and if you get a ticket, you do not have to pay for the ticket but you have to be registered as a republican or an independent and apply online to get the ticket. >> go to the website of the new hampshire institute of politics and navigate from there. that will get yourself into a lottery to get a ticket. it will be competitive in a might be too late already, but it is worth a try. in and what you began, you cannot speak. >> or they will kick you out. >> they will reject it. >> disrupt the process, why not. >> if you cannot get in that way, for point of information, the website that has the ticket information, we put it on the facebook about two weeks ago,

and several of us tried to get tickets. they allow you to get up to four tickets, but as sara jane said, all speculating myself, they are going to scream your name against who is an independent or republican. if your democratic registered, you will probably not get into that. how much more time to we have before we get back again with the main group? >> all of these blocks have to be in manchester? >> they are in veterans park for four days straight, but at the national debate, we're going to be going there as well as at veterans park setting up satellite feeds of bird dog units. veterans park is a staging area, but also, it is a staging area for bird dogging throughout the

area. >> veterans park or victory part? veterans. we wanted to do one more during one of the tuesday time slots. >> right now the plans for the march, the perception on saturday is one thing that is already on the schedule, to consider them songs. -- st. anselm's. -- it is a great that there is a coroneted presence, but a people organize these and other parts of the state, it is up to them to do that and they do not need permission from ga in manchester to organize something in bethlehem or in concord or and conway. >> that conway group will -- jindal league of women voters is

4:00-6:00 that the community college auditorium. >> just to let you know about that, excellent, good. great. >> there will be a lot -- there will be tons of stuff going on and other national groups like the league tried to set things up with a group that you like, you might want to go and join them, and you might want to go in protest them. so pay attention to the news and there will be lots of stuff for everybody to do. ed will talk about what he is doing. >> then i thought we could listen to ed talk about his ideas. >> i have to talk and some people with the manchester, it would be really great to organize the program, 2012 is

the year of a couple of. there was a wonderful opinion piece about cooperative businesses. if anyone can connect with me about cooperatives at utility companies and the state or in new england, that i think and act with, other cooperative businesses, but do we get have a panel discussion. i think it would be a good program, maybe even in hanover. i'm elizabeth and get with me afterwards. >> i would say that if anyone here, because it was not discussed, and the logistics, but if you're not from the manchester or part of an occupy group, please fill welcome to reach out and talk to people. if you have connections to community aphids to sigrid's, really reach out and tried to --

advocacy groups, really reach out and try to get them on board. the better integrated our movement will be in the primary, that is the reason why we're doing it, not just by the -- not just for the primary but to build a movement. i wanted to do a time check here. we would give ourselves and our? ok, we have about 15 minutes left in hopefully everyone can get together. tell us about your idea. >> yes, come closer. all right. i have these pollens and they symbolize something important. is what politicians run on, isn't it? they are full and they are big of rigid big balloons and full of promises. but when the hot air is over, this is what we got. i am passing around something

that is familiar to a number of you, including brother alfred here, the moderator of some of our tv programs on channel 23. they had been shared with all state for community access tv and the 35 community access channels all over the state. so let me pass this around, because i would encourage people to go to the website, democracy orempire.org. hello. so there might not be enough for everybody, but we have enough for every person's need but not every person's agreed. look at this as it goes past. " we tried to do is provide reality to a great analyst, thomas johnson by name.

thomas johnson or wrote a wonderful trollope's -- trilogy, starting with blowback, and nemesis. the last one. this brilliant man, a conservative and politically, said that the country needs to decide whether it is going to be an empire or democracy. cannot be both. and what we tried to present in this series is the best analysis that we could by people that have a public interest to explore that. some of the first was the cost of four. the second, the cost of intelligence. then the cost of defense and finally democracy or empire. these will be broadcast on the day after christmas and the day after new year's. and this is supposed to be in one of the weekly newspapers.

