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== Organizing Agenda ==
== Organizing Agenda ==
; Moving beyond the [http://books.google.com/books?id=CzXh8UOEQscC&lpg=PA214&ots=bTUHiwMUqA&dq=liberty%20league%20%22Wall%20Street%20model%20of%20human%20liberty%22&pg=PA214#v=onepage&q=liberty%20league%20%22Wall%20Street%20model%20of%20human%20liberty%22&f=false “Wall Street model of human liberty.”]
; Moving beyond the [http://books.google.com/books?id=CzXh8UOEQscC&lpg=PA214&ots=bTUHiwMUqA&dq=liberty%20league%20%22Wall%20Street%20model%20of%20human%20liberty%22&pg=PA214#v=onepage&q=liberty%20league%20%22Wall%20Street%20model%20of%20human%20liberty%22&f=false “Wall Street model of human liberty.”]
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== Upcoming Events ==
== Upcoming Events ==
{{:Community Assembly Organizing Meeting - Saturday February 4 2012}}
TBA
{{:Community Assembly to Create a People's Budget}}
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[[File:People's Assembly Flyer.jpg|right|450px]]


== Links to Documents ==
== Links to Documents ==
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kCqPEYKr6vPnCKUYd5mhPQM6cEG0RKFQU6rjcQ4crDo/edit A Budget for the Rest of Us]
; See our [[CA/Documents|documents]] page.
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UiA9apRr3-UdpSxjIlONK8SQ36HMqPBqFBs-qgvVzCc/edit Resolution in Support of a Community Assembly to Create a “People’s Budget”]
: (Short version.)
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fb7siEFOA4WU24ijEPZRoBXHa313V-7qs1b17Qn3fcQ/edit Resolution in Support of a Community Assembly to Create a “People’s Budget”]
: (Long version -- draft.)
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YyEYxveTI04hIOPqkdQdiRg7GVOea6JoXYcN_cuZoxc/edit CA Outreach Update - Time Sensitive]
: (Shorter, updated list.)
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W8Dik6YzpFNx4ThZVKZFxc6C-1clzcc4bG-LFbz9IY8/edit CA outreach lists]
: (Fuller list.)
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w3QoGnPTFpePYL0-IOTfiv-f70gJ8Lsb780FoMgFTJY/edit Peoples’ Assembly Organizing Committee - Combined Meeting Notes]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/12Wdqn6D8B4zE7c281DRqMNmrK3LVPLwblBYh9GKcdBs/edit Proposal Ideas: Community Assembly for a People’s Budget]
: This document contains DRAFT proposals that began with suggestions and ideas that emerged during [[Peoples’ Assembly Organizing Committee#Past_Events_.2F_Meetings|inaugural meeting]] to plan for a Community Assembly Meeting for a People’s Budget, which took place on Thursday, January 26, 2012 in Portland, Oregon.


=== Contact Us ===
=== Contact Us ===
'''Group Homepage:''' http://groups.google.com/group/peoples-assembly<br />
'''Group Homepage:''' http://groups.google.com/group/peoples-assembly<br />
'''Group Email:''' peoples-assembly -AT- googlegroups -DOT- com
'''Group Email:''' peoples-assembly -AT- googlegroups -DOT- com<br />
'''Info Page on PortlandGeneralAssembly.org''': [http://www.portlandgeneralassembly.org/groups/community-assembly-for-a-peoples-budget/ Community Assembly to Create a People’s Budget]


== Attend Our Meetups! ==
== Attend Our Meetups! ==
; Join our discussion list -- http://groups.google.com/group/peoples-assembly
; Join our discussion list -- http://groups.google.com/group/peoples-assembly
We generally schedule meetings on Wednesday evenings from 5:30 - 7:00. Please connect with us through our [http://groups.google.com/group/peoples-assembly mailing list] to receive all time/date/location updates.
Please connect with us through our [http://groups.google.com/group/peoples-assembly mailing list] to receive all time/date/location updates.
* '''Next Meetup''': [[Community Assembly Organizing Meeting|To be announced.]]


== Past Events / Meetings ==
== Past Events / Meetings ==
* [[Community Assembly Organizing Meeting - Saturday February 11 2012]]
* [[Community Assembly Organizing Meeting - Saturday February 4 2012]]
; A Budget for the Rest of Us
; A Budget for the Rest of Us
:'''Who''': [[Occupy Portland Labor Outreach Committee|Occupy Portland’s Labor Solidarity Committee]]
:'''Who''': [[Occupy Portland Labor Outreach Committee|Occupy Portland’s Labor Solidarity Committee]]
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== See Also ==
== See Also ==
* [[CA/Working People's Campaign]]
* [[Occupy Portland Labor Outreach Committee]]
* [[Occupy Portland Labor Outreach Committee]]
* [[Represent The People]]
* [[Represent The People]]
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* [[Organized Power]]
* [[Organized Power]]


