Occupy Forum At OBAU is Still Going Strong

Jan 19, 2013

If you are looking for the current Occupy Forum, visit Occupy Bay Area United website for details.

You Can Have A Forum Too!

Aug 31, 2012

It seems that some people like this Forum idea, so we are making our planning documents available in case that will help others start an Occupy Forum too. Feel free to download the OganizingCommitteeDocs and use them as a starting place for your own project. The files are in a zip archive in the OpenOffice ".odt" format. OpenOffice is a free open source productivity suite available for most computing platforms.

Taking a Step Back

Aug 21, 2012

The Occupy Forum has been an experiment in expanding our conversation about the issues and underlying causes of the current political crisis. As organizers we want to express our gratitude to all participants for welcoming this dialogue and bringing such enthusiasm to the project.

At this point in time we feel it is necessary to step back and assess the process thus far. Our intention was to create an atmosphere that was inviting to critical thinking and horizontal learning. We also hoped that affinity groups would grow from the forum assemblies.

The Politics of Living on the Streets

Aug 11, 2012

The July 30th Forum, Living on the Streets With Occupy, was arranged as a panel of five people. Sara Page began the panel with some background facts regarding homelessness in San Francisco. Ayat, Deborah, and Robert discussed their experiences of living at the occupy encampments and their opinions about the politics of living on the streets.

People Power

Aug 09, 2012

At this forum (August 6, 2012) David Solnit introduced us to a method of strategy development that has worked in previous social justice campaigns and we subsequently attempted to apply it to various areas or institutions where control by the 1% has resulted in them being dysfunctional or broken. We split into groups to work on determining the pillars that support these areas (education, health care, housing, environment, media, etc.) and how the pillars could be targeted to bring them down and rebuild.

Why Don't We Do It Together?

Jul 24, 2012

The July 23rd Forum brought together a group of groups to talk about the variety of ways people form and manage collective endeavors. Represented where:

Gentrification and Rising Rents Discussed at Forum

Jul 17, 2012

The people with the Occupy SF Housing Working Group provided an information packed forum on July 16 demonstrating what has been happening to the housing scene in SF and offering a variety of examples of how people have fought back against gentrification and rising rents.

Food Fight: In Judgement of Food Activism

Jul 14, 2012

The food was flying - well figuratively - on July 9 as Antonio Roman-Alcala helped us forage for new ways to produce food which aren't reliant on fossil fuels and which help strengthen communities. He told us how he was initially introduced to politics via anti's — anti-war, anti-poverty, etc. — but later decided to become involved in efforts to create a better world by creating better societal systems.

Reform and/or Revolution – A Lively Debate

Jul 03, 2012

Yesterday's Forum on Reform and/or Revolution was maybe the liveliest one yet. While the theoretical and historical issues that give context to our current politics informed the evening's discussions, it seemed like the open discussion of means and ends — of what we want, and how we think we could get it — produced the most intense and engaged exchanges.

Don't Just Click There, the affinity group who presented the topic, organized "sociogram" games that helped everyone understand how we are distributed unevenly across spectrums of political orientations.

Learning by Example

Jun 26, 2012

If we learn by example, the efforts of Occupy Bernal have a lot to teach us in the Occupy movement. Yesterday's "Organizing Neighbors / Fighting Foreclosures" event started off with a description of how this feisty neighborhood group came together. Stardust, a long time Bernal resident, and intrepid and dedicated activist, together with his neighbors, canvased the area door to door, weaving together a powerful coalition who are fighting to keep everyone in their homes.

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