but as we talked about this, we ask, how will the rubber hits the road? even as we interviewed different president to candidates that we have been doing, and put test very strongly. no wind pirate king. -- no empire thing. when january 10, we would and by different groups that are also interested in democracy, for example, occupy, to contribute questions and put these on a ballot. and after people vote for president, they would be offered a ballot, hopefully at every polling place in new hampshire,

how many people know how many that is? >> two to 35? >> not bad. you should get a candy bar. it is a little more than 300. but that is very doable. the person is offered a ballot to vote on the future of america. because adelaide thomas johnson's analysis is that we have already decided, we have decided on empire. and it is too late. i do not think so -- i do not think that we would be here for not optimists. i see some gray hairs in the crowd and i remind you, for those of us that had education in the 1950's and were trained to duck and cover and thought that it meant any minute, added the second, this could be the end of life as we know it. really come alive on our planet, because suddenly the nuclear warheads started, who would have

bet the family farm that in our lifetime, the soviet union, our archenemy and tools we would be a war with, and nuclear war, devastating, that suddenly it would disappear? it would become russia. i should know because my winter home in st. petersburg, florida, named after saints petersburg, russia. so on monday, i approached our occupy and at a general assembly, we discussed occupy being a part of the severed. my hope is that occupy has two questions or three questions, no more than 10 questions, and our group will have one or two questions. we are inviting the afl-cio, the labor movement, to contribute a

question, may be on should there be in new hampshire a living wage job guaranteed to every american car to mark remember, that was an fdr plank that never -- he died before he could really share that. but we are inviting, and there are three of us here that have a wonderful clipboard, and if you are from rockingham county, anybody here from rockingham? yes? well, ok. we have a county coordinator for rockingham and he is going gangbusters. we do not need many volunteers but you are an angel. you could help him. we will put you up with him, ok? but for the other counties, we have the beginning of of organization here in hillsboro.

we have a wonderful new leader in merrimack, and glenn is right behind me, so we're beginning to pick a debt of this structure. to put together the structure. my hope is that through that, borrowing, and stealing, stealing in a joking way for our cameras, we're going to be another raise sufficient funds so that at least half of these places there will be of veteran standing tall and helping with this project, offering citizens of ballots. and properly ivar unemployed or homeless veterans who will be paid at least the minimum wage. and i think -- and i thank occupy new hampshire for reminding me that that needs to be the standard, at least that much. we will be offering an occupant -- an opportunity for our citizens to weigh in.

and you say yourself, this is a republican primary, and all the conservatives will turn out. isn't this going to be a message that i as an occupy person will be uncomfortable with? >> i trust my neighbors. i trust the people of new hampshire to take very seriously their responsibility for choosing the next president of the united states. i trust them to make these decisions and you know what? there is a republican presidential candidate that is probably better than any democratic presidential candidate running on this. so why -- i invite any questions ford two and minutes, 3 minutes on this project, and i will pass around -- if you think you have anywhere two hours or more on election day.

>> we're depilate going to help them. we will bring some people out there, he is asking for 20 volunteers and they will not be paid, and then there will be veterans and homeless veterans and unemployed veterans who will be paid at least minimum wage. we will still be get better in part with events, but this is one of those events that we're using as a staging the event. >> we are half the process to sign up on these clip boards to take shifts. what will be the process? >> we are reaching out. we have a number of different lists. when michael moore came to a preview in manchester hearing four years, i saw him in his town hall meeting in his press conference. i became a zealot on single payer health care and i signed up about 1000 people on a petition.

>> let me repeat the question. how will people sign up for ships? >> if they sign this -- you mean these people here? if they're not here today, they can go to our website cracyorempire.org. we will have other ways to do it and we expect michael moore away and saying to let's do this. >> [unintelligible] we're just about, can you check with the other groups? does anyone have any questions? please ask questions for anything at all. >> i apologize if your party cover this. the actual the ballot or survey,

whatever you might call it, pal is that being designed and who is working on the actual content? >> it will be a coalition effort. we will work together peridots coalition members including occupy will be able to identify present -- questions that they want asked. i urge occupy to give those out. we have invited the afl-cio to contributed? two. our group will have a question or two. we suspect they will be seven organizations. and their representatives -- occupy, that is math, he is calling. -- matt, he is still linked. we will work those questions of. just show your beautiful shirt for people.

