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

[Drew Johnson]

Just passing messages Cres, though I must say that IMO even the media
committee could/should have jumped on this quicker and not waited till the
last minute (quite literally).  Also note that the CCWG did have
notification prior. Anyway I'll pass this one back to Eden and on to the
CCWG also.  Thanks for all your hard work!  The cable TV advertising help
for Carol Brouillet was particularly effective (notably higher voting
tallies wherever played).

Green is Multi!

Drew

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Re: [GPCA-MediaComm] Fwd: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] ADVISORY: Greens
endorse nationwide protests Saturday opposing Prop. 8
From:    civillib at comcast.net
Date:    Mon, November 17, 2008 10:58
To:      "Drew Johnson" <JamBoi at Greens.org>
Cc:      gpca-mediawg at cagreens.org
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The Media Committee is NOT an organizing committee. As for the concern
about not being notified until late, that most accurately should be
forwarded to CCWG, GROW and/or some other committee.

But thanks to Drew, and members of the Media Committee, we did our job in a
short time period Friday. While the national media list couldn't get a
release out in a few hours, we did do so.

We issued a release supporting the actions (I faxed and emails hundreds of
releases late Friday and very early Saturday morning).

I received media calls, and - much more importantly - we expressed our
support for Prop 8 opponents. Our releases, sent statewide to key media
outlets, also helped publicize the protests...resulting, at least in the
State Capitol, coverage by major media.

That IS what our Media Committee can do, even at the last second.

All other concerns should be sent to other GPCA committee, Drew.


Cres


Drew Johnson wrote:
> This from our Santa Clara Co e-mail list.
>
> Green is Multi!
>
> Drew
>
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] ADVISORY: Greens endorse nationwide
> protests Saturday opposing Prop. 8
> From:    "eden" <edenw at gal3.com>
> Date:    Sat, November 15, 2008 19:54
> To:      sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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".
>