Consensus Decision-Making Hand Signals Explained at #OccupySF

OccupySF has adopted a consensus decision-making model for it's general assemblies, similar to the process used by Occupy Wall Street protesters. The various hand signals are explained at the start of today's meeting.

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• #occupysf
• #ows
• occupy wall street
• consensus
• hand signals
• decision making

[LeScratch89]

Lots of negativity in the comments. Suppose that's to be expected with movements such as this though - keep up the struggle. We'll prevail. Thank you for the demonstration; seeing it helps a lot more than verbal explanation alone.

[ekai]

@LeScratch89 That's because a couple of right wing blogs posted this. Most of the traffic comments you see are coming from them.

[temmy9]

All these freethinking people who all think and act alike

[revanche00]

drugs are bad m kay?

[anavaro]

@duanescot i am a big supporter of this movement and i represent the working middle class. most of the people that are protesting are working class people. we do not want a handout but want the handouts to stop going to the 1% and the corporations. we want our constitution to be held up by the government, we want fair taxation, fair education, and fair medical costs/benefits.

[mythbuster701]

Good Grief -what tragic waste of time.

[LeScratch89]

@ekai I prefer to think outside 'wings' when it comes to this - those comments reek of ignorance and that's all there is to it.

[LeScratch89]

@duanescot If you have a job right now and you don't run your own business and make your own product, you are a slave to your wages. Go ahead and quit that job, grow your own food, and be independent if you want to make that argument.

Don't give me the bullshit argument that we're wanting handouts. I participate in this, I have been seeking work for three years with no luck, and I refuse to collect unemployment benefits because it's not right of me to do so while I can get support otherwise.

[duanescot]

@LeScratch89 There are negative comments because ultimately what they are "struggling" for is free shit courtesy of the taxpayer, basically, you have the too big to fails and give government sucking the working man dry from the top, and the OWS parasites at the bottom trying to do the same, and people wonder why there is so much animosity towards them? They represent just another form of slavery to anyone whos sacrificed and worked hard fo the things they have in life.

[mcperez84]

I wonder why the occupy movement hasn't had any effect.

[ThumbsUpBrah]

this is proof how much of a phaggotry this "movement" is... Bunch of hipster liberal nutjobs... whom the majority of do not have full time jobs according to a recent poll.

[podycheck]

These are instructions for the moronic tool dance.

[bigandlittle]

@temmy9 If you understood the process, you'd see individuals collaborating to find unity, using a system (hand signals, mic check, for example) that works well for clarity and inclusiveness... not people "all acting the same". I'm guessing you need to learn a little more about what the consensus process involves. Nothing wrong with that, we all have a lot to learn, that makes us "the same", too.

[ICRKrazy]

Simon says, "Repeat after me If you're a brainwashed dipshit."

Fucking hillarious!