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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.”] | |||
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 [[Occupy Portland Labor Outreach Committee|Labor Outreach Committee]] has launched a [[Occupy Portland Labor Outreach Peoples’ Assembly Organizing Committee|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. | 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 [[Occupy Portland Labor Outreach Committee|Labor Outreach Committee]] has launched a [[Occupy Portland Labor Outreach Peoples’ Assembly Organizing Committee|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. | ||
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== Join The Discussion! == | == Join The Discussion! == | ||
Attend one of our organizing meetups. | |||
; Thursday, January 26, 2012 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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Revision as of 18:20, 27 January 2012
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.
Initial Questions
- Why do we need a Peoples’ Assembly?
- What would a Peoples’ Assembly look like and do?
- Who are we going to approach as partners in building this?
- What are our next steps towards putting this proposal together?
Links to Documents
- A Budget for the Rest of Us
- Resolution in Support of a Community Assembly to Create a “People’s Budget”
- (Short version.)
- (Long version -- draft.)
- (Shorter, updated list.)
- (Fuller list.)
Join The Discussion!
Attend one of our organizing meetups.
- Thursday, January 26, 2012 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
Contact Us
Group Homepage: http://groups.google.com/group/peoples-assembly
Group Email: peoples-assembly -AT- googlegroups -DOT- com
Attend Our Meetups!
- Join our discussion list -- http://groups.google.com/group/peoples-assembly
We usually meet every Wednesday evening from 5:30 - 7:00 at the Lucky Lab's SE Hawthorne Boulevard location (915 Southeast Hawthorne). Please connect with us through our mailing list to receive all time/date/location updates.
Grammatical Confusion?
- “Peoples’” or “People’s”?
Either way works for this group!
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
Further Reading & Research
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
- Statement by Dr., Martin Luther King Jr., President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Announcing The Poor People's Campaign. Atlanta, Georgia, December 4, 1967.
- 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.
- How To Destroy The Occupy Movement And How To Prevent It From Failing
- A Constituent Power Greater Than its Parts: Occupy and Workers from the Port Shutdown to the Primaries
- Book review: Hessel & Morin — The Road to Hope
- See the sections "What are the problems?" and "What are the solutions?" for useful ideas.
- The Ninety-Five Theses on the Ills of Europe
- King Versus the Tea Party: From the Poor People's Campaign to Occupy
External Links
- Includes Peoples Assemblies News and Peoples Assemblies Groups.