[Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: Re: Some jarring stats

[Caroline Yacoub]

Tian, I am hoping our new Media Committee will get some of your great pictures into local papers, or that we can use them in our little TV messages.

--- On Wed, 11/12/08, Tian Harter <tnharter at aceweb.com> wrote:

From: Tian Harter <tnharter at aceweb.com>
Subject: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: Re: Some jarring stats
To: "Post South SF Bay discus" <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 1:02 PM


Wes Rolley wrote:
> Eric A Meece wrote:
>> I like Caroline's suggestions. I also think we can be more
effective 
>> if we get a good lobbying committee and add to the pressure on our 
>> politicians to do the right things. Greens can demonstrate and carry 
>> signs, and I do too sometimes; but I'm a bit tired of yelling and
not 
>> being heard. Anything we can do to educate the people about things 
>> like climate change and energy alternatives would fulfill our purpose 
>> as Greens. The fate of Prop 10 shows just how far we still need to go;

>> the people don't seem to get it, even after all that has been told
to 
>> them.
> Eric, I fully agree on the futility of constant protest.  However, it 
> seems to be a cultural norm.  There is a time for protest, especially 
> since that may be the only way to get attention, but protest without 
> proposing positive policy improvements (see, I did not use the word 
> "change".) will eventually become just a footnote.

For me, big protests are a great place to push stickers. Maybe a dozen 
per day of that. Then my pictures of the event get a hundred hits over a
couple of days. Probably most of those from people that weren't there.
Sometimes I have fantasies that some of those hits are from people that
needed to get the point of the march. Of course, that would require that
somebody I knew forwarded it to somebody like that. Hope springs eternal.
> 
> There is a proposal before the national EcoAction Committee that we, as 
> a committee, establish a liaison with the committees of Congress that 
> actually affect our areas of concern: energy policy, global warming, 
> natural resource use and protection, infrastructure to support all of 
> that.  I am not sure if  we can make that happen in any realistic 
> manner, but the idea has merit.  Maybe we should do something similar 
> within GPCA / Santa Clara County where the over-riding concern is one of 
> the proper role for government and how do we pay for it all. 

I remember when I was working at the Postal Service in DC. Microsoft was
bombing us with magazines about the power of their software. Other 
vendors were doing the same thing. I remember looking at all the
"POWER"
on the shelf and commenting on it to a coworker. He looked the stuff and
said "it's like that everywhere." I disagreed.

Thinking about posting this comment I looked around this room. The only
"POWER" that jumped out at me is the POWER TO THE PEOPLE from last 
summer's McKinney sticker. That's small compared to the SCHAFF in the
poster left over from Stephanie Schaff's city council campaign, or many
of the other names that decorate this den of green campaign souvenirs.

My favorite souvineers are the memories of hearing my candidates
on my radio. I've thought much about the fact those are just wetware
shadows inside my skull and I need to use power to share them with you.

We do need to reach out, but what's really needed by the big "WE"
of
Santa Clara County is the political will to use less fossil fuel based
power. I firmly believe that is a change that can only happen when more
of them "get it." I hope that happens before the sun goes cold...

-- 
Tian
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