[Sosfbay-discuss] New member, basic questions....

[Drew Johnson]

Dear DPB, we would welcome your new energy to address the many extremely
salient environmental issues we'd like to be more active on.  We are
active currently in the Save BAREC issue, and the move against the
building of a new stadium in Santa Clara and have kept abreast of the
Coyote Valley issue.   We in the GPSCC have one of the strong leaders on
environmental issues, Wes Rolley who is now co-chair of the EcoAction
Committee of the GP-US.

There will always be discussion and disagreement about how closely or
distantly we should ally ourselves with progressive Dems and I'm
sympathetic to the discomfort you, I and all the rest of the Greens
experience on this.  At the same time, really we'll need to elect people
to office and lead from office if we want to have this situation change
significantly and for us to be working from a more independent position. 
Apart from that I favor coalitional work with any who are willing (and not
working to undermine us).  There are many, many people and organizations
who are not part of the Dem's machinery and are happy to find common cause
with us.

Together we can!  Maybe you are ready to help us be leaders on the
extremely important environmental issues.  Most recently we worked on a
response to the San Jose mayor's Green Vision plan but could really use
some additional energy to get that completed.

Please come introduce yourself at our Holiday Social on Sunday (details
posted in other messages on this discussion list.  Poster found at
http://www.greens.org/~cls/SanXJoseXholidayXparty.pdf)


Green is Core!

Drew Johnson
GPSCCo County Councilor




On Wed, December 12, 2007 10:31, DPBxx at aol.com wrote:
> Greetings and thanks for an opportunity to post.
>
> I'm interested in supporting GP efforts, but after a cursory  review of
> the
> SCCGP activities and discussions am left wondering what  distinguishes
> your
> group from myriad others lending voice  to initiatives coming from the
> left-of-center Dems? While sympathetic  to many of those positions (and
> appreciative of
> their  obvious affinity for Greens), I am  frankly concerned that such
> close
> alignments undercut  the opportunity for a Green Party agenda to lead this
> country out  of its two-party stalemate. Environmental issues are not even
> mentioned in your  discussions. The science is now sufficiently clear to
> suggest that
>  such issues, natural to the Greens and cutting across so  many of the old
> political divides, will soon come to dominant our  political process. Can
> anyone
> tell me specifically how SCCGP is addressing  such issues?
>
> Thanks for any/all responses in advance.
>
> - DPB
>
>
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