From JGSHURT69 at aol.com Mon Jul 3 08:01:03 2006 From: JGSHURT69 at aol.com (JGSHURT69 at aol.com) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 11:01:03 EDT Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Death Penalty..US..Plodding toward civilization Message-ID: <3ac.4891dab.31da8b2f@aol.com> Good News....Please go _www.asahq.org_ (http://www.asahq.org) and read Message From the President. Cheers, Jeffrey in San Bruno -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From baalavi at yahoo.com Mon Jul 3 23:09:38 2006 From: baalavi at yahoo.com (Bob Alavi) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 23:09:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Day of Remembrance Message-ID: <20060704060938.2267.qmail@web52107.mail.yahoo.com> http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_4678000/4678707.stm --------------------------------- Want to be your own boss? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue Jul 4 10:31:44 2006 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:31:44 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Proposed Agenda for County Meeting Message-ID: <44AAA600.6060507@earthlink.net> Proposed Agenda for County Meeting Thursday, July 6, 2006 Location: San Jose Peace Center 48 South 7th Street, San Jose http://www.sanjosepeace.org/ 6:30 Socializing and Dinner - 7:30 Meeting (dinner is not provided by the Peace Center, so bring your own or get it from one of the nearby restaurants) -- Preliminary Items -- Choose Facilitator(s), Note-Taker(s), Time Keeper, and Vibes Watcher(s) (5) Introductions and Short Announcements (5) Revise and Affirm Agenda (5) -- Main Part -- 1. Treasurer's Report (10) Cameron 2. State Party Business Plenary Report (20) Attendees 3. Old Business Tabling (15) (Jim Doyle) Fourth of July "weekend" (Cameron?) Buttons Future Events Labor Day March Fundraising Report (5) Warner? Literature Needs (5) Jim D. info for GP candidates Planning Meeting (15) Jim D. and Gerry 4. New Business Organizing Proposal (15) Warner Rejoin Pro-Choice Coalition? (3) Gerry Picnic Details (10) Warner Additional CC members (10) Jim D. and Gerry Newsletter (10) Jim D. (should mail by Spet. 15) (Total scheduled time: 2 hours, 13 minutes) -- Future Events -- Next GPSCC meeting Thursday, August 3, 2006 -- Disclaimer -- The items summarized above are agenda suggestions, only. The actual meeting agenda is affirmed at the meeting by those who are present. Additionally, the times allotted to agenda items may be changed during the course of the meeting, and some items may not e reached during the meeting because of time limits. Persons receiving this email are invited to make additional suggestions or corrections regarding potential agenda items, time estimates or the agenda sequence. Please share this information with individuals who do not have email. From fredd at freeshell.org Tue Jul 4 22:15:37 2006 From: fredd at freeshell.org (Fred Duperrault) Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:15:37 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Proposed Agenda for County Meeting Message-ID: <44AB4AF9.1060801@freeshell.org> Regarding planning a "Meet the Green Party Candidates" event similar to the one we produced four years ago in the MV Historic Adobe Building, I think we should go forward. We have a slate of excellent candidates to present. More than 100 people attended the 2002 forum and the media coverage was also good. Let's think about having a northwest SCC event and also a San Jose gathering. If it hasn't been an item yet, I think it's a good time to decide how much money the GPSCC will contribute to the various campaigning Greens. Only four months to go! Fred Proposed Agenda for County Meeting Thursday, July 6, 2006 Location: San Jose Peace Center 48 South 7th Street, San Jose http://www.sanjosepeace.org/ 6:30 Socializing and Dinner - 7:30 Meeting (dinner is not provided by the Peace Center, so bring your own or get it from one of the nearby restaurants) -- Preliminary Items -- Choose Facilitator(s), Note-Taker(s), Time Keeper, and Vibes Watcher(s) (5) Introductions and Short Announcements (5) Revise and Affirm Agenda (5) -- Main Part -- 1. Treasurer's Report (10) Cameron 2. State Party Business Plenary Report (20) Attendees 3. Old Business Tabling (15) (Jim Doyle) Fourth of July "weekend" (Cameron?) Buttons Future Events Labor Day March Fundraising Report (5) Warner? Literature Needs (5) Jim D. info for GP candidates Planning Meeting (15) Jim D. and Gerry 4. New Business Organizing Proposal (15) Warner Rejoin Pro-Choice Coalition? (3) Gerry Picnic Details (10) Warner Additional CC members (10) Jim D. and Gerry Newsletter (10) Jim D. (should mail by Spet. 15) (Total scheduled time: 2 hours, 13 minutes) -- Future Events -- Next GPSCC meeting Thursday, August 3, 2006 -- Disclaimer -- The items summarized above are agenda suggestions, only. The actual meeting agenda is affirmed at the meeting by those who are present. Additionally, the times allotted to agenda items may be changed during the course of the meeting, and some items may not e reached during the meeting because of time limits. Persons receiving this email are invited to make additional suggestions or corrections regarding potential agenda items, time estimates or the agenda sequence. Please share this information with individuals who do not have email. _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at marla.cagreens.org http://marla.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss From tnharter at ispwest.com Wed Jul 5 13:42:15 2006 From: tnharter at ispwest.com (Tian Harter) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:42:15 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Wetlands Restoration in the South Bay Message-ID: <44AC2427.7050104@ispwest.com> > >*Tuesday, June 27 at 11:45 AM* > >*Eileen McLaughlin* > >*Wetlands Restoration in the South Bay* > > >Eileen McLaughlin is project director of Wildlife Stewards, a non-profit >organization that works to build citizen-based stewardship among diverse >communities in support of wildlife and National Wildlife Refuges and that >is a partner to the National Wildlife Refuges of the San Francisco Bay Region. >She is also a member of the public access workgroup of the South Bay Salt >Pond Restoration Project and of the public outreach committee of the San >Francisco Bay Joint Venture. > >Eileen will discuss the salt pond restoration project, reviewing its ecological >and infrastructure goals, timelines, interagency cooperation and the challenges >and opportunities involved in finding solutions that serve wildlife and wild lands >and the communities of the South Bay. > Eileen McLaughlin began her talk by explaining that the three main goals of the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project are habitat restoration, public access, and flood protection in the wetlands of the San Francisco Bay Area. She showed us a satellite photo of the area with the Cargill salt ponds in the east bay a pinkish color, and the rest of the salt ponds that are being restored to wetlands a greener color. She explained that the ones losing that "salt pond look" are the ones the project is helping with. The difference is because Cargill's salt business will continue on the eastern shoreline of the South Bay, something that is commonly not understood by the public who heard about the salt pond acquisition. These ponds are a location where the company gets a tax break by owning just salt production rights, not the land beneath the ponds. On most of its remaining ponds, Cargill pays no property tax. This arrangement was in existence when Cargill purchased the Leslie Salt Company. In the 1970s many salt ponds were sold to the government to create the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. As a result, we will continue to see those red salt ponds as we fly into local airports. The flip side of this land ownership arrangement is that government ownership permanently protects those same ponds from development, should the day ever come when Cargill decides to get out of South Bay salt business entirely. A salt pond that is left alone continues to make salt. Currently, the project leadership team is coordinating input and analysis of many government agencies, NGOs and citizens to identify appropriate ways to turn them into wetlands. While those plans are being developed and to avoid salt production, gates were opened in some of the ponds to let sea water in and out. Since then there has been a dramatic rise in the use of the area by fish and sea birds. In an ideal world, the strong levees on the bay side of the ponds would be removed, and strong levees would be put on the shore side of the wetlands, so that the full tidal wetlands washing of the tides could nourish the place. As is unfortunate but common for a government-run project, funding toward such restoration has not yet been identified. Wildlife Stewards enjoys connecting people with the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. There is a Visitor Center in Fremont and an Environmental Education Center in Alviso. In addition, Wildlife Stewards or docents it trained, lead salt pond hikes through the refuge on a regular basis. Groups that want to have a special tour are invited to contact Wildlife Stewards for more information at WildlifeStewards at aol.com If you want to find out more on the web, please visit: http://desfbay.fws.gov http://www.southbayrestoration.org http://www.refugenet.org During Q&A the following points came up: This project is a pet of Senator Diane Feinstein. There is still a lot of duck hunting in the salt ponds, but the active duck blinds have been moved further from the active parks for safety reasons. Since Station Island really is an island, one of the most likely projects is to let the levees around it disintegrate, returning it to natural wetlands. The Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge is the largest NWR in an urban center anywhere on the country. -- Tian http://tian.greens.org I got these coins at Ozzfest: 2x65, 67, 68, 72, 76, 3x77, 81, 2x83, 2x84, 2x85, 86, 3x89, 90, 3x91, 2x92, 94, 96, 97, 2x98, DE, 2xGA, 2xCT, 2xMA, MD, 2xVA, 2xVT, KY, OH, MS, 2xME, MI, IA, CA, MN, 2xOR, KS, 4xWV, NV, 3xNE, and a 1992 half dollar. From andid at cagreens.org Wed Jul 5 18:08:37 2006 From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 18:08:37 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: Join Grannies to see "Who Killed the Electric Car?" References: <20060704085838.88358.qmail@web56110.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Message-ID: FYI. Andrea "We can have concentrated wealth in the hands of a few or we can have democracy, but we cannot have both." ---Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis Begin forwarded message: > From: Raging Grannies of the Peninsula > > Date: July 4, 2006 1:58:38 AM PDT > To: Grannyfriends at grannies.com > Subject: Join Grannies to see "Who Killed the Electric Car?" > > Grannies are going to the Movies! > > We want everyone to see "Who Killed the Electric Car?" a > documentary made by Palo Alto resident Chris Paine (Review Below) > > Some of the Grannies are going next Saturday July 8 and would love > it if our friends joined us! Times not available yet, but it > will be showing at the Aquarius in dowtown Palo Alto. We are aiming > for an early evening showing. If you're interested reply to this > email and also copy info at RagingGrannies.com . Will let you know > details as soon as they become available. Everyone to purchase her/ > his own ticket and it may sell out so I'll let you know when you > can purchase them. > > Granny Ruth R. (cell 650-279-8761) > Review of "Who Killed the Electric Car?" from Palo Alto Weekly here: > > Stars: *** > Rating: PG for mature themes > Run Time: 1 hour, 32 minutes > > > Rising prices at the gas pumps are certain to make this incisive > documentary de rigueur summer viewing. > Writer/director (and Palo Alto native) Chris Paine's requiem > for the electric automobile takes the country's reluctance to accept > the serious nature of our future (as we continue to pour massive > amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere) and runs with it. Are we addicted > to oil? Are we afraid of an environmentally clean future? > Yes say the brains behind General Motors' EV-1, the first > electric car to be manufactured on these shores. In 1996 the original > electric car appeared on the backroads; ten years later they are all > gone despite a California legislation requiring automakers to > manufacture a portion of future assemblies with zero-emission engines. > What's wrong with this picture? > With well-crafted momentum and a modicum of suspense Paine analyzes > the conspiracy involving the untimely death of the EV-1. The suspects > are legion: the oil industry, the consumer, the government, the > California Air Resources Board and even the auto-makers themselves who > lay down a double edged-sword of making and breaking the automobile of > the future. > Paine goes to great lengths to wholly examine his theories, resulting > in a too-lengthy running time and a surplus of facts and figures. Yet > the specifics create a sit-up-and-take-notice aura of doom that > pervades the narrative much like Al Gore's impending disaster of "An > Inconvenient Truth". Martin Sheen's narration is capable yet monotone, > not completely in keeping with the crafty tone of Paine's trenchant > dirge. > This is a fight about the future and "Goliath" has won the first > round. Stay tuned. