Ng2Kzoo News 5-13-13

The NGWG2013 encourages you to get involved in NatGat2 planning. Lots of plans underway. Help plan the gathering in Kalamazoo or a solidarity event locally to coincide with  the convergences, or invite stops along the Summer Tour of change, as we build from local actions to regional, national and global convergence.

Ways to help:
Spread the word among your networks local and global!

Endorse the Occupy National Gathering 2013 

2013 Proposal of Endorsement

We need immediate tech help! Website, WordPress.
Join working groups for Media, Admin, Outreach, Support, Facilitators, Translators, and Economic, Environmental, End War,  Media and Global Convergences.

Ways to Join In:
Register for NatGat2 Planning Call @ 8 PM ET Wednesdays

Subscribe to email lists  for Planning, Convergences, Summer Tour, Outreach, Support, Media, Discussion!

Join the Global conversation:

Via22 monthly mumble meetings

GlobalSkillXChange mumble meetings: Tuesdays @ 2PM ET, 7 PM UK

GlobalSquare (also known as Occupy the WSF initiative) mumble meetings. Next meeting 16 May 2 PM ET, 6PM GMT, 7PM UK.

News or Contact:
Website
occupynationalgathering.net

InterOccupy Hub
http://interoccupy.net/natgat2

Social Media
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OccupyNationalGathering
Facebook Planning Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/206417166145796/?fref=ts
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ng2Kzoo
RebelMouse: https://www.rebelmouse.com/ONG/

This Week’s Occupy National Gathering 2013 Calls and Global Meetings

The Occupy National Gathering 2013 had it’s launch call last Wed., March 20 and was well attended. We have over 30 people on our InterOccupy Maestro Call and 6 people in our new mumble room. (occupycoordintion.com, Natgat2). We had people from Spain, Montreal, Nova Scotia as well as various states in the mumble room.

David Cobb presented on the call and will be bottomlining the Corporate Personhood portion of the Convergence on Economic Injustice. Besides our five convergence areas, we are also focusing on Global Conversation and Solidarity and the Summer Tour, which will be a moving concert, teach-ins, community gatherings and conversations.

On Friday, March 22, we joined the Via22 international mumble meeting, where we presented about NatGat and asked those present to join us in continuing the global conversation, and build up to NatGat2. All present agreed to Plant a Seed on Earth Day to symbolize real local growth and the growing global community. The attendees will take the proposal back to their assemblies to discuss further evetns and actions.

On Sunday, a planning group member attended the World Human Tide global mumble meeting which was held in French and Spanish, and had over 30 people in attendance from Europe, Mexico and South America. With help from an online translate program, the lone American was able to copy and paste the written texts and keep up with the basic conversation. A member from Spain was kind enough to translate to English when an important issue or vote was up. The World Human Tide is an emerging group, much like Via 22 and NatGat2, interested in supporting local actions and discussing furthering the global implications of all our struggles, and continuing the global conversation and solidarity for each other.

You can read more about these meetings in the following pads:

http://piratepad.net/NatGat2Kzoo
3-20-13

http://piratepad.net/VIA22Mar

VIA22Mars

Collaborative agenda

1 National Gathering in Kalamazoo (USA) (20 minute presentation)
2 WSF Tunis
3 Earth Day
4 Global May

Please help promoting the #Via22 at the WSF event https://www.facebook.com/events/384405945000309/

Participants

François Genest, Québec (Canada) francois.genest@gmail.com
Jackie Splain, near Buffalo, NY jsplain@interoccupy.net
Carminda, Montreal-QC via22global@gmail.com
Nicole Lynne, Holland, MI, USA nicki8586@gmail.com
Alex Kanyi, Nairobi, Kenya clikanyi@yahoo.com
@netdruide : Daniel Pallier, Brest, France via22websitetech@gmail.com
Ternura from Spain ternuros@gmail.com
Dennis Mansell (dennmans) from Holland dennmans@gmail.com
Mar Manzaneque (15M) Barcelone (Catalonia) Spain mar@economiayrecursos.es (www.poder-constituent.org, http://cridadesobediencia.cat)

Pat
Chris Whamhoff, Kalamazoo, MI USA whammy737@gmail.com
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Notes =

Attending the meeting are Carminda, François, Jackie, Nicole, Patrick, Ternura, Alex, Chris, Daniel, Dennis, Mar

Jackie presents the NatGat of last year. Visioning documents available from the 290 people there. This year Kalamazoo is a good place to converge. Biggest inland oil spill in America. Very aware of the environment. Human powered bycicle generators, teach how to do that. Big homeless problem for a small town. City mean to homeless people.

5 basic ideas to concentrate on : ENVIRONMENT, drop fossil fuels, how environmental problems connect internationaly. Have conversations locally and expand them. ECONOMICS, corporate personhood : in America you can spend whatever you want for elections. ANTI-WAR coalitions, peace groups, supporting FREE MEDIA and better ways to connect. A new platform in the works, a new great way for us to connect. KALAMAZOO

In Spain, similar problems with fracking, no need to emphasize the choice of Kalamazoo within the USA at the international level for outreach

Nicole (bottom lining environmental aspect). please email me to organize, would love to work with you! nicki8586@gmail.com

Proposal in solidarity with VIA22 : Earth Day – Plant something day (a real plant, and the seed of conversation)
NatGat would like to participate also to Global May

http://occupynationalgathering.net/global-conversation

Tour of the group Unfuck the world (USA), pot-lucks, teach-ins, hopefully people will decide to meet in Kalamazoo. Similar initiative in Spain starting May 1st.

InterOccupy is supporting the National Gathering 2013. http://interoccupy.net/natgat2/2013/03/keep-up-with-natgat2013-organizing-efforts-with-e-mail-lists/ Subscribe here: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/ng-2013-global-conv

Nicole : Environment aspect : solidarity with tar sand struggles

No prerequisites to participate in the NatGat process
New visioning process to participate online, it’s still in the conceptual phase
Nat Gat : August 21-25.
Proposal to make it a 24 hour event on the 22nd of August, so that Australia can participate

Last year, it was only Occupy. Now a year later, it opens up to other efforts. Talked about calling it International Occupy. Open to input and suggestions on that.
In France, they call themselves Real Democracy. It’s very specific to the people to whom you adress the message. Maybe National in each country and then connect internationally.

Car : VIA22 had the same aim at the beginning. Open to other movements, a fresh start. Feel free to use VIA22 name for the international communication. (Proposal)
Alex : as long as goals are intertwined, it’s okay

Daniel introduces himself.

Use Via22 name for international communication, to say that natgat is a US initiative,one of the initiatives coming together in the process and communication space for via22 – bring this to the natgat planning group! (via22 is also “a learning process”, not something we can do in a day or a couple days and everyone is happy, it’s an ongoing process) Via22 will support the global dialog, but don’t need to change natgat name to via22, would kill efforts especially after August.

Ternura: Not change NatGat2 name for VIA22. After August, VIA22 will still be on, it is never over. Promote the global dialogue the same way that we promote VIA22. Happy that NatGat will turn into a process.

WSF –
Carminda will let us know about the free spaces in Tunis
Ternura – different movements meet in tunis – want to show a new way that movements and individuals are connecting. (pad just disconnected for me)
for a lot of people it is impossible to connect to these types of platforms http://peoplesassemblies.org/panforum like we have on mumble, skype, etc.
Alex – it is really a challenge for other people and organziations that want to connect
connecting here has been a hassle – thanks, – in the WSF if people could be educated on how to connect globally – if you have know-how and time to teach other orgazniations to do this it would be nice
is ternura going to be in Tunis? T – will be more effective on this end – she will be dialing between tunis and europe
Car – Via22 will be bringing – activist researchers are thinking critically about all this – we will be proposing 4 spaces.
1 – encourage dialogue between ppl in diff social movement and to have an opening to come and meet – there is a gap between generations, old left, and new. participarory methodology – open form and world ___ – will be breaking down into small groups to have conversationa about 3 main goals.
2networking, dialogue
not really oproposing Via22 as the thing to do, but as a platform
3.convergence after the meeting in Tunis – all open for participation – will be using mumble and skype and livestream
4.creative part – sometimes speaking is not best way to express selves
T_indignadx: all the info to follow and connect to our comrades in Tunis http://titanpad.com/GlobalSquaresinTunisinfo
Francois – intends to be online on the 27th – do you have any information about that – ]
car – acutally noone really knows how it will be
you can join through mumble and actuqally will have mumble at some tables so you can participate
Dennis – Amsterdam – been keeping an eye on the WSF and your visit to Tunisia – I saw that Orsan had sent around an email
Carminda will post about livestream, look on the site for this info – today or tmrw
www.via22.org
Alex – will there be a participation in a march in Tunis
Car – there will be a march on the 26th; also a march at the ending of the forum, but that is more focused on supporting Palestine.
T – any secial requests for the social forum in Tunis; bring souvenirs int he form of networks!
especially from the middle east and Africa, Asia
Pat – will try to be there ….
Carmind to Pat – talked about the need for networking there – can you tell more about tht
Pat – many coming to the forum are already involved with networks – people like to paricupate globally but not all have same energy, capibilities – if there can be a map of everyone’s interest (lit, food, energy) – could see on the map where you want to participate
there is a lot of ways and ends to do what we like to make civil change – the object of the forum is to connect people – if we can do something online or there – to be as visible as possible – someone did this before, made a big map attched between two trees – it was super big (2.5×5 metres long) was beautiful (important when we do things) – a place to write names and subjects (communcation, global vision, empowerment, etc.), cord

a measure problem about how people write – with a pen – need to send out emails to each of them to be sure you them right – if people can enter on a laptop, it would be better
create a simple form for people to fill in online

Connect with Dave and Larry from IO – presenting about itnernational communications platform, InterOccupy tools, process, methodology

Francois – there is a meeting on Sunday to test the connection with Tunis
Pat – it is not possible to test ahead – it may be very busy during Tunis; maybe we buy a sim card or something with internet possiblities and try to conenct a laptop with the mobile phone – think a SIM card may be enought to connect to mumble. It will be so sad if we have the connection and it is bad, bad sound, etc.

