Welcome!

[ellisonz]

A couple notes from our previous discussions on the formation of this group:

- The proposed Statement of Purpose is:

A place for Occupy participants and supporters to promote the values of Occupy Wall Street, share information, and advocate constructive interaction among members of the DU community. This is a General Assembly of supporters of the 99%. While dissent is allowed because there are many different groups that oppose rule by the 1%, anti-Occupy Wall Street rhetoric belongs in other forums.

As of this post, the SOP has not been entered into the "About this Group" page or as a sub-header and so we will have to see about that after perhaps some more discussion.

- There has been some discussion about how this group will be organized and certainly more will be had:

The current thread on this can be found at DU2 with draft proposals from both Leopolds Ghost and I on some guidelines for hosting, discussion and so forth.

- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2477306

- I think the plan is to have some time to decide how we want to proceed including a formal election of a lead host. As such, I would just request that we all sit tight for a little bit on any discussion of hosts etc. Please feel free to add any thoughts you might have on this subject (outside of nominations) to the DU2 thread or to this thread. If there are an issues that arise with disruptive posting, please use the jury system if you believe it is necessary. Sound good?

P.S. I will not under any circumstances be hosting this group beyond trying facilitate some of this transition