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Mjsmith55 at aol.com Thu Jul 6 16:16:22 2006 From: Mjsmith55 at aol.com (Mjsmith55 at aol.com) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 19:16:22 EDT Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Announcement: Stephenie Hendricks to speak at this Wednesday's Green Talk Message-ID: <507.363cf8f.31def3c6@aol.com> Green Talk with the Green Party of San Mateo County: Who: Stephenie Hendricks, Environmentalist and Author of Divine Destruction: Wise Use, Dominion Theology, and the Making of American Environmental Policy will be speaking about the Religious Right?s Dominion Theology and its impact on the environment. When: Wednesday July 12 at 7-9pm. Preceded by free refreshments 6-7pm. Where: Green Party Office, 212A Miller St, South San Francisco, 94080 Cost: free. Public is invited Downloadable event flyer at _http://www.greens.org/cal/sanmateo/files/GT20060712.pdf_ (http://www.greens.org/cal/sanmateo/files/GT20060712.pdf) About the speaker: From conducting a "crusade" against terrorism to applying a religious test to Supreme Court nominees, the Bush administration has blurred the lines between church and state. In her book, Divine Destruction, author Stephenie Hendricks looks at how this has occurred in the environmental arena. She describes how a new brand of conservatism has emerged that conflates corporate and religious interests. Her work has been excerpted in The Seattle Weekly and can be found online at _http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0544/051102_news_divine.php_ (http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0544/051102_news_divine.php) . In it, Hendricks describes how the pro-industry movement known as Wise Use - promoted by a secular Bellevue-based nonprofit - has linked with a brand of Christian fundamentalism to create a potent, powerful set of rationales for pursuing the unapologetic exploitation of the planet. Hendricks is an environmentalist and a veteran broadcast journalist who has worked for ABC Radio, CBS-TV San Francisco, and, most recently, as a producer for Pacifica Radio. Contacts: For more info contact the GPSMC, Email: _gpsmc at cagreens.org_ (mailto:gpsmc at cagreens.org) Phone: 650-366-6603, Website: greens.org/cal/sanmateo Event coordinator: Mitch Smith, Email: _mjsmith55 at aol.com_ (mailto:mjsmith55 at aol.com) *****This event is wheelchair accessible***** Every month, the Green Party of San Mateo County hosts lectures on topics important to residents of our region. Speakers may be local residents discussing their area of expertise or nationally-recognized activists Whether the subject is taxes, health care, public transportation or airport expansion, you will find something at the Green Talks that impacts you and your neighbors. Everyone is welcome! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anniejimy at ispwest.com Fri Jul 7 10:16:06 2006 From: anniejimy at ispwest.com (Anne Moreno) Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:16:06 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] room at convention Message-ID: <44AE96D6.8040300@ispwest.com> To Everybody: This is Jim Moreno, and Anne and I have just moved to Tucson so we would like to offer accomodations for up to four people for the natrional convention July 23 etc. We are in a one bedroom apartment and we have two blowup matresses and room for two more to sleep on the floor. We are looking forward for a visit! Sorry this is late but we just moved in a few days ago-- From WB4D23 at aol.com Fri Jul 7 11:13:34 2006 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 14:13:34 EDT Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Regional Picnic Sunday August 13th at Uvas Canyon County Park Message-ID: <225.7311f05.31dffe4e@aol.com> As consensed upon at last night's GPSCC General Membership meeting: The annual GPCA Silicon Valley Regional Picnic (San Mateo and Santa Clara County GP's) will be held on Sunday August 13th at Uvas Canyon County Park. This is a potluck social occasion. Please mark your calendars. More details to follow. Warner Bloomberg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From wrolley at charter.net Fri Jul 7 12:34:31 2006 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:34:31 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] County GP Planning Meeting Saturday Afternoon July 22nd In-Reply-To: <2e1.8d3ff8f.31dfffbe@aol.com> References: <2e1.8d3ff8f.31dfffbe@aol.com> Message-ID: <44AEB747.9000705@charter.net> > A GPSCC planning meeting has been scheduled for Saturday afternoon 1-4 > pm at > 867 North 5th Street, San Jose. This meeting has been long > discussed. Post your > suggestions for discussion items to this list. Warner Subject: Local Issues / Local Candidates: Background: If you follow the thread of conversation on this list, you get the impression that the Green Party is fully committed on the big national issues: Occupation of Iraq, Impeachment (connected to the Occupation of Iraq), Immigration). If the GPSCC is to build itself, there must also be engagement on local issues: as Tip O'Neil famously said, "all politics is local." This comes and goes. The local party has taken formal positions on saving the Bay Area Research and Extension Center (BAREC), on the current OpenSpace2006 initiation from PLAN. We have supported some candidates well (Stephanie in Mountain View last time) and other not so well (Dennis Kyne for San Jose City Council). Other Greens are fulling engaged in different project (e.g. Fred Duperrault with PLAN) but without an obvious GP involvement. On the otherhand, the Democratic Party is fully engaged in local politics and reaps the benefit. e.g. all five members of the Morgan Hill City Council are Democrats. Suggestion: I suggest that the GPSCC start a process whereby we pay more attention to local issues and local candidates. Maybe it needs to be formalized to the extent that the monthly meeting agenda would have regular / discussion on important steps to take for local engagement. I think that this is worth discussion. I believe that the goal is good, I am not sure what the best process to execute on that goal is. Subject: County Council: There are a lot of hard working people on the County Council. Some local activistss, like Warner and Cameron spend a huge amount of time on Party activities. I think that the GPSCC should identify potential council members, actively develop them by giving them responsibilities. I am not sure what came of the discussion last night at the General Meeting. But, this needs attention to make sure that such events as the county council dropping down to 2 elected members never happens again. Subject: Campus Outreach I firmly believe that we need to have a stronger connection to Campus Greens. That connection will make both organizaitons stronger. Maybe, there should even be a campus green "member" of the County Council. Something. Subject: Fundraising There are several of fundraising that have some success. One is a formal, direct solicitation, email, mail, etc. Another is "event" fundraising. I note that we do very little of this. But, it could be fun. At the last minute, I made a joking suggestion about a "Green" event on St. Patricks day. However, with some planning, this might work out for us. Other opportunities might come up around Earth Day, the summer and winter solstices, etc. -- "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente Wes Rolley 17211 Quail Court, Morgan Hill, CA 95037 http://www.refpub.com/ -- Tel: 408.778.3024 From WB4D23 at aol.com Fri Jul 7 15:54:46 2006 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 18:54:46 EDT Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] County GP Planning Meeting Saturday Afternoon July 22nd Message-ID: <366.74716cc.31e04036@aol.com> In a message dated 7/7/06 12:34:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time, wrolley at charter.net writes: If the GPSCC is to build itself Part of my comments last night were to state the obvious that there are too few people who have been bearing the main work for a number of years and that one of the many challenges remains (as it has for a number of years -- locally, statewide and nationally) to bring additional folks into the enterprise. Part of how I suggest we do this is talk about the GPSCC as an us/we activity rather than referring to "it" grammatically in the third person. In Struggle! Warner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From WB4D23 at aol.com Fri Jul 7 15:58:49 2006 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 18:58:49 EDT Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] County GP Planning Meeting Saturday Afternoon July 22nd (Corrected Text) Message-ID: <533.2fbc736.31e04129@aol.com> Corrected Announcement (Thanks Fred!): A GPSCC planning meeting has been scheduled for Saturday afternoon, July 22nd, 1-4 pm at 867 North 5th Street, San Jose. This meeting has been long discussed. Post your suggestions for discussion items to this list. Warner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fredd at freeshell.org Fri Jul 7 14:16:25 2006 From: fredd at freeshell.org (Fred Duperrault) Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:16:25 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] County GP Planning Meeting Saturday Afternoon July 22nd In-Reply-To: <2e1.8d3ff8f.31dfffbe@aol.com> References: <2e1.8d3ff8f.31dfffbe@aol.com> Message-ID: <44AECF29.6040008@freeshell.org> This planning session is scheduled for July 22, right? fd > A GPSCC planning meeting has been scheduled for Saturday afternoon 1-4 > pm at > 867 North 5th Street, San Jose. This meeting has been long > discussed. Post your > suggestions for discussion items to this list. Warner Subject: Local Issues / Local Candidates: Background: If you follow the thread of conversation on this list, you get the impression that the Green Party is fully committed on the big national issues: Occupation of Iraq, Impeachment (connected to the Occupation of Iraq), Immigration). If the GPSCC is to build itself, there must also be engagement on local issues: as Tip O'Neil famously said, "all politics is local." This comes and goes. The local party has taken formal positions on saving the Bay Area Research and Extension Center (BAREC), on the current OpenSpace2006 initiation from PLAN. We have supported some candidates well (Stephanie in Mountain View last time) and other not so well (Dennis Kyne for San Jose City Council). Other Greens are fulling engaged in different project (e.g. Fred Duperrault with PLAN) but without an obvious GP involvement. On the otherhand, the Democratic Party is fully engaged in local politics and reaps the benefit. e.g. all five members of the Morgan Hill City Council are Democrats. Suggestion: I suggest that the GPSCC start a process whereby we pay more attention to local issues and local candidates. Maybe it needs to be formalized to the extent that the monthly meeting agenda would have regular / discussion on important steps to take for local engagement. I think that this is worth discussion. I believe that the goal is good, I am not sure what the best process to execute on that goal is. Subject: County Council: There are a lot of hard working people on the County Council. Some local activistss, like Warner and Cameron spend a huge amount of time on Party activities. I think that the GPSCC should identify potential council members, actively develop them by giving them responsibilities. I am not sure what came of the discussion last night at the General Meeting. But, this needs attention to make sure that such events as the county council dropping down to 2 elected members never happens again. Subject: Campus Outreach I firmly believe that we need to have a stronger connection to Campus Greens. That connection will make both organizaitons stronger. Maybe, there should even be a campus green "member" of the County Council. Something. Subject: Fundraising There are several of fundraising that have some success. One is a formal, direct solicitation, email, mail, etc. Another is "event" fundraising. I note that we do very little of this. But, it could be fun. At the last minute, I made a joking suggestion about a "Green" event on St. Patricks day. However, with some planning, this might work out for us. Other opportunities might come up around Earth Day, the summer and winter solstices, etc. -- "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente Wes Rolley 17211 Quail Court, Morgan Hill, CA 95037 http://www.refpub.com/ -- Tel: 408.778.3024 _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at marla.cagreens.org http://marla.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss From gerrygras at earthlink.net Sat Jul 8 16:36:22 2006 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:36:22 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Meeting Minutes - July 6 - Draft #1 Message-ID: <44B04176.7060606@earthlink.net> Here is the first draft of the minutes for Thursday's meeting. There are some noticable gaps, please help me fill them in. ========================================================== Minutes of the July 6, 2006 Business Meeting of the GPSCC 7:38 PM - 9:45 PM Present: Warner Bloomberg Jim Doyle Andrea Dorey Fred Duperrault Tim Fitzgerald Gerry Gras Drew Johnson Cameron Spitzer Jim Stauffer (plus one more, I don't know his name) Facilitator: Cameron Notetaker: Gerry Timekeeper: Drew Vibeswatchers: everyone else 1. Treasurer's Report (Cameron) - transfer from Adam not yet completed - balance unkown 2. State Party Business Plenary Report (Jim S., Cameron, Warner, Fred) - general agreement it was better than normal - 2 new active counties (Kern and San Benito) - Election Code was approved - labor (platform?) passed - most bylaw proposals failed - Mitch was affirmed as Regional Rep - no one elected to be Alternate Regional Rep Next Plenary (Jim S.) - at South Lake Tahoe Sep. 9-10 (only 9 weeks away) - need to select delegates at next meeting 3. Old Business Tabling (Jim D.) - found 2 more farmer's markets - 4th July Event - revenue of $108, cost $225 - 12 registrations - moved a lot of flyers - there will be an immigrants rights march on Labor Day Fundraising Report (removed from agenda) Literature Needs (Jim D.) - need more candidate info Planning Meeting - scheduled for July 22nd, 1-4 PM - location - Warner's home - 867 North 5th St., San Jose 4. New Business Organizing Proposal (Warner) [I can't understand my notes] Rejoin Pro-Choice Coalition (Gerry) - we used to be members, but membership has lapsed - the question is do we want to rejoin - 2 questions were asked that need to be answered Picnic Details - Sunday August 13th - Uvas Canyon County Park - This is a potluck social occasion. - Time - to be determined Additional CC Members (Jim D. and Gerry) - it would be good to have more members - apparently no one interestes at this time Non Violent Communication (NVC) (Drew) - explanation of NVC - NVC would benefit the Green Party From cbrouillet at igc.org Mon Jul 10 15:24:12 2006 From: cbrouillet