[OSList] Occupy Report

[Chris Corrigan]

With police provocateurs I don't know.  I know such things happen...I have
been a part of groups where this has happened...in general, they are not
too hard to pick out and they have the same effect on a group as any other
cynic.  S opening a conversation about the dynamics of getting stuck in
impossibility thinking might be useful in at least isolating that cynicism
within the group.  For the life of me though i can't imagine why anyone
would welcome people to the core of an initiative that has as their purpose
the undermining of that initiative.  Its like electing libertarians to
government...:)

Chris

On Tuesday, May 8, 2012, Raffi Aftandelian wrote:

> Chris, Harrison, and all greetings!
>
> Thanks, Chris, for your thoughts re: a disrupter.
>
> Harrison, while I was worried about someone potentially disrupting the
> opening, the question had been about the planning meetings and someone
> disrupting them.
>
>  And what you suggested, Chris, made a lot of sense-- simply engaging in
> conversation.
>
> Often, we talk about OST being an approach for engaging the whole system,
> we talk of inviting everything and everyone. What does that mean in
> practice at the planning stage where there often is an aim to have the
> whole "system" represented? If there is a police provocateur who wants to
> attend, do we welcome him or her?
>
> I guess, Chris, your suggestion of engaging them in conversation makes
> sense...
>
>
> appreciatively,
> raffi
>
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