From marnie at greenchange.com Thu Mar 5 11:46:41 2009 From: marnie at greenchange.com (Marnie Glickman) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 11:46:41 -0800 Subject: [Marin-annc] Mar. 16 deadline to apply for Calif. GPUS delegate or alternate! References: <49AF4E26.9020009@greens.org> Message-ID: <6AA9981F-B70E-46EE-82F2-CED635714EDB@greenchange.org> > > GREEN PARTY COUNTY CONTACTS MESSAGE > > This is an announcement from the GPCA Contact List. For more > information, or questions related to the topic of the posting, > please do not hit reply. Follow the contact directions > stated in the email. > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Dear Greens, > > Two years ago, as part of the national party's re-apportionment > process, > the number of national party delegates from California was increased > from 13 to 42. Because our delegates (and alternates) have two-year > terms, the majority of those seats are now up for election: 32 of the > 42 delegate seats, and 28 of the 42 alternate seats will be voted on > at > the upcoming May state party plenary meeting. (Note: About 14 to 18 > current delegation members will likely be running for re-election -- > mostly for delegate seats. But even so, over 40 seats will still be > open for new delegation members). > > If you would like to apply for one of these seats, please send your > statement to: apps-archive at lists.cagreens.org as soon as possible, > and > definitely no later than March 16, 2009. (Please indicate whether you > are applying to be a delegate or an alternate). Your statement should > include biographical information about positions, experience, skills, > and/or service that you have had (both within and outside of the Green > Party), along with your vision or commitment for the position. > (Please > see statements submitted by previous candidates for examples, here: > http://www.cagreens.org/cc/co-cos/applications_2008/ > gpus_delegation/ ). > You should also be familiar with the delegate and alternate duties, > guidelines, and expectations, which are listed on our state party > website at: http://www.cagreens.org/delegates/delegate_guidelines.shtml > > If you have any questions, please contact any current delegation > members > whom you may know, or you can contact our delegation co-chairs: Sanda > Everette ( sanda at greens.org ) and Greg Jan ( gregjan4 at yahoo.com ). Of > course, please be sure to forward this message to all relevant local > and > county listserves and e-mail lists! And thanks in advance for helping > us to maintain California's delegation to the national party! > > > Sincerely, > > Sanda Everette > Greg Jan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Contacts2006 mailing list > Contacts2006 at lists.cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/contacts2006 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Marnie Glickman Executive Director Green Change www.greenchange.org 503.313.7919 w 707.313.7919 f skype: marnieglickman My Green Change page: http://network.greenchange.org/people/marnie Green Change is a community of people with Green values: justice, grassroots democracy, sustainability and non-violence. We work together to share Green art, politics and culture.