Introductions and Ice Breakers

I'm from Occupy Philly. I taught yoga on the first day. I helped relocate the homeless after the encampment was evicted. Helped out on NatGat1 because I didn't want to see good people being arrested for exercising their human and civil rights.
Been online organizing for almost 3 years and on the ground community organizer in Philly for 25 years.
http://www.demotix.com/news/1006270/homeless-and-occupy-phillys-urban-renewal-project-philadelphia#media-1006200

I'm Sea from the Sacramento GA. This is a challenging job to arrange for the gathering. Looking forward to having fun there.

Warm welcome to @sea and gratitude for grounding us in Sacramento and your wise words on right relationship with indigenous peoples

Tricia, thanks for putting us on the map. What does the @ do, placed before a name? I remember the first few glorious days, the conflicts and oppression, the near death of our GA more than once, and now, though we disagree, we are managing to work together.

The @ button gets you to the person's profile (which shows what other groups they are in and not much more)

I am falling in love with Sacramento http://vimeo.com/90509954

I am Julia Clark from Twin City , GA at the moment.

https://oolith.wordpress.com/?s=Culling+Corruption+Campaign&submit=Search

https://oolith.wordpress.com/?s=Occupation&submit=Search

https://oolith.wordpress.com/?s=Occupy&submit=Search

https://oolith.wordpress.com/?s=coup&submit=Search

That is a lot about me & the best way to find things on my site.

I have red hair and green eyes. I like hiking and camping, Oppps Wrong profile! :P

Ok, something not readily known. I wish I had my PhD.

Sally, Occupy Bergen County, Nat Gat Visioning Group after NatGat2012; Planning Group for NatGat2013 (creator of pamphbook)

Welcome aboard @nikiv !

whoo hoo! =) Thanks Tricia ... I guess this would be a great place to upload my notes from the conference call! digital hugs.

Come on folks. Introduce your self.

Jackie, IO, Occupy Buffalo; - helped with NatGat2, Occupy Sandy.
Occupy was the clarion call for me to get active; since OB has been in suspension, my participation is mainly as online support.

@sea the "at mention" function also sends you a notification that you are mentioned. use to bring the comment to someone's attention.

I'm justin I occupy wall street, info & comhub, think tank, queering ows, disability caucus, sandy.

i founded a bunch of things- some tool libraries, food pantries & couple co ops around silk screening, design and artsty type occupy things.

oh yeah im a technical writer, editor, event coordinator, ghost social media community manager (the largest has a reach of 8.82 M on Twitter alone) & while not serving on several long term recovery groups in sandy affected areas i write short fiction, poetry & wikipedia articles.

pen names, celebs & exiled world leaders aside feel free to creep on my public social media stuff.

http://about.me/justinstoned/#

oh owned a bookstore for a while & have a couple degrees here somewhere with the various disaster case manger training books I use to train new DCMs.

my semi-anon projects are op safe winter & wave of action. founded those too in community... but i don't #humblebrag.

https://piratenpad.de/p/OpSafeWinterPress

www.waveofaction.org

i build networks & get accused of being a troll often by folks who don't know me.

ask jackie. im a bit of an ass if you don't know where im coming from but always put the values of Occupy & it's scrappy rag tag community first.

capt ray loves me. ben AND jerry do too.

u will too when you see what i can do with given a little breathing room.

oh yeah im known in occupy for getting sh*t done with no funding.. like the si tool library

http://occupysandy.net/?projects=occupy-sandy-staten-island-tool-library

im just a poor part white boy who knows some tricks & like to occupy.

#Micdrop

I'm the OTHER Justin. Ask @rustyrockets about my tent. http://www.russellbrand.com/2011/10/occupy/

Thanks for the intell Justin. I always wanted to know that information. I a sure that photo you have there that read "I founded occupy wall street" really made great press.

Come on folks. Introduce yourselves.

Not sure, if I should write here, as I am not in the USA ... I am just looking for informations to forward to my German (and perhaps european) friends in occupy, Blockupy and refugee-Movement ... :)

Ulrike, you are welcome here! Glad to share any information we have.

Julila, I suspect that the photo about founding OWS dates to the time when Justine made that claim in print; there was quite some pushback!

Ulrike's been on many Occupy lists for quite a while now. Glad you are keeping tabs on NatGat for our euro-Kameraden.

right. there was a whole #Ifoundedwallstreet thing for a few weeks. facebook groups, twitter the whole nine.

#IfoundedNatGat. ;)

Folk, introduce yourselves.

Sea can you share some details about yourself?

Folks might also want to provide links & update profile pics..

Always good to match a name with a face.

Welcome aboard @aiman and @donnapiranha . Please introduce yourselves and thanks for stepping up!

