Introductions and Ice Breakers

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!