we have some of the other flyers. we can show you that handsome shirt on that handsome man, it is going to be modified with the following -- maybe i can just -- >> i need to interrupt. mic check. >> mic check. >> the time is expired. do we need to continue with the work groups are go with the meeting? >> 5 minutes. and then we will return -- and there is no firm date but it has to be in time to printed and distributed. i'm hoping that by the end of this month that we will have the questions submitted and we will have the meeting to work out and hammer out a final question

list. i think our drop date is the second root third of january. but you did not hear me say that. that is when the questions will happen. the earlier the better. we have some moderator's around the state and i should say that we met with secretary gardner yesterday, three people from occupy, several of us from democracy or empire, jan grossman, who designed that beautiful logo on the front of his shirt, there because. she is the leader in new hampshire of new hampshire department of peace. so i think we have cleared the air. he knows what we're up to end our shirts are not electioneering. we can walk around polling places with them. we think all of what we want.

we have established the ground rules. but getting some of the moderator's like in rockingham, the moderator said been contacted, what are we going to have? so we want to follow through. >> anybody else that has something to say? we have covered the ballot for 10 minutes. we have four weather days. anyone with questions our success -- for other days. >> i am still trying to understand this. is it highly tactical or philosophical? in other words, if i am favor of collective bargaining rights for all american workers or i am in favor, i am opposed to new venture being a right to work state. i'll say that that is tactical on the other is philosophical. is it both, any, or all? >> this is going to be decided

by the groups coming. what they want to ask. >> i hope it is more tactical. >> any other things that people want to bring up before we come back together to the full group? >> i can get myself down to the manchester meetings but, the notion of indirect action that we could collect cans for the new hampshire food bank, ford to a trickle of action at veterans, another concept that i had, which i would gladly court made. >> someone who would like to be a reporter for our group to give a quick summary of what we talked about during our time to get it? but for me begin with the full -- as we meet together with the full word?

-- full group? >> how are we going handle that? >> i can give it a shot. >> all right, great. >> until we meet again. while we're waiting for the other groups to come together, i want to suggest a quick dollar around if you want to say what you intended to during the period leading up to the primary, what are you excited about? please go around. >> occupy durham. >> mic check. >> as following along the lines for citizens for tax justice, making the point that the american oligarch should not hijacked the u.s. economy. >> pass. >> because it cannot afford our

own lobbyist, i see the occupy group as one big lobbyists. >> what you excited about doing? i am hoping to help people to do affected bird dogging about these issues and the 99%. >> pass. >> our attorney general finally opened his eyes and is best to getting the fraud in this country. it was announced on friday. so i intend to continue to pressure him to investigate this further for the citizens of new hampshire. >> what you're excited about doing leading up to the new hampshire's primary? >> my focus is on getting corporate money out of politics. show up and support. i am just going to go. >> what are you going to do?

>> i am trying to get volunteers for housing for people who need it during the night. i am also supporting ed's project. >> what are you going to do? >> i am working with a group that is just beginning. we are hoping to organize a march in washington, d.c. this spring. it is essentially a retired people's group at this point. i do not know if it will stay that way. we are now working directly through occupy. >> we are getting together in the room to get new offense going. >> we are meeting people and talking with people on public access show to educate people about the military-industrial complex and how many of the 1% our military contractors who are

robbing and lying. >> you? >> i am very excited for the funeral. i don't know. i am excited. >> i am wendy. >> i will be working on dealing with sopa for the next few weeks. it is dealing with censorship. that is what i am working on on my end. i am also working with occpy. >> i am looking forward to the thing the republicans know that the movement exists here in new hampshire, not just for those city slickers. it is with these countryfolk. >> check out the fliers and information. we have several fliers for the primary. you just to point and click, print 100, and technical under

never heard. you are responsible for making this movement big. thank you, everybody. >> somebody left their keys in the bathroom. >> keys track. >> , he's check. -- keys check.

