We
adopted the Occupy Toronto General Assembly Safe Space Agreement with one
amendment: The freedom to be emotional over emotional issues
“Occupy
Toronto’s Safe Space policy is based in our commitment to a safe, healthy,
positive, and productive environment in which to organize. In order to make
changes in the world at large we acknowledge that our working environment must
be both actively seek to be in accordance with the world we want to create as
well as commit to not further perpetuating the problems we have identified.
Through this agreement, we aim to build our capacities to ally with each other
and our communities in struggle.
As Occupy Toronto participants we are committed to creating
spaces in which all participants have...
* The
responsibility to work toward an equal space free from verbal, physical,
mental, and emotional violence
* The
freedom to work in an equal space free from verbal, physical, mental, and
emotional violence
* The
recognition and acknowledgment of systemic inequality and injustice
* The
freedom to associate and work with others in a productive and mutually
respectful way
* The
freedom to organize events and campaigns
* The
freedom from language and behaviours, which compromise safety and/or well being
of the individual and/or group.”
As free
skule...
If someone is creating an unsafe space: To be revised. Ideally, we will be able to look to the
Anti-Oppression group for mediation and direction. For now, members feeling
uncomfortable with an individual in the group should bring this issue to the
core team, who will, as a group, talk to the problem individual, and implement
a process of mediation.
