General Assembly #4, July 22, 2006, 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m
Church of the Ascension, 107th Street btw Amsterdam Av and Bdwy Manhattan
Participants: Between 25 and 35
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MAJOR DECISIONS:
- emergency response network enacted
- annotated structural document enacted
- anarchist bookfair / forum proposal agreed
- muste room share
- propaganda material consensed upon
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NOTES:
[Notes by Dan V, edited by moose]
This GA was broken into two parts, first an open dicsussion, then the business section.
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INTROS (what's your favorite ice cream, what's your defense mechanism?):
1) Informal talk / Open discussion.
Ideas:
A- 1st annual NYC Anarchist Bookfair
B- performance activities working group
C- informal talk about recent events minutemen actions lebanon a for anarchy (dvd video release related actions)
D- nymaa reflections
* long discussion about purpose of this section and how to proceed with listed topics, had to put off discussion because of time
2) GA
A) intro to consensus process
* pass the hat
B) reportbacks
1) nuts & bolts (combined with comms) facilitation trainings GA grievances meeting to make GAs more welcoming & less formal (hence 1st part of meeting) generate proposals emergency response network muste office city getting in touch group theoretical annotated structural document social events $420 from last GA, $200 to tech working group finances points of unity discussion
2) global comms gave supplies and donations to six nations infoshare movie kanhesatake (movie about OKA crisis) to be announced soon
* david's going to be in japan
3) locals
a) bronx - still trying to get one going
b) brooklyn - attempting to set up social space (talk to mattew) meetings more sporadic (summer) librarything.com lending library
c) north brooklyn - talk to brandon
d) mahattan - hasn't met
e) north jersey -
?
4) working groups
a) a for anarchy dvd release for v for vendetta stickers? 'special' dvd
b) anti-war - x
c) education - x
d) labor -
regular attendance restaurant organizing, finally have loudspeaker permit
thursdays - 7-8 pm - w65th & Park Daniels fridays - 6pm 64th & Broadway Theorelos
e) propoganda - jay
translations (talk to mattew if you can) flyers (moose & paulette) went to bookfairs poster project (david g) involving heads of state who have talked shit about anarchists anarchism for dummies booklet (moose & wayne p) anarchy 101 street campaign
to subscribe to list see Jay
f) no borders - borders social forum in october
g) queer -
marched in pride parade radicalhomosexualagenda.com (or org?) - has mailing list discussion if queer community should be demonstrating against iran
h) rock dove - autumn
website up www.rockdovecollective.org (net,com)
health service providers network (forum & support group, resource for people needing health services) august reception to generate interest working privacy of information
facilitation trainings
film about consensus
anarchist health fair
health hotline for anarchists
rockdovecollective@riseup.net
i) prom comittee - x
j) tech - nymaa.org -.net,xinfo,.com
website tech members moderating nymaa members can login and post things
C) Presentation
metro communicator (see flyer)
communicate with groups around nyc to link common interests/build communitiy/find what people need/active listening
structural changes
pre existing organizations
diplomatic function?
long discussion about quorum
project planning group
long term plans/goals
comments against having formal working group just to come up with ideas
D) Presentation
National Grassroots Immigrant Strategy Conference
nation imm sol network
conference american university (see flyer)
counter movement towards centralization
Jesse White - 541 399 2294 harmonicicjustice@yahoo.com
* support autonomy & decentralization
E) Proposal
Emergency response network (in nymaa GA packet)
voice messaging service
criteria for voting nymaa members emergency defined as something needing less than 48h response time things that can be promoted through regular channels costs? text message? textmob? what level of participation by a recipient
levels of emergencies
* text mob & voice to be set up, protocols later
F) Proposal
make annotated strucural document
explains context and reasons for structural document
comments about structural document can be made on website
moose can wiki structural document and people can add comments
useful to see why document is what it is
amendment - consense to annotations at next GA comments can be made on website, decided on to be part of structural document or not
G) Proposal
bookfair/forum
nymaa initiates citywide bookfair/forum
funds?
finding space?
existing groups interested already?
strategy/functional based/social movements based?
social aspects?
H) Proposal
office space
room at muste building (copy from notes)
shared with workers solidarity all & libertarian book club
monthly fee, how does that work through nymaa bank/paypal/donations
phone-who is responsible for phone calls
mailing address :)
phone :)
access to rooms for meetings
I) Proposal
direct action training series
help onto look for space & conduct trainings tools
J) Proposal
propoganda james showed 5 things from anarchism 101 campaign, everyone liked them
anarchism for dummies
need text for menu
K) Praxis Reportback
June meeting / dialogue after rnc about natl anti auth network endorsing pga hallmarks
/action/reflection/ communication/mutual aid
conference chaotic, second day it was agreed to form a wiki and plan regional consultas
loosly modeled around past networks, not action specific
event in nyc?
sign up list - brandon
L) announcements
lib book club - forum august 23rd event
next weekend art auction for daniel mcgowan - visualresistance.org
wednesday big minutemen protest at ground zero, noon
free events - http://freegan.info/
M) NYMAA reflections
- summer sucks for meetings
- recruitment meetup.com party crashing
- lots of concerns raised after last meeting addressed at this GA, people resistant restructuring and not willing to try to meeting behavior & communicating need to be addressed come to nuts & bolts meetings to plan formats
- no time to talk about current events
- very few women, need to proactively address
- fluid transition into general consensus model when quorum not reached
- good facilitation on short notice
- too much discussion time for working group formation
- progress made at this meeting
