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TerryD
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Post What would YOU like this web site to be?
on: February 21, 2013, 07:36
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Occupy B'ham Lives! And Thanks to our Crack Team of Administrators is begining to flurish.

So...this seems like a good time to ask myself 'what would I like from OccupyB'hamwa.org?'

My Wish List...

  • I would like the focus of the site to be Local. I think of the site as an extention of the General Assembly. It is the place where the Assembly Minutes are published. It is the place where any Preproposals are published so that new items can be considered and debated before they are up for a vote.
  • Calendar....I would like to be able to rely more on this site to know what actions and events are coming up. Not only with Occupy but with other progressive groups and individuals in our community.
  • ShowCase....I like seeing my picture from recent events. More importantly, reporting on these actions and events extends their message and shows the world who we are and what we are up to. It also gives us new material for our achive. After all we are making History here so let us record it.
  • Community Building....I would like to see a page devoted to links to other progressive groups and individuals. With special emphasis on local Players.

    • And I would like this Forum to fill its' potential as
    A place to Share,
    A place to Question,
    A place to Debate and
    A place to Rant....

    If you have read this far please respond.
    I want YOUR Wish List. And if I'm Full of Crap I want to hear that too.
    diafos
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    Post Re: What Would YOU Like This Web Site To Be?
    on: February 21, 2013, 11:00
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    Terry, I absolutely agree, and can't think of anything more to add!
    Herb-
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    Post Re: What Would YOU Like This Web Site To Be?
    on: February 21, 2013, 16:34
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    Quote from TerryD on February 21, 2013, 07:36
    Occupy B'ham Lives! And Thanks to our Crack Team of Administrators is begining to flurish.

    So...this seems like a good time to ask myself 'what would I like from OccupyB'hamwa.org?'

    Thanks for getting this conversation underway, Terry. My apologies for not getting that "bullet points" list to you in a timely way.

    I want to ask "Is this the question that Occupy Bellingham should be asking?" to put another perspective to work on a bigger picture. Deva Wood sent me a link to this article by Paul Mason that appeared in The Guardian on February 5th, 2013. The article is titled From Arab Spring to global revolution and is an excerpt from his book Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere. The article has been re-published all over the Internet, i.e. this is not the only version of it.

    From Arab Spring to global revolution

    A synopsis of the article would be this. Paul Mason argues that a global protest movement, based on social networks, is here to stay.

    A lot of the Book "Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere" can be read for free by going to this link at Amazon

    Mason's depth extends in multiple directions in his article, and in what I have read of his book. The core of his writing is the discussion of social networks and social media, and the providence which has blessed the global revolution with the availability of these tools in this era of history. Here are some quotes.

    In February 2011 I pointed to the use of social networks to organise protest, and argued that this had made "all propaganda flammable". Two years on there's a clearer pattern: the interaction of social media with a mainstream media that is, itself, undergoing rapid change. ~Paul Mason

    ]Slowly, quietly, the mainstream media have become, for many involved in activism, politics and journalism itself, a secondary source of information, while social networks have become the primary source. ~Paul Mason

    If I could list only one and not 20 reasons why it is still kicking off, it would be the rise of the networked individual colliding with the economic crisis. Something fundamental has happened – a shift in human consciousness and behaviour as momentous as that triggered by the arrival of mass consumption and mass culture in the 1900s. ~Paul Mason

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    Ronna
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    Post Re: What would YOU like this web site to be?
    on: February 27, 2013, 11:33
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    In California, coming home today - will read the article during the long wait for the plane and reply upon arriving home. I have no doubt that SOCIAL NETWORKS are helping with this struggle for justice. It cannot replace person to person contact. 90% of communication comes from NON-VERBAL (body language and tone) communication and that cannot happen over the internet - well it can but we're not all skyped yet.

    And thanks Terry for starting the conversation. I'm not sure if I like my photo on the front page - but thanks anyway for the Nurses Protest link and photo.

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