Here are some intriguing articles and videos about the organizing process at Occupy, the General Assemblies, the committees, facilitation techniques, the history of how these organizing methodolgies came to be… It looks at how it is empowering and also the problems and snags the processes run into.
VIDEOS
Consensus( direct democracy at Occupy Wall St)
Occupy Atlanta – a longer in depth look at assembly process
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
How upyto Occupy from howtooccupy.org
Dispatches from Occupy about facilitation processes by Mark Read in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest
Experiences at Occupy in n+1 Occupy gazette
Emergent Leadership and facilitation by Sharif Abdullah
Problems with General Assembly process by Phamb Binh
Conflicts amongst Occupiers by Craig Kannaley in Huffingtonpost
Direction Action group by Karen McVeigh in UK Guardian newspaper
Discussions between neighbourhood groups and Occupy in the Gothamist
David Haack “How Occupy won me over”
How to cook a Pacific Revolution – notes from the Spanish movement that influenced Occupy
Academic history of how General Assembly came to Occupy by Dan Berrett in “The Chronicle – of higher education”
Why Occupy worked when other open-source protests didn’t by Micah Sifry at techPresident
Occupy LA’s dilemma in LA Weekly
Notes on what it is like to be part of discussion processes Occupy Missoula & Occupy San Diego on Open Space Technology listserv
Organizing Occupy San Luis Obispo
Experiences in GA,committees,consensus at Anarchy101