Francois – will be a test for the four mumble rooms we use use in Tunis
Sunday between 8PM and 10PM Tunis time – calculate what it is in your area

Car – will try to be there – we have a meeting with the people going from Quebec
Pat – anything prepared for taking video and pictures of the workshop
Car – has a small camera – we hope for more
Pat – maybe we can try to produce some bottom, like a picture you can pin with Via22 on it – a badge – then it is a souvenir and collect later. spreading the name of via22.
contact ___ from occupy – he was talking about doing this, getting a machine
Car – we are leaving tomorrow afternoon.

Earth Day
touched this point when we were speaking about Kalamazoo – the beginning of the global conversation – like the idea of planting a seed
Francois – what is happening in Montreal – a big assembly last year this year on the 21st Ternura -putting together assemblies Greenpeace, other big groups
the town I ive in, fracking threat this year – we have a platform that coordinates a lot of the groups, grassroots, ngos – the subject here is fracking and there are many actions – full of actions the whole weekend. many ngos don’t see themselves participating online to connect to other ecological groups
april 26 we will do something like an ___ space with people so they
the whole month is going to be anti- fracking in my town
Nicole – put her contact information in the pad – let her know whatever we can do to promote and be in soloidarity with those actions – awesome
Car – we should be in touch about that – there is a via11meeting – there should be more meetings about that, develop a poster, talk more about the events of Earth Day
welcome to sacajaweabcn
meeting on the 11th is at 4 PM GMT

Global May 2013
Den – Amsterdam – not sure what is happening, but something is being cooked up – big demostration adn open assembly last year
Car – Montreal – last year the global May was part of Quebec Spring – we built up a collective, a group who worked nicely and smoothly – proposed to open the space we occupied in 2011 and propose it as a space to converge – make their own activities within the square – worked out very well – people had 20-25 activities. there were a lot of people in the streets around the city.
question – laptop – assembly in or windows or mac? or linux
Mar from Barcelona has joined.
T – online forum – please post what you are doing for global may

Jackie – In New York, big march last year blending workers and students, immigrants, in the works again this year; Occupy Debt initiative buy loans pennies on the dollar : many millions of debt in medical bills have been cleared. Some objections to even partaking in the Debt System, but mostly favorable. Strike Debt: http://strikedebt.org/, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Strike-Debt/244850825627699?id=244850825627699&sk=info
To understand more of this initiative, you can download the
The Debt Resistors’ Operations Manual at http://strikedebt.org/
Occupy London also has a helpful treatise on Economics: http://issuu.com/occupylondon/docs/occupy_little_book_of_ideas/1

first of May until the 22nd of May – send qestions to the Via22 mailing list and Ternura can help you with that.

Den – globalmay.org still on the server – if we need to get something set up!
Car – we will need to host map there.
Den – will we use the map global democacie has or would we have to start again
Car – we would have to start pinning form zero

http://www.globalmay.org/when-where.html

Ternura – remind everyone that I will post link to the pad again – if your interventions are not there are not recorded right this is your chance to record them

Nicole – thank you very much for having us here – Chris wants me to tell you thank you for having us here, and definitely want to network with everyone about the envronment and everything
Car – thank you – not easy to dialgue internationally
Ternura – just want to let everyone know

Car – we need some help to promote the spaces in Tunis – today I will be putting info on the website, and if you have time to share the facebook events, etc. give us a hand
encourage everyone to come back to this conversation – hopefully we will have more people as we go

T – there are meetings on this server all week – mondays to thursday(?) – see you on April 11 and before that we will meet in this server

For April plans, the earth day we agreed on meeting on 11th Apr, at 16pm GMT to plan the 22nd
Don’t forget the part where we plant a tree representing a projetc for the future

please if you feel like, share your plans for GlobalMay in this form : http://goo.gl/K65L8 so other assemblies can start form there

Buffalo in May 2013 about the strike debt group in May 2013 there will be a “debt burning” day

In NY unions wil join on MayDay

any more questions or suggestions for GlobalMay2013 pelase launch the contenst to the via22 mailing list and we will be happy to answer and help
via22@lists.mayfirst.orgvia22@lists.mayfirst.org

Please make sure you are suscribed to the mailing list Via22 mailing list

messages: Via22@lists.mayfirst.org
List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/via22

Please help promoting the event https://www.facebook.com/events/384405945000309/

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Preparation

FR

Vous êtes invités à ajouter vos informations de contact au tout début de ce document. : )

Bienvenue! Voici l’espace écrit collectif que nous allons utiliser en préparation de la conversation du 22 mars. Cette décision a été prise consensuellement lors de la conversation du 11 mars dans la salle VIA22 et à laquelle ont participé Daniel en France, Jackie aux États-Unis et François au Québec (Canada). La forme de ce document dépend entièrement de l’usage qui en est fait par les participants : les langues, les traductions, les liens internet, les points discutés sont tous produits par les quelques personnes qui y auront contribué à l’avance et par les participants à la conversation le jour du 22 mars 2013. Que cette conversation soit agréable et satisfaisante pour tout le monde! : )

Dans l’espace «chat» de la salle VIA22, vous êtes invités à utiliser les signes suivants pour faciliter le flot de la conversation :

si vous êtes d’accord WWW
en désaccord – MMM
point technique – TTT
conclusion – #####
pour parler **tour**

Pour recevoir l’information en lien avec le processus VIA22, abonnez-vous au http://www.via22.org/#!global-network

Pour rejoindre la liste International Network:

https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/intlnetwork

EN

You are invited to add your contact information at the start of this document. : )

Welcome! This is the collective writing space that we will be using in preparation for the March 22nd conversation. This consensual decision was taken during the March 11 conversation in room VIA22 and at which the participants were Daniel in France, Jackie in the United States and François in Quebec (Canada). The form taken by this document depends entirely on its usage by the participants : the languages, the translations, the internet links, the points of discussion are all produced by the few people who will have made contributions in advance and by the participants during the 2013 March 22nd conversation. May this conversation be pleasant and satisfying for everyone! : )

In the VIA22 room chat, you are invited to use the following signs to facilitate the flow of the conversation:

if you agree WWW
disagree – MMM
techincal point – TTT
conclusion – #####
to speak **turn**

To receive information from the VIA22 process, subscribe to http://www.via22.org/#!global-network

To join the International Network List:

https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/intlnetwork

ES, …

EN

Introductions

François Genest, Montreal, participations in Occupy, Autonomous Neighbourhood Assemblies, VIA22 process; can translate both ways between English and French; active since 2011; low level of energy, optimistic outlook.

Jackie Splain, rural farm/dairy hill country outside Buffalo, NY. Never an activist before, I had given up hope in all our systems, and thought I would ignore it and happily garden in my time left. After seeing the kids in NYC, OWS grabbed my heart, and I found Occupy Buffalo, then InterOccupy (perfect for people far away from other activists, but with a computer!), helped with Occupy Sandy, and now the NGWG and more and more international mumbles.
Had one year each French, Spanish, so can pick out a few words in print; several years German, so can pick out a few more love language. love people. so happy to be here!

links to the notes of prior VIA22 conversations

VIA22F conversation : http://piratepad.net/VIA22F
VIA22J conversation : http://piratepad.net/VIA22J

EN

Activities linked to VIA22 (through participants)

World Social Forum 2013 (Tunis) : Several participants in the VIA22 process are actively involved in the preparation of workshops for global convergence in Tunis during the Forum. Mumble chats and livestreams are in the works and will allow a limited but invaluable two-way communication with the world outside the forum proper.

links : …

National Gathering (USA) : (Chris, Jackie, Daniel, or any knowledgeable person, please fill this space)

links …
I just created a pirate pad for the National Gathering and mumble info for the time of our Wednesday Maestro Call – late for many – 8 PM ET — rather than take up the room here I will post the link to that pad. Thanks!

http://piratepad.net/NatGat2Kzoo

EN

Initiatives that are both local and global (and thus interesting from the VIA22 point of view!)

