[OccupyComms] March Occupy National Conference Proposal

[Hudson, Carlus]

Sounds good. :)
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From: tina bakolitsa [tina.bakolitsa at gmail.com]
Sent: 17 March 2012 18:27
To: Hudson, Carlus
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Subject: Re: March Occupy National Conference Proposal

Hi Carlus, all,

There is another national conference in the process of being organised and set up by Occupy Southend. This should be announced shortly, i.e. after this weekend's GA.

The reason this was not announced earlier is first, because there was no wish to clash with the regional conference announced earlier this month (Occupy South West) and second, because there were a number of logistical issues that needed checking and clearing beforehand.

As far as I am aware, this conference is considered for sometime early-mid April (possibly more likely after Easter) but again, it depends on the general assembly's decision.

I'm cc'ing Neil from Occupy Southend for reference. Please address any further communication to him.

Best wishes,

Tina


On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Hudson, Carlus <ch451 at exeter.ac.uk<mailto:ch451 at exeter.ac.uk>> wrote:
Hey everyone, and solidarity from Occupy Exeter!

It doesn’t look like much in the way of a national conference for Occupy is being organised for March after the February one fell through. We’re in a position where we need to organise something in the next couple of weeks or we risk losing the momentum and huge progress we’ve made as a movement in developing ties with each other and better coordinating as Occupy across the UK.

I've talked to Symon from Occupy Birmingham, and we'd like to make a joint proposal for Birmingham to host a conference for UK Occupations on the weekend of the 30th March. They have the resources to provide for all the logistical needs of the conference like food and accommodation, and would be delighted to have us all conferencing here!

Naturally, if there is already a conference in the works at another UK Occupation, I've talked to Symon and Birmingham will step aside in that situation since it’s more important that we don’t degenerate into bickering over the relatively minor issue of where the conference should be, and when it’s so urgent that we get a conference going as soon as possible.

In terms of legitimacy and whether the term ’national conference’ accurately applies, if the Birmingham conference goes ahead it will not claim to represent or speak on behalf of any occupations who don’t have any of their members present. The occupations attending will be made clear in a press statement at the end of the conference.

Thoughts, everyone?   :)

Carlus
Occupy Exeter