Minutes GA / Notulen GA 29.05.2012

Minutes Assembly Occupy Utrecht May 29

1. Poetry day/Jam session
2. Research Humanistics
3. Occupy & Content
4. Alternative Locations
5. Location next GA

1. Poetry day/Jam session
The poetry afternoon was a success, small but very cosy. The weather was good, many people had an act, and there was even some dancing. Floris made films, they can be found on the Occupy Utrecht website.
We should have such an afternoon more often! The plan is to make it a monthly thing. Flyering does not work very well, so people should mainly put more effort in bringing their friends and acquantices. It would be a great way of doing Occupy in the summer.

2. Research Humanistics
There is a student from the University of Humanistics, who has a survey of ten questions on Occupy and non-violence. She had an interview with some people this afternoon.

3. Occupy & Content
Talking on about the questions in the survey, we have a long discussion on Occupy worldwide and our different ideas of what will and should happen. Occupy worldwide is really beginning to grow again, we should talk about that more and let by-passers know that ‘Occupy is not dead’.
To make Occupy more about the content again, we plan to put a whiteboard in the camp. The idea is to put something a politician (for instance Mark Rutte), banker or other person in the media said on the board. This may be something with which we agree or don’t. We could also put our own idea of what this person said on it. It would also be good to put new policies or decisions there which we don’t agree with. Every few days (or even every day) something should be put on the board.

4. Alternative locations
The city council said that the camp should be gone by Friday, we can come back to this location on July 2 after the Euro Cup. Friday the square should be clean and empty. Alternative locations for this period should not be in a nightlife district.
Florian will propose a list of several locations to Judith Pijnacker, representative of the city government:
- Wilhelminapark
- Grifpark
- Jaarbeursplein
- Vrouwe Justitiaplein
- Moreelse Park
- Lepelenburg (not our favorite because there is not much room)

We do want to find a new location in dialogue with the city council. If we just start a new manifestation somewhere else we have to make a new notification to the city government. With this we would lose claims to all previous compromises that have been made with the city council.

5. Location next GA
This depends on the next location of Occupy Utrecht and will be e-mailed this week.