== Further Reading & Research ==
== Grammatical Confusion? ==
* [[wikipedia:March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom]]
* [http://afsc.org/sites/afsc.civicactions.net/files/documents/1967%20Dec%20-%20statement%20by%20MLK.pdf Statement by Dr., Martin Luther King Jr., President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Announcing The Poor People's Campaign. Atlanta, Georgia, December 4, 1967.]
* [http://www.snspress.com/pages/Vol.10_no10.htm The Poor People’s Campaign 43 years later through the lens of Occupy Wall Street]
: Scroll down to the "The Poor People’s Campaign — 1968 The “Occupy” Movement — 2011" (compared) section.
* [http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/db_article.php?article_id=301 How To Destroy The Occupy Movement And How To Prevent It From Failing]
* [http://viewpointmag.com/2012/01/20/a-constituent-power-greater-than-its-parts-occupy-and-workers-from-the-port-shutdown-to-the-primaries/ A Constituent Power Greater Than its Parts: Occupy and Workers from the Port Shutdown to the Primaries]
* [http://roarmag.org/2012/01/book-review-hessel-morin-the-road-to-hope/ Book review: Hessel & Morin — The Road to Hope]
: See the sections "What are the problems?" and "What are the solutions?" for useful ideas.
* [http://roarmag.org/2011/11/the-ninety-five-theses-on-the-ills-of-europe/ The Ninety-Five Theses on the Ills of Europe]
* [http://www.thenation.com/blog/164080/king-versus-tea-party-poor-peoples-campaign-occupy King Versus the Tea Party: From the Poor People's Campaign to Occupy]
* [http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_668.pdf The Freedom Budget at 45: Functional Finance and Full Employment] - '''ABSTRACT''':
:: Forty-five years ago, the A. Philip Randolph Institute issued “The Freedom Budget,” in which a program for economic transformation was proposed that included a job guarantee for everyone ready and willing to work, a guaranteed income for those unable to work or those who should not be working, and a living wage to lift the working poor out of poverty. Such policies were supported by a host of scholars, civic leaders, and institutions, including the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; indeed, they provided the cornerstones for King’s “Poor Peoples’ Campaign” and “[[wikipedia:Second Bill of Rights#.E2.80.9CThe_Economic_Bill_of_Rights.E2.80.9D|economic bill of rights]].”
:: [http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_668.pdf This paper] proposes a “New Freedom Budget” for full employment based on the principles of functional finance. To counter a major obstacle to such a policy program, the paper includes a “primer” on three paradigms for understanding government budget deficits and the national debt: the deficit hawk, deficit dove, and functional finance perspectives. Finally, some of the benefits of the job guarantee are outlined, including the ways in which the program may serve as a vehicle for a variety of social policies.
* [http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=3551 Unions and the movement] - Howard Zinn on class in America Pt4: A reinvigorated labor movement needed for a great social upheaval
: "90 percent of the workforce is unorganized. They're organizable. This 90 percent of the workforce are not people who are rich. They're people who need unions. They need to raise their wages. They need to be able to face their employers with some strength rather than the weakness of an individual facing a corporation. So there's a reservoir of possibility there for organizing."
 
== External Links ==
* [http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/ Peoples Assemblies Network]
: Includes '''Peoples Assemblies News''' and '''Peoples Assemblies Groups'''.
* [http://projects.occupy.net/projects/fga Federated General Assembly - Introduction]
* [http://wiki.occupy.net/wiki/Federated_General_Assembly Federated General Assembly - Description]
: The Federated General Assembly (FGA) project is building a new web platform that combines community organizing techniques and ideas, lessons and patterns from social networks, web standards and best practices, all together with the very real ecosystem of Occupy itself: occupations & their working groups, the values and principles, and all the coordination & communication challenges.
 
=== Grammatical Confusion? ===
; &#8220;Peoples&#8217;&#8221; or &#8220;People&#8217;s&#8221;?
; &#8220;Peoples&#8217;&#8221; or &#8220;People&#8217;s&#8221;?
Either way works for this group!
Either way works for this group!
== References ==
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[[Category:Community Assembly]]
[[Category:Community Assembly Portal]]
[[Category:Occupy Portland Labor Outreach Committee]]
[[Category:Occupy Portland Labor Outreach Committee]]
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Latest revision as of 18:55, 8 May 2012

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Organizing Agenda

Moving beyond the “Wall Street model of human liberty.”

The ever expanding burdens thrown onto the backs of working people are not only unreasonable, oppressive and unfair, these burdens have grown too big for working people to shoulder. In response, Occupy Portland's Labor Outreach Committee has launched a Peoples’ Assembly Organizing Committee tasked with organizing, planning and facilitating the democratic development of a peoples’ budget centered on democratically addressing the primary economic interests of ordinary working people.

Upcoming Events

TBA

Links to Documents

See our documents page.

Contact Us

Group Homepage: http://groups.google.com/group/peoples-assembly
Group Email: peoples-assembly -AT- googlegroups -DOT- com
Info Page on PortlandGeneralAssembly.org: Community Assembly to Create a People’s Budget

Attend Our Meetups!

Join our discussion list -- http://groups.google.com/group/peoples-assembly

Please connect with us through our mailing list to receive all time/date/location updates.

Past Events / Meetings

A Budget for the Rest of Us
Who: Occupy Portland’s Labor Solidarity Committee
What: Strategy Session
When: Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Oregon Fair Trade Campaign Office
Address: 310 SW 4th Ave., Suite 436, Downtown Portland

In addition to our group discussion list, a number of our wiki pages use the possessive of peoples, as in indigenous peoples. It's likely, however, that the possessive of people, as in We the People, will appear more often in the discussions we have and in the documents we craft.

See Also

Grammatical Confusion?

“Peoples’” or “People’s”?

Either way works for this group!

References
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