

Occupy Bath are very much still together and we have had several meetings since we left Queen Square, and are looking at launching the "Move your Money" campaign in Bath in the near future, after having found out that Bath Council bank with RBS. 

Of course, each camp is unique and, like the idea of camping in the first place, with all of the "Occupy Phase 2" projects going on at the moment it is hopefully only a matter of time before one or more of them catch on - so good with your future project(s) and keep us updated!

Solidarity,

Standing Stone 

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> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:48:00 +0000
> From: OccupyBrighton-Info <info at occupybrighton.co.uk>
> Cc: "occupylondon at groupspaces.com" <occupylondon at groupspaces.com>,
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> Hello all,
> 
> Sorry I've not been in contact for a while and have not managed to make 
> it to any of the national meet ups yet. Hopefully the next one.
> 
> Quick update from Brighton, Since loosing the camp not much has 
> happened, but a small core of us are planning to set up some monthly 
> public meeting for discussion, debate and talks about occupy.
> 
> We have secured a meeting place on the 17th Feb as the local Academy of 
> Creative Training has kindly said we can use their hall during half term.
> 
> One of the ideas we've had is to have a panel of occupiers, probably 4 
> would do, from around the country to talk about their experience, what 
> occupy means to them and answer questions fro the public.
> 
> So was wondering if there were any people out there interested in coming 
> down? As we have no camp at the moment we can't offer to put anyone up, 
> but we may be able to arrange somewhere for you to crash overnight, 
> failing that we would be finished in time to get a train back to London 
> or local south east areas. We have no funds to aid with travel from this 
> end at the moment.
> 
> Another item is guest speakers. We want to get in some people to talk 
> about occupy related subjects on a monthly basis and would love to hear 
> any recommendations anyone has.
> 
> I saw this recently and found it very insightful so I though I would 
> share it with you people too. It's Paddy Ashdown talking about how the 
> global power is shifting.
> http://blog.ted.com/2012/01/05/the-global-power-shift-paddy-ashdown-on-ted-com/
> 
> On a final note, I hear rumors of an occupy UK website in development. 
> Is this true? I have some good web skills and ideas if help is needed.
> 
> Hope you are all well
> 
> Jon from Brighton
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:45:00 +0000
> From: Outreach <outreach at occupynorwich.org>
> To: OccupyBrighton-Info <info at occupybrighton.co.uk>
> Cc: occupylondon at groupspaces.com, occupycomms at email-lists.org
> Subject: Re: [OccupyComms] Anyone up for a visit to Brighton?
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> Hi Jon and all!
> Yes, there is the Occupy UK and Ireland website that is intended as 
> info hub for the public and media:  http://occupyuk.info/   Get in 
> contact with Nic <nic at oh-ay.org> and Phil Grimes <phil at technopepper.com> 
> to get involved!
> Also, a OLSX set up a forum for UK and Ireland discussions: 
> http://www.occupyforum.org.uk/forumdisplay.php?16-UK-Occupations
> For the communication amongst groups there is the wiki 
> https://occupywiki.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page
> 
> One question to all, has anyone got the minutes to Sheffield? I can 
> only find the ones for Saturday on the wiki 
> https://occupywiki.org.uk/wiki/Sheffield/January_2012_Conference/Notes. 
> Maybe I overlooked the email, but if not I think it would be great if 
> they could be emailed to the mailing list after every conference. It is 
> difficult to keep up otherwise. Thanks!
> 
> Thanks for the link. I would also like to share one: 
> http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/131298-chomsky-to-occupy-move-to-the-next-stage/#.TvkwPwYd8JU.wordpress
> I think Chomsky hits the nail on its head.
> 
> All the best and keep up through the winter!
> Nessa
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> On 29.01.2012 12:48, OccupyBrighton-Info wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Sorry I've not been in contact for a while and have not managed to
> > make it to any of the national meet ups yet. Hopefully the next one.
> >
> > Quick update from Brighton, Since loosing the camp not much has
> > happened, but a small core of us are planning to set up some monthly
> > public meeting for discussion, debate and talks about occupy.
> >
> > We have secured a meeting place on the 17th Feb as the local Academy
> > of Creative Training has kindly said we can use their hall during 
> > half
> > term.
> >
> > One of the ideas we've had is to have a panel of occupiers, probably
> > 4 would do, from around the country to talk about their experience,
> > what occupy means to them and answer questions fro the public.
> >
> > So was wondering if there were any people out there interested in
> > coming down? As we have no camp at the moment we can't offer to put
> > anyone up, but we may be able to arrange somewhere for you to crash
> > overnight, failing that we would be finished in time to get a train
> > back to London or local south east areas. We have no funds to aid 
> > with
> > travel from this end at the moment.
> >
> > Another item is guest speakers. We want to get in some people to talk
> > about occupy related subjects on a monthly basis and would love to
> > hear any recommendations anyone has.
> >
> > I saw this recently and found it very insightful so I though I would
> > share it with you people too. It's Paddy Ashdown talking about how 
> > the
> > global power is shifting.
> > 
> > http://blog.ted.com/2012/01/05/the-global-power-shift-paddy-ashdown-on-ted-com/
> >
> > On a final note, I hear rumors of an occupy UK website in
> > development. Is this true? I have some good web skills and ideas if
> > help is needed.
> >
> > Hope you are all well
> >
> > Jon from Brighton
> >
> >
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