at igc.org (Carol Brouillet) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:24:12 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Impeachment Event- July 19th Grand Lake Theater Message-ID: <7.0.0.16.2.20060710152338.05e10db8@igc.org> Please help spread the word! Wednesday, July 19th 7:00 pm Grand Lake Theater 3200 Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA How to Impeach a President Confirmed guests: Bill Goodman, Legal Director, the Center for Constitution Rights Daniel Ellsberg, Board Member, Constitution Summer Invited Guests: Oakland- Mayor-Elect- Ron Dellums Mayor of Berkeley- Tom Bates A Film Screening and Discussion from the people who brought you the Berkeley Impeachment Initiative Center for Constitution Rights Constitution Summer Melville House Publishing If Attending, please RSVP at http://www.constitutionsummer.org. (Allen Michaan has generously given the theater space for the cause and tried to help network those of working on Impeachment.) I hope to see you at the event! Carol Brouillet, Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance Green Party Candidate for California Congressional District 14- For Impeachment, Peace, Truth, Justice, Ecological Wisdom. Impeach the Terrorists! From tnharter at ispwest.com Mon Jul 10 23:50:42 2006 From: tnharter at ispwest.com (Tian Harter) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:50:42 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Impeachment Event- July 19th Grand Lake Theater In-Reply-To: <7.0.0.16.2.20060710152338.05e10db8@igc.org> References: <7.0.0.16.2.20060710152338.05e10db8@igc.org> Message-ID: <44B34A42.2080809@ispwest.com> Anybody want to carpool to this? I'd love to go, but not by myself... Carol Brouillet wrote: >Please help spread the word! > >Wednesday, July 19th 7:00 pm >Grand Lake Theater >3200 Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA > >How to Impeach a President > >Confirmed guests: >Bill Goodman, Legal Director, the Center for Constitution Rights >Daniel Ellsberg, Board Member, Constitution Summer > >Invited Guests: >Oakland- Mayor-Elect- Ron Dellums >Mayor of Berkeley- Tom Bates > >A Film Screening and Discussion from the people who brought you the >Berkeley Impeachment Initiative > >Center for Constitution Rights >Constitution Summer >Melville House Publishing > >If Attending, please RSVP at http://www.constitutionsummer.org. > >(Allen Michaan has generously given the theater space for the cause >and tried to help network those of working on Impeachment.) >I hope to see you at the event! > >Carol Brouillet, >Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance >Green Party Candidate for California Congressional District 14- For >Impeachment, Peace, Truth, Justice, Ecological Wisdom. >Impeach the Terrorists! > >_______________________________________________ >sosfbay-discuss mailing list >sosfbay-discuss at marla.cagreens.org >http://marla.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > > -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: Added pictures from the GPCA meeing near Thousand Oaks, a dot on the map in Ventura County, CA. From tnharter at ispwest.com Wed Jul 12 17:47:35 2006 From: tnharter at ispwest.com (Tian Harter) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:47:35 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Anybody have an opinion on Ronit Bryant for City Council in Mountain View? In-Reply-To: <44B34A42.2080809@ispwest.com> References: <7.0.0.16.2.20060710152338.05e10db8@igc.org> <44B34A42.2080809@ispwest.com> Message-ID: <44B59827.6000004@ispwest.com> http://www.ronitbryantforcitycouncil.com/ I don't even know what Party she is a member of... -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: Added pictures from the GPCA meeing near Thousand Oaks, a dot on the map in Ventura County, CA. From baalavi at yahoo.com Wed Jul 12 23:36:17 2006 From: baalavi at yahoo.com (Bob Alavi) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:36:17 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Anybody have an opinion on Ronit Bryant for City Council in Mountain View? In-Reply-To: <44B59827.6000004@ispwest.com> Message-ID: <20060713063617.49071.qmail@web52107.mail.yahoo.com> I don't know her, but somehow think to have seen her at Friday MVVP vigils. Bob Tian Harter wrote: http://www.ronitbryantforcitycouncil.com/ I don't even know what Party she is a member of... -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: Added pictures from the GPCA meeing near Thousand Oaks, a dot on the map in Ventura County, CA. _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at marla.cagreens.org http://marla.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger?s low PC-to-Phone call rates. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andid at cagreens.org Thu Jul 13 08:13:01 2006 From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:13:01 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Round-Up of News Bits for Greens Message-ID: <26EB2A22-A5F7-48ED-A621-197A4A1F4D52@cagreens.org> Have you heard that Congress is right now trying to stop the importation of cheaper-priced Canadian medicines because they're afraid of dangerous chemicals that might be hidden in the shipments by terrorists? Yup, that's what the big-pharma-controlled politicians are worried about! Uh-huh. Do you know that we pay the insurance companies to cover our health, dental, and drugs, our cars and motorcycles, houses and summer cabins, recreation vehicles and boats, luggage and travel (like flight insurance), life, our burial costs...is there anything these guys have forgotten to insure? Can you spell "protection racket"? Save Our Democracy! Common Ground for June 2006 notes that D.C. has a habit of interfering in foreign elections by use of an agency known as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). NY professor of politics Bertell Ollman jokingly suggested that we need an INTERNATIONAL Endowment for Democracy (IEFD) that would allow foreigners to contribute funds to restore democracy inside the U.S. The idea "took off." Ollman is now heading a board of directors that includes author Gore Vidal, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and National Lawyers' Guild President Michael Rattner. To check out their mission and their blogs, cartoons, and videos, see iefd.org. The Electric Automobile Association (EAA) is urging the public who like to breathe (without asthma or other pulmonary obstructions) to write or email Toyota to make "plug-in" hybrids. It can be done by the auto makers and it has been done by one member who participated in the recent drive from Santa Clara to Sacramento, a 117 mile trip. The road-worthy hybrid Prius with the home-made plug-in kit got 100+ miles per gallon (BTW, beating Honda's 2000 Insight rated at 60-71 miles per gallon). Save California's Water! Have you heard of S 912? It's the Clean Water Authority Restoration Act of 2005. Urge Senator DiFi to cosponsor it! For more info, see environmentcalifornia.org. Aren't these all Green Party concerns? Shouldn't they be? Andrea ------------------------ "We can have concentrated wealth in the hands of a few or we can have democracy, but we cannot have both." ---Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From larrycafiero_liaison at earthlink.net Thu Jul 13 09:43:18 2006 From: larrycafiero_liaison at earthlink.net (Larry Cafiero_Liaison) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:43:18 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Anybody have an opinion on Ronit Bryant for City Council in Mountain View? In-Reply-To: <44B59827.6000004@ispwest.com> References: <7.0.0.16.2.20060710152338.05e10db8@igc.org> <44B34A42.2080809@ispwest.com> <44B59827.6000004@ispwest.com> Message-ID: <44B67826.1020208@earthlink.net> Hey, Tian -- Interesting site, but I believe that since most local elections are nonpartisan events, I believe that not having party affiliation on campaign material is either in local law or in the state elections code, possibly both. So this is not so uncommon. Fortunately for us, the press can't help but say our candidates are Green in many cases, which I think helps. Larry Cafiero Liaison to the Secretary of State's office Green Party of California Tian Harter wrote: > http://www.ronitbryantforcitycouncil.com/ > > I don't even know what Party she is a member of... > > From tnharter at ispwest.com Thu Jul 13 13:00:01 2006 From: tnharter at ispwest.com (Tian Harter) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:00:01 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Can you believe this weeks NewsWeek cover? Message-ID: <44B6A641.4040209@ispwest.com> I liked it so much I took a picture of it and put it on my website here: http://tian.greens.org/MountainView/My/Desk/GreenNewsweekCover.html I took it with me to Mountain View's City Hall when I went to the City Council Meeting Tuesday evening. I showed it to a number of people. The reactions were all things like "you must have done something," complimentary but not serious. The gist of the article is that using less energy is the essence of being green, and it's now the in thing. I think I'll be carrying it around for the next week or so... BTW: There is also a link by that article in the online version to an interview with Al Gore about his movie, An Inconvienient Truth. In it he finishes up by saying the movie is "nonpolitical". It's hard for me to believe anything can really be nonpolitical, but okay. I really like the way he shared his experience with Tobacco in the movie. He was saying essentially "we could have changed the way we did things long before we did, and things would have worked out better if we had." -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: Added pictures from the GPCA meeing near Thousand Oaks, a dot on the map in Ventura County, CA. From tnharter at ispwest.com Fri Jul 14 00:40:02 2006 From: tnharter at ispwest.com (Tian Harter) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:40:02 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: Join the Sierra Club in Watching "Global Warming: What You Need to Know"] Message-ID: <44B74A52.20107@ispwest.com> Dear Sierra Club Supporter: Irecently hosted the special GLOBAL WARMING: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW for the Discovery Channel. I encourage you to tune in on* Sunday, July 16 at 9 PM ET/PT* for the world premiere. When I first set out to do this special, I knew a few things for certain: * I knew that most people were confused about global warming * And I knew that if we were going to do this right, it had to be completely objective and journalistic. No celebrities, no foregone conclusions. Just the straight science so that people can make up their own minds about the issue. GLOBAL WARMING: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW will take you to global warming hot spots around the world where the planet is most affected by climate change -- into rushing sub-surface rivers deep in Patagonian glaciers; into the drought-stricken Amazon; on coral reefs ravaged by rising ocean temperatures; into a massive Chinese coal mine, and many more. An international team of experts, including NASA's top climate scientist Dr. James Hansen, will discuss the current realities of global warming and predict the future of the planet. The special will look at technical solutions, both great and small, from giant gas injection rigs in the ocean, to more efficient architecture in cities, to what the average American family can do to slow global warming. I hope you will tune in to see for yourself what we all need to know about global warming to ensure the future of our planet. *GLOBAL WARMING: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW airs Sunday, July 16 at 9 PM ET/PT.* Sincerely, Tom Brokaw ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, please click here . Sierra Club 85 Second St. San Francisco, CA 94105 www.sierraclub.org -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: Added pictures from the GPCA meeing near Thousand Oaks, a dot on the map in Ventura County, CA. From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Tue Jul 18 19:36:44 2006 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:36:44 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] planning meeting Message-ID: <44BD9ABC.8050206@sbcglobal.net> We are holding a planning meeting on Saturday July 22-nd from 1 pm until 4 pm in the back yard setting at 867 N 5-th St in San Jose which is between Mission and Hedding streets. See you there. From snug.bug at hotmail.com Wed Jul 19 00:29:28 2006 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:29:28 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Alberto Gonzalez in SF Friday Morning Message-ID: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/14/18287865.php WorldCanrtWait will be there. We need Spanish speakers. Brian _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ From jamboi at yahoo.com Wed Jul 19 08:16:34 2006 From: jamboi at yahoo.com (JamBoi) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:16:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] planning meeting In-Reply-To: <44BD9ABC.8050206@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: <20060719151634.53022.qmail@web52210.mail.yahoo.com> I'm planning on coming. See y'all there. ;-) Drew --- Jim Doyle wrote: > We are holding a planning meeting on Saturday July 22-nd > from 1 pm until 4 pm in the back yard setting at 867 N 5-th St > in San Jose which is between Mission and Hedding streets. > > See you there. > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at marla.cagreens.org > http://marla.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > JamBoi Jammy The Sacred Cows Slayer "Live humbly, laugh often and love unconditionally" (anon) http://dailyJam.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From snug.bug at hotmail.com Thu Jul 20 07:38:38 2006 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:38:38 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Alberto Gonzales at Santa Clara Marriot Friday Morning Message-ID: Protest Attorney General in Santa Clara When: Friday, July 21 2006 @ 10:00 AM PDT - 12:30AM Where: Marriot Hotel, Santa Clara, Great America Parkway and Mission College Blvd 2700 Mission College Blvd Santa Clara, CA Description: Unwelcome Attorney General Gonzales to the South Bay! ? Santa Clara Amnesty for All Immigrants?No 'Bracero' program! End the Torture?Shut Down Guantanamo No to U.S.