Agenda:
- Catch-up
- Next actions
- Status of the G.A. How to energize it
Minutes:
- Catch-up
o Talk on the new C.H. ordinance restricting time for congregating in public spaces. Approved 8-1
§ Approve permit 2 days in advance, without permit can only use for 3 hours
§ Events 7 am – 2 am
§ Downtown partnership board of directors passed resolution in favor of such an ordinance
§ Can only be within certain distance to post office entrance
§ Narrative of what this is
- Having lost ground after having gained in original occupation
- Town responds to 2 businesses this in context of what larger occupy movement represents, what does this mean? Question of clarity for community at large in having this be o.k.
o Question of occupation of Yates and CVS creating negative perception of occupy chapel hill and carrboro
§ Question of having our press release post Carrboro Commune action to be sent to paper as letter to the editor
o Question about CVS project approval
§ Legislative and judicial stages
§ Upcoming consideration by Carrboro Board of Aldermen
§ Ways in which occupy chapel hill and Occupy everything are seen as the same and problem of what it means for Occupy Chapel Hill to be against CVS in that context.
o How to move on? Power of how to read and tell stories. Have more letters to the editor.
- Next actions
o Reaction to C.H. ordinance
§ A new encampment, maybe not this one again as so much pre
o Report on Climate Change Teach-in
§ Agenda/summary:
- Report on climate change
- Local conditions
- Local action steps
o Made good contacts
o RAN planning big action on April 9th against Bank of America (possibly)
o Upcoming legislative actions
§ Annual automatic rate hikes
§ Fracking
§ Solar bills
o Visioning being planned
- Status of the G.A. How to energize it
o why more people not coming
§ Dispersed, rain, people are out of town
§ Occupy Yates and CVS perception by the larger community
§ Not diverse enough
- Lack of listening to those who we have invited (i.e. Reverend Campbell and others)
§ G.A. being too beurocratic, how to make it less boring
§ Better to allocate time, make things shorter allot time on each subject
- Example of org that was militant with time.
o Proposal for facilitation group to take on time question
§ Skillshare session to be done
o Visioning sessions one of the best things we did
o Need to have more fun.
§ Play pool at Zogs
§ Jill play music
o Meet once a week
o Alternative spaces
§ Have list of alternative spaces
o Have G.A. happen in conjunction with direct actions.
- Announcements
o 11 am town hall legislative building auditorium. Speak out about bringing war dollars home
o Event against prisons in Durham on Monday
o Sacrificial Poets event at Vimalas today at 6 p.m.
o Yarn Bombing in Carrboro
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