<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body>All the info and history on the Democracy WG / Statement thus far is at http://occupylondon.info/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=112 if anyone wants to take any of this forward for/on Saturday in London, as suggested by John, or perhaps elsewhere in the country ! 'Permanent strike' referred to in John's mail below links to the Mayday international call out circulated earlier by myself, Anna and others ;) <div>Sent from phone</div><hr/><div><b>From: </b> John Bywater <john.bywater@appropriatesoftware.net>
</div><div><b>Date: </b>Sun, 1 Jan 2012 19:26:42 +0000</div><div><b>To: </b><ragnhildfd@gmail.com></div><div><b>Cc: </b><LondonInternationalCommission@groupspaces.com>; <liz.beech@virgin.net>; <elf@weirdigans.co.uk>; J L<hemipemi@hotmail.com>; <olsx.indymedia@gmail.com>; <marknbarrett@googlemail.com>; <occupylondon@groupspaces.com>; <occupysheffield@email-lists.org></div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Occupy London] Re: [INT] Fwd: [Squares] MAYDAY! MAYDAY!</div><div><br/></div><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 December 2011 21:56, Ragnhild Freng Dale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ragnhildfd@gmail.com">ragnhildfd@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Woo revolution =) but things need to be in place etc in terms of structure before it happens. Can we do a meet/ga/working group about this ASAP? Like - 7th of January (saturday?)<div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>
<div><br></div><div>Sounds good. Nothing is currently planned for Saturday. Perhaps we could plan to have a Democracy GA, with this as the discussion.</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps we could also revisit the Democracy WG initial statement, which I think was basically fine apart from:</div>
<div><br></div><div>1. Don't amend the initial statement, but issue a separate statement.</div><div><br></div><div>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).</div>
<div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div><div>The GA might then be:</div><div>
<br></div><div>- 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)</div><div>- discussion about the call for a permanent strike</div>
<div><br></div><div>How does that sound?</div><div><br></div><div>We can modify but it would be good to start getting something in place for Sat.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>John.</div><div>
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