1. Happy Birthday Derek
2. Declaration of Occupation
-Derek will put together a draft based on our past vision & strategy meeting, we will continue editing it collaboratively on Google Docs.
3. May 1st
-Chester will facilitate a working group that will come up with a concrete plan of action to be presented at the next GA. Please look for an email from him.
-Ideas that were thrown around, which the working group will look into:
- Organize a group to join the actions in New York (solidarity, make Occupy Princeton a presence in the general movement)
- Reach out to University and non-University workers, and look into subsidizing travel to NY for them
- Join Free University initiative in New York, maybe people who stay on campus can livestream Princeton classes
- Film the day in New York and edit a short promotional clip, perhaps livestream parts of it
- Have a potluck picnic dinner at Princeton on the evening of April 30th
- Have a send-off march to the Dinky with the people who are going to NY and with those staying here
- Table in Frist to sign people up to go to New York or to pledge that they are going to strike
- Fliers, posters (“Even Princeton”)
- Draft and send letters to professors, bosses, and media outlets, explaining why we are going to be missing class or work
- Calculate how much $ Occupy Princeton and other groups are going to be taking out of the system by way of striking on that day
- Create some kind of personal sign indicating absence from school/work, something resembling an out-of-office message
4. Move-On Nonviolent Action Training
-April 14th from 10am to 5pm at the Unitarian Congregation Church on 50 Cherry Hill Road
-www.the99spring.com for more information and registration
-Email Mary to help out
5. Princeton Coalition for Endowment Responsibility (PCER)
-Organization intends to identify stakes of different organizations like Occupy Princeton to make sure investment policy of endowment funds takes them into consideration
-PCER aims to track endowment investment by working to establish an oversight committee, and is also seeking to get an official statement from Princeton about how it intends to ensure responsible investment
-PCER supports “impact investment” that directly contributes to the development of the local community
-PCER is now trying to get these initiatives on the USG ballot and is collecting undergraduate signatures to this end
-Contact Yongmin to get involved or for more info
6. Other Announcements
-April 9th, 12pm: Occupy the Hood is marching against hate crimes, starting from the Veteran Memorial Park in Trenton
-April 17th, 5:30pm: Zeitgeist Movement is having its Town Hall meeting in the Trenton Public LIbrary
-May 12th: Marina Sitrin @ Princeton University
