From the Occupy Together Home Page

[patrick t. cakes]

Your crazy if you don't think this is organized. Open your eyes.

Apparently there's a "Portland Model"

We wanted to feature Portland as an example for those of you would like a model to follow or to take from as they have done a great job joining and organizing efforts in a very short amount of time. Of course, each group dynamic is going to vary and what worked for Portland may not work for you, but at least this will give you an idea of how others are doing it.

Basically it all comes down to networking and extensive planning. The initial construction of the Occupy Portland Facebook group was backed by some pretty frequent tweeting. Once we started getting a huge following, there were more and more discussions popping up on the Facebook group. We were discussing where it should be, what Portland laws were regarding “urban camping”, as well as a number of other concerns. We then held a General Assembly to further organize where were all in consensus with our future actions and demonstration details. After we compiled notes from the GA, we discussed them further on the Facebook group. Once we had the frame work of what everyone wanted and expected we set up a Facebook page and web site to better organize and announce future details.

General Assembly:

I think the most important thing for us was using the General Assembly model and making each decision everyone’s decision. This helped us remain unified. Legal assistance, bike deliveries, medics, photographers, people who can stream the protest, and similar topics were brought up. We covered nearly all the bases, and most of us left with a pretty hefty amount of notes.

Legal Advice:

Contact your local National Lawyers Guild early on for legal advice in your area. We are holding a seminar with the National Lawyers Guild so that we can become versed in the proper execution of a demonstration like this. They have confirmed that legal observers will be present durring our demonstration. We are also planning to hold a meeting with them where we discuss the importance of nonviolence and the proper way to conduct oneself in civil disobedience.

Link to the homepage...
<http://occupytogether.org/>

ORGANIZE DON'T DEMORALIZE!

[patrick t. cakes]

1. kick

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Might I add an impotant link..

http://www.nlg.org/

National Lawyers Guild...

Kick some cash there, Yes pizzas are important, but lawyers are essential

[patrick t. cakes]

4. They have that covered

this has moved beyond pizza

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Kicked in ten bucks

Pizza matters, but lawyers are essential

[patrick t. cakes]

13. you do the same.

Solidarity

[patrick t. cakes]

3. kick

[tama]

5. Learn one thing

teach it to one other. We are learning fast, let's keep it on. Experience shared is information, experience shared is inspiration for creating and sharing new experiences.

[patrick t. cakes]

7. +1

[Dragonfli]

8. Wow, what you just said reminded me of the leaders in the old days +1

It is almost getting to where it was when we used to fight back in unity against US imperialism and violations of basic human civil rights.

I was beginning to give up.

[patrick t. cakes]

10. +1 man, i love where this is going!

[tama]

11. When things look like a nightmare, wake up!

We are all leaders when the great current runs through our body and soul, we let go of fear and move with the flow.

We are the ones we have been wating for.

[Lorien]

6. Quote seen on FB today:

"You can stand outside the funeral of an American soldier killed in battle with signs that say "Your son is in hell" and "God hates your fag son" but if you sit on the sidewalk in New York to protest the uncontrolled greed of Wall Street, you are asking for a serious ass kicking by the police. Is this the America we want?" -Political Loudmouth

[steve2470]

9. k&r nt