-Israeli Assaults on Gaza and Lebanon! Attorney-General Gonzales was invited by the Commonwealth Club of Silicon Valley and will speak on "Securing our borders: Immigration reform in a post 9/11world." In other words, he will push the Bush administration's reactionary proposals for "immigration reform," including a new"Bracero" program. He also helped the Bush administration develop its rationale for torture at Guantanamo and elsewhere. At this critical time, we also hold the Bush administration to account for its backing of Israel's killing of civilians and destruction of civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. For more info, call 408-998-8504. _________________________________________________________________ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Thu Jul 20 09:08:49 2006 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:08:49 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] planning meeting Message-ID: <44BFAA91.7010606@sbcglobal.net> We are holding a planning meeting on Saturday July 22-nd from 1 pm until 4 pm in the back yard setting at 867 N 5-th St in San Jose which is between Mission and Hedding streets. See you there. From tnharter at ispwest.com Thu Jul 20 10:56:40 2006 From: tnharter at ispwest.com (Tian Harter) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:56:40 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Constitution Summer says Impeach Bush! Message-ID: <44BFC3D8.8030705@ispwest.com> The event I went to last evening at the Grand Lake theater was put on by Constitution Summer, a group trying to get Bush impeached. So far their big success is getting an impeachment resolution on the November Ballot in Berkeley. The speaker said that their example has inspired other groups to start moving on the issue in Oakland, Santa Cruz, and maybe San Francisco so far. There were probably a couple of hundred people in the audience. The organizers showed a half hour movie that explained they wanted to have Bush impeached because: 1) his Administration is spying on Americans, a violation of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution and the FISA Law that has served the USA well since 1978; and 2) his Administration has approved torture at Guantanimo and other places, a violation of International Law and the 5th and 8th Amendments to the US Constitution; and 3) Bush himself made false statements on the record to get the US into the Iraq war, claiming they had WMDs and were pursuing Nuclear weapons; and 4) his Administration is fighting an illegal war in Iraq, which has already killed thousands of Americans and many more Iraqis, and is likely to kill many more people. After the movie they had a panel discussion. Bill Goodman explained that these articles are the ones they are moving forward with because there is plenty of evidence that they are valid on the public record. Daniel Ellsberg spoke about how silence is not an option. He thinks going along with what is going on in Iraq amounts to being an accomplice to the war crimes they are committing. After that there was some lively Q&A. One woman wanted to know if stealing elections in Florida ('00) and Ohio ('04) was an impeachable offense. Bill Goodman explained that he wasn't sure that one could easily be pinned directly on the President. Somebody else thought 9/11 was an inside job, and asked if that was an impeachable offense. Goodman winced at the thought of trying to explain to the public an idea that wasn't already widely believed. Ellsberg thought there is lots of evidence that something fishy is going on, and that the question was probably worth holding hearings on. Neither of them seemed ready to tack 9/11 onto the Constitution Summer list of articles of impeachment. Outside the theater there was a bunch of tabling and talking. Carol Wolman M. D. gave me her flier. She is running a nonpartisan write in Congressional Campaign in the 1st District on a pro impeachment platform. A young hippy guy told me I should support bill #635, a good part of the solution. Another woman was selling "Give Bush the BOOT!" T shirts, and handing out fliers asking people to visit www.impeachbush-cheney.com or www.afterdowningstreet.org to get connected. Constitution Summer had a table to, where they were selling copies of their book. For more info please visit constitutionsummer.org. -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Did you see last weeks NewsWeek? The cover story was about how hip it is to use less energy. The cover art was also very green. From WB4D23 at aol.com Thu Jul 20 17:33:09 2006 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:33:09 EDT Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] planning meeting Message-ID: <595.4bc26c80.31f17ac5@aol.com> In a message dated 7/20/06 9:09:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time, j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net writes: We are holding a planning meeting on Saturday July 22-nd from 1 pm until 4 pm in the back yard setting at 867 N 5-th St in San Jose which is between Mission and Hedding streets. See you there. Please let us know if you will attend... Expect hot weather... Suggested Topics? More County Council members needed Getting GPSCC voter registration list Recruiting more volunteers in general Phone calls to GPSCC registered voters for outreach Upcoming events planning: August 13th picnic; Tapestry Festival tabling; Candidates event in Mountain View? Election night party? Add your own suggestions... 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Expect hot weather... > > Suggested Topics? > > More County Council members needed > Getting GPSCC voter registration list > Recruiting more volunteers in general > Phone calls to GPSCC registered voters for outreach > Upcoming events planning: August 13th picnic; Tapestry Festival > tabling; Candidates event in Mountain View? Election night party? > > Add your own suggestions... Warner (408-295-9353) > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at marla.cagreens.org > http://marla.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss From gerrygras at earthlink.net Fri Jul 21 03:38:33 2006 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 03:38:33 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [gpsmc-d] Alberto Gonzalez update References: <1623128.1153462642205.JavaMail.root@elwamui-huard.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <44C0AEA9.60408@earthlink.net> Cindy, What day? Gerry Cindy Marcopulos wrote: > I just received this from Code Pink. > (Note: The 7 am protest in San Francisco was cancelled). > cindy marcopulos > > -----Forwarded Message----- > ... >>Subject: update on ag >> >>11 A.M. THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA TO HOST U.S. >>ATTORNEY GENERAL ALBERTO R. GONZALEZ SPEAKING ON "SECURING OUR BORDERS: >>IMMIGRATION REFORM IN A POST 9/11 WORLD.'' >> MARRIOTT HOTEL, 2700 MISSION COLLEGE BLVD., SANTA CLARA >> CONTACT: RIKI RAFNER (415) 597-6712 >> From tnharter at ispwest.com Fri Jul 21 22:50:35 2006 From: tnharter at ispwest.com (Tian Harter) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:50:35 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [gpsmc-d] Alberto Gonzalez update In-Reply-To: <44C0AEA9.60408@earthlink.net> References: <1623128.1153462642205.JavaMail.root@elwamui-huard.atl.sa.earthlink.net> <44C0AEA9.60408@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <44C1BCAB.5060709@ispwest.com> http://tian.greens.org/SantaClara/July06Gonzalez/index.html I saw something there at lunch time today... Tian Gerry Gras wrote: >Cindy, > >What day? > >Gerry > > >Cindy Marcopulos wrote: > > > >>I just received this from Code Pink. >>(Note: The 7 am protest in San Francisco was cancelled). >>cindy marcopulos >> >>-----Forwarded Message----- >> >> >> > > >... > > > >>>Subject: update on ag >>> >>>11 A.M. THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA TO HOST U.S. >>>ATTORNEY GENERAL ALBERTO R. GONZALEZ SPEAKING ON "SECURING OUR BORDERS: >>>IMMIGRATION REFORM IN A POST 9/11 WORLD.'' >>> MARRIOTT HOTEL, 2700 MISSION COLLEGE BLVD., SANTA CLARA >>> CONTACT: RIKI RAFNER (415) 597-6712 >>> >>> >>> > > >_______________________________________________ >sosfbay-discuss mailing list >sosfbay-discuss at marla.cagreens.org >http://marla.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > > -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Did you see last weeks NewsWeek? The cover story was about how hip it is to use less energy. The cover art was also very green. From andid at cagreens.org Sat Jul 22 18:21:49 2006 From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey) Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:21:49 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Brokaw's Global Warming is Replaying tonight on Discovery Channel-8 PM (EOM) Message-ID: <6DF5B954-0861-40FA-8B35-D79EC4398856@cagreens.org> "We can have concentrated wealth in the hands of a few or we can have democracy, but we cannot have both." ---Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The sad thing is that it took such a disaster to make poeople stop and think about what is going around them all the time. > > > "We can have concentrated wealth in the hands of a few or we can have > democracy, but we cannot have both." > ---Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >sosfbay-discuss mailing list >sosfbay-discuss at marla.cagreens.org >http://marla.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > -- "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente Wes Rolley 17211 Quail Court, Morgan Hill, CA 95037 http://www.refpub.com/ -- Tel: 408.778.3024 From MLause at cinci.rr.com Sun Jul 23 08:13:41 2006 From: MLause at cinci.rr.com (Mark Lause) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:13:41 -0400 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Brokaw's Global Warming is Replaying tonight onDiscovery Channel-8 PM (EOM) In-Reply-To: <44C381D7.7050600@charter.net> Message-ID: <000001c6ae6a$954a78d0$3fc64847@downstairspc> It was particularly interesting, though, that the assessment of our impact on the climate boiled down to things done by the "average" households ("the Smiths"). The implication that a change in personal consumer habits is a bit of a cop-out, no? Regards, Mark L. From wrolley at charter.net Sun Jul 23 11:15:36 2006 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:15:36 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Brokaw's Global Warming is Replaying tonight onDiscovery Channel-8 PM (EOM) In-Reply-To: <000001c6ae6a$954a78d0$3fc64847@downstairspc> References: <000001c6ae6a$954a78d0$3fc64847@downstairspc> Message-ID: <44C3BCC8.5070407@charter.net> >It was particularly interesting, though, that the assessment of our impact >on the climate boiled down to things done by the "average" households ("the >Smiths"). The implication that a change in personal consumer habits is a >bit of a cop-out, no? > > At one level, maybe it is. However, to get people to buy in to the possibility that maybe it is true, we start with small steps. Then, once they have admitted that there are really things thay can do, the next step follows, like voting out the nay-sayers. I talked to a neighbor last night, joking about global warming being the cause of yesterday's 114 heat, and they referenced their source for doubt... Michael Savage, who "did his own research on the subject." Needless to say, my neighbor is a Republican. Wes -- "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente Wes Rolley 17211 Quail Court, Morgan Hill, CA 95037 http://www.refpub.com/ -- Tel: 408.778.3024 From WB4D23 at aol.com Sun Jul 23 18:10:11 2006 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:10:11 EDT Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Planning for the Multi-County Picnic Sunday August 13th Uvas Canyon County Park Message-ID: <32f.81784b4.31f577f3@aol.com> Several items planning for the August 13th picnic in Uvas Canyon County Park: 1. We will need one or more persons to go to the park early to stake out 2-3 picnic tables since we are not trying for a paid reservation area (expensive). 2. We will need volunteers to make telephone calls to GP members in south Santa Clara County. We will be getting updated registrations info and provide a phone script. With enough volunteers, the numbers of calls per person can be kept reasonable. More later... Warner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jims at greens.org Sun Jul 23 19:54:36 2006 From: jims at greens.org (Jim Stauffer) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:54:36 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Voter Reg List Message-ID: <44C4366C.C685AB9E@greens.org> At our Saturday planning session, a question came up about what we can request for our free voter database (all voters or GP only). See here - http://www.cagreens.org/liaison/faq.html#db The code does not specify that out free copy is limited to GP voters only. -- Jim From jamboi at yahoo.com Mon Jul 24 00:30:33 2006 From: jamboi at yahoo.com (JamBoi) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:30:33 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Santa Clara County's Million Votes for Peace Campaign In-Reply-To: <44C4366C.C685AB9E@greens.org> Message-ID: <20060724073033.68627.qmail@web52204.mail.yahoo.com> In order for Todd Chretien (Senate v DiFi), Peter Camejo (Gov), # Carol Brouillet: U.S. House of Representatives # Donna Warren: Lt. Governor # Forrest Hill: Secretary of State # Mehul Thakker: Treasurer # Mike Wyman: Attorney General # Larry Cafiero: Insurance Commissioner to achieve their "Million Votes for Peace" campaign, I'm looking at Santa Clara's numbers and thinking we'll need about 130,000 votes in SC county. An extremely ambitious target, but I observe that many things can happen between now and the election time, so one really can never now what will happen. I say we put that number right out before us and see what we an do with getting serious about rallying around this campaign. We can use it to boost our county numbers up again! Drew JamBoi Jammy The Sacred Cows Slayer "Live humbly, laugh often and love unconditionally" (anon) http://dailyJam.