An omage to Hugo Chavez from Venezuela should be made as he gave Venezuelans what Occupy wants to give the world. Long live Chavez. ¡Chavez Vive La Lucha Sigue! It’s best if there is already an initiative coming from a local network. Are there any from Venezuela or a South American country?

March 17 – Global Square online meeting http://titanpad.com/globalsquare9
March 17 – ISM Global chat http://ism-global.net/chat_march17
March 20 – NatGat chat
March 22 – World Water Day http://canadians.org/water/issues/World_Water_Day/
April 22 – World Earth Day

EN

Proposal for the flow of conversation on the 22nd of March

Remembering that the NatGat initiative was an important point of discussion during the VIA11-03-13 conversation (see http://piratepad.net/via11-03-13 ) and that the WSF in Tunis was an important point of discussion at the Februray 11 conversation (I lost the link to the pad),

I propose that the more structured part of the conversation start with a presentation of the NatGat initiative from participants who are the most knowledgeable about it (see the pad created by Jackie for the March 20 call : http://piratepad.net/NatGat2Kzoo, followed by a presentation of the VIA22 activities in Tunis (March 27, 16:00 Tunis/11:00 Eastern; March 28, 13:00 Tunis/ 08:00 Eastern; March 29, 13:00 Tunis/ 08:00 Eastern). And before the conversation becomes unstructured again, it could focus on short presentations of local initiatives by participants.

Sounds good. I’ll put some info here to help streamline the conversation. Chris will have 20 mins, but I will be here the whole time.
Very happy to have an omage to Chavez, and to hear all the plans for WSF – we have two IO compadres going as well.
Francois, I like this line:
Initiatives that are both local and global (and thus interesting from the VIA22 point of view!)
and that is exactly what the national gathering focus will be, or hope to be, local in communities and global in solidarity and networks.

Annex – National Gathering

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I put this as a basic outline of what’s developing so far for NatGat2013

Convergences
- Fixing Fossil Fuels and Creating an Environmentally Sustainable Future
- Economic and Trade Justice, Equal Access and Ending Corporate “Personhood”, Asserting the People’s Sovereignty
- Ending War and Our Police State, Building Peace and Cooperation
- Making and Supporting Free, Unfettered Media

Why Kalamaz00
– how Kalamazoo was picked – The Oil Spill – 6th Meanest city in the Nation
- sustainable answers
Bike Gen Theatre, Build a Park, Homeless bill of rights, Tar Sands,
- Housing, Travel, logistics

Summer Tour of Change – (travel)
- June 8th ( Unfuck the World) – Travelling Carnival
Caravan – 2-3 weeks before
- Occupy Sandy Drive – Rolling Jubilee tour – Community highlight/ Alternative media

Global Conversation
- Earthday to August 22nd ( call for build april-may, may -june, june -july) (jay from Gathr?)

We had 33 people from as far away as Hawaii, Miami, Nova Scotia, Vancouver n our call Wed. night, and 6, Carminda, Montreal, Tenura in Spain on mumble connected to the call.
It was exciting to have people outside the US on the Maestro call. It has been hard or expensive phone calls before. Many people also signed up for email lists to go with the different areas to begin to organize.

Interoccupy is supporting NatGat2 and can provide email lists if you find you want them for new groups working on this. Anyone can post an Update on the NatGat2 Hub, interoccupy.net/natgt2/, as well as post the minutes of meetings and calendar events. I am always available for help with the hubs.

We invite you to participate in any way you choose to create community and change locally, while educating about the global impact of all our local needs. The more we talk and organize, the greater our voice will be.

Annexe – Forum social mondial à Tunis

Organisation de l’extension des 3 activités via Mumble

Rappel contact
fsmoccupy.espace3@gmail.com
Rappel horodatage
Décalage horaire France-Tunis : aucun
Décalage horaire Canada-Tunis : 6 heures
Décalage horaire autres localisations : consulter Google par ex : www.ledecalagehoraire.com
Activité 1 : 27 mars de 16h à 18H30 (heure Tunis)
Activité 2 : 28 mars de 13H à 14H30 (heure Tunis)
Activité 3 : 29 mars de 13H à 14H30 (heure Tunis)
Rappel méthodologique
La méthodologie repose sur une hybridation de world café et de forum ouvert : après un temps court en plénière, il y a répartition autour de tables proposées par les co-organisateurs et de tables proposées par les participants. Un petit temps plénier à la fin donne les idées clés issues des tables.
Voir en fin de texte les questions envisagées pour les tables. Pour alléger le temps de plénière vous pouvez dés maintenant nous remettre vos suggestions éventuelles de tables.
Participation
La participation est ouverte à l’expression des collectifs en tant que tels et aux personnes.
Elle peut être collective (dans un lieu de rassemblement) ou individuelle (de chez soi par exemple).
Moyens à mettre en oeuvre
Dans le cas des lieux collectifs, il ya lieu de prévoir autant d’ordinateurs que de tables auxquelles on compte participer.
Tout ordinateur, de préférence récent, doit être équipé d’un micro d’ambiance (éventuellement avec casque pour l’écoute pour les participations individuelles).
Dans le cas des lieux collectifs, il faut prévoir un haut parleur par ordinateur à positionner assez loin du micro d’ambiance de façon à éviter l’effet Larsen. Il importe de faire le réglage sonore AVANT le début de l’atelier. Le haut parleur doit être positionné assez fort mais pas trop (surtout si le lieu participe à plusieurs tables). Bien sûr, autant que possible, il faut espacer les ordinateurs.
Configuration et salles Mumble
Pour charger Mumble : http://mumble.sf.net/ (peut-être aussi chargé à partir d’autres sites)
Label : Occupii
Server : occupytalk.org
Port : 64738
Nickname : votre nom ou pseudo avec votre localisation (ville)
La salle pour les temps en plénière (début et fin de l’activité) est :
FSMoccupy general
Pour des raisons de maîtrise technique, certaines tables de Tunis ne seront pas « mumblisées » ; les trois salles Mumble auxquelles seront affectées trois tables sont :
FSMoccupy table1
FSMoccupy table2
FSMoccupy table3
Affectation de tables aux salles Mumble Des participants à Tunis participeront aussi à ces trois tables.
La salle « FSMoccupy général » pourra être utilisée pour une table spécifiquement « Mumble » (sans participant à Tunis).
Pour éviter de prendre trop de temps plénier pour affecter les salles (les paramètres étant les désidérata des participants, une répartition à peu prés étale entre tables et les contraintes linguistiques), il est vivement recommandé de nous faire part avant de vos désidérata.
Pour passer d’une salle à l’autre, il suffit de faire glisser l’icône représentant un bouche accolée à son nom dans la salle choisie.
Connexion
On espère que la connexion via Internet sera bonne, d’autant plus que Mumble (audio) est évidemment moins consommateur de bande passante que skype (video) par exemple.
Si toutefois des problèmes survenaient qui mettraient Tunis « out » de la connexion, les participants extérieurs à Tunis sont invités à utiliser les 4 salles en autonomie (Peut être il serait intéressant d’acheter une carte téléphonique sur place qui permette une connection internet indépendant du sommet. Ainsi, nous pourrons assurer la liaison avec les 4 salles). Il faudra alors que chaque table « mumblisées hors Tunis » effectue une synthèse à communiquer à l’adresse de contact ou si possible à 19h (par Mumble). Dans ce cas, Paris est responsable du pilotage des tables « hors Tunis ». Les lieux ou personnes responsables des activités 2 et 3 seront annoncées lors de l’activité 1 et par mail.
Test
Pour les non familiarisés avec Mumble (et même pour les autres), il est vivement recommandé de tester avant : dimanche de 20H à 22H, une permanence sera assurée.
Tables envisagées par les co-organisateurs
1- Encourager le partage d’expériences
- Partagez des actions dont vous êtes fiers/ votre plus grande réussite/l’originalité de vos actions
- En quoi nos luttes se ressemblent ?
- Quels sont vos rêves pour l’action?/Nos rêves communs pour l’action?
- Quels sont les plus grands défis ou obstacles auxquels nous faisons face dans nos actions/pour construire un monde meilleur ?
- Quelle est la relation entre l’espace (le lieu physique) et le mouvement qui l’occupe et les relations humaines qui s’y développent ?

