In the 1850s the 1% convened a “Great Meeting” aimed at pushing forward their agenda. On April 4, 2012 in commoration of Dr. King’s assasination Occupy Wall Street convened a Great Meeting for the 99%. It was yet another experiment in Direct Democracy. We broke out into small groups and discussed three questions:
What is the world you see?
What is the world you would like to see?
How do we get there?
In the first video you get an inside look at the break out group I was involved with where we discuss the world we see now. It was a great group of people with Occupiers like David Graeber and Marissa who have been involved since August to people that are more new to Occupy Wall Street.
In the second video we discuss the world we would like to see:
Just another experiment in Direct Democracy.