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From gerrygras at earthlink.net Mon Jul 24 01:59:03 2006 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:59:03 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Dying Forest: One Year to Save the Amazon Message-ID: <44C48BD7.1000003@earthlink.net> http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0723-03.htm From wrolley at charter.net Mon Jul 24 07:15:02 2006 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:15:02 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Planning for the Multi-County Picnic Sunday August 13th Uvas Canyon County Park In-Reply-To: <32f.81784b4.31f577f3@aol.com> References: <32f.81784b4.31f577f3@aol.com> Message-ID: <44C4D5E6.3080103@charter.net> > 2. We will need volunteers to make telephone calls to GP members in > south Santa Clara County. We will be getting updated registrations info > and provide a phone script. With enough volunteers, the numbers of calls > per person can be kept reasonable. Email me a section of the list and I will make calls. -- "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente Wes Rolley 17211 Quail Court, Morgan Hill, CA 95037 http://www.refpub.com/ -- Tel: 408.778.3024 From jamboi at yahoo.com Mon Jul 24 07:52:58 2006 From: jamboi at yahoo.com (JamBoi) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:52:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Tuesday ast meeting of Palo Alto Clean Money working group In-Reply-To: <44C4D5E6.3080103@charter.net> Message-ID: <20060724145258.37444.qmail@web52212.mail.yahoo.com> >From Nancy Neff: > Dear everyone, > > You are invited to the first meeting of the Palo Alto Area Working Group > for Clean Money! We will meet at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 25, in Room > 6 at the UUCPA, i.e. Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, 505 E. > Charleston Rd, Palo Alto. It is one block west (toward the hills) of > Middlefield Road. Forward this invitation to anyone you think might be > interested. > > The purpose of the working group meetings is to educate ourselves about > Prop 89, the Clean Money and Fair Elections Act, and to plan activities > that will get the word out. Maybe we'll dash off some letters while > we're there. Bring paper and pen. At this first meeting, we will show > Bill Moyers' 12-minute film, "The Road to Clean Elections," learn more > detail about Prop 89--probably from Trent Lange, VP of the California > Clean Money Campaign--and begin planning activities. > > Talking to people about Clean Money is easy and fun. Come with ideas of > public events we can table at, such as festivals. > > If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, just reply with > "unsubscribe" in the subject or body. > > Hope to see you on Tuesday the 25th. > > Nancy > JamBoi Jammy The Sacred Cows Slayer "Live humbly, laugh often and love unconditionally" (anon) http://dailyJam.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From jamboi at yahoo.com Mon Jul 24 08:16:07 2006 From: jamboi at yahoo.com (JamBoi) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:16:07 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Tuesday 1st meeting of Palo Alto Clean Money working group In-Reply-To: <20060724145258.37444.qmail@web52212.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20060724151607.57070.qmail@web52214.mail.yahoo.com> >From Nancy Neff: > Dear everyone, > > You are invited to the first meeting of the Palo Alto Area Working Group > for Clean Money! We will meet at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 25, in Room > 6 at the UUCPA, i.e. Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, 505 E. > Charleston Rd, Palo Alto. It is one block west (toward the hills) of > Middlefield Road. Forward this invitation to anyone you think might be > interested. > > The purpose of the working group meetings is to educate ourselves about > Prop 89, the Clean Money and Fair Elections Act, and to plan activities > that will get the word out. Maybe we'll dash off some letters while > we're there. Bring paper and pen. At this first meeting, we will show > Bill Moyers' 12-minute film, "The Road to Clean Elections," learn more > detail about Prop 89--probably from Trent Lange, VP of the California > Clean Money Campaign--and begin planning activities. > > Talking to people about Clean Money is easy and fun. Come with ideas of > public events we can table at, such as festivals. > > Hope to see you on Tuesday the 25th. > > Nancy JamBoi Jammy The Sacred Cows Slayer "Live humbly, laugh often and love unconditionally" (anon) http://dailyJam.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From wrolley at charter.net Tue Jul 25 10:07:07 2006 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:07:07 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] MH Times Message-ID: <44C64FBB.5030405@charter.net> I have talked to some of the people in my sub-division (Holiday Lakes in Morgan Hill), about 500 homes, about the PLAN initiative. There are a number who view increased controls, such as OpenSpace 2006 / PLAN initiative as being an increased level of regulation and actually, a "takings" from their property value. This property rights issue is increasing in it's focus. The Feature story in High Country News this week is dedicated to the issue. They cast is as a libertarian question, but in California, there is a strong presence of property rights organizations. Thie is what got Richard Pombo elected the first time. High Country News also has commentary by Rebecca Clarren on the Oregon initiative (passed in Nov. 2004). " Nearly 60 percent of Oregon voters across rural and urban areas passed a ballot initiative that requires state and local governments to either compensate landowners when environmental or planning laws harm property values, or else to waive the regulations." I wrote a commentary that ran in today's Morgan Hill Times on environmental regulation and property rights. Here is is. __ rankly, I am getting tired of the political rhetoric that continues to define conflicts over environmental regulation as a property rights issue. That is a sham foisted on us by those who think it their God-given right to make the maximum amount of money at our expense and the politicians, like Richard Pombo, who find this a convenient rallying cry. Who would not be for property rights? It is part of the fabled American Dream. Owning your own place is a part of that which brought people to America. It was the lure that pulled the earliest settlers west, first to Kentucky and Ohio, then across the Mississippi and then clear to the Pacific. It is that same lure which has created suburbia, freeways, smog and a myriad other associated problems. American individualism fuels the idea that what one does on and with their property is their own business. Just think of the farmer who took barbed wire and fenced the land, denying the cattleman the range to run their cattle. How many movies have been made of that theme. Or the hard working widow, just trying to make ends meet. Come back, Shane. This is deeply ingrained in our mythology. Of course, the property rights issues are correct up to a point. The problem is that too many things that we do on or with our own property don't stay there. They affect our neighbors as I did when I put some too-green wood in my fire ring. The smoke that came up blew into my neighbors house and he came over to ask me to shut it down. It was a problem of real concern because their son has asthma. Smoke knows no man-defined boundaries. Such is the way with many of the problems that we have tried to solve with environmental regulation. They arise out of the fact that what one does on or with a piece of property does not stay there. Neither air nor water nor most species other than man know anything about these property boundaries we have set in courts of law. There are many property rights advocates who even seek justification in biblical tradition. To those people I would only quote "whatsoever ye have done unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Me." It is too easy to think of the "least of these" as some poor people living off in Africa or the Amazon. In truth, they live next door. They are our neighbors. If we were all intent on being good neighbors rather than being focused on maintaining our property values, maybe we could accomplish both. Given that there are too many who are not willing to be good neighbors, to think of the "least of these" in such broad terms, then the vast majority of Americans believe that there is a role for government to mandate good behavior. We all agree with laws concerning theft. Why then do we not agree with laws that say "thou shalt not contaminate thy neighbors well." Of course environmental policy is messy. Regulations are not as neat as the four sides of a quarter-acre lot. Often we do not know precisely what is the underlying cause of everything nor do we know what the ultimate outcome of remedial actions might be. However, that should not stop us from acting according to the best scientific information available. To do otherwise is to value ideology over fact, a decision that will often cause our grandchildren to ask "What were they thinking of?" The major issue ecological issue facing us now is that of global warming. Al Gore called in an "Inconvenient Truth." Every day it seems that we read of something additional which is attributed to global warming. Just this week, I am watching the smoke from the Del Puerto Canyon fire. It is a very large fire burning mostly on private property. I studied this week the reports linking the size and frequency of major fires in the west to global warming and the climatic changes that it is bringing. Most of the acreage consumed by this fire is private property, whose owners have rights. Do they have the right to expect that the rest of us will have taken steps to lessen greenhouse gas emissions? They are the ones whose buildings were destroyed and whose livestock, if they survived, no longer have range grass to feed on. These are not tenuous, maybe, maybe not, connections. The facts are real. It is not enough just to think of this fire as yet another accidental disaster. There are things that we can do to lessen the impact and, were we good neighbors, we would. We all contribute to global warming. Maybe it is time we accept the fact that good neighbors do not let their neighbor's place burn. -- "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente Wes Rolley 17211 Quail Court, Morgan Hill, CA 95037 http://www.refpub.com/ -- Tel: 408.778.3024 From jamboi at yahoo.com Tue Jul 25 10:39:26 2006 From: jamboi at yahoo.com (JamBoi) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:39:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] GP takes up Eminent Domain Issue - resources (was Re: MH Times) In-Reply-To: <44C64FBB.5030405@charter.net> Message-ID: <20060725173926.85591.qmail@web52209.mail.yahoo.com> Hi Wes, I've observed all across the country the Green Party has taken up fighting against eminent domain abuse. Here are some related GP resources: Eminent Domain pamphlet: http://gp.org/issue/eminent_domain.pdf Agriculture Policy: http://gp.org/issue/agriculture_2005.pdf http://gp.org/platform/2004/ecology.html#759843 2005.06.28: Supreme Theft http://gp.org/press/pr_2005_06_28.shtml 2005.07.23: Greens Plan for 2006 and 2008 http://gp.org/press/pr_2005_07_23.shtml 2005.10.19: Elaine Brown Fights Disqualification http://gp.org/press/pr_2005_10_19.shtml Drew --- Wes Rolley wrote: > I have talked to some of the people in my sub-division (Holiday Lakes > in > Morgan Hill), about 500 homes, about the PLAN initiative. > There are a number who view increased controls, such as OpenSpace > 2006 / > PLAN initiative as being an increased level of regulation and > actually, > a "takings" from their property value. This property rights issue is > > increasing in it's focus. The Feature story > in High > Country News this week is dedicated to the issue. They cast is as a > libertarian question, but in California, there is a strong presence > of > property rights organizations. Thie is what got Richard Pombo > elected > the first time. > > High Country News also has commentary by Rebecca Clarren > on the > Oregon > initiative (passed in Nov. 2004). " Nearly 60 percent of Oregon > voters > across rural and urban areas passed a ballot initiative that requires > > state and local governments to either compensate landowners when > environmental or planning laws harm property values, or else to waive > > the regulations." > > I wrote a commentary that ran in today's Morgan Hill Times on > environmental regulation and property rights. Here is is. > > __ > rankly, I am getting tired of the political rhetoric that continues > to > define conflicts over environmental regulation as a property rights > issue. That is a sham foisted on us by those who think it their > God-given right to make the maximum amount of money at our expense > and > the politicians, like Richard Pombo, who find this a convenient > rallying > cry. JamBoi Jammy The Sacred Cows Slayer "Live humbly, laugh often and love unconditionally" (anon) http://dailyJam.