2- Encourager le réseautage/réflexion collective sur la nécessité de convergence
- Pourquoi le réseautage international est important?
- Pourquoi la convergence entre nos actions est importante?/ quel intérêt avons-nous à nouer des relations avec des mouvements internationaux ?
- Quelles sont vos expériences concrètes en termes de réseautage ou de convergence ? Comment avez vous relevé les défis?
- Comment créer une convergence solide et durable entre les acteurs des différents mouvements sociaux autour du monde ?
- Quelles actions concrètes pouvons-nous mettre en place ensemble pour construire un monde meilleur ? ”

3- Envisager ensemble la suite
- Comment envisageriez vous un processus de convergence entre les différents mouvements sociaux, qui puisse être durable
- De quelle façon pourriez-vous participer à un processus de convergence, après le FSM
- Comment (ou par quels moyens) pouvons-nous nous entraider à distance?
- Comment renforcer les liens : entre les mouvements/entre les gens
- Comment vivre le paradoxe humain au sein de la collectivité, entre l’idéal et la réalité ?
- Quelle peut être la place du geste artistique et de l’échange créatif dans le rapprochement des cultures ? ”
- Que pouvons-nous faire ensemble?

http://piratepad.net/VIA22Mar

Agenda for Launch call March 20th
8/5:00pm-10/7:00pm – 2 hours

Need Notetaker! See bottom of agenda.
Introductions – 15 min,

Convergences- 3 min each
- Fixing Fossil Fuels and Creating an Environmentally Sustainable Future
- Economic and Trade Justice, Equal Access and Ending Corporate “Personhood”, Asserting the People’s Sovereignty
- Ending War and Our Police State, Building Peace and Cooperation
- Making and Supporting Free, Unfettered Media
( Kalamazoo issues covered in Why Kalamazoo)
- Q&A, poll for working groups

Why Kalamaz00 – 3 min each
- how Kalamazoo was picked (Chris)
- The Oil Spill (Autumn)
- 6th Meanest city in the Nation (Mouse)
- sustainable answers (Rick)
Bike Gen Theatre, Build a Park, Homeless bill of rights, Tar Sands,
- Housing, Travel, logistics
- Q&A, poll for working groups

Global Conversation – 15
- Earthday to August 22nd ( 5 min) ( call for build april-may, may -june, june -july) (jay from Gathr?)
- Aug 21st call for solidarity for Meditation, and mediation
- Aug 22nd Bank Transfer day, Global Conversation begins
- Aug 23rd Call for strike, ( with community supported actions)
- Aug 24th Global CELEBRATION ( Concerts, pots n pans, fun events)
- Aug 25th Global March for Peace,
- Q&A, poll for working groups

Summer Tour of Change – (travel) 15 min (Lisa)
- June 8th ( Unfuck the World) (5 min) ( Maike) Lisa will be speaking on behalf of UTW
- Occupy Sandy Drive
- Rolling Jubilee tour
- Community highlight/ Alternative media
- Q&A, poll for working groups

next steps:

Closing:
Link to Website Forms
Working group listservs – see NatGat2 Hub Updates:: http://interoccupy.net/natgat2/

Remind folks about Maestro training and need for facilitators and TAs going forward.

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Notes:
Environmental outreach – Nicole – our main goal is to determine how we can work together and empower eachother to fight environmental issues and move away from fossil fuels, even if we use different tactics. Teamwork is the goal!
Economic and trade justice – David Cobb
Corporate personhood –
Ending war – Chris – several peace groups in Michigan and abroad. Want to see how we can come together and stop the war machine. How can we make sense of the craziness and put an end to war, soldier suicides. How can we the people address this together, make solutions.

Making and supporting free and unfettered media – Calling out to alternative media and see how we can come together and address these issues.

Tracie- worked with first natgat. Veterans for Peace. If there’s a story people want to tell, maybe we can highlight those people and bring them to natgat to tell their stories.

Lynn – been getting people organized to send out petitions to churches. Having people volunteer as opposed to paying people, need to get that kind of concept out there.

If you want to be a part of any particular convergence group, put up a 2!

Why Kalamazoo? – Chris – A conversation started in November about whether or not there would be another natgat. Even though Kzoo is not a large city, environmental issues (the oil spill) and other local issues creates an opportunity to change the city. They spent time reaching out to see if any other cities wanted to do the national gathering, spoke to the first working group and wanted to make sure there was consensus and “had their blessing”. Kzoo is also the 6th meanest city to the homeless in the U.S.

Mouse – in 2009, Kzoo was labeled the 6th meanest city against the homeless in the nation. The homeless coalition across the country did a study that showed laws criminalizing the homeless, making it illegal to eat, sleep, in the public. 9/10 businesses will call the police for trespassing if a homeless person so much as uses their bathroom.

Chris – Mouse has been leading a charge to put forward a homeless bill of rights similar to ones passed in California and Rhode Island. Thank you Mouse!

Tammy – supports what Mouse and what occupy is doing to the homeless. Also happening in Kzoo: drones will be launched in Fort Custer, another good reason for natgat to be in kzoo.

Chris – definitely

Phil – a carpenter. Been with occupy since October 2011. We need to create more of a web presence. We have websites, but don’t seem to have the kind of presence we need online. Also a web administrator. Need to be able to show people where to go and where they can find info online. Does anyone have ideas on how to move forward with this? Also, we need people who can create sites that would be of interest to people in the occupy movement.

Chris – Phil has been helping with a lot of webhosting, want to give him a shoutout!

Karen – apologize for negativity in introduction, drones in Seattle, lost the vote yesterday. Wanted to mention Detroit, city council and the mayor have no power because of takeover. She is also an attorney, wants light to be shined on this kind of legislation.

Chris – RTW in WI, MI, thanks to Karen for speaking to this.

Rick – working with local churches in kzoo.

Chris – oldest standing church in Kzoo might let OK and other groups take space in their building. Will be working on housing, education, family shelter. City gave 25,000 out of 140,000,000 budget to help homeless, 92% increase in number of homeless children in Kzoo. Want to talk about how to use a tree to charge a cell phone, use a wind up.

Mouse – 16% of Kzoo population is below the poverty guideline, and 10% of the 16% are families with children

Global conversation – Jackie – Mumble meeting on Friday at 12pm EST with via22. Will be talking about Earth Day. We will literally plant a seed (of change) and have a conversation about making changes in our communities. These are local conversations, but this is also a global event.

Chris – Tim DeChristopher will be getting out of jail on April 21! Calling for people to watch the documentary (Bidder 70) on his action. He is also willing to skype with people, so if anyone wants to make that a part of their Earth Day event, that’s an option!

Jarah: Coordinating with occupy global media, trying to get figures from revolutions around the world to speak at natgat. Someone from Egypt, Radio Free Syria, someone from Greece who works with anonymous. Also have global occupy media putting together an international paper they’ve been promoting on conference calls.

Karen – a bill introduced in congress last Thursday that will come up for vote this week. This says that congress can approve the Keystone XL pipeline without the president’s approval. It is expected that this bill will pass.

Cal – link to the hub is on the participant dashboard! http://interoccupy.net/natgat2/

Lisa – get together a forum, petition, event, to have people call senators and say something (direct response to Karen)

John – China owns 80% of tar sands from Canada.

Fred – 350.org, Sierra Club are working on this issue. Will email natgat list a website where we can enter our zip codes and get numbers for our senators.

Occupy Summer Tour of Change – Lisa – Will be kicking off on July 8 with Unfuck The World. Great opportunity for people to network, music, learn how to work together. London, Brisbane, LA, will be streaming live. Worldwide solidarity. Spoke with Maike from LA today, couldn’t make the call but Lisa passing along info from her. Working on a traveling carnival of activists working with occupy and non-occupy groups. Strike debt concerts, donation drives (Occupy Sandy). Towns that they will be traveling to with Guitarmy, bike tour, caravan. Different time frames for each, people can determine what works for them. Lisa is in NY right now working with Occupy Sandy, hurricane relief effort. Will be back home in mid-April. Very important to keep supporting the effort, especially with spring coming and mold being a huge problem. Can be deadly. Anyone who wants to help, please do!

Chris – will be building forms/registration to assist with different aspects of travel. Want to highlight the tour as a potential travel option. People will literally begin walking to Kzoo from some places, there will be supply drives for Sandy. Walking tour, bike tour, caravan

Lisa – mega bus…option?

Chris – might be on there by mistake. They were supportive with caravan effort in DC last year, probably not supposed to be on facebook page now.

Jackie – wanted to respond about the caravan. might want to encourage people to start organizing locally. Last year, New England leg started applying for grants. Have to get going early.

Chris – was on tour before, definitely encourages as much organization as possible

Carrie and Dan – been wanting to talk about the website at articlev.org
Would be fantastic to provide everyone with a clone/copy of what they are doing in terms of a website. phil has server space available. Could really help with natgat.

Chris – Dan, definitely encourage you to share this!

Cal – will be launching a large scale visioning process. Will likely put all technical tools that IO and others are working on to the test.

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Planning for Global Conversation and Convergence in solidarity with the Occupy National Gathering in Kalamazoo, Michigan, 21-25 August 2013

Below is a post to share with a lot of information. I am not sure of the mumble configuration – it is the occupycoordination server, and NatGat2 room (or channel?).

