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The Basis for Unity Project A Natural Evolution of The Principles of the Occupy Movement
A Social Venture Proposal to Support Occupying the Future… with love…
Some ProjectsCollaborating with NGO’s and First Nations Groups on major pipeline and tanker resistance initiativesOrganizing pipeline workshopWorking with BCTF on a series of actionsWorking with the BC Fed and the Vancouver District and Labour Council on May Day eventEngaging unions to discuss May Day, Day of ActionEngaged with OWS Global Square team that is building the ‘facebook for Occupy’Engaged with StartSomeGood, crowdsourcing team to develop ‘tribesourcing’ modelOrganizing crowdsourcing/’tribesourcing’ workshop
Occupy Vancouver Governance
General Assembly
Meets Sat at 1pm and Wed at 7pm at W2 Media Café, 111 W. Hastings (at Abbott)
Spokes Council Meets Sun at 1pm and Wed at 7pm at W2 Media Café, 111 W. Hastings (at Abbott)
Occupy Vancouver CommitteesFood Not Bombs
The money spent by the world's governments on weapons in one week is enough to feed all the people on earth for a year. Vancouver Food Not Bombs is the local chapter of an international network of autonomous collectives that challenge this gross misallocation of resources
Direct Action We conduct various actions to raise awareness on issues relating to homelessness, environmental degradation and economic and political injustice!
Media We manage the website, make sure all events and major meetings are livestreamed, and promote Occupy Vancouver via social media.
Occupy Vancouver Working GroupsFloccupy A Floccupation happens when people follow some basic principles: We meet
in public. When we meet, we prepare for the next time we meet. We work out a date, time and place for our next meeting. Each time we meet, we meet for a longer duration than our current meeting. It prepares us psychologically and tactically for occupying public space!
Occupied Vancouver Sun Working Group
We go to print every two weeks and are always looking for those to help with creating content as well as joining our street teams to help with distribution!
OV Environmental Justice Working Group
Focusing its efforts on the raising awareness about and developing actions in relation to the Keystone and Northern Gateway pipelines
OV Political Justice Working Group
Focusing on exposing different ways in which money corrupts the political process and exploring strategies to bring about change
OV Economic Justice Working Group
Focusing on exposing the ways in which the centralization of financial power and income inequality leads to substantial social problems, environmental problems etc
OV Labour Strategy Working Group
Focusing its efforts on developing relationships with unions and rank and file so as to organize joint direct actions and events
Occupy Love Is organizing flash mobs, skytrain jams, spontaneous dance events, decentralized dance parties and all kinds of fun activities!
OV Music Festival Working Group
Is organizing a large music festival in the summer that will include music, workshops, booths, food and lots of dancing and fun times!
Occupy Wild Salmon Working Group
For the love and protection of Wild Salmon. A Workgroup started out of OccupyVancouver. Hoping to share concepts about non-violent, creative direct action for change that will ensure the long term sustainability of a precious food sources and a keystone species of our ECO System.
Media Strategy
Occupied Vancouver Sun NewspaperOV Voice: Co-Op RadioOV LivestreamYoutube videos, documentaries etc... We have hundreds of hours of recorded sound and video
Global Scalability
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Collaboration Technology Layer:
Global Square Project
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Mission Statement
To develop and implement innovative, collaborative models, processes and infrastructure that serves to unify the general public and the institutions that represent the general public
General Problem Statement
Systemic problems require collaboration across all public institutionsThe infrastructure and processes for collaboration across institutions (organizational boundaries) has not been developedThere is too much focus on what divides us and not enough attention paid to our areas of common ground.
Academia
Unions
Social Busines
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Govern-ment
First Nations
GeneralPublic
CollaborationInfrastructure
and Processes
Physical Space
Stakeholders
Political
Justice
Environ-
mental
Justice
Econ-omic Justic
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OV Enviro-Justice WG
Stakeholders
OV Economic Justice WG
OV Political Justice WG
Stakeholders
Stakeholders
Areas of Focus
From Networking To CollaborationUnderstanding the Evolution
Networking Coordinating Cooperating Collaborating
Activities Goals Trust
Networking Exchanging information for mutual benefit
Low Trust
Coordination Exchanging information
Modifying activities: regular meetings etc.
Goals are complementary (not
in conflict)
Some Trust
Cooperation Exchanging information
Modifying activities
Sharing resources
Goals are compatible Moderate Trust
Collaboration Exchanging information
Modifying activities
Sharing resources
Co-Creating (sharing risks and rewards)
Some goals are equivalent
High Trust
From Networking To CollaborationUnderstanding the Differences
Consensus Building
Occupy has substantial experience running large group consensus models that include strongly diverging opinions
Alternative consensus and collaboration based models can be explored
Virtual Space
Conversation Spaces• Skype• Facebook Group• Mumble
Information Spaces• Wiki• Google Documents
Services
Process ConsultingCollaboration and consensus building
Web ConsultingCollaboration Infrastructure
Issue Based Workshops
Funding Strategy
Receive Monthly Contributions from Stakeholders
Stakeholder Amount
Unions
First Nations
Academia
Social Business
Government
General Public (TribeSourcing)