• OSR Strategy Working Group Notes
    3-6-13
    Attending: Todd, Jackie, Paige, Carl, Adrienne

    PARTY After Next Saturday’s GENERAL ASSEMBLY, March 16th

    Noon – 3 pm General Assembly. Peace and Justice Center

    3:30 – 7 pm “Meet the Peeps Party”. Atlas Café. 300 S. A St., Santa Rosa.

    Gravity Hill will play. Political theater games. Food, dancing…[Read more]

  • Strategy Working Group
    2-27-13
    Meeting Notes

    Attending: Todd, Jackie & Adrienne

    We confirmed the time and place for our party to
    celebrate with the larger Occupy community.

    “Meet The Peeps”
    March 16 (after the March OSR G.A.)
    3-7 pm
    Atlas Cafe
    300 So A, Santa Rosa
    with the Gravity Hill band, food, interesting
    political games and more.

    This…[Read more]

  • Adrienne Lauby posted an update in the group Group logoStrategy Workgroup 3 months ago

    Strategy Working Group
    2-20-13

    Attending: Jackie, Todd, Adrienne
    Reports: SuperSpokes, Monthly GA

    1. Party, March 16, 4 pm (after the March OSR GA). Save the date. Dancing with Gravity Hill, simple food & drinks, games and fun on political themes. Open to Occupy groups, friends, family and progressives around Sonoma County. Place – To…[Read more]

  • Occupy Santa Rosa Strategy Working Group
    1-16-13

    Attending: Jackie, Todd, Adrienne (Judy will be coming every other week)

    1) Report on County-Wide Meeting last Monday. Good group. Lots of support for the CVS work by Sebastopol Occupy. No final decision about structure or name of the county-wide group, but people are enthusiastic that it…[Read more]

  • OSR Strategy Working Group
    Nov. 26, 2012
    Attending: Todd, Jackie, Adrienne, Pat, Peter, Judy, Neil, Adam

    Check in/Announcements: discussion of the Casa Construction action by SoColSol this weekend. Discussion of current Move to Amend/CANP activity.

    1) Discussion and planning for continuing some of the functions of OSR Spokes Council.

    A. …[Read more]

  • The usual Monday meeting has been cancelled this week, Nov 19, so we can take a nice week off. We will return on Nov. 26 at the Unitarian Church in downtown Santa Rosa.

  • Strategy Working Group Notes
    10-17-12

    Attending: Jackie, Neil, Emerald, Adrienne

    Announcements:
    Corporations are not People will not meet this Saturday due to size of the group. Various ideas in discussion on that.

    Labor actions at various Walmarts. Possible strike on Black Thursday.

    Oct 30, 4:30 P & J. Center. Big action re Casa…[Read more]

  • There will not be a Wed. nite strategy group meeting this week (it’s Halloween) but we encourage folks to hit the Spokes Council meeting at the Unitarian Church tonight at 7 pm (Oct 29) instead.

  • OSR Strategy Meeting
    Oct. 10, 2012

    Attending: Emerald, Neil, Adrienne, Jackie, Todd

    Announcements:
    Free School Book Group begins this week: Starhawk’s book on empowerment and group organization. Meetings at the Santa Rosa Mall.Deepening Democracy on Nov 4 1-6 pm at the UU with Bill Say.

    1. The Spokes Council is thinking of disbanding…[Read more]

  • Eight Stages of Successful Social Movements
    by Bill Moyer

    http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/moyermap.html

    The United States anti-nuclear energy movement was launched in the Spring of 1977, when 1,414 Clamshell Alliance activists occupied the Seabrook nuclear power site and spent the next 12 days in jail. During those two weeks, nuclear…[Read more]

    • Moyer says that in Stage Five, a stage of “battle fatigue” and even an “identity crisis of powerlessness,” activists should:
      “Adopt “empowerment” models of organization and leadership at both the national and local levels. The empowerment model is a third way that tries to maximize the positive and minimize the negatives of both the…[Read more]

  • Adrienne Lauby posted an update in the group Group logoStrategy Workgroup 8 months ago

    Occupy Santa Rosa Strategy Meeting
    Sept 26 2012

    Attending: Todd, Jackie, Dusty, Neil, Emerald, Adrienne

    CHECK IN
    Art Show, political, great. $5. for seniors and students. From Mexico. “Death and Taxes in Fasntasylandia” Through Nov 4 Sonoma County Museum.

    REPORTS Outreach to Working Groups
    –Action: Jackie heard from Carl that they might…[Read more]

  • Adrienne Lauby posted an update in the group Group logoStrategy Workgroup 8 months ago

    OSR Strategy Group
    9-19-12
    Attending: Dusty, Neil, Emerald, Adrienne, Todd

    ANNOUNCEMENTS:
    Free School book study: Starhawk’s book. Hoping to ask Starhawk will speak (in Jan?)
    Thursday, Oct 4: Free school, David Walls on a history of social change movements, Share Exchange, 7 pm
    Sunday, Nov 4, 1-6 Comumunity Wellness Working Group with Bill…[Read more]

  • STRATEGY MEETING
    8-29-12

    Attending: Adrienne Lauby, Jackie Brittain, Neil Dunaetz, Emerald Matra, Dusty Wroten

    REPORTS
    So Co Solidarity had their first success – raised wages for workers at a farm. Also got better severance for one worker. Hooray!

    The Sunday Orientation went well. 14-15? new people.

    STRATEGY CONTACT NUMBER
    Emerald…[Read more]

  • Strategy Working Group
    8-15-12
    Attending: Todd, Dusty, Adrienne, Neil, Emerald

    TOPICS
    1. Monday Strategy Event, Aug 20, 7 pm
    2. Report Back- outreach to working groups;
    3. Organizing Drive – Orientation;
    4. Spokes Report

    Check in: Dusty: recommends “Start Page” as a browser window. More secure. Does everything as well as Google.

    1. Monday…[Read more]

  • Neil Dunaetz posted an update in the group Group logoStrategy Workgroup 9 months, 1 week ago

    “Big Strategy” discussion. Monday August 20, 7pm-9pm, Unitarian Universalist church, 547 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa.

    Strategy Working Group invites all of OSR to a discussion of “Big Strategy” Monday August 20 7pm-9pm at Unitarian Universalist church, 547 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa.

    The evening will start with a short Spoke Council…[Read more]

  • Strategy Working Group
    Aug 8, 2012

    Attending: Jackie, Todd, Neil, Emerald, Dusty, Adrienne

    Todd made a presentation on his Mini-Protest Method & gave us a two-page handout. A mini-protest needs about 12 people spread over 3 corners with a message spread out along the corners, similar to old Burma Shave roadside campaign. His group is the…[Read more]

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