Town Hall Notes: Transition Sebastopol allying with Occupy

[Barry]

[These are notes from one of the break out groups at the January 9th, 2012 Occupy Sonoma County Town Hall meeting in Sebastopol. You are welcome to reply publicly or contact a group representative by emailing the contact listing below rather than Reply Privately. Thanks! -Barry]

Topic:Transition Sebastopol allying with Occupy

Convener:
Rachel Adair Dawson

Contact info:
transitionsebastopol.org
[email protected]

Participants: 22

Discussion Points:

What is Transition?
How can we create a bond with Occupy and interface with each other?
Community preparedness
Synergy
Social mapping is a big part of Transition
Empower the disenfranchised: can be a working group of Transition
Children and Transition
Community kitchens and recreating society around food

Next steps:

Transition can help to facilitate solutions to the problems that Occupy is highlighting
collaborative events
alliance pledges
bring info to the Sebastopol plaza
come to the Occupy potlucks at the plaza on Sunday afternoons from 3-6
Create meetings for both parties on a Sunday afternoon to collaborate further