"Occupy SEC" Heads up LEO! Is this group "for Real" or Not?

[alexisgo]

24. GA consensus on the letter

Hey Sabrina,

Since the letter was so long (325 pages) we had no idea how to present it to the GA. It wasn't feasible to read it out loud (way too long) or print out tons of copies. I also had seen groups like the Constitution Working Group bring long proposals to the GA before, where they asked folks to read a 7-ish page document ahead of time, but there were still lots of people at the GA who hadn't seen it, and thus it was unclear how to get consensus (they never got consensus on it).

In the draft of the Volcker Rule, the Agencies (The SEC, FDIC, OCC and the Fed) ask 395 questions. One thing we DID want to do is pick 3-4 questions and bring those to the GA and do what's called breakout groups, where the GA takes 10-20 minutes, has everyone split up into groups of 10 or so, and answer questions on a piece of paper. This is something we wanted to do but we just ran out of time. If we'd had time, and had done this, how it would have worked is that we would have compiled the answers from the breakout groups, and then brought a draft back to the GA for perhaps another round of feedback, and then eventually presented a final document as an OWS Comment Letter on Volcker.

That was the idea, but again, we just didn't have the time to make it happen.

I hope that makes sense and answers your question about was there a reason for not making it an OWS action.

Best,
Alexis