Minutes of 2nd KamalAEAn Meeting

3rd/4th week of January (SOSS Week) Date: 23-27 Jan Topic: Occupy Wall Street Movement Kapihan Session w/ Coscis, Friday, 18 Nov 11:30-1:30 Possible Themes 1. Face to Face 2. formal debate forum (a la presidential debate) Fishbowl (for questions) Pre-registration Raffle Primer (leaflet) Meetings: 16 Jan 4 Jan 5-9 Dec 30 Nov Deadline for program flow 23 Nov Wednesday Promos must be released two weeks after actual date Kapihan session on Friday: -talking about the topic, economic discussion; Coscis will launch OWS paper Target Audience EC major subjects: 111,112,114,115,116,121,177 POS 100, 60, 61, etc. DS 132, 101 Programs Louis, Pat find a theme find a moderator Dr. Venida Research Coscis, Cliff primer paper Logistics Carlo, Gel, Marga, Ysa venue preregistration layout

Dr. Tolosa Letters to Profs & Moderator Host: Carlo Roman Program flow Script 5 short videos + 1 introductory video Layout of the program

Promos Everyone teaser tagline poster room-to-room campaign

forms delivery of letters registration tables speaker microphones (lapel, wireless) tokens food

Minutes of #Occupy Kapihan w/ Coscis

Occupy Wall Street foundation for KamalAEAn, Coscis research paper how will we control the questions and focus? start: Lehman brothers crash Internet medium younger generations spread to diff. places around the world, Occupy Paris, HK, Spain, etc became a trend Argument: we are the 99%, income distribution, inequality, 1% gets 94% of all income 99% and 1% are in global framework 1%: financial institutions bailed out, 99%: we (everybody else) to solve inequality, destroy capitalist system that doesnt work different people, diff reasons is it worth occupying Wall Street? reasons become dubious Occupy Philippines: 200 people protested outside American Chamber of Commerce, left next day Arguable statements: 1. Was it valid? labor aspect 2. What defines OWS despite their differences? 3. What are the economic implications of the movement? balance of payments: natural part of capitalism, boom-bust cycle essence of #Occupy: it exists even when there are diff messages is in manifesto written even before the protests formally started

4. Was Wall Street as a venue valid? what does it symbolize? financial/political powerhouse Wall Street seen to control Washington Bakit OECD countries land ang may #Occupy? Because theyre experiencing the downturn the most: kung boom, boom talaga; pero kapag bumagsak, bagsak din talaga Asian crisis: when theres a problem , Asians dont deny it, but fix it instead thats why there was no Occupy after 97 crisis West: Wall Street tried to hide the problem until it blew up in their faces liquidity trap: banks were bailed out but the banks did not help the 99%, didnt invest as Reaganomics, trickle-down economics predicted Washington hoped the banks would help the poor, but they didnt structuralist-functionalist: the system was meant to be unfair and thats the only system that exists and works the dialectic: the withering of the state pre-maturity OWS is a reflection of the fall predicted in Marxs History of Capitalism