[OSList] SPAM LOW protestors and process people on Wall Street

[Tenneson Woolf]

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On Sep 29, 2011, at 7:09 AM, Sandy Heierbacher wrote:

> 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...
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> 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 6http://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://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.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://thiscantbehappening.net/node/785

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