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From jamboi at yahoo.com Tue Jul 25 10:42:44 2006 From: jamboi at yahoo.com (JamBoi) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:42:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Campaigning 101; Acterra Offers Leadership Training, Message-ID: <20060725174244.87824.qmail@web52209.mail.yahoo.com> --- Peter Drekmeier wrote: > From: Peter Drekmeier > Subject: Leadership Training > Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:06:35 -0700 > > Friends, > > Would you like to develop and improve your leadership and campaign > skills? If so, you?ll be interested in the following event and > leadership program. > 1) Campaigning 101 > > 2) Be the Change (applications due ? July 31) > > I hope to see you on Thursday. > > -Peter > 1) Campaigning 101: The Keys to Victory > > Thursday, July 27 > Networking Reception @ 6:30 pm; Panel Discussion @ 7 pm > Mountain View City Council Chambers > 500 Castro Street, Second Floor > Refreshments will be served > Presented by the Peninsula Young Democrats > > Do you want to run for office? How about being behind the scenes > plotting strategy, developing messages, or raising money? > Confirmed panelists include Palo Alto councilmember Peter Drekmeier, > > statewide and legislative campaign consultant Trent Hager, 2004 > congressional candidate and Democratic Congressional Campaign > Committee Indo-American Council Chair Ro Khanna, and media consultant > > and Emerge co-founder Christine Stavem. PYD Vice Chair Rekha Ramesh > > will moderate. > > Please RSVP to Andrew Byrnes at (650) 324-7021 or > andrewbyrnes at yahoo.com > ---------------------- > > 2) Be the Change - An Environmental Leadership Program > > Starting each September, Acterra's environmental leadership program > engages diverse participants - from business leaders to educators to > > scientists to social activists - in a year-long training program. > Offering monthly seminars, workshops, student projects, panel > discussions and field trips, the program emphasizes building skills > that enable people to act within the organizations where they work, > live, worship and play to bring about significant changes in how they > > relate to the natural world. The program requires a full day each > month, plus occasional evening programs and project work time. > The ideal candidate is a person who has an environmental > consciousness ? and who is eager to take further steps towards making > > that awareness a reality. We envision a class of mid-career adults > who have demonstrated competence and promise as leaders and who are > ready to take their work to the next level. > > Applications are due on July 31, and class participants will be > selected after a personal interview. Tuition is $1600. Partial > scholarships may be available upon request. > > For more information, please visit http://www.acterra.org/leadership/ > > index.html > > > ----------------------------------- > Peter Drekmeier > pdrekmeier at earthlink.net > (650) 223-3333 > > > > JamBoi Jammy The Sacred Cows Slayer "Live humbly, laugh often and love unconditionally" (anon) http://dailyJam.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From gerrygras at earthlink.net Tue Jul 25 11:08:16 2006 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:08:16 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Brokaw's Global Warming is Replaying tonight onDiscovery Channel-8 PM (EOM) References: <000001c6ae6a$954a78d0$3fc64847@downstairspc> <44C3BCC8.5070407@charter.net> Message-ID: <44C65E10.3080309@earthlink.net> Wes Rolley wrote: > At one level, maybe it is. However, to get people to buy in to the > possibility that maybe it is true, we start with small steps. Then, > once they have admitted that there are really things thay can do, the > next step follows, like voting out the nay-sayers. > > I talked to a neighbor last night, joking about global warming being the > cause of yesterday's 114 heat, and they referenced their source for > doubt... Michael Savage, who "did his own research on the subject." > Needless to say, my neighbor is a Republican. > > Wes > > I spent some time researching this on the internet. I guess I could write a long email now, but won't. If you have questions, just ask. A few points however. - Michael Savage apparently does not like Democrats AND Republicans, referring to them as Democans and Republicrats. - There is a debate going on in the U.S. House now about global warming. Including a criticism of one chairman by another, (remember, all chairs belong to the majority party in the House, which means both are Republican. - I saw an article on Common Dreams awhile ago saying that the majority of Americans are concerned about the environment and are ready for the government to do something. (How concerned Americans are about global warming, however, is not clear to me.) - A simplistic outline of my opinion of what the global warming debate is about: - the climate scientists say that no peer reviewed articles disagree that global warming is real and man made. (There probably is a clarification that they are referring to certain science publications.) - the opposition says - there are articles published - they have submitted articles to be published in the scientific community, but they have been rejected by biased editors - the articles have pointed out alleged flaws in the current thinking of the climate science community - we should not act hastily in reaction to an issue where we have incomplete information, maybe more information will indicate a quite different story - the climate scientists say that the opposition articles are not published because the issues raised in them have all been refuted already publically - I think it is not easy for a non expert to decide which side to believe in. There are a number of scientists among the skeptics. Everyone in the debate is human, and therefore can make mistakes. And no matter how much you know there is always the possibility that future knowledge may invalidate current thinking. In answer to that I think it is prudent to - check the credentials of the various proponents... for example, one skeptical study was done by an economist and a person with a math degree who has had a career in mineral extraction (which can by a plus or minus depending on who is reading the study) NOTE: it is my impression that in general the biologists worry a lot about the environment, the economists do not. NOTE: age matters, it seems that the older you are the harder it is to accept new information, especially if it is unpleasant. - just because we do not have complete information is no reason to do nothing ... we often make decisions based on incomplete information, including buying a house, getting rid of an old car, voting for a politician ... Finally, I recently heard a quote about thinking and rearranging prejudices. I found this: "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." (William James?) http://www.bartleby.com/73/1266.html Gerry From jamboi at yahoo.com Tue Jul 25 13:14:47 2006 From: jamboi at yahoo.com (JamBoi) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:14:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Local San Jose/Santa Clara Issue: BAREC update July 25, 2006 In-Reply-To: <44C65E10.3080309@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <20060725201447.55667.qmail@web52204.mail.yahoo.com> From: "Kirk Vartan" To: info at savebarec.org Subject: BAREC update July 25, 2006 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:46:12 -0700 Hello BAREC Supporters (and welcome new friends), For those that showed up at the meeting on July 18th, thank you! I am sorry the Mayor denied your public right to speak at the meeting. I waited until the general public presentation to say that I was glad Linda had the opportunity to present on educational urban farms, but that I was very disappointed that the Mayor decided not to let the public speak at the meeting. I further said I was happy to "give up" my right to speak on the agenda item as I and other members of the SaveBAREC group helped create the presentation; however, there were more than just SaveBAREC members in the audience. The SJ Mercury News identified the meeting publicly on Monday and there were many people present that were not part of our group that wanted to speak. We will post the video of the presentation and the Mayor's comments in the next couple of days. I have never seen an agenda item where the public was not allowed to speak. This does not seem legal. Many people left and were very upset. Please write the City and tell them you are unhappy with the way the City Council treated you and demand an explanation. The project contact is: -- Gloria Sciara, gsciara at ci.santa-clara.ca.us, (408) 615-2462 -- On a separate note, the Revised Draft EIR for BAREC was released on Friday, July 21st. That means there is another 45 day public comment period. The public comment period started July 21st and ends at 5pm on September 4th. Since the information has not been posted on the City's website yet, the date has already been extended until Friday, September 8th at 5pm. This is your time to make your voice heard. We will send you information over the next week or two to let you know what you can do. We will also ask that you plan to attend the City Staff meeting AND the City Council that is going to be held later this summer. They don't expect you to show. You need to be there to show them you will not stand for what they are doing, specifically, not listening to the community that put them in office. As always, please continue to tell the City officials how you feel and to not change the zoning of the property. We can do this!!! -Kirk kirk at savebarec.org www.savebarec.org 888-BAREC-80 JamBoi Jammy The Sacred Cows Slayer "Live humbly, laugh often and love unconditionally" (anon) http://dailyJam.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From tnharter at ispwest.com Wed Jul 26 00:49:35 2006 From: tnharter at ispwest.com (Tian Harter) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:49:35 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: Notes From the Trail - A Call For Worldwide "Up-Wising"] Message-ID: <44C71E8F.7030509@ispwest.com> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Notes From the Trail - A Call For Worldwide "Up-Wising" Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:43:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Bhaerman Reply-To: info at wakeuplaughing.com To: tnharter at ispwest.com You are receiving this email from Wake Up Laughing Productions because you purchased a product/service or subscribed on our website. To ensure that you continue to receive emails from us, add info at wakeuplaughing.com to your address book today. If you haven't done so already, click to confirm your interest in receiving email campaigns from us. To no longer receive our emails, click to unsubscribe . Notes Banner ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Thin Line Between War and Genocide... A Call For a Worldwide "Up-Wising" July 25, 2006 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ by Steve Bhaerman Here?s the problem with war: It?s always justified. So let?s get it out of the way right now. The Israelis are justified for wanting to secure their borders from rocket attacks and homicide bombers. The Palestinians are justified in not wanting to live in refugee camps under the thumb of an occupying army. With the war fully ?justified,? all sides then take the ?logical? step of justifying whatever actions are necessary to win. Inevitably, every war starts out as a ?just war,? and ends up as ... just war. So here we are again, round 5,736,428 of that self-destructive habit we humans just haven?t been able to shake. And in this shrinking world that could definitely use a good shrink, this time the dysfunctional pattern and its deadly fallout is more in our face than ever -- and will be until we turn the corner and find an alternative that works. Because as it stands right now, the ?right? to make war (and the ?might? behind the right that gives war its ?punch?) is the bottom line every country holds to ?when all else fails ... ? But then again, why wait till all else fails? Why not initiate the war against the enemies who have vowed to kill you, and save all that grief at the other end? Consider that the enemies of Israel have declared their intention to put Israel out of existence. It?s not a big stretch at that point to pick up the gauntlet and intone, ?Not if I put you out of existence first.? And so, out of a combination of disheartenment with the peacemakers and manipulation by the war-makers, the Israeli people -- and, unfortunately, many Jewish people and others who support Israel?s right to live in peace -- have fallen in line with this latest military escalation. Yes, it was in ?response? to Hezbollah?s capture of soldiers. But like our own Iraq misadventure, the invasion of Lebanon (by leaders still trying to prove their macho credentials, something Ariel Sharon didn?t have to do) has been in the planning stages for some time. A pro-Israel demonstration held in San Francisco (and many other American cities) this past weekend blindly reinforced the belief that this latest attack was necessary for Israel?s survival. But those who showed up to support Israel, and the pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel counter demonstrators all missed the point: War isn?t the solution, it?s the problem. Scientific Proof That War is Stupid! The evolutionary step before us is to finally rise above the ?dueling dualities? and see that despite our grievances and disagreements, the one universal enemy we humans face is war itself. God -- whoever He or She is -- must have a hell of a sense of humor. Why else would our most deadly and inhuman human habit be playing out for all to see in what is ironically called ?The Holy Land?? The not-so-funny part of this is that the area once called ?the cradle of civilization? could very well become its grave unless a critical mass of us create the moral authority and political will for the healing that not only is possible, but necessary. The first issue we must face is that there is no peace without justice. Justice provides the balance that keeps the toxic forces in any region at bay. Justice is never a zero-sum, I win-you lose game. Never. Another name for the zero-sum game is genocide, no matter how sophisticated the spin. And the more fear-driven and threatened a people feel, the more willing they are to tolerate the other side?s human losses. Look at us here in America. Deluded by fear and misinformation, there?s been nary a peep about those tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians who died at the hand of shock and awe and its aftermath. The biggest problem in the Middle East right now isn?t Israel or even the Islamist crazies. The biggest problem -- as the late F.D.R. would tell us if he were around -- is fear itself. I?ve been working on a book with cell biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton (/The Biology of Belief /) and in the process, I?ve come to respect the wisdom of the 50 trillion cell community we call the human body. In fact, all indications are that our cells are smarter than we are. One of the things I?ve been learning is the effect fear has on