[OccupySheffield] [Occupy London] Re: [INT] Fwd: [Squares] MAYDAY! MAYDAY!

[Ragnhild Freng Dale]

+ one for making the MAYDAY callout a discussion topic on Saturday!

I do think that should be the main focus rather than the Democracy WG
statement, though they are both worth considering. from International
Outreach I would say the global statement would also be a natural
addition; perhaps as a point to feed into striking action and building
an alternative. And I'm sure other working groups (e.g. environment)
would feel the same. So - I do think the MAIN THING should be this
callout, and revisiting what we've already agreed that would feed into
it. The sooner we know what our take on it as a movement is, the
better - and we can bring it to Sheffield as well =)

Mark, is there another Democracy WG meeting before that time?

Ragnhild
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>
>
> Sounds good. Nothing is currently planned for Saturday. Perhaps we could
> plan to have a Democracy GA, with this as the discussion.
>
> Perhaps we could also revisit the Democracy WG initial statement, which I
> think was basically fine apart from:
>
> 1. Don't amend the initial statement, but issue a separate statement.
>
> 2. Don't "call" for people hold people's assemblies, but rather "encourage"
> people to hold assemblies (IMHO a rather odd distinction, which might not
> actually still be necessary).
>
> 3. The so-called Outreach group wanted to go first D15? or something (but
> they did that now so Democracy WG should not experience this impediment).
>
> The GA might then be:
>
> - consensus decision with amendments of the proposed initial statement about
> people's assemblies from the Democracy WG (amended based on extensive
> feedback from when it was blocked)
> - discussion about the call for a permanent strike
>
> How does that sound?
>
> We can modify but it would be good to start getting something in place for
> Sat.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> John.
>
>