We will also be joining the Via22 mumble on Friday, March 22 @ Noon ET, 4 PM GMT

http://interoccupy.net/via22global/ai1ec_event/via22-global-assembly-friday-march-22nd-at-noon-et/?instance_id=5233&doing_wp_cron=1363681286.9150750637054443359375

pad: http://piratepad.net/VIA22Mar

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Please Share!
Join us Wednesday night at 8 PM ET to continue to plan and develop the National Gathering this year. http://interoccupy.net/blog/ai1ec_event/national-gathering-launch-call-2/?instance_id=3546774

We will be forming working groups and ask for your input and your help moving forward. We wish to include grass roots, alternative medias , rights, advocacy, unions, artists, and more to make this a gathering for all who wish to make a better tomorrow.

This year the national Gathering is hyper-local and global in focus. We envision days of concerted worldwide actions focused on very local issues that expose those local issues as part of the worldwide fight against systemic injustice. We will be in solidarity with Via 22 actions each month beginning with Earth Day April 21-22. We will gather and share this worldwide action through all the media tools and networks we continue to build through voluntary people power.

We already have networks on board with these broad areas of interest and welcome and need your suggestions, participation and contributions:.
1. Fixing Fossil Fuels and Creating an Environmentally Sustainable Future.
2. Economic and Trade Justice, Equal Access and Ending Corporate “Personhood”, Asserting the People’s Sovereignty.
3. Making and Supporting Free, Unfettered Media.
4. Ending War and Our Police State, Building Peace and Cooperation.
5. Renew Kalamazoo and your community. Homeless Bill of Rights.

What issues effect your local community and the worldwide community? Network solidarity events locally, regionally, nationally, globally. Together, A Better World Is Possible!

http://interoccupy.net/natgat2/2013/03/join-the-occupy-national-gathering-launch-call-wed-march-20-8-pm-et/

To connect to Maestro Calls for free internationally please see:
New access point to MaestroConference events (for Windows users)
free while in beta. need computer and headset.

http://support.maestroconference.com/entries/21804756-new-access-point-to-maestroconference-events?inf_contact_key=2f53e5ed85cbff0a031d2fed341e3a6c71c98f4fe03c26e9a5d60ce56eb04e6c

We will also be experimenting with hosting a mumble meeting that will enable you to be on mumble and hear the call. The normal signals for turn and WWW will be used on mumble and be relayed to the call, and you can speak normally when the one mumble mic is turned on from the conference call. Come help us test it.

Password: occupy
Address: occupycoordination.com
Port: 64738
Label: NatGat2

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More Info:
Proposal From occupy kalamazoo

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EtlKB69uYI3QmsA2b1q9fFTdE3GUbs3L2N9L6zj7hO8/edit

2013 Proposal of Endorsement

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s2QDueRl3dWo32-DDzuY57aIImkiyNVo-XPyhV5AYAk/edit

http://interoccupy.net/natgat2/2013/03/occupy-national-gathering-2013-kalamazoo-michigan-proposal-of-endorsement/?doing_wp_cron=1363645350.4811539649963378906250

Communications:

Websites:
Occupy Nationl Gathering website – http://occupynationalgathering.net/
InterOccupy Hub – OCCUPY NATIONAL GATHERING 2013

http://interoccupy.net/natgat2/

http://goo.gl/T8DPs – short link

Social Media:
Facebook
Occupy National Gathering http://www.facebook.com/OccupyNationalGathering
National Gathering 2013 in Kalamazoo planning group http://www.facebook.com/groups/206417166145796/
Occupy Caravan?

Twitter
@Ng2Kzoo

https://twitter.com/Ng2Kzoo

@NATGAT2013

https://twitter.com/NATGAT2013

#NatGat2 #natgat2 #NatGat2013 #natgat2013

Email Lists
NatGat2013 Main list: ngwg-2013@lists.interoccupy.net
Support ng-2013-support@lists.interoccupy.net

Outreach ng-2013-outreach@lists.interoccupy.net

Media ng-2013-media@lists.interoccupy.net

Convergence ng-2013-convergence@lists.interoccupy.net

Discussion ng-2013-discussion@lists.interoccupy.net

Summer Tour ng-2013-summer-tour@lists.interoccupy.net

Global Conversation ng-2013-global-conv@lists.interoccupy.net

You can subscribe directly by e-mailing the list with the subject: Subscribe

or Subscribe here:

https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/ng-2013-global-conv

[for other lists, change the end of the url to name of that list]
scroll to where it says:
Subscribing to Ng-2013-global-conv [Ng-2013-name-of-list]
Subscribe to Ng-2013-global-conv by filling out the following form.

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Contact Info
email natgat2013@gmail.com, jackie at jsplain@interoccupy.net or
Chris at whammy737@gmail.com
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19 March
Looking forward to continuing to talk and support each other. A better world is possible!
Jackie

20 March
Hi all! We are about ready to start – here is the agenda for the call or we can just take notes in here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hHQe3mKJZkPAFTYdNbzOcAfujL_6Sk8KVpOSs3T9OKE/edit

notes will be added to the agenda – can access later.
Introductions – 15 min,

Convergences- 3 min each
- Fixing Fossil Fuels and Creating an Environmentally Sustainable Future
- Economic and Trade Justice, Equal Access and Ending Corporate “Personhood”, Asserting the People’s Sovereignty
- Ending War and Our Police State, Building Peace and Cooperation
- Making and Supporting Free, Unfettered Media
( Kalamazoo issues covered in Why Kalamazoo)
- Q&A, poll for working groups

Why Kalamaz00 – 3 min each
- how Kalamazoo was picked (Chris)
- The Oil Spill (Autumn)
- 6th Meanest city in the Nation (Mouse)
- sustainable answers (Rick)
Bike Gen Theatre, Build a Park, Homeless bill of rights, Tar Sands,
- Housing, Travel, logistics
- Q&A, poll for working groups

Global Conversation – 15
- Earthday to August 22nd ( 5 min) ( call for build april-may, may -june, june -july) (jay from Gathr?)
- Aug 21st call for solidarity for Meditation, and mediation
- Aug 22nd Bank Transfer day, Global Conversation begins
- Aug 23rd Call for strike, ( with community supported actions)
- Aug 24th Global CELEBRATION ( Concerts, pots n pans, fun events)
- Aug 25th Global March for Peace,
- Q&A, poll for working groups

Summer Tour of Change – (travel) 15 min
- June 8th ( Unfuck the World) (5 min) ( Maike)
Travelling Carnival
Caravan – 2-3 weeks before
- Occupy Sandy Drive
- Rolling Jubilee tour
- Community highlight/ Alternative media
- Q&A, poll for working groups

next steps:

Closing:
Link to Website Forms
Working group listservs – see NatGat2 Hub Updates:: http://interoccupy.net/natgat2/

Remind folks about Maestro training and need for facilitators and TAs going forward.

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Ongoing Agenda & Notes

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hHQe3mKJZkPAFTYdNbzOcAfujL_6Sk8KVpOSs3T9OKE/edit

Jackie, Nicole, Chris, Ternura, Carminda, Francois, Denis, Alex, Pat, Daniel, Mar, Sacajueabcn, attended Via22 mumble meeting. See pad for discussion: http://piratepad.net/VIA22Mar

will meet again Via11 in time for Earth Day Plans

http://piratepad.net/NatGat2Kzoo

VIA11-03-13

contact information of the participants:

François Genest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada francois.genest@gmail.com
Jackie Splain, Western NY, USA jsplain@interoccupy.net
@netdruide : Daniel Pallier, Brest, France via22websitetech@gmail.com

EN

Welcome to this collaborative writing space. It has been created to facilitate sharing links and taking notes during the 2013 March 11 talk of the VIA22 global convergence experience.

