[OSList] [aoh] protestors and process people on Wall Street

Sat Oct 1 10:32:41 PDT 2011

OccupyBoston started last night with about 1000 people in the street. This
has legs....

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Juan Lopez <amistadasc at aol.com> wrote:

> I look forward to the harvest -
>
> juan t. Lopez
>
> On Sep 30, 2011, at 8:15 PM, Chris Corrigan <chris at chriscorrigan.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Sandy...
>
> As it turns out we were doing an Art of Hosting in New York this week and
> several of us went down to Liberty Park to be with the protesters and to
> observe their process.  I was there two nights in a row watching the General
> Assembly deliberate and also watching people call various meetings to
> organize work.  The people there are living very much in a constant and
> ongoing oral Open Space, even though they are not using that name.
>
> On wednesday some of our workshop participants went on a learning journey
> to the occupation and a harvest will be forthcoming.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
> On Wednesday, September 28, 2011, Sandy Heierbacher < <sandy at thataway.org>
> sandy at thataway.org> wrote:
> > Hi, Open Space and Art of Hosting friends!
> >
> > I wanted to send a quick message out to both the OSlist and the AoH list
> to see if any process experts in these communities are working with the
> Occupy Wall Street folks who are doing direct action in NYC right now.
> >
> > We had a thread on the NCDD Discussion list today (I'm the director of
> the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation, if you've not heard of
> NCDD) about the timely opportunity to provide real assistance and advice
> with process to these activists.  Additional occupations (as they're being
> called) are being planned for DC, Boston, and other locations I believe --
> and I wanted to check in with the Open Space and AoH communities to see if
> process folks were already involved (if so, let's talk about how NCDD
> members might be able to help you out, and stay informed about what you're
> doing).
> >
> > The Occupy Wall Street folks are an intentionally leader-less,
> self-organized group.  Open Space and Art of Hosting-style processes seem
> like the best fit for helping them stay that way, continue to give all
> protestors a voice and to move more quickly to jointly-identified outcomes.
> >
> > For those of you who may not be too familiar with what's going on in NYC
> right now, here's an interesting part of the listserv thread I mentioned
> (this segment is written by Tom Atlee):
> >
> > NCDDers in NYC might find the occupier community (they call themselves
> "Occupy Wall Street") a challenging, exciting context to work in.  Process
> is being evolved on the spot.  The occupiers were using a traditional
> consensus process, but the police forbade microphones.  So they developed a
> fascinating "human microphone" system where the speaker says a few words and
> the crowd repeats what was said (which allows those in the back to hear).
> (You can watch all this on streaming videos!)  But that increases the
> already extensive time needed for consensus (checking for concerns, etc.),
> so the police have started issuing demands that must be met within 5-15
> minutes, which the crowd can't respond to fast enough without formal
> leaders, which they don't want.  The evolutionary pressures to develop new
> forms are intense.  What comes out of that could be very good, very bad, or
> something else...
> >
> > If an NCDDer joined them and created a self-organized "Talk to the
> Others" working group, something might happen along the lines you're
> thinking, Stephanie.  But there's no one in charge to talk to about getting
> other protesters to join in Activity X.  It is a self-organized system, for
> better and/or worse.
> >
> > If you/we want to do something more planned, best to start now planning
> for the parallel occupation of Washington DC by hundreds/thousands of
> progressive protesters that is about to hit the city on Oct 6
> <http://october2011.org>http://october2011.org.
> >
> > For info on Occupy Wall Street, here's some fascinating links:
> >
> <http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/7468-occupy-wall-street-take-the-bull-by-the-horns>
> http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/7468-occupy-wall-street-take-the-bull-by-the-horns
> >
> <http://www.readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/64-64/7564-the-whole-world-is-watching-nonviolence-at-liberty-plaza>
> http://www.readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/64-64/7564-the-whole-world-is-watching-nonviolence-at-liberty-plaza
> >
> <http://www.truth-out.org/occupywallstreet-more-hashtag-its-revolution-formation/1316784846>
> http://www.truth-out.org/occupywallstreet-more-hashtag-its-revolution-formation/1316784846
> >
> <http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/chris-hedges-occupy-wall-street-is-where-the-hope-of-america-lies/>
> http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/chris-hedges-occupy-wall-street-is-where-the-hope-of-america-lies/
> >
> <http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2011/09/20/police-occupy-wall-street-9-20-2011/>
> http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2011/09/20/police-occupy-wall-street-9-20-2011/
> > <http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/785>
> http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/785
> >
> > Best,
> > Sandy
> >
> > Sandy Heierbacher
> > Director, National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD)
> > email:   <sandy at thataway.org>sandy at thataway.org (switching to
> <sandy at ncdd.org>sandy at ncdd.org)
> > website:   <http://www.ncdd.org>www.ncdd.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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