[Sosfbay-discuss] [SC-SM] Proposal: green fest steering committee planning date - Sept 18th @ SJ Peace Center

[Andrea Dorey]

Great idea.  Wish I could help.  Knee surgery on Aug 23rd and  
probably a month's recovery.
Andi

On Aug 11, 2007, at 11:34 PM, JamBoi at Greens.org wrote:

> Fred's idea for some kind of green fest that would highlight not  
> only the
> Green Party but allied green organizations and include green  
> technology
> and vendors was enthusiastically picked up not only by the North  
> Valley
> Local (where Fred pitched it with vigor at the June meeting) but  
> also by
> the East Valley Local.  So rather than take more time at the Local or
> General County meetings with it, it looks like the next step is for  
> all
> who are interested to come together to form a steering committee to  
> design
> and carry out such an idea.
>
> WHEN: Sept 18th, 7P San Jose Peace Center, 48 S 7th St. San Jose
> http://sanjosepeace.org
>
>
> Below's a briefing on how the idea's progressed to date.  Please  
> send your
> ideas to the list for further discussion...
>
>
> Green is Communitarian!
>
> Drew
>
> EAST VALLEY LOCAL DISCUSSION:
> Iliad, Kaisha, Cameron, and I met on Tuesday and a prominent part  
> of the
> discussion was revolved around the concept of a green festival.   
> The group
> wanted to think really big and try to see if we could persuade the  
> people
> that put on the big Green Festivals in SF to come do one down in  
> San Jose.
>  Iliad has some friends that do event promotion and he thought it  
> would be
> very doable to approach someone like that and essentially hire them to
> carry out such a thing.  Iliad and Kaisha were both strong  
> supporters of
> the idea and got very animated in brainstorming about it.
>
> NORTH VALLEY LOCAL SUPPORT FOR GREEN FEST AND FESTIVAL-LIKE IDEAS:
> Fred wasn't there, and naturally since it was his idea originally  
> it makes
> a difference in energy level when he's not there.  The previous  
> meeting he
> promoted it quite energetically and got an interested, if slightly
> reserved response.  This time he wasn't there and we talked about  
> it with
> interest and in some depth but there was not a spark plug type person
> there to really rev it up and cheerlead for it.
>
> The thing that got more focus in the end was sort of a warm up for the
> Green Valley Fest that the North Valley local would carry out on  
> its own.
> The idea was that the Local would start tabling once a month at one  
> of the
> Farmers Markets (MV, PA, SV and LA were all discussed, but MV  
> received the
> most attention) in conjunction with a different organization or green
> business (the example of a solar energy businessperson, Bruce  
> Karney was
> given).  This got solid support.
>
> Its seemed to me that people were quite open to the idea of a large  
> scale
> festival but that it seemed a bit overwhelming of an enterprise to  
> them.
> People did point out that we had done some large events in the past  
> so it
> is reasonable to think about creating such an event.
>
> SUGGESTION - SCALE UP STEP BY STEP & GREEN PARTY MUST BE SHOWCASED
> Maybe the way to proceed is in the way I'd suggested - one smaller  
> one in
> the PA/MV area in the spring to give some practice and confidence  
> to the
> group followed with a big one in SJ in Sept/Oct in time for our  
> candidates
> to be able to be presented before the 08 election.  As Cameron  
> pointed out
> we are a political party and where we spend our energy needs to  
> provide
> opportunities for promoting/attracting Green Party activity per se.
>
> 'GREEN' COLLECTIVIST STRUCTURE NEEDED - A STEERING COMMITTEE
> Decentralization is one of our 10 Key Values - where single individual
> person has overly much sway on a project.  We work as a collective.
> In order to fit the Green 10 Key Values I don't think it would work to
> simply hire an event producer to just go off and do the whole  
> thing.  It
> wouldn't work to assume that an event producer would do things in a  
> way we
> as a party would feel comfortable with.  But it could work to have a
> steering committee oversee such an effort.  That would be a more  
> 'Green'
> way to do it.
>
> -- 
>
> JamBoi
> http://www.greencommons.org/blog/63
> "Peaceable: the ability to interact peacefully.  A skill set  
> similar to
> social or emotional intelligence that is unfortunately rare in  
> America,
> but can be developed by all.  The Green Parties need to lead the  
> way in
> Peaceableness."
>
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