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>> mic check. >> could you please reorganize? >> could you please revised text -- reorganize? >> ok. this meeting here, after the work groups, we are going to have a member from each of the work groups come up and discuss what was covered in their work groups to let the rest of the meeting know what is being discussed and things that are being proposed. as we finish, we want to try to finish around 4:00. we want to get out of the building by 4:15. afterward, we can discuss amongst each other and exchange contact data. if we can have a presentation

from -- i will start, i guess. our group, some of the things we were discussing -- somebody has proposed that people use the color green as a color for designating support for occupy, for those who are in the community but cannot come to the events on a regular basis. it is based on the concept of a proposal by a ruler in some part of europe during world war two, where they had a designation of armed bands that could be put on so that all of the jewish people could be put into concentration camps and tracked down by those armbands. "we have is a case in this situation and where the ruler of that particular kingdom said to all his people we are all going to wear this armband so the

cannot figure out who is and who isn't. that was the original proposal. there was the idea of arm bands to show we are all part of it, even if you cannot find us in an encampment. >> everybody would wear it all the time. if you are going to work, where an armed band. -- wear an armband. if you are going to a banquet or something, you where the army and the. people would ask about the green arm band. then you can talk about occupy. i have a whole bunch if somebody wants them. >> trying to keep with the theme of moving quickly.

you can see there is discussion of a gay pride rally, and a potential dance at the end of that. the arrangements for that are in the process. so if you want to contact, nashua is having a lot of it right now. we are looking for perhaps getting access through new hampshire institute of art for potentially doing arts and cultural events in an auditorium. we have been discussing a people's art event, which would be a display of art by local community members, and art around occupy. at the same time, we could have poetry.

satire is a form of art. there has been discussion of doing a film show of a couple of different films relative to the movement and activism in general, those types of things. there was discussion of what we have suddenly come across as an idea for what we call the people's law. that is a means by which communities of people who cannot make it to events, or disabled individuals who cannot get out and supplied a piece of their name artistically, or the hand print or something -- it will be put onto a surface that can be carried from location to location. we are the 99 that march. these are the 99 that are the country. the idea is a mandala transport.

iraq to quit, if we can get this to go further the new hampshire -- theoretically, a quick and get this to go further than new hampshire, we could get a wall with the names of all the people who support it built somewhere. i think that pretty much covered it, unless i missed anything. >> the people that are going to be making banners and posters will be starting pretty soon, so we have a humongous amount of banners, posters, and stuff like that. >> i think we can have individuals do that as part of a committee on a regular basis, perhaps, in our individual locations. i think we also have to have a place to store them. but if people want to do this on an individual basis, i do not think we have to divide into a

committee of five people them will handle all the siphonage -- all the signage. >> what about "welcome to the new hampshire occupy primaries"? >> i have atms for the credit union still in the basement. i recommend if you make signs, keep them in your car, or a friend's cart your traveling, so you cannot just grab them, like i did today. >> who is ready to go next? anybody? >> i am sure i did.

>> the events leading up to the primary and the primary itself, the most important thing to say is all of the events you can find on facebook under "occupy new hampshire primary." that site has all of the events. here is some of them. january 9, from 1:00 to 3:00, the veterans for peace. saturday, won a court to 2:30 -- 1:00 to 2:30 -- the events are in two hour slots. there is a march after that. there will be a band after that. marriage to a corporation is going to be one event. funeral for the american dream is going to be one event. there will be a sale at the college.

the organizing project will have a slot. we spent time talking about a project for an alternate voting place, and potentially as many potential polling places as possible. democracy or empire will be a series of questions. the website is democracy or empire dot org, all one word. >> i think you covered it all. tell us about the facebook event page. i would give you an idea of what i am doing, and how i nudge people. i would like you to join me, because i do not want to do much more. the event page has already 350 people attending and has 5000 invited. many are part of occupy new hampshire.

open the invited list and open a tab for each person. you say, "hello, jim smith. i am from occupy new hampshire. i hope your doing well. please rsvp join for this event, even if you cannot attend." the perception of large attendance will create a large attendance. you are creating messages for people on the invited list, try to nudge them on to the joy and west. anybody who could help with that, or if you have proposals of anything, just type occupy the nh primary at gmail. if you know musicians, artists, and community advocacy groups, call anybody you know and collect -- connect people. it is all about connection.

