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Updates from the Occupied Communities of
British Columbia


Welcome to the first edition! This will hopefully be a weekly newsletter that will evolve in depth and range as the weeks go on. If you're using gmail, the image above probably didn't show up correctly. We're working on it! We Missed updates this week from: Occupy Nanaimo, Occupy Kelowna, Occupy Comox, and Occupy Capilano University, Occupy UBC, Give a shit! collective (Emily Carr University). That's a total of 11 Occupied communities, plus at least 4 Occupied universities. Feedback is welcome (picture quality, readability, smart phone compatability, etc)! A map of Occupy Canada and an evolving database of info for each city is linked to at the bottom of this edition.

Occupy Vancouver
Last week: Re-group after holidays
Currently: Launching Spokes Council
Coming Up: Sending car load of people to Kamloops to put on workshops
Hot topics of discussion: Anti-oppression, the facebook conundrum, code of conduct, conflict resolution, finding permanent indoor
space to operate from
Frequency of General Assemblies: 2 GAs/week plus 2 Spokes Councils/week
Number of people at General Assemblies: 30-50
Did you have a physical occupation? yes
How long did it last? 39 days
How much money does your Occupy have? $8,000

Occupy Simon Fraser University
Last week: Holidays
Currently: Planning direct action
Coming Up: Feb 1 Day of Action
Hot topics of discussion: Logistics of direct action and sit ins
Frequency of General Assemblies: Weekly
Number of people at General Assemblies:  5-10
Did you have a physical occupation? No
How much money does your Occupy have? $0, soon to change

People's Assembly of Victoria 
Last week: The People's Levee feeds many on New Years Day 
Currently: Launching new Working Group Structure (Umbrella Model) 
Coming Up: A month of Student Outreach, Harm-reduction actions 
Hot topics of discussion: Walk to Ottawa, what needs to be brought to the General Assembly, 
how to outreach to make Occupy a better cross-section of the population (currently we are not the 99%), 
how to encourage initiative/empower individuals 
How often are your GA's? Weekly 
How many people have been showing up at GA's? 10-20 
Did you have a physical occupation? Yes 
How long did it last? 40ish days 
How much money does your Occupy have? $1500 
www.PAOV.ca, 
http://www.facebook.com/PAOVoccupyvictoria 
#occupyvictoria


Occupy Maple Ridge
Frequency of General Assemblies: Weekly
Number of people at General Assemblies: 10

Occupy Fraser Valley
(OFV rotates between multiple cities in the area)

Last week: Public Forum on Saturday in Chilliwack, great discussions.
Currently: Getting the website up and running, attaching occupyfraservalley.org to it,
gathering content and fleshing it out. Discussing what we can do next, how to build on what we already have.
How to engage the public more. 
Coming Up: Continuing with the rotating public forums, OFV acts of kindness, ideas for fundraising,
discuss the Movement Action Plan, goals for 2012
Hot topics of discussion: C-10 crime bill, Monsanto, SOPA, anti-oppression, code of conduct, "what's next?"
Frequency of General Assemblies: Weekly
Number of people at General Assemblies: 10-15 Occupiers, plus the public
Did you have a physical occupation? no
How much money does your Occupy have? $0

Occupy Powell River
Last week: General Assembly, Education & Communication work.
Currently: Preparing for first GA (Jan.19th)
Coming Up: Possibly founding an encampment
Hot topics of discussion: logo work, publicizing and outreach for GA, website and listservs, how to show due respect and solidarity with
First Nations, limits with facebook.
Frequency of General Assemblies: To be determined
Number of people at General Assemblies: Our working groups currently draw about a dozen people, with another dozen odd visitors.
Did you have a physical occupation? We're gonna!
How much money does your Occupy have? $0

Occupy Kamloops
Last week: Holidays
Currently: Launching working group meetings, University outreach, prep for workshop with Occupy Vancouver visitors
Coming Up: Going to Kelowna with at least 2 carloads of people for 'Occupy the Interior' rally. Unjust Economic Action
Awareness Day on January 28 and targeting major Canadian banks.
Hot topics of discussion: Smart Meters, Environmental degradation & exploitation of natural resources (Ajax Mine proposal),
process and facilitation, Crime Bill
Frequency of General Assemblies: Weekly
Number of people at General Assemblies:  6-9
Did you have a physical occupation? yes
How long did it last? 30 days
How much money does your Occupy have? $0


Occupy Revelstoke
Last week: Talking on the Stoke.FM
Currently: Occupying the farmers market, occasionally occupying Revelstoke mountain resort, building occupy snowmen
Coming up: Hoping to plan independent films movie nights
Hot topics of discussion: How to reach people without creating resistance, methods of GA, facebook issues, how to
protect the group from negative involvement, how to motivate people to take action.
Frequency of General Assemblies: approx bi-weekly
Number of people at General Assemblies: 5-10
Did you have a physical occuption: No - we felt that with the demographic of Revelstoke, we would be more effective by
talking with people, being a constant presence at certain events, and offering a positive approach to informing people so
that they can form their own opinions, without the inconvenience factor.
How much money does your Occupy have? $0