In the VIA22 room chat, you are invited to use the following signs to facilitate the flow of the conversation:

if you agree WWW
disagree – MMM
techincal point – TTT
conclusion – #####
to speak **turn**

To receive information from the VIA22 process, subscribe to http://www.via22.org/#!global-network

To join the International Network List:

https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/intlnetwork

Prior to the talk, François wrote this:

As part of my preparation for this conversation, I crated this workspace and humbly submit it to the other participants as a extension to the conversation and as a way to keep a record of links and important points to remember. It is my experience that proposing an agenda beforehand introduces a huge bias in the conversation and I would like to keep as much room as possible for free conversation during the talk. Therefore, I will put in writing what I think is important for me (I point out and ackowledge the local and personal bias of my perspective) to remember from previous conversations. Going backwards, here are the links to the previous conversations and work that has been done under the name of the VIA22 collaborative process :

VIA22F conversation : http://piratepad.net/VIA22F

(chosen exerps)

inspired by the student protest movement in Quebec in the Spring of 2012 – called for national actions on the 22 of each month- the beauty was no need to decide on a date – everyone knew – many spontanteous actions, big demonstrations; people from many groups – Mexico – that is the origin of the V process – no set a priori definition
the intent is to help people communciate and to share their different struggles

historically we did an open forum on Oct. 22, as the temps dropped we concentrated on building this global conversation since the fall. the intent is really to help sharing tactics with emphasis on creativity – encouraged

ongoing and coming global conversations/event

Cartographers of the Future – we had our first meeting about 20 days ago – around 60 people here form 22 countries contact Geraldo adri.geraldo@gmail.com skype:gerald161

Convergence of movements at the World Social Forum – contact Carminda via22global@gmail.com

Global Squares initiative http://www.global-square.net/

Earthday event april 22nd, and continuing toward national convergences – april 22 – plant an actual seed in the ground to renew the earth
seed of communciation – allow people in small communities to come together to have a dinner, music, festive atmosphere and then have a conversation
environment human rights social justice and how we can take steps to make countries more reflective to its people – what we hope is begin this convo on Earth Day and then moving to state communciations and then all the way until August leading to a national and global conversation with us in different areas doing this together and then using our technology to communciate with each other. the people are the glue, more than the technology contact Chris Whammy737@gmail.com

directory.occupy.net – we list every physical occupation that exists – more and more we should include groups, not just -physical places
anyone can add data – some of the data is outdated – creative ways to
start to tag things: enviromental, justice, social justice, food justice
hope to make the editing portion easier – contact Thiago thiago@madeofpeople.org

VIA22J conversation : http://piratepad.net/VIA22J

Participation by Yo Soy 132, Chicago86, Idle No More

Documents of interest for Occupy National Gathering 2013 and Earth Day, Global Days of solidarity:

2013 Proposal of Endorsement – Final Draft
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s2QDueRl3dWo32-DDzuY57aIImkiyNVo-XPyhV5AYAk/edit (need permission)-should be ok now – shared

Earth day april 22nd – 2013
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1chFBjFiCFaAufUzqAkhowKvZ290vlHtxs07FTvp7pQw/edit – requested access for this one

Global Days

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GA8NOY_C1_ZKHS–h7_6DlPTkS7DEYYYp1Ygnl3KTEI/edit

NatGat2013 Doc Dump

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R4P7KsDOCPhkSqsFd7Znxhq4PJcd9kB_VBN6CT6CAuk/edit#

Jackie’s purpose today is to find out if we should, could use the Via22 meeting to launch the NatGat international conversation, or find another day or time.
We are having a big launch call on InerOccupy Maestro on March 20 @ 8 PM ET

website: http://occupynationalgathering.net/

Daniel

Jackie Occupy Buffalo, InterOccupy, National Gathering in August, big call on March 20 at 8pm, international launch with the VIA22 meeting on March 22nd.

Daniel would like to write something on NatGat and the initiatives like that to inform people in France what is happening in the States, less

March 20th InterOccupy Global Call : Jackie will send a page that indicates how to connect internationaly. Possible to connect via mumble.

Via22 meeting

Concert tour by Unfuck the World : teach-ins, conversations
convergence

FR

Bienvenue dans cet espace d’écriture collaborative. Il a été créé pour faciliter le partage de liens et la tenue de notes pendant la conversation du 11 mars 2013 de l’expérience de convergence globale VIA22.

http://piratepad.net/via11-03-13

EN - REMINDER

Next VIA22 Global Assembly of VIA22, to encourage a long term dialogue between social movements, people involved with the civil society, and all those who want to work for the respect of the integrity of human being and the earth.

There will be information presented by the Occupy National Gathering Work Group.  NatGat2 will have a global focus!

Also, we will give information about how to participate from your hometown to the World Social Forum, happening in Tunisia (from march 26th to the 30th). 

WHEN : Friday, March 22nd at 4pm GMT (convert to your local time : http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html) on Mumble (chat/voice program).

COLLECTIVE PAD : Please feel free to add your points/ideas (specially if you can’t come to the meeting : http://piratepad.net/VIA22Mar Translations, as always, are more than welcomed!

HOW to connect to Mumble: full step by step instructions here (we will be in room VIA22) : http://occupytalk.org/article/how-connect-our-server

This video will help you to set the software AFTER you have download it and installed it in your computer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=SF90Qdm7mH8

 

Label: Occupii

Server: occupytalk.org 

Port: 64738
Nickname: Via22

Looking forward to hear you!

via22global@gmail.com
www.via22.org
https://www.facebook.com/VIA22GLOBAL
@via22global #VIA22 #22Mar

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FRANÇAIS - RAPPEL

Prochaine Assemblée mondiale VIA22, pour encourager un dialogue à long terme entre les mouvements sociaux, les personnes impliquées dans la société civile, et tous ceux qui veulent travailler pour le respect de l’intégrité de l’être humain et la terre.

Il y aura des informations présentées par le Groupe Occuper Rassemblement national du travail. NatGat2 aura une portée mondiale! rassemblement national

Nous donnerons aussi des informations sur comment participer à distance au Forum Social Mondial qui aura lieu en Tunisie (du 26 au 30 mars).

QUAND: Le vendredi 22 mars à 16:00 GMT (convertir dans votre heure locale: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html) sur la plateforme voix/chat Mumble (infos ci-dessous).

Document collectif pour la réunion: http://piratepad.net/VIA22Mar S’il vous plaît n’hésitez pas à ajouter vos points/idées (spécialement si vous ne pouvez pas venir à la réunion . Les traductions, comme toujours, sont vraiment bienvenues après la fin de la rencontre!

Instructions pas à pas pour la connexion à Mumble:
Télécharger le programme: http://mumble.sf.net/
Puis l’installer sur votre ordinateur
Une vidéo d’instruction (aide visuelle): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9j5n_txo9V4

Configuration de Mumble:
Label: Occupii

Server: occupytalk.org (doit être écrit sans erreurs)

Port: 64738
Nickname:  Votre nom ou pseudo (si vous pouvez ajouter votre pays)

Le nom de la salle où nous nous installerons : “VIA22″

À très bientôt!

via22global@gmail.com
www.via22.org
https://www.facebook.com/VIA22GLOBAL
@via22global #VIA22 #22Mar

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Español - recordatoria

Próxima Asamblea Mundial VIA22 para incentivar un diálogo a largo plazo entre los movimientos sociales, los actores de la sociedad civil, y todos los que quieren trabajar por el respeto a la integridad del ser humano y la tierra.

Habrá información presentada por El Grupo de Trabajo del Encuentro Nacional Occupy. NatGat2 tendrá un enfoque global!

También se dará información sobre como participar desde sus países al Foro Social Mundial de Tunis (del 26 al 30 de marzo).

CUANDO? EL viernes 22 de marzo a las 16h GMT, sobre el programa de chat/voz Mumble (info abajo). Para convertir esto en tu hora local  : http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

-Aquí está la hoja en que haremos los apuntes durante la reunión. Por favor, siéntete libre de añadir tus puntos/ ideas (especialmente si no puedes asistir a la reunión :  http://piratepad.net/VIA22Mar. Las traducciones, como siempre, son siempre bienvenidas!

Cómo conectarse a Mumble: paso a paso las instrucciones completas a continuación
Bajar el programa de: http://mumble.sf.net/
Luego lo instalas en el ordenador
Un video con instrucciones (ayuda visual): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9j5n_txo9V4
Configuración:
Label: Occupii
Server: occupytalk.org (debe ir escrito tal cual, sin errores )
Port: 64738
Nickname: Tu nombre o nick (si puedes añade tu páis)
El nombre de la sala o Canal donde estaremos: “VIA22“

Hasta muy pronto!

via22global@gmail.com
www.via22.org
https://www.facebook.com/VIA22GLOBAL
@via22global #VIA22 #22Mar

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Updated Mumble Info for National Gathering Launch Call Tonight 8 PM ET

Please Share!
Join us Wednesday night at 8 PM ET to continue to plan and develop the National Gathering this year.

This is the InterOccupy Maestro call. We will have a mumble Room going that is dialed into the call. Here is the correct information. [please disregard yesterday's]:

Password: occupy
Address: occupycoordination.com
Port: 64738
Label: NatGat2

Download mumble here
http://www.mumble.com/mumble-download.php

This video will help you to set the software AFTER you have download it and installed it in your computer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=SF90Qdm7mH8

More info on:
Join Us on Mumble Voice Chat
http://www.occupycoordination.com/

Please enter comments, questions, and contact info on the collective pad:
NatGat2Kzoo Collective pad
http://piratepad.net/NatGat2Kzoo

To connect directly to Maestro Calls for free internationally please see:
New access point to MaestroConference events (for Windows users)
free while in beta. need computer and headset.
http://support.maestroconference.com/entries/21804756-new-access-point-to-maestroconference-events?inf_contact_key=2f53e5ed85cbff0a031d2fed341e3a6c71c98f4fe03c26e9a5d60ce56eb04e6c

Hope to hear you there!

NGWG2013

Join us Wednesday night at 8 PM ET to continue to plan and develop the National Gathering this year.

