Occupy Central Vermont

Education & Empowerment Working Group Conference Call 5/18/12
Participating: John, Jay, Heather

Agenda:
1. Check-in on Discussion Theme

• John, Jay, and Heather ready
• Open discussion, Q&A

2. Teach-In: Banking, Finance Capital

• Guest Presenters?
• John Halasz – global capital
• Andy Christianson – interstate banking law (JM)
• Gwen Hallsmith – state bank (HP)
• Greek Crisis ?
• Credit Unions – Matt Cropp (Todd Bailey?)
• Connect with Actions (citizen’s bank, TD Bank North, state bank)
• When: possibly 6/12-6/14
• Where: Hayes Room, UU Church

3. Library / Inventory Document / Material Presentation Display

• House it at the bike co-op, Heather bring rolling cart (Colin?)
• Resource Inventory Document / Spreadsheet — use it to keep track of OCVT Resource documents, Video Links, Articles, or Other Helpful Resource Websites (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlxL5brfXLz0dF9wSURKUzVBTzY1Vjh4bHhqbWExamc#gid=0)
• Madeline and Heather getting together to make mock-up/prototype and discuss outreach

4. E&E Role in Materials for Actions / Events

• First Pop-Up Workshops / Teach-Ins on 6/9
• Materials for Citizen’s Bank action
• Bailed Out or Not Bailed Out
• Fiscally Sound, Customer Services, Bad Practices
• Owned by Depositors and/or Democratic Governance
• Type of Investments – Investing in Vermont / Community
• Selling off Mortgages
• History of Royal Bank of Scotland

5. Next Meeting: 6PM on Fridays is not so great. John will propose to meet-up at 2:30PM next Saturday or circle up with the WG to find another time.