>> there are lots of open slots in the schedule. keep checking the facebook page to get an update. >> media attack -- media/tech? >> that is not even connected to anything. we had a pretty small group, so we did not get to cover a whole lot. "we came up with was a list of resources we want to make available to every occupy throughout the state. that will be posted in the coming days, also on occupy your media dot com. it is a new system we are working on developing. please check that out. the resources that are going to be listed are the obvious ones like the website.

there are some others that people might not know about, like the radio show. it is always looking for people to come on and speak. there are also tv shows across the state that expressed interest in having as come and speak to them on their shows. that information will be available as well. content for occupy radio is something we were talking about. it is a radio show. they are always looking for people in the weekly show, i believe. the media team for occupy has professionals from video and audio. we came up with the idea of having a workshop before the primary. we have not worked out a location or date yet. we are just trying to gauge interest in a workshop to teach people to make professional- looking video on a shoestring

budget, so that we do not get youtube videos with shaky stuff and poor audio. with a few small adjustments, we can get engaging content. that is something we are trying to hammer out. is there anything i missed? does anybody know the number? we have an occupy new hampshire hot line. >> [inaudible] >> that is something to look into. there are a few people who know how to do that. not nearly enough. that is something we might bring up in me -- the ga's throughout the week. >> this is informational. some people are not comfortable with the media.

>> i want to throw this out here. we are looking for guests' honor public, access show december 27 or january 3. -- we are looking for guests on our public access show december 27 or january 3. >> i think that is it. clarifying question? >> i have only heard man talk. -- men talk. >> ok. can we get legal aid? that is the police.

>> there is an outstanding invitation from -- >> come to the microphone. >> there you go. >> there is an outstanding invitation from the manchester pd. we should take this seriously. whoever went to the manchester pd m dialogues with them would have no clue. there is an opportunity for me to tell all of you. all of us is going to be on the new hampshire primary and are going to be affected with this. all of our programming and planning, if we get arrested, there is no new hampshire primary. discuss anything you like about whether we should go or we

should ignore it. but we will take the risk of whatever comes up. we will take it. in the manchester ga, we have not gotten the chance to talk about it are making a resolution. and this is the best place for this, statewide. occupy manchester are going to be affected. also, the people coming to the new hampshire primary. i wanted to let everybody know that we're not going to speak up for you there. i do not want to be the spoken here and somebody took for me. i want to talk for myself. >> clarifying question. we do record names and numbers,

so maybe monday we can have a little more clarity on this. could people call and give a name and number if they were interested in meeting with the police, so we can call them monday with clarification? >> i have no problem with that. but i think it is very important that people know, because there will be affected by this. >> a response? >> i just want to point out it is quite difficult to get arrested at these events. it is extraordinary. so do not worry much. >> we still have an aclu lawyer who is one to represent us, right? i do not know who it is. i am just saying. >> we are going to be represented by the lawyer? >> you will get more clarity on

monday, if you are interested. just leave your name and number. it will happen this week, the meeting with police, if you are interested. [inaudible] the last individual on the list would be logistics. >> my name is paul. i am sure most of you know me. wrong meeting for that. nuts and bolts. we are discussing a lot of stuff, the details of when to get together. some people are in on this that are not part of our meeting. kurt talked about we need more spaces for sleeping, because we will be host to a lot of people.

we need to get a central log-on net. -- log on that. we need to communicate with other people locating food donations. also, i believe we had donation sites set up for people around the country. we will have other groups treating. they are spreading their social presence of there. people want to donate from all over the country. we should be able to set up an account for that an update that. we also discussed possibly putting together some sort of visitor worksheet for people coming here who need to come into contact with us. if they are not want to depend on somebody's hospitality, contact info for hotels or motels, if there are availability is, and the general

quality of the place. also talking about conduct and other groups. bathrooms as well. contacting local people that would be able to -- we have talked to some local businesses, and they are not that interested. but we need to approach the legality of getting part of bodies -- getting portapotties. also, people are offering their homes to people. >> [inaudible] >> very rarely. often very dirty. i will say it is dirty. i am not going to clarify. >> there is a sheet curtis has. it is a small request for sleeping arrangements.