We will be forming working groups and ask for your input and your help moving forward. We wish to include grass roots, alternative medias , rights, advocacy, unions, artists, and more to make this a gathering for all who wish to make a better tomorrow.

We already have networks on board with these broad areas of interest and welcome and need your suggestions, participation and contributions:.
1. Fixing Fossil Fuels and Creating an Environmentally Sustainable Future.
2. Economic and Trade Justice, Equal Access and Ending Corporate “Personhood”,   Asserting the People’s Sovereignty.
3. Making and Supporting Free, Unfettered Media.
4. Ending War and Our Police State, Building Peace and Cooperation.
5. Renew Kalamazoo and your community. Homeless Bill of Rights.

We also encourage the creation of local, national and global processes to communicate, organize and converge. We are meeting more and more on the internet, on mumble, on conference calls. Global infrastructures are appearing, to bring more people together and able to participate worldwide. We are able as a people to organize worldwide protests and actions. We envision a day of concerted worldwide actions focused on very local issues that expose those local issues as part of the worldwide fight against systemic injustice. We will gather and share this worldwide action through all the media tools and networks we continue to build through voluntary people power.

We embrace the value derived from face-to-face contact, and understand that no single gathering can be representative of our entire movement. We recognize that attending in person will be challenging, or impossible for many, so we also commit to pursuing an online component through which anyone can participate via the Internet. We encourage the creation of local, national and global processes by which movement resources could be directed towards funding travel for active movement participants that otherwise would not be able to attend.

Please Join our Launch Call here.

More Info:

Communications:

Websites:

Occupy National Gathering 2013 website:   http://occupynationalgathering.net/
InterOccupy Hub – OCCUPY NATIONAL GATHERING 2013:  http://interoccupy.net/natgat2/    (http://goo.gl/T8DPs – short link)

Social Media:
Facebook
Occupy National Gathering http://www.facebook.com/OccupyNationalGathering
National Gathering 2013 in Kalamazoo planning group http://www.facebook.com/groups/206417166145796/
Occupy Caravan

Twitter
@Ng2Kzoo
https://twitter.com/Ng2Kzoo

@NATGAT2013
https://twitter.com/NATGAT2013
#NatGat2 #natgat2 #NatGat2013 #natgat2013

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Support:     ng-2013-support@lists.interoccupy.net

Outreach:   ng-2013-outreach@lists.interoccupy.net

Media:         ng-2013-media@lists.interoccupy.net

Convergence: ng-2013-convergence@lists.interoccupy.net

Discussion: ng-2013-discussion@lists.interoccupy.net

Summer Tour:   ng-2013-summer-tour@lists.interoccupy.net

Global Conversation:   ng-2013-global-conv@lists.interoccupy.net

You can subscribe directly by emailing each of the above lists with Subscribe in the subject.

http://interoccupy.net/blog/ai1ec_event/national-gathering-launch-call-2/?instance_id=3545729

HOST: National Gathering 2013 working group

FOR WHOM: People interested in becoming part of the planning commity for National Gathering 2013, In Kalamazoo Michigan Aug 21st -25th.

* Global week, Global Conversation, community building, Strike, and celebration
* National gatherings for all groups, to teach, communicate, and collaborate
* To host a national coalition about the North east Pipeline, and alternative energy
* A National effort to form an alternative media program
* A strike debt concert aimed at student debt
* A local neighborhood rebuilding program to give to homeless families
* Building a bike generator theatre, and hosting Documentaries like “Bidder 70”. w/ a panel afterwards.
* Training how to use DIY alternative energy techniques to charge your phone
* and more to be announced.

