[Sosfbay-discuss] April 1, Green Party Meeting

[Caroline Yacoub]

Those present: Valerie Face, Andrea, Tian, Drew, Caroline, Warner, Valerie, Merriam, Carol, Fred, Roy
 
Facilitator: Carol
Notetaker: Caroline
Vibes Watcher: Drew
Time Keeper: Tian
 
Smriti Rana, Coordinator for the Peace and Justice Center, told us about a tax protest and gave us postcards to fill out.
 
Tian will prepare the agenda for the next meeting
 
Treasurer's report: We have $1,673
 
Fundraising: We passed the hat. We decided to give Carol a check for $300 now for the seeds. Merriam will donate $25 for the bookmarks. Carol will donate money for the postcards. Carol already got the seeds. The company included several packages that are not supposed to be sold for us to plant. Warner will grow some seeds. Several people took boxes of seeds to put in their tabling kits. Caroline brought some painted rocks as examples. They make cute paperweights and cost us nothing. Drew is growing sunflower seeds now. We should have some seedlings for Earth Day tabling.
 
Spaghetti Dinner--Food 4 Thought
We have the speakers and entertainment lined up. We decided to use Fred's clubhouse as a venue, as he already signed up for it, and we were having trouble finding another venue that was affordable.The food will be organic. Tian had brought some sample flyