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The lot owner where our trailer needs to be moved from (three blocks from César Chavez), and the inside area owner where our extra stuff is now stored (eight blocks from César Chavez) both want to help and they have very important resources we need. I think we can meet their demands so they can help us. If Danny Garza can help, then much the better.

The lot owner may let us tent-house — just at night, tents come down in morning — and feed our actual Full-Timers. Or we with roofs over our head can take actual Full-Timers home with us in a planned and orderly way.

The inside owner might work with us on security so that we can police our physical occupation at César Chavez and at City Hall. We can stop clashing with the police. I am willing to work with him and the police on this.

Then our UOC, Labor and Environment, Fund-Raising, Foreclosures, and other working groups can have the OccuCarts close, and everything safe, and orderly.

I'm sure others will help including those who are already now providing food and other assistance to the Full-Timers.

Thanks Sea, it's great that someone is working on this! I hope you can un-tangle things and get the occupation back on track.. let me know how I can help!

Full-Timers are still not figuring as central in our planning. But there is work in that direction. Any ideas about how our Full-Timers can get in to housing/tents with regular hot meals, and how their concerns, including the problem of them clashing with the police can be solved?

OS's GA refuses to face up to the anarchy that controls it which means that the needs of the Full-Timers aren't being met. City Hall hasn't been improved by our presence there. Until we do something, OS can't really move forward. Whatever our working groups do will be tainted by the continuing dysfunction and mini/pseudo crises there. Every effort to make it work has been foiled.
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Most of the male ego trouble makers are gone. However the lack of awareness of the need for quartermaster functions being imposed was never resolved, as our original highly functional off-site place was dissed. The one we have now is virtually useless, and I can imagine our OcuCarts never being used. As it stands, people dump their stuff at César Chavez and City Hall instead of responsibly taking care of it, those with roofs over their heads haven't taken the full-timers in to their homes, the police are still seen as our enemy — a sure formula for failure — and various people with their personal dramas flit around trying to do something, and are effectively "ships passing in the night".

The Full-Timers are brave and deserve our support. But the GA won't come out of its comfort zone.