i was wondering -- would you be willing to record a list of people who are here at this meeting who are willing to bring people into their home? it will just be a night. i think that is going to be the crucial thing that will allow policy organizers to sleep easier, knowing the people coming to this have sleeping arrangements. everyone here, if you can try to secure for yourself a list of homes. >> the was the next list of was coined to bring up. i would like to get anybody in contact with me who would open their home or knows somebody else that would. we need a bare minimum of bathrooms to use. we are looking for any outreach, any help that can be generated. over on the left, a point of information. >> i guess if we were to solicit churches for housing and number of people -- do we have any idea

of what to expect people will be bringing and what the church must provide? >> at this point, i believe most -- we will try to provide food for as many people as possible. we will try to communicate a certain level of self-reliance. from the churches themselves, the only thing we really should need is space, heat, and bathrooms. basic toiletries and space. >> for private homes, if you have do not have a bed, a place to put them. >> this is a time between 9:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. >> photocopies? >> i believe we it had that the other day.

that is another thing we also brought up. thank you for reminding me. if you can offer your place for visitors, we need food preparation areas as well. >> tomorrow, i will pass this out at my church. there is already something written down that is very clear. you can make your own photocopies. you can give it to whoever -- your school, your teachers. >> i will forward you this. >> i am a unh student. >> point of information. do we have any other things? >> how far out are we talking about wanting people to be?

>> that is a good question. i know we have some people who offered space in exeter. within a 30 or 40 minute drive. that is not much, transportation wise. we have people who are willing to drive and people willing to stay in place. it is a totally subjective thing, and believe. -- i believe. >> what is the public transportation situation? >> the bus in manchester, i do not know when it runs. >> monday through saturday from about 5:30 in the morning to 5:30 in the evening. on saturday, it runs until 8:00 at night and runs fewer routes.

the run once an hour. the >> we are not taking it on ourselves to provide transportation. >> no. the impact on hosts will be very minimum. it is a place for them to stay, with a basic understanding that you keep it the way you came. you pick up your stuff. you do not trash the place. obviously, with the same interest and mood we have of trying to help everybody out and be good. >> to we have availability? >> a believe this will be a supply-side thing. we will tell people we have this many spots, come down. >> slowly, we will be able to build it up. we need to have a definitive number of sleeping spots.

>> the official events leading up to the primary? >> exec plan. -- exactly. upon that is one of the policies that has been named on wall street, boston, etc. -- be a nice person. anybody else have a question, points of process, or general rebuttals? i will be quiet now. >> this is just for people to know. we do have a very substantial donation. i am trying to work in contact with her. i know she has been giving money generally.

you can always hope a drive for donations. do not push yourself if you do not have the money. >> if we do get up to a certain threshold, we will possibly need food donations space. preferably, it will be dry and cool. >> also, we will be looking for -- >> to different aspects. if you are interested in being involved, there is sanitation, possibly closing. i do not know if that will be a big issue. yes. it seems it has been enough. thank you. >> last minute, does anybody have anything that needs to be covered before we close out?

ok. i think that's -- all right. >> don't put that on me, dude. that's you guys. >> unless you want to do it friday. maybe monday. >> the 26th? >> , christmas eve will be hectic. either friday or monday, i think, we could do it. we could have a monday meeting. i am giving you the days. >> let's just do friday. saturday? sunday? monday? tuesday? wednesday?

i am just trying to see. we are not getting a lot of consensus on this. >> we could take this next week off for the holiday and meet some time before the new year. >> it is just an idea. >> do we want to meet this week or after? let us go with monday the 26. the location -- do you want to make it rick's place for now? it is? >> i don't even know. >> the same time? 1:00? >> do we need a vote on that? >> yes. >> and the blocks? monday at 1:00.

>> has everybody got that? >> i had one very quick thing. this is remarkable. it is a wonderful opportunity and experience. i appreciate you talking here and giving this time. this is wicked cool. >> announcement to make. december 21 is be sure to state of the year. it is observed nationally. there been times when those in our community have died because we cannot make sure everybody has a place to live. there will be vigils on wednesday in a concord,

newport, lebanon, manchester, and another. thank you. i know the one in manchester will be in the park, i think at 6:00 p.m. back in the first phase of the encampment, we had to organize and we think all of them for their participation. >> are we good decks -- are we good? ok. let's clean up and get out. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011]

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