Safety Team
Tricia
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"Conflict is inevitable, combat is optional."
To insure the safety and security of organizers we need a dedicated team to help us practice justice between ourselves in this planning effort.
If someone feels unsafe or insulted or oppressed they can take it to these ppl who will seek resolution and restoration of trust.
Confidential compassionate and caring people who would wish to serve the NatGat in this way. Matt Hilyer from the GuitArmy was awesome on the Safety the first year in Philly on the ground. We could have online people who seek to "nip it in the bud" so the whole group doesn't get caught up in drama and frees people psychologically and time wise to do this important work
I will ask Matt to share his experience on the first NatGat Safety Team.
Namaste
Cal Tue 13 May 2014 3:52AM
First, I'd like to get clear about whether we're talking about conflicts, etc., that arise here in this online group (which is what I was told this is the scope of this discussion). or about things to be dealt with during the gathering itself.
Second, can you describe some of the conflicts that happen in a GA. (I imagine that it's may vary in different Occupys.)
Sea Tue 13 May 2014 7:15AM
Here's what I suggest we do. To maintain safety and security, the safety-security-legal team will foresee conflicts. So if we foresee a conflict either before the natgat or at the natgat, a facilitator will be sought. I'll package the conflicts so that what may appear confusing can be handled directly by having only a few actual facilitation events.
People should report needs for facilitation now, before the natgat. I have requested facilitation as you can see above. Since the security-safety-legal team will learn of the conflicts, it shouldn't be hard to arrange appropriate times for facilitation. I think there will be facilitators besides yourself.
Cal Wed 14 May 2014 1:10AM
I'm certain there will be facilitators besides me.
Sea Fri 16 May 2014 4:38AM
I hope facilitators will come to Sacramento as early as possible. Could we have continual facilitation sessions? Internally amongst Occupiers. Also between ourselves, and the police and the officials.
Poll Created Fri 16 May 2014 12:38PM
Create an Online and On The Ground Safety Team Closed Mon 19 May 2014 12:07PM
Green light! We have Cal and Bradley in Barstow on board to assist us in staying safe in our online working relationships. On-the-ground Safety Team needs dedicated members for encampment safety in Sacramento.
Nominate and invite skilled facilitators to nip problems online in the bud and create harmony on the ground if things get hairy.
Engage at least 3 people for the team by next month. Cal is one so we need two more.
Results
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Agree | 100.0% | 4 |
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| Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Disagree | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 3 |
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4 of 7 people have participated (57%)
Chris Mckay
Sun 18 May 2014 3:08PM
No matter what you need this, not for someone to talk to cops but for an Occupier to have an outlet if they are having troubles or being harassed to the point of oppresssion
Julia Clark
Sun 18 May 2014 3:09PM
I would volunteer, but my negotiation training and experience is to get the persons to the "willing chair" IE to get them in agreement, not in conflict resolution.
I would change the word "facilitators" to "persons".
Sally G Sat 17 May 2014 3:06PM
I am confused with the term “facilitators”; is this about a safety team or meeting facilitators? If the former, can we find another word so that folks like me do not get confused?
Sea Sun 18 May 2014 6:24PM
My statement just above that reads: "I hope facilitators will come to Sacramento as early as possible. Could we have continual facilitation sessions? Internally amongst Occupiers. Also between ourselves, and the police and the officials."
I intended it to mean that in a forceful gathering like we are planning in Sacramento, there will be moles, saboteurs, and "black boxes". In general we have to have a team to prevent them from preventing us. Security personnel, persons to sit on a "Peaceful Resolution Committee", facilitators of GAs and other impromptu decisions, agreements on solidarity, and knowledgeable use of the Block, all mean the same thing to me.
We dealt with them all 2011-2012 in Sacramento haphazardly. This time we can't be hasty or haphazard. This is the essence of what Cal said the ethnic groups want us to do. Control things, so that we can control ourselves. Then we can "get it together" to undo the economic anarchy that goes by the name Wall Stret, and Washington, abetted by Hollywood and Madison Avenue.
Those five things are imposing desolation on our world because of white privileged anarchy. Such works against the interests of genuine pr principled "Anarchists" and "Socialists".
White (mostly male) privilege is what disrupts our gatherings, It goes by the name "horizontal or vertical" decision making.
Cal · Tue 13 May 2014 3:49AM
Well, we've started identifying ideas-principles-protocols, in the form of the participation guidelines (which are fairly close to principles).