the body. When the body goes into fight or flight, blood leaves the frontal lobe and goes to the ?reptile brain,? which is what we use for quick, ?instinctual? reactions. The problem is, we lose access to our higher reasoning powers and greater intelligence. Put bluntly, fear makes us stupid. So no need to wonder why the more entrenched we get in a conflict, the more irrational our actions become. Another powerful message from the body to the body politic: The precursor for malignancy is -- very often -- prolonged inflammation. This would indicate that the way to contain the malignancy in this ?hot spot? is to reduce the inflammation. Unfortunately, the whole world seems to be playing one side or another, which does nothing to douse the flames. Despite Kofi Annan?s call for a ceasefire, the U.N. has neither credibility or clout. Meanwhile, the United States -- once an almost-congruent broker for peace in the region during the Clinton years -- has devolved into just another self-serving party with zero moral authority. Despite the propaganda that we are in Iraq to keep the peace, our move to secure the oil fields first and tend to the safety and security of the Iraqi people last would seem to indicate that we are there to keep the pieces instead. Even those who supported the invasion now have to admit that the Iraq occupation has fanned the flames of conflict. If we the people of America insist on staying stupid, we will continue to either blindly back Israel?s military policies or take the other simplistic position that Israel is the villain and if we let the Arabs push it into the sea, everything would be ducky. What we might do instead is hearken back to the words of a military man, something that was said even before another general, Dwight D. Eisenhower, warned us to beware of the military industrial complex. The military man was Marine Corps Gen. Smedley Butler, and his words were blunt: ?War is a racket .? Butler, whose other claim to fame was exposing a plot for a military takeover of the United States during the early days of the Franklin Roosevelt administration, had served in several imperial wars and in World War I. He understood that war in the modern world is a huge moneymaking operation that creates death and debt at the expense of everything else. The other ?secret? of war is that it is ultimately unwinnable. Sure wars are technically ?won,? but they end up reincarnating as new wars to rebalance the imbalances created by the so-called ?victory.? I am reminded of a key line from the 1980s film, War Games. Literally they are talking about tic-tac-toe, but metaphorically they are talking about war: ?There is no way to win. The game itself is pointless!? Time for a Worldwide ?Up-Wising? So, in the light of the game not only being pointless but suicidal as well, what do we do? First, we must understand that our leaders cannot help us. We have a party in power that insists we must squelch the enemy, and the enemy is anyone they designate as such. We have a party out of power that is secretly afraid the party in power may be right. There is a persistent mindset that war is ?necessary? or even ?inevitable.? Consciously or unconsciously, the majority of Americans still think of war or threat of war as synonymous with ?foreign policy.? Secondly, we must recognize that the so-called ?peace movement? sadly suffers from a similar lack of imagination. When I was in Washington in May for the Spiritual Activism Conference, I joined four people I greatly respect -- Cindy Sheehan, CIA whistle blower Ray McGovern, Code Pink?s Medea Benjamin, and David Swanson of After Downing Street -- on a march up Connecticut Avenue to Donald Rumsfeld?s house. All in all, there were 30 or 40 of us complete with police motorcycle escort and a megaphone where we shouted chants and occasionally sang songs. Despite the fact that a few passersby joined the march along the way, it was ultimately a dissatisfying experience. As we marched by shouting slogans (which haven?t changed much in 40 years), I experienced us as a polarizing force, repelling people who otherwise could have been allies. What I would have given for a Dixieland band leading the procession with ?When the Saints Go Marchin? In,? so that we would have been a ?positive attractor? affirming that the saints were marching for peace, not war. When we got to the Rumsfeld compound, we found a gaggle of counter-demonstrators waiting for us so now we had people to shout at directly. And vice versa. I snuck ?behind enemy lines? to have a conversation with a teenaged girl who probably does this regularly as part of family outings. I was able to draw her into a human-to-human conversation, but ultimately she took refuge in spouting her ?tape recorded? message. So ... how do we get the resources for peace to mobilize beyond the ?don?t-just-stand-there-do-something? habit to where the something we do is actually more effective than just standing there? Here is my immodest proposal: 1. Establish Moral Authority for Peace. 2. Activate the Department of Peace Now. 3. Go Over the Heads of State By Starting at the Bottom. 4. Declare a NEW New World Order. 5. Set Love in Motion Through Prayer and Celebration. *1. Establish a Moral Authority for Peace.* Both Tikkun?s Rabbi Michael Lerner and the Sojourners? Rev. Jim Wallis have very recently spoken out articulately for the need to identify war itself as the enemy to be overcome. Please read their pieces and circulate them whenever someone sends you a polarizing piece about how ?right? one side or the other side is. Both sides are ?right? in having grievances, both sides are ?wrong? in fearfully falling back into warfare as the solution. *2. Activate the Department of Peace Now.* Everyone wants peace, but almost everyone goes along with war. Why is that? Because not enough people trust -- or are even aware of -- the alternatives. That?s why when push comes to shove, the result is generally more pushing and shoving. In addition to the multitude of international organizations that have diffused conflict and worked for reconciliation, we have right here and right now in our country an organization dedicated to establishing a U.S. Department of Peace, the Peace Alliance. Until now, their focus has been establishing the a cabinet level department. As of now, I would suggest, their focus and mission need to change into BEING the Department of Peace de facto until it exists ?in facto.? This organization can gain credibility and leverage by taking on the mission of creating a worldwide, non-governmental Peace Summit, and begin immediately communicating with people ?on the ground? everywhere. For example, Global Exchange is already sponsoring U.S.-Iran citizen communications and tours. This should be the launching pad for regular communication with the people of Iran (and every other country whose government we?ve demonized). This can be done by email, snail mail, DVDs, telephone and video conferencing. The millions and millions worldwide who came out for peace before the Iraq invasion are still out there, more convinced than ever of war?s futility. Let?s find them and create a worldwide matrix that can enable the vast majorities of all peoples who want to live in peace to ?overgrow? their governments who do not. Incidentally, another excellent resource both for mutual communication and for activating high-level solutions is the World Caf? model. Developed by organizational consultants Juanita Brown and David Isaacs, the model has people from divergent views and backgrounds sitting together at tables of four, having a conversation about the issue or issues at hand, then moving on to do the same thing at other tables with other people. Using this model, every individual can be heard and the group can access a ?field of wisdom? that allows ?ordinary? folks to come up with extraordinary solutions. *3. Go Over the Heads of State By Starting at the ?Bottom.?* Since peace apparently cannot be achieved from the top down, we have to do it from the ?bottom up.? Those people on the ground in Israel, the West Bank, Lebanon, Iraq and every other country in that afflicted area, what do they want? Has anyone asked them? My guess is that the bottom line at the ?bottom? -- once we?ve seen behind the pseudo-solutions that involve killing or repressing someone else -- is some variation on ?peace, prosperity and mutual respect.? Even the most militant Islamic fundamentalists -- if not the leaders than the followers -- would in the best possible worlds prefer life to martyrdom. So what would have to happen for them to ?choose life?? Perhaps the Peace Alliance, along with other international peace organizations, can actually facilitate these surveys on the ground. Perhaps too a website could be set up -- similar to the Sorry Everybody site that popped up after the Bush re-selection -- where people ?on the ground? in this war zone can offer their visions for a peaceful world that would be worth living into. What if there were a consensus on the part of 70% or 80% or 90% of regular people on all sides that they wanted a solution that didn?t involve more killing? For one thing, it would show that they outnumber the 10% to 30% who stand in the way. For another, it would provide the political authority for international intervention to give them what they?re asking for. *4. Declare a NEW New World Order.* All sides are right wanting to be safe and free. All those who think war will guarantee this are mistaken. The one thing war surely guarantees is more war, and the only ?war to end all war? is, unfortunately, armageddon. Therefore, we religious folks and not-religious-but-spiritual folks must declare our intention to create ?disarmageddon,? a worldwide transparent rule of law and justice -- a NEW new world order, if you will. Because the other ?rapture? -- at least as it?s been defined by those ?Left Behind? people -- is a death trip for planet Earth, a sure indication that we humans earned an ?F? in works-and-plays-well-with-others. So let?s expose the insanity of looking forward to the human race flunking its Finals. Let?s leave behind the Left Behind folks and proudly declare ourselves ?evolutionists? by going for evolution as a practice. Let?s take a cue from Bill Maher?s ?Real Time? TV show and initiate ?New Rules? -- new rules for ruling the planet. For one thing, we must hearken back to our Founding Fathers who held the outrageous notion that it was our political leaders who serve us, and not the other way around. And this time, let?s take the revolution an evolutionary step further and recognize that in this New New World Order, we?re all in it together. This evolution requires a Declaration of Interdependence (several have been attempted including those below): Declaration of Interdependance another Declaration of Interdependance and another Declaration of Interdependance Once we come up with one which guarantees individual rights, collective security, care for the commonwealth and enforceable and transparent justice, perhaps we then need to ratify this, community by community, province by province, country by country. Only individual human cells working together -- just as a few colonists stood up to the King of England 230 years ago -- can give the world what our governments and so-called leaders cannot. Above all, during these soul-trying times, we need to refrain from polarization and demonizing other points of view. As much as ?war? is the common enemy, so is the kind of polarization that leads to intractable positions. I lost a friend last year -- a brilliant and tireless advocate for peace. No, he didn?t die. He ?excommunicated? me from his communications list. I had objected several times to blatantly anti-semitic (not anti-Israel even, but anti-semitic) diatribes imbedded in his otherwise cogent comments. His response was that ?tribalism? was killing the planet, and I needed to disavow any association with my ?tribe.? When I wouldn?t do that, he wrote me off. It?s only been in the past few weeks -- again as a result of my working with Bruce Lipton and seeing the remarkable lessons our cells can teach us -- that I?ve found the answer to my ex-friend?s issues. Just as ?communities? of similar cells in the body comprise an ?organ,? so each nation or ?tribal? group has a positive function, a contribution to the whole that is theirs alone to make. Our healing mission? To help every tribe and nation is to find its contribution ?hidden in this picture.? Put another way, which organ are we willing to banish from the body? *5. Set Love in Motion Through Prayer and Celebration.