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Comment by Tina Louise Rothery on January 4, 2012 at 1:38

I have sent the link to this group to some at Occupy London Stock Exchange who I know are involved in justice, legal workgroups... I am certain that we will attract occupiers of all the right skills in time :)

Comment by pqxzyvr on January 4, 2012 at 1:36

For a legal handbook with written laws relevant to occupy - about protesting, public spaces, lawful and unlawful arrest, etc. - we'd need some lawyers to get involved or at least give advice.  I don't know any unfortunately but if you do invite them to join!

Comment by Robbie Swinton on January 4, 2012 at 0:11

Yeah so true man, especially with different laws in different country. If we could organise groups for different country's that would be great. A database of information would be great.

Knowledge will protect us and set us free. I don't have the knowledge though that's the thing. We need to source people who can help using the magic of internet. 

Comment by Tina Louise Rothery on January 4, 2012 at 0:04

Wonderful... this has been something I have been planning too and was looking to find others in Occupy to collaborate with. Some of us were discussing (in London, UK) about outreach presentations (at schools, workplaces etc) and would require a handpook/presentation pack. I did an outline of the plan but haven't done anything with it yet:

 

OCCUPY Presentations

AIM:
-To enrich people’s understanding of what the OCCUPY movement is, how it functions and what sort of problems it is confronting in society.
-To enrich the OCCUPY movement with fresh insights and contributions by more people.

METHOD:
An interactive presentation about the movement that can be delivered by anyone with knowledge of OCCUPY. The presentation would be effective if given from - or accompanied by - a tent : )

TOOLS:
A tent, an OCCUPIER and a *presentation pack.

*PRESENTATION PACK:
The Presentation Pack would be designed to show how Occupy functions ie: hand signals, workgroups, General Assemblies etc. and include time for questions and answers. The presentation would lead to a proposal that those participating would come up with by posing an appropriate question or topic that will get the participants working in groups, facilitating, presenting their conclusions, proposing and finding consensus.

PLANNING:
There could be two types of opportunity for OCCUPY Presentations – PLANNED OCCUPIES where we have scheduled in advance with the host (school, workplace, group etc) and FLASH OCCUPIES where we simply appear somewhere (shopping mall, street, park, civic building etc.) and get a crowd.

POSSIBLE ACTIONS

Planned/Staged Occupies:

OCCUPY ASSEMBLY - for schools/colleges etc. either in assemblies for the whole school or a select year, class etc.

OCCUPY GROUPS – for youth groups, drug user groups, volunteer groups etc.

OCCUPY STAFF MEETINGS – for nurses, hotel staff, shop workers etc. as part of their scheduled staff meetings

Flash Occupies:

OCCUPY Shopping Malls

OCCUPY Town Hall entrances

OCCUPY the street (any street)

OCCUPY alongside an event like a fair, market etc.

...............................................

So look forward to working with others here :)

Comment by pqxzyvr on January 3, 2012 at 23:55

Eerie, I was just thinking today about how Occupy needs something like this!  Just saw a video of people being ejected from a public space by police.  If they had the written law in a handbook available to Mic Check it may have gotten the police to backoff.  Occupy probably needs multiple handbooks on various subjects.

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