1) Local Engagement Team will be meeting at an event tomorrow evening, Tuesday, February 28th. They will be at the Unitarian Church on Yarmouth Street in downtown Norfolk from 6pm-945pm to assist in giving out dinners to those in need and possibly volunteering time overnight to help keep the church open for shelter. Recent experiences at Hampton Roads Citizen Alliance, Food Not Bombs, and Virginia Organizing were fantastic. Come out and join us as we make more great friends and learn a little more about what is needed locally!
2) Organizational meeting tomorrow, February 28th, at 7pm, at Dave Potvin’s house. Please come armed with ideas as to how to handle things like communication between GAs, how to resolve disputes, how manage our media and represent the group, etc.
3) Also, this Wednesday, February 29th, we will meet at Commercial Park in downtown Norfolk. We will meet at 3pm and there will a march and pickets at banks and corporations that use the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce to distort the legal system to their advantage. Call the Occuphone (757-298-6787) if you are running late and you can find us on Main, Granby or Monticello. Bring signs related to the economy, lobbyists, banks, corporations, Occupy Wall Street, etc., as wall flags, banners, art, etc. Also, information on the Chamber of Commerce, lobbyists, loopholes, etc. would be excellent to distribute.
4) We will be screening “The Corporation” in the Pearce Hospitality Suite of the Batten Center at Virginia Wesleyan. We will screen this must-see and Occupy related documentary as well as do a Q&A on the Occupy movement. Come out and support us for a good time and lively discussion!
5) Continue to lend us thoughts on General Assemblies. We will propose to change them to Tuesdays at either 6pm or 730 pm. That final vote will be held next Monday, March 5th, at 7pm, at the Waterside mall food court in downtown Norfolk. Also, please consider alternative locations and how else we can make them more accessible.
