Subject for Discussion. Accepting these twelve principles as official policy of the Occupy Together Movement immediately and supporting it to be adopted globally as a basis for Creating a Unification Manifesto based on these twelve principles...
1. Our collective welfare should come first; The Occupy movement depends upon local unity, solidarity and strong communications from other occupations around the world.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—the Collective Conscience of the General Assembly—manifested through our actions and reactions to Local and Global events. There is no leader in this movement, we are the collective progression of ideas to make a better world. Those ideas may be entrusted to people, but no group may govern nor claim ownership over those ideas.
3. The only requirement for membership of Occupy Together is a desire to start thinking and to stand together as One for a better world. Not to push an agenda but to decide one by consensus agreed at a level relevant to the decision being made. Local decisions should be made at the General Assembly where as National and Global decisions should be made on the relevant Occupy forums in a public debate and process to reach consensus.
4. Just as each action group is to each Occupation, Each Occupation should be autonomous except in matters affecting the Global Occupy movement as a whole , and its progression is an example of the better world we choose by consensus.
5. Each camp has but one primary purpose—to carry the message of Occupy Together and its democratically agreed goals— to achieve the goal of a better world. The Camp is not the movement. The Camp is a message that we are here to achieve the goal of a better world.
6. An Occupy group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the Occupy name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. Every Occupy group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining corporate sponsorship, corporate financial contributions, or endorse any agendas of the 1% not agreed by the consensus of the 99% as a whole.
8. Occupy as such, ought to be organized and in constant community contact, locally and globally and we may by democratic process entrust project management roles to experienced people in their fields. They may have relative experience that could help Occupy as a whole and should be trusted in their experience to correlate with others on individual tasks agreed by consensus.
9. Occupy should remain forever professional, and the Occupation camps may entrust some project managers to fulfil roles within the camps and within the greater Occupy movement to work with others towards the agreed objectives. In Occupy equal value is placed on the right to free speech by all and no opinion is valued above another, in this all opinons are welcomed but not endorsed by the Occupy Together unless agreed by consensus of a local, national or international public level of consensus.
10. Occupy should endevour to be a representation of how things can be done better; hence the Occupy name ought never be drawn into public controversy. Anyone drawing the name of Occupy into public controversy and acting outwith fair consensus process is not representing Occupy. The Occupy camps are a place for thinking, not drinking. Abuse of substances can not be allowed to be the public representation of Occupy.
11. In the Occupy camps and at public meetings we are at all times in a conversation with the public and must behave respectfully for the sake of the aims of the movement. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.
12. Occupy Unity is the foundation of all our principles, and we must be constantly reminded
to place principles before personalities. Conflict resolution within the Occupy group must be done so decisively with actions agreed by consensus and courtesy with respect to the group conscience process of the Occupy movement.
Subject for Discussion. Accepting these twelve principles as official policy of the Occupy Movement globally. Creating a Unification Manifesto based on these twelve principles... : from Occupy International
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