* At a time when we need it most, we humans seem to have lost our faith in faith. One of the most inspiring and courageous people of faith I?ve met recently is David Ray Griffin, author of two books which question the Official 9/11 Myth (The New Pearl Harbor and The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions ), as well as a new book, Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action . David has written several books on ?Process Theology,? a system that emerged after World War II in answer to the question, ?How could a loving God have allowed the Holocaust to happen?? His very, very short answer is this: We, as creations of the Creator, have free will to choose how and what we create in this life. This very often results in what we call "evil." On the other hand, our greatest power as human beings is to bring that loving God to earth by creating good instead. In other words, the loving power of God is in our hands if we choose to use it. Commenting about the bombing of Lebanon, Marianne Williamson has said in a recent article, ?The world needs a miracle, and needs it now.? The ?miracle? we need is not in the invisible hands of an invisible God, but rather in the ?field? we humans create with our intentions -- and our actions. Let?s not underestimate these intentions, because that?s where actions come from. And even holding intentions together in worldwide configurations is an action that may hold unpredictable positive consequences. If we can do nothing else, let?s create a worldwide web of prayer -- not just solemn mourning, but joyful celebration of the world we know is possible -- and let?s make it visible and audible in every city, town and community. Let?s create an ecumenical space, inviting all who recognize there is One Spirit bigger than any religion. Let?s use already-existing prayers and let?s invent new ones to make real through word, vision and imagination the world we know in our hearts is possible. Let?s unite the traditional religious groups who pray for peace with the new age worldwide peace meditations, and let?s have them simultaneous and worldwide. Let?s include those who don?t pray by asking them to simply hold positive, loving intentions. Let?s disturb the false peace of numbness and apathy. Just as Paul Revere rode through the dark night to awaken the townsfolk with a shout and a bell, let the church bells ring. ?Ring them bells,? as Bob Dylan sings, ?so the world will know that God is One.? Let the bells ring until it is clear that momentum has shifted toward a world where we?re all in it together, and then let the bells ring some more to celebrate that shift. We haven?t been brought to this point so the forces of fear, ignorance, greed and limitation can claim the destruction of the world as their ?victory.? May this be the turning point where the good people of the world stop playing weak and stop playing stupid, where we take our God-given power and use it to serve the will of Loving Spirit. May life prevail, and may only love prevail. May the FARCE be with you, Steve Bhaerman (707) 525-0711 http://www.wakeuplaughing.com/ Read Swami's 2006 State of the Universe Address Subscribe to Notes From the Trail Notes From the Trail -- while distributed freely to all who want to read it -- depends on your donations. For a $25 donation, we will gratefully send you an autographed copy of Swami Beyondananda?s book, Swami for Precedent: A 7-Step Plan to Heal the Body Politic and Cure Electile Dysfunction . If Swami becomes famous, you?ll have a famous autograph. Otherwise, you?ll have a rare book. You can?t lose. Seriously, if you feel informed and inspired by this online newsletter, put your money where your mouse is. Subscribe online by clicking here and scrolling down to the end. 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From tnharter at ispwest.com Wed Jul 26 11:42:47 2006 From: tnharter at ispwest.com (Tian Harter) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:42:47 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Bohemian Grove protest in Sonoma County Message-ID: <44C7B7A7.4050308@ispwest.com> I'd been hearing about the Bohemian Grove protest for years. This year I finally got my act together and experienced it. You can see what I saw by visting this page: http://tian.greens.org/SonomaCounty/BohemianGrove06/index.html Click the pictures to see more of it... -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest Change: Added pictures from the Bohemian Grove protest up in Sonoma County that happened last Saturday. From jamboi at yahoo.com Wed Jul 26 16:39:37 2006 From: jamboi at yahoo.com (JamBoi) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:39:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Local contacts for One Care Universal Health Care Campaign In-Reply-To: <44C7B7A7.4050308@ispwest.com> Message-ID: <20060726233937.10511.qmail@web52210.mail.yahoo.com> I'm thinking the clean money folks and these guys would be great to have come speak at our new Green Talks gatherings we're planning to hold (for those who didn't make it to our planning meeting). County web site: http://www.healthcareforall.org/santaclara.html San Jose, Gilroy, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale & Cupertino Contact: lynn huidekoper Phone: 650-322-9609 Email: lhuidekoper at onecarenow.org Los Altos Contact: Charles Browning Phone: 650.947.9369 Email: cbrowning at onecarenow.org Los Gatos, Saratoga, & Campbell Contact: Barbara Lea Email: blea at onecarenow.org And the overall web site http://www.onecarenow.org JamBoi Jammy The Sacred Cows Slayer "Live humbly, laugh often and love unconditionally" (anon) http://dailyJam.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From gerrygras at earthlink.net Thu Jul 27 00:23:23 2006 From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:23:23 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Request for Agenda Items Message-ID: <44C869EB.2010905@earthlink.net> Please submit your agenda items for the Thursday August 3rd meeting. Deadline for submissions is Monday 7/31. I would appreciate it if you would include time estimate(s) and presenter(s). Thanks, Gerry From jamboi at yahoo.com Thu Jul 27 00:40:40 2006 From: jamboi at yahoo.com (JamBoi) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:40:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Request for Agenda Items In-Reply-To: <44C869EB.2010905@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <20060727074041.24602.qmail@web52214.mail.yahoo.com> Report on Green Party National Annual Meeting: 10 min. Drew --- Gerry Gras wrote: > > > Please submit your agenda items for the Thursday August 3rd meeting. > Deadline for submissions is Monday 7/31. > > I would appreciate it if you would include time estimate(s) > and presenter(s). > > Thanks, > > Gerry > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at lists.cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > JamBoi Jammy The Sacred Cows Slayer "Live humbly, laugh often and love unconditionally" (anon) http://dailyJam.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From tnharter at ispwest.com Thu Jul 27 16:03:49 2006 From: tnharter at ispwest.com (Tian Harter) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:03:49 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Mind-Machine Interface: It's the Thought that Counts Message-ID: <44C94655.6000304@ispwest.com> *> >Stanley Yang* > *>Mind-Machine Interface: It???s the Thought that Counts* > > >Stanley Yang is CEO of NeuroSky, a San Jose based startup developing >technology that monitors a person???s brain waves and uses the signals as >inputs to control the action in video games and other applications. >NeuroSky???s system prototype uses a low cost sensor-laden headband >to gather signals from the brain and a special processing chip to interpret >the signals. > >Stanley will describe the technology behind the mind-machine interface >and discuss the broad range of possible applications, such as entertainment >and driving safety systems, that NeuroSky is targeting. > Stanley began his talk by saying he had spent the whole day fielding questions about his companies technology yesterday. NPR had done a segment on the company, so he should be ready for any questions that might come up. He is also proud that NeuroSky got a "Best of Show" award at Stanford's Cool Stuff Expo, when kids had been lined up steadily to try it out. Then Stanley explained that NeuroSky's product is a headset with a single dry sensor (no gels) that touches the wearer's skin on the fore- head, two ground contacts near the ears, and a chip that sorts the five microvolt signals the human brain puts out from the ambient noise that is all around us. This signal is then fed into a computer via a USB cable, where it can be interpreted in any way that a user's application needs. He showed us an FFT plot of the signal response of NeuroSky's headset side by side with that of a laboratory quality sensor. We could see that the plots were similar, but the professional model had a slight signal response advantage. Stanley explained that NeuroSky's advantage was that it was easy to put on and the connections were dry, a major convenience enhancement. Then Johnny demonstrated the product. It was a headband with two metal dots about two-thirds the size of a dime built in above the eyes, and a couple more hanging down the back that he taped to the skin under his ears. There was also a box that looked like a battery pack at the back, and a computer cable coming out. He plugged that into his laptop and brought up a display where meters were able to track anxiety, relaxation, and attention. A couple of members of the audience also tried it. The one who had been meditating for seven years was able to peg the relaxation meter, and the other one had trouble not having the attention meter high. Stanley explained that NeuroSky's business model involved just selling the sensor setup, and leaving the applications to other people. At this point he is working with videvideo game companies that want to sell a user unit for about $49.95 to add more three dimensional qualities to games. Also in the works are safety applications like a headset for garment workers that will turn off their sewing machine if they start getting sleepy. He knew of many people who wouldn't have sewn their thumbs if such equipment had been there for them. There are similar opportunities to protect truck drivers. Other customers are looking into lie detector, airport security, and military type applications. He is optimistic about the future. During Q&A the following were discussed: If somebody thinks of a color, it creates the same waveform pattern, regardless of the culture or language that person uses. One relm of applications for the product is helping train people with ADD on how to relax. Today such people have to go into a doctor's office to get feedback training. There they have a nurse rub salve on their skin and glue instrumentation in place. NeuroSky's technology is much more convienient, and it does almost as good a job. This makes home based self study an option. Most of the proprietary advantages of NeuroSky's come from the circuits in the chips that amplify the brain signal and seperate it from ambient noise. -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest Change: Added pictures from the Bohemian Grove protest up in Sonoma County that happened last Saturday. From fredd at freeshell.org Thu Jul 27 16:59:03 2006 From: fredd at freeshell.org (Fred Duperrault) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:59:03 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Request for Agenda Items Message-ID: <44C95347.3050409@freeshell.org> Gerry, Please put Bill Michel Bio-Deisel Talk booking on Agenda. Also, put the possible Green Statewide Candidates Forum on. Thanks, Fred Please submit your agenda items for the Thursday August 3rd meeting. Deadline for submissions is Monday 7/31. I would appreciate it if you would include time estimate(s) and presenter(s). Thanks, Gerry _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at lists.cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss From wrolley at charter.net Thu Jul 27 17:19:36 2006 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:19:36 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] ideas (questions) about agenda Message-ID: <44C95818.6050607@charter.net> Does it make sense to spend some time thinking about the relationship to campus greens at sjsu? Maybe a closer working relationship? With the strong involvement of GP individuals / leadership in the fight against HR 4437 Immigration bill and the South Central Farm confrontation in LA, does it make sense to have someone take on the responsibility to build a better relationship to the Hispanic community? -- "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente Wes Rolley 17211 Quail Court, Morgan Hill, CA 95037 http://www.refpub.com/ -- Tel: 408.778.3024 From jims at greens.org Fri Jul 28 19:47:46 2006 From: jims at greens.org (Jim Stauffer) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:47:46 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: [GPCA Official Notice] Green Party - Post-Plenary Report] Message-ID: <44CACC52.52740F02@greens.org> -------- Original Message -------- POST PLENARY REPORT: MOORPARK, VENTURA CO. GENERAL ASSEMBLY, JUNE 24-25, 2006 The Ventura Plenary was a generally well received General Assembly with medium attendance; approximately 100 attendees with 66 delegates. -A resolution stating GPCA support for the impeachment of the President and Vice President, Secretary of Defense and Attorney general was passed. -An endorsement of all Green Party candidates winning their primary election of June 6 was passed. -An endorsement policy for statewide candidates was passed. -Two platform planks were passed. Unions and Agricultural Economics. -The 2006/07 GPCA budget was passed with many amendments from the floor. -A GPCA membership policy was passed, limiting decision making rights to registered Green Party members and individuals who are unable to register to vote, but who are recognized by their counties. -Two new active counties became eligible for delegates at this plenary: San Benito and Kern counties. Congratulations! -Ellen Maison, Los Angeles Co. was elected to an At-Large CC Rep position. Jared Laiti, Sonoma Co. was re-elected to an At-Large CC Rep position. -Elected to serve on the GPCA's National Delegation to the GPUS are: Marilyn Ditmanson, Steve Loebs, Susan King, Jared Laiti. Elected as alternates to GPCA's National Delegation to the GPUS are: Bud Dickinson, Chuck Giese and Greg Jan. -A caucus on Green Party democracy issues was formed and met. -The Women's caucus had a larger than usual meeting. -Many important bylaw proposals were considered, with some being rescheduled to subsequent General Assemblies. -Other new officers elected or introduced at the plenary are: . Ken Smith/Chuck Giese, CC Rep/Alt from the East Bay region. . Jo Chamberlain (1st Alt) Andrea Dorey (2nd Alt) from San Mateo/Santa Clara, respectively, elected as CC Alt Reps from the Silicon Valley region. . KCM Curry and Consuelo Delgado elected as co-coordinators of Green Issues Working Group. . Ellen Maisen as CC Liaison to Green Issues, pending CC confirmation. . Jo Chamberlain, elected as Co-Coordinator of Electoral Reform Working Group. -Draft minutes from this plenary will be able to be reviewed at: , as soon as available. These minutes are scheduled for ratification at the next plenary. -THE NEXT PLENARY is scheduled for September 9-10 in South Lake Tahoe, El Dorado County, hosted by the Green Party of El Dorado County. Please stay tuned to for details on proposals, logistics and registration. Thank you for attending and for your Green Party work in your home county. ...Your Agenda Team... _______________________________________________ contacts2 mailing list contacts2 at marla.cagreens.org http://marla.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/contacts2