Proposal – Occupy National Gathering 2013, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Occupy Kalamazoo has received an endorsement from Occupy Raleigh on the following proposal, and seeks general ratification from Occupy assemblies, working groups and affinity groups worldwide.  We also welcome an endorsement of Solidarity from Peoples’ assemblies in communities local, national and globaal

~~~~~ Proposal ~~~~~

We, the National Gathering Working Group 2013 (NGWG2013), propose a National Gathering of the Occupy Movement, and peoples’ movements worldwide, in Kalamazoo Michigan, to collectively assemble and embrace our different ideologies and perspectives; to find our common visions; to share our strategies and actions; and to leave this gathering with steps we can all take in both agreement and diversity; for ourselves, our communities, our nations, and for all of us all over the world.

We further propose that our convergence begin on Aug. 21 and continue for five days of Community and Movement building exercises including speakers, teach-ins, and
free-flowing open discussion at a location to be determined by the Occupy Kalamazoo General Assembly.  We believe it’s time the people of the world spoke to each other about how to make a better world. We ask you to converge with us, to bring your ideas, your struggles, and your voice and come to Kalamazoo!

We already have networks on board with these broad areas of interest and welcome and need your suggestions, participation and contributions:.

1. Fixing Fossil Fuels and Creating an Environmentally Sustainable Future.
2. Economic and Trade Justice, Equal Access and Ending Corporate “Personhood”,   Asserting the People’s Sovereignty.
3. Making and Supporting Free, Unfettered Media.
4. Ending War and Our Police State, Building Peace and Cooperation.
5. Renew Kalamazoo and your community. Homeless Bill of Rights.

We also encourage the creation of local, national and global processes to communicate, organize and converge.  We are meeting more and more on the internet, on mumble, on conference calls.  Global infrastructures are appearing, to bring more people together and able to participate worldwide. We are able as a people to organize worldwide protests and actions. We envision a day of concerted worldwide actions focused on very local issues that expose those local issues as part of the worldwide fight against systemic injustice.  We will gather and share this worldwide action through all the media tools and networks we continue to build through voluntary people power.

We embrace the value derived from face-to-face contact, and understand that no single gathering can be representative of our entire movement.  We recognize that attending in person will be challenging, or impossible for many, so we also commit to pursuing an online component through which anyone can participate via the Internet. We encourage the creation of local, national and global processes by which movement resources could be directed towards funding travel for active movement participants that otherwise would not be able to attend.

In keeping with principles of the Occupy Movement, the NGWG2013 will continue planning this gathering only if this proposal is ratified by a preponderance of General Assemblies from across the Movement.

We are committed to operating in an open, inclusive, and transparent way. Therefore, most planning will be done via direct democratic conference calls, hubs and collaborative tools through the InterOccupy.net platform. All are welcome to participate. We endeavor to convene an historic gathering that will require a great deal of organization, so we invite participants from all Occupys and friends to join us in the planning and facilitation of this effort.

We invite you come to Kalamazoo Aug. 21 – 25.  We ask for your endorsement, and would be honored if you would join us, live, online or in solidarity actions, and become part of this beautiful expression of our collective will!

The National Gathering Working Group 2013

The NGWG2013 is comprised of Occupy Kalamazoo on the ground, and other
Occupiers from across the Globe online, hopefully to soon include you!

Join our Launch Call March 20 @ 8PM ET !
Please send your endorsement or intent of solidarity to natgat2013@gmail.com or comment on our website.  We hope to soon have a form on the website!

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More Info:
NGWG Website: http://www.occupynationalgathering.net
NGWG Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/OccupyNationalGathering?ref=ts&fref=ts
Twitter: @Ng2Kzoo #NatGat2  #natgat2  #NatGat2013  #natgat2013 #Natgat2@thezoo
Occupy Carnival of Social Change:  http://www.facebook.com/events/458980454155941/
National Gathering Hub on InterOccupy:  http://interoccupy.net/natgat2/
Join our Planning Call!  Register here.  We convene every Wednesday at 8 PM ET!

Convergence Areas

1. Fixing Fossil Fuels and Creating an Environmentally Sustainable Future.
2. Economic and Trade Justice, Equal Access and Ending Corporate “Personhood”,   Asserting the People’s Sovereignty.
3. Making and Supporting Free, Unfettered Media.
4. Ending War and Our Police State, Building Peace and Cooperation.
5. Renew Kalamazoo and your community. Homeless Bill of Rights.

There are many pressing issues we face as citizens of this planet, which has been so abused by our species. We are committed to coming together to resist the continued harms that would be foisted upon us by a corporate-military-governmental collusion that usurps our rights to live free from poisons, industrial invasions, job losses, illegal home foreclosures, and other corporate crimes, and to govern our sovereign selves in keeping with our shared principles of justice, equality, peace, respect, inclusion, the rights of Nature and other species, and the rights of future generations of our own species.

We not only resist what is wrong, we work together to build what is good. All of our work revolves around creating more equitable, more inclusive, more participatory, more sensible (from an individual as well as a species- and planet-protection standpoint) governing systems.

At this time the threats to these principles are converging in several areas. We will broadly define five areas in which we will concentrate our collective efforts during this National Gathering; they will be defined more specifically by the participants as we go along in our living Convergence Doc .

1. Fixing Fossil Fuels and Creating an Environmentally Sustainable Future.

We recognize that climate change is the greatest threat we face as a species, and that it is happening Now. Here. Everywhere. At the same time, corporate-state-regulatory- judicial forces are bulldozing broad swaths of private and public lands in the USA and around the globe to frack for methane gas; extract oil from sands and other formations; blast beloved mountains for coal; erect hideous, loud, and dangerous compressor stations; store and transport liquid gases; force upon communities thousands of miles of dangerous pipelines. They are simultaneously drilling in Arctic and subtropical waters, where entire ecosystems are at risk.

We see a better way. People and groups and communities across the USA are finding ways to conserve energy and switch to renewable forms of energy. As a society, as a species, we could transform the country into 100% renewables within a couple of decades. All it takes is the political will. This group will share methods and firsthand knowledge of small-scale and large-scale transformational success stories from the USA and abroad, and strategize on how to effect rapid policy changes on the local, state, national, and international levels to get us off fossil fuels before they burn us alive. This might sound hyperbolic, but we are witnessing such ever-increasing and ever-intensifying climatic catastrophes as floods, droughts, superstorms, and out-of-control fires, all of which can be linked to human contributions to the greenhouse effect that is largely responsible for climate warming.

2. Economic and Trade Justice and Equal Access; Ending Corporate “Personhood” and    Asserting the People’s Sovereignty.

This is a vast area in which many of us have focused energies on one or more aspects — e.g., stopping foreclosures, protecting labor, forgiveness of student debt, moving our money from corporate banks to local credit unions, getting out from under crippling interest-gouging credit debt, and, as in #1 above, halting the gargantuan fossil fuel industry before it makes the planet entirely unfit for human and other species to inhabit. And, as in #3 below, stopping corporate media from completely brainwashing the U.S. public by starting independent media entrepreneurships and projects.

Perhaps the most fundamental aspect to focus on in this whole arena would be the elimination of corporate “personhood” and the accompanying control of our governmental functions (executive, legislative, and judicial) that have been ceded to corporations over more than a century of legislative and judicial “sponsorship.”
Although all these things are intertwined, corporate “personhood” is such a big bite to chew on its own that we’ve given it its own section.

As corporations have expanded their capital, holdings, reach, and influence on governments from local to multinational spheres, they have been empowered by lax or corrupt government in the USA’s “law of the land” more than by actual people. They have eliminated jobs nationwide and shipped jobs abroad, where they can more easily exploit workers. We feel siblinghood with these workers and do not wish to cause them job loss. They have been permitted to operate criminally, even rewarded for their malfeasance in the cases of, for example, the massive bank failures that sent the entire global economy into a tailspin five years ago (most countries and most regular people, farmers, and small businesses in the USA have not recovered from this depression, despite “positive economic indicators” we are constantly fed in the media — more on the media below).

Banks operate with impunity, illegally foreclosing on people’s homes–1,478,622 homes were foreclosed in December 2012 alone, according to RealtyTrac, which also points out that “1 in every 810 housing units received a foreclosure filing in December 2012” Banks and corporations are throwing renters out of their homes and seizing their possessions, while bank executives and board members are paid millions per year.

Economic injustice includes systematic subjugation of or discrimination against people because of their race, color, sex, gender, sexual orientation, creed/faith or lack thereof, age, marital status, socioeconomic situation (“class”), neighborhood or locale (urban, suburban, rural, high-rent, low-rent), family makeup or lack thereof, and political beliefs.

Economic justice includes equal access for all to nutritious food, uncontaminated water, clean air, decent housing; high-quality education, healthcare, and fulfilling job opportunities.  It also includes trade justice, to assure that trading and trade agreements between nations respect the rights of organized labor and all workers, protect the environment and ecosystems, and prevent abuses by mega corporations that put profits over people.  All international trade agreements need to be transparent, accountable, and subject to independent oversight and monitoring.  The Trans Pacific Partnership currently being developed is a case in point of negotiating in secret behind closed doors with no meaningful citizen participation or even democratically elected congressional oversight.  The agreement is being prepared in the dark by corporate officials and their lobbyists and lawyers, with unelected government bureaucrats.  The draft texts have not been released for public scrutiny.   We do not want to see our hard fought rights in the USA compromised by trade agreements that drive to the lowest common denominator and allow global labor exploitation, indiscriminate outsourcing of jobs, destruction of the environment, and degradation of global food and water supplies.

Ending Corporate “Personhood.” A number of bills have been introduced in U.S. Congress and in various states to remove corporations’ protection under law as “persons” and to remove money’s “equality” in the law to speech in electoral politics. Those who know about each of the bills can help us all understand what’s supportable in each. And other things along these lines. At present it seems that building legislative and public support to end corporate abuse of power and collusion with government is the best route, but maybe there are other good ideas out there. Let’s get together and figure out where we want to put our efforts.

3. Making and Supporting Free, Unfettered Media. Without independent, non-corporate-fettered journalists and journalistic enterprises speaking, writing, and drawing truth to power, identifying corporate and governmental corruption, collusion, and usurpation of people’s and other species’ and Nature itself’s rights on the local, state, regional, national, and international levels, we cannot win a single battle in the many-faceted “war” we are waging (please forgive the war analogies) to save our present and our future.

It’s an exciting time for media, perhaps the most exciting time in history (the governmental assault of journalists being the exception). But how do we keep the airwaves free? How do we keep the Internet from being taken over by corporate interests? There are many policy questions and practical questions.

4. Ending War and Our Police State, Building Peace and Cooperation. Let’s come together to discuss getting the U.S. military AND all mercenary forces out of Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, and other regions of the world where they are operating, often without Congressional authorization or public knowledge. And how do we stop attacks by drones that have been taking place around the world in our name. And how do we get NDAA reversed and stop permitting the wanton, capricious, illegal targeting of US citizens and others for surveillance, kidnapping, torture, and murder?

How do we stop the “new slavery” — the outrageously racist incarceration of primarily Black men as a result of the “war on drugs”? As Michelle Alexander, Ohio State University law professor and author of a 2010 book called “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” says, “We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it” by targeting African American men and boys, and even women and girls, in the “war on drugs,” demolishing communities and perpetuating a culture of mass incarceration and racial injustice.

The police state has been very much on the minds of Occupy and other peaceful grassroots protesters. Journalists, professors, whistleblowers, public figures, and ordinary people alike have experienced the cruel hand of state.

5. Renew Kalamazoo and your community. Homeless Bill of Rights.

Project ReNew Kalamazoo is a plan to address some of our gravest community concerns by utilizing alternative energy concepts and methods to address the local social economic, and environmental issues. We can address our social issues in poverty, homelessness, and education, by embracing and empowering alternative energy. Creating horizontal Cooperative business to empower and sustain Community focused goals, programs, and actions.

  Learn more about the NorthEast pipeline by Suncor/Enbridge that is looking at laying DOUBE, and in some Cases TRIPLE pipeline. Traveling through much of Canada, Wisconsin, Chicago, Kalamazoo, Detroit, Windsor, Maine, parts of New York, and the Northeast region

Please help us making our video to send in to the Arcus Foundation.

http://www.arcusfoundation.org/

Just check this doc about what Natgat is doing this year:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18e_l4BrDSAjHsM2yEwu7vifack_l59ilXc3V4OqN8_A/edit

make a small video (even with your phone) about what you would be a part of, or what you would like to see in Natgat.. . and send it to Natgat2013@gmail.com by Mar 6th!

Please help us making our video to send in to the Arcus Foundation.
http://www.arcusfoundation.org/

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We need your help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are shooting a video for the Arcus Center Global Prize. We will use this for making a summer tour empowering grass roots and social justice in multiple countries!! We need enough volunteers to make this an 8-10 minute video!!!

ALL you have to do is:
1- record a video of yourself (even with your phone)
2- read the script below looking at the Camera
3- send it to Natgat2013@gmail.com by Tuesday March 5th!!!!

___________Script __________

This summer, Occupy Kalamazoo is hosting the Occupy National Gathering, August 21st – 25. We will be in Global Solidarity.

Starting on Earthday, we will host local community events in cities and countries around the world:   To Plant a Seed in the ground, and Plant the Seed of Global Communication.

Starting at the street and neighborhood level:  Holding a public pot lucks and community discussions about what the PEOPLE think we need, and how WE THE PEOPLE can do it.

We stand in Solidarity with Tim (Congrats Tim!), Bidder 70! and then this seed grows!

In June (still growing) our first flowers bloom.  Our Summer of Change tours, with musicians, teach ins, streamers, Occupy Sandy Drive, artists, Strike debt concerts) will begin heading to a city near you, on their way to the Zoo.

In August, we harvest:   The Occupy National Gathering begins in Kalamazoo as well as in cities and countries around the world, and the People of the World speak to each other about what the PEOPLE think we need, and how WE THE PEOPLE can do it.

___________ End script ___________

- if you have creative edits please feel free!!!!
to find out more email Natgat2013@gmail.com or call at 269-217-6600! – Be the Change you wish to see!