[Sosfbay-discuss] ADVISORY: Greens endorse nationwide protests Saturday opposing Prop. 8

[Drew Johnson]

BTW Eden, I forwarded your note to the GP of California Media Committee
that had come up with the release...


Green is Multi!

Drew

On Sun, November 16, 2008 13:43, Drew Johnson wrote:
> Yes, of course Eden we definitely need to put our feet on the street.
> Simultaneously I'm pleased we were able to get a release out, even though
> it came as late as it did.  Better something late than missing it
> altogether.  I'm happy to hear you made it to some local events and
> thereby represented us Eden!  If you have connections to local groups
> working to overturn Prop 8 (or any other important issues we could be
> working on in alliance w/), please post that info here so more of us can
> join in.  In the Greens there is no central authority that is going to
> point us somewhere and we will all follow.  Instead we have a DIY (Do It
> Yourself) party where each of us is a leader and we network with each other
> to bring our weight to bear on important issues.
>
> Green is Multi!
>
> Drew
>
>
> On Sat, November 15, 2008 19:54, eden wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Drew Johnson <JamBoi at greens.org> wrote:
>>> ---------------------------- Original Message
>>> ----------------------------
>>> Subject: ADVISORY: Greens endorse nationwide protests Saturday opposing
>>> Prop. 8
>>
>>    I went to 2 of the demonstrations today, San Jose and Mountain View
>> (the second was held later for documentary purposes). While at the MV
>> one i was handed a flier. On one side the paper had some information
>> about Prop 8. The other side was for a Socialist party (i forget which
>> one and i'm sorry, but now i can't even find that paper).
>>
>>    With all due respect for the endorsement of the protests, how many
>> people outside of the Green Party will know, or care, about this
>> "support", which was "released" at midnight before the event. I
>> believe that if the Greens ever want to be taken seriously, outside of
>> an election here and there, there must be "feet on the ground".
>>
>> --
>> eden
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