I was with Occ Oaklnd from around the first Thanksgiving (shortly after the encampment ended), started facilitating GAs and wanted to get the decision-making process to be modified consensus (more like what OWS used) than what was really a supermajority wherein the majority rolled over the minority and the minority had no voice. After about 6 months, tired of those who most decrying the ways of the dominant paradigm themselves being the most dominant, I drifted away (in a slow silent divorce).
I am not an activist, and I'm less interested with what we do and more drawn to how go about doing it and how we are with each other. A former Mac software developer (before that, a record producer for my own small label in D.C.), I was trained to facilitate collaborative methods/processes and teach workshops. I'm a Jungian (coach, writer, teacher), very active with personal growth work and the "new paradigm for the masculine" and teach workshops on relationship and other topics of the psyche. To me, some aspects of Occupy (along with some other non-Occupy) represent some pieces of what could (with some modification IMO) be a new model for society.
I've been with InterOccupy (IO) since the end of 2011. I love IO and would probably trust my life with those folks. There's no one in IO whose intention I would ever question, even when I disagree with them.
I've been involved with all three NatGats, though as heavily with the first two, probably more so this time because I live 100 miles from Sacto.

Welcome Aboard Bradley Mastin -- here's his introduction "Hi from Bradley Mastin (I), Alhambra, Ca 1957. first of eastern family ®. Alta Loma High 1975, CSUS B.S. Outdoor Recreation 1975 -1983. Willing to help with water because I worked as white water tour guide in Sierras in 70s & 80s. Was involved in Stanislaus & protest to stop filling reservoir. Worked as student intern at Sacramento Capitol for Sharon Negri, Mark’s wife, at PCL in 80s. Now with BLM in Barstow Ca. My daughter just graduated from csus in december. I know and understand the water issues very well and would like to help here, also an accouting & budget expert (practical and cause & effect). For example, we are asked to save water, yet the vast majority of our water goes to grow food. We waste about 50% of our food. Maybe we should change our shopping and dining habits instead? I have lived, worked and studied all over the state and viscerally understand the different viewpoints.
Work projects i spearheaded include first management plan of south fork american river (as intern), El Mirage Cooperative Mangement Area plan; Amargosa Wild and Scenic River designation. I love life and people, i interact with people, i do not fear people, i engage people, i do not judge people. My heart & the right side of my brain guide me as an independent, risk taking, life loving, being.
brad"

Hi Brad, Hope you make it to NatGat. There's an inactive working group called "Workers Health and the Environment". Are you interested in that?

Also we received this message, from Ojai CA. Are you far from there?

Lucas Thayer
I have free veggies to be brought to Occupy National Gathering in Sacramento. The veggies are in Ojai CA. Can anyone help get these veggies to NatGat? Bring empty boxes. Bring the veggies to Sacramento for a kitchen prep team to turn the ingredients into prepared meals for people at the event.
Occupy National Gathering Occupy National Gathering Excellent! DM us with details. We'll call it #OperationNomNom

Here's a food distributor near Sacramento.
Fowler Bros Distributors
110 Gary Pl, San Rafael, CA 94901
(415) 459-3406
They might be able to help with trucks and stuff. I know Fowler used to bring organic food to northern Calif from Ojai CA. They might know someone who can haul water too.
See the discussioin: "Food and Water for the Event".
Cheers!
Sea.

I put Ojai on the caravan map, hoping that someone could swing by.

Awesome!

Once we get closer, and I am more comfortable with how I am putting it together, I believe we can embed it in our Web site. Not sure about editing after that, though, so just passing around as is for now. I never used the site before, it is click2map.com (org?)

Hi Group! Tricia thanks for invite, and Sea yes about Ojai, it is west of me where everything from la north is on way to Sacto. Will go to discussions.

Welcome aboard Nicholas L - a young anarchist with illustration skills, looking for connections and a way to use his skills to make changes.

@nicholaslarsen take a look at our discussion of a logo—we were asked to have some swag put together to be handed out in early July to encourage attendance; an offer, presumably still open, for items produced with our single-color logo—which needs to be created. . . . interested? Warning: we can be a fairly critical bunch, but we have a real need; I think we can play nice!

I'm Daniel Hong, from Occupy Portland, OR. While I understand the complexity of event planning, as everything is interconnected (and I do help out in providing opinions and facilitating the weekly conference calls to the best of my ability), my first and foremost focus for #NatGat2014 is providing transportation for my comrades in the Pacific NW -- that is, Oregon, Washington and Idaho -- starting with my city.

Is my browser fooling me? Or has Justin been listed in the group and not in the group, back and forth, three or so times?

It is true, not sure why he got bumped the last time, but Tricia readded him before I got to do it. Everyone in, nobody out! (as the single-payer folks [me included!] say)

Hello guys. My name is nick. I don't normally like introducing myself like this because I happen to be a shy person.

