Part 7/8 - Temp Checking Goals - Occupy Richmond General Assembly - Jan. 8, 2012 - Richmond, VA
Channel: OccupyRichmond2011
Date: 2012-01-12

In this portion of the meeting, members of Occupy Richmond voted if they were opposed to any of the goals stated by the breakout groups, in order to get a sense of what shared goals we could seek to accomplish.
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Graham: "so what I see hear is a list of goals, objectives, tactics and strategies"
Graham establishes process for continuing by temp-checking every single ideas and see where we stand and then, have these ideas go to a Strategy Work Group that will reshape them into a more simple or one-page document.
Graham asks for GA's approval to continue this way, GA gives approval

CQ: What happens with the goals that have a 90% modified consensus once temp-checked?

A: The consensus will give Authority to a Strategy Group who will create a Strategic document and they will take all points consensed upon to build into this Strategic Document.

"There will be no discussion on these points, just temp-check"

List to temp check:
Established
Go after and affect VaGA: 100% Consensus reached.

Discussion on how we are voting.
Motion to Table issue because there is desire to speak on every single issue

Motion to Re-organize the list into Goals, Strategies, Tactics and Objectives

Motion to freeze this dry erase board and keep this list... instead of temp-checking, what if we just had three boxes: Goals, Strategies and Tactics. Support of Motion to Table.

Point of Process: Temp-check is not a vote. It doesn't get rid of anything.
Point of Process: We're getting bogged down by whether or not this process is going to serve everyone's needs. It's not about getting all of this exactly right.

Graham: "What I'm hearing is" we can temp-check this stuff, nothing is set in stone, and if it has positive temp-checks then we can move forward with this process"

Motion to take temp-check/vote on whether or not we want to go with what the Facilitator is trying to do.

Vote to move forward with this process: Three dissenting votes.

Motion to move forward passes.

Downs mean Dissenting Voices

Stand Asides means Abstain

All goals were voted upon, for results see full minutes at link above.

Q from Moderator: Does anyone feel that their group's messages were mangled?
Answer 1. Yes. Get money out of politics and Campaign Finance Reform was combinedm, but I see those as different things.

Answer 2. Yes... on point about Increase Occupy Richmond's political presence.
Re-check: for "Get corporate money out of politics" : 0 downs, 1 stand aside

Re-check for "Increase public participation in Occupy and in the political process" : 1 down, 0 stand asides

Motion to set location of GA for Thursday

Q: Are we ok having Friends Meeting House as a default location for that GA?