Raffi A.

La Jolla, CA

United States

Profile Information:

How would you characterize your connection to the Occupy movement?
Active occupier, Not active but a supporter, Undecided/Agnostic, Opposed (you are still most welcome!)
List of on-the-ground Occupy sites where you participate, if any
I was an active occupier at Occupy San Diego. At this point, I have ended most of my physical involvement (see these posts on my Occupation blog for the reasons why:

http://reinhabitsandiego.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/from-disappointme...
http://reinhabitsandiego.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/ows-being-co-opted/

I continue to follow the Occupy Process with interest and am giving serious thought to what are next steps for me.
How did you hear about Occupy Cafe?
Email from friend
What draws you to Occupy Cafe?
To share my perspective on the Occupy Process and to consider next steps for my involvement.

Comment Wall:

  • Rob Wheeler

    Raffi,

    I am one of the organizers of Occupy Cafe. Very interesting to read your blogs about some of the challenges re Occupy process. If you have not heard yet there are now National Calls bringing together representatives from the Occupy sites. In recent weeks there has been a fair amount of interest in setting up a group(s) to talk about dealing with homeless, saboteurs, etc. Thought you might be interested. Thanks, Rob Wheeler

    robwheeler22   @ gmail.com

     

    Questions? Email: movementbuildingNY@gmail.com 

    We will be having our next Occupy inter-occupation conference call on Monday, November 7th at 10pm EST/7pm PST.  Occupy Los Angeles will be hosting. 

     

    From our previous two calls and from emails received, we have identified a need for certain discussions to be starting among the occupations, and so during the breakout groups for Monday’s call, we have predetermined the following discussions:

     

    Direct Action Working Groups coordination

    Media Working Groups coordination

    IT Working Groups coordination

    Facilitation/General Assembly discussion

    Emerging or Struggling Occupations support

     

    When you register for the call at the link below, please select which of those discussions you’d like to participate in.  There is a dropdown menu on the registration page that you can select from.  This will be a way of getting these specific dialogues started.

     

    Registration Information:

    To join the conference call, please click on the following link and register. We will be using the conference service Maestro so that we can keep stack and use breakout groups if necessary. 

     

    Nov 7, 2011

  • Rosa Zubizarreta

    Hi Raffi!  thanks for the warm welcome! more later...

     

    Nov 11, 2011

  • Mark E. Smith

    Hi Raffi--

    We've met and talked previously, I think the first time was at City College at a Sustainable Urban Food & Gardening event, and again at a couple of Activist San Diego events. 

    Nov 12, 2011