I'll get to work on a logo right away.

Welcome, Nick.

@nicholaslarsen Welcome! Thanks for working on the logo!

Anyone new?

Welcome aboard @jeremyentwistle @matt1

S is now O. sea is now oswgwhe.
:-)
So much for old browsers and beta software.
;-(

oswgwhe = Occupy Sacramento Working Group ??_?
or am I trying to create meaning where none exists?

Ok @oswgwhe ~ May I ask you to edit your writings before posting the comment? It might cut down on revisions and multiple postings. Thank you!

Welcome aboard @laurarubalcaba Please introduce yourself and your ideas!

Quite sharp Sally,
Its Occupy Sacramento Working Group for Workers Health and the Environment.

my name is Laura and I live in Sacramento. I am an experienced organizer with move on. I would like to propose that we do a media rally at a local TV station on Saturday. I can be a focal point for organizing this.

Tricia and Jackie, it's good to talk again! :) I'm really excited to see the organizing being done on this platform.

@jeremyentwistle - hey there Jeremy! Glad to see you on this platform too.

@laurarubalcaba - welcome! +1 media rally.

@carolyndixon
Welcome Carolyn. I was so happy to hear your voice on the Conference Call. I'm looking forward to hearing more from you. Any ideas?
Sea.

I made a proposal on the Loomio proposal site about some kind of transportation help for people with limited mobility so we can participate in the marches. I hope it can be easily found there.

That would be Abstain! People who vote that will get an offer of help from me. ;)

Just be aware, I have limited time this week!

I admit, that not only did I join the discussion late, but I fall into the barely able to type on a computer category! Even though I will be defending my thesis in May at the U of I, I am a bit of a luddite and feel that this whole computer business is going to crash eventually...we will probably run out of the rare earth minerals, at least! So, I try to do my work on paper and read real books, and hit the ground running! Activism to me is a necessary voice that everyone should experience at least once! I mean EXPERIENCE, not just read about on the news. That being said, my thesis is on....drumroll please...Occupy Everywhere, but focusing on the message that is used to draw people in, the visual art as well as the written text, and media, and what affects the most people in their sleepy homes. This also encompasses Conflict Tourism, in which many go to watch the conflict in order to feel the hairs raise on the back of their necks on occasion, but don't really participate (bystanders, etc.) Next, I address the participant observation of anthropology and how that applies here. I believe in protest and agency. There, that is pretty much my profile. I assume you have my picture from facebook using @toad then?

Justin, kindly refrain from disabling the consensus process. Any proposal that purports to circumvent someone's ability to block is an invalid proposal. Any proposal that features insults to those who disagree (a form of bullying or manipulation, IMO) should be considered an invalid proposal.

@cal Loomio is a tool set.

please take the time to read the proposal.

we are not trying to come to consensus but trying to get to know one another.

look forward to you seeing how versatile loomio is..

I'm Cathy Grahnert and I've been trying to stay out of the heavy lifting because I am so wrapped up with taking care of my mother right now. She will be going on hospice care soon. I'm more of a direct action person than a planning person... For three years I have been active with the Foreclosure Working Group.

http://embed.scribblelive.com/Embed/v5.aspx?Id=90998&ThemeId=10035
Scroll down five photos... I'm the one in the red sweater.

Please visit most any of my various media for Lovely videos of me! Please comment. I love comments! If you would like your own lovely video of me personalized to you, comment only 15.5 times within the next 72 hours and a lovely personalized video for you to share with your loved ones will be yours! Act today!

Did you notice the proposal @juliaclark?

You seem to have made comments on every thread but ignored all the proposals.

Notice.....Hmmm OK

Dear Proposal,
ohhh proposal what al lovely thing you are. I shall cherish you forever and ever and ever! With your bling bling voting options and your alluring use of capitalization and the letter O's . Did you know O is my favorite letter?
Oh my dear proposal, please do not fear that I have ignored you, but I truly cherish watching your loveliness from afar.
Yours with never ending love,
Julia Clark

I think that Julia has indicated her approval, not so much by the lovely letter above, but by having already made videos.

Welcome, new volunteers! I see we have some cross-talk here that is not simply introductions; sorry for any confusion; please stay! Earlier posts were truly introductory; here is my info:
Sally G, Occupy Bergen County, N.J.: attended part of NatGat2012/Philadelphia, joined Vision Work Group afterward, with Fred Wood, brought results to S17 celebration in N.Y.C.: worked on planning team for NatGat2013/Kalamazoo, created “pamphbook” guide, part of finance team. This year, I am just trying to do a bit of everything and stay in touch with everybody! Looking forward to Sacramento soon!

I got an email to invite Ali...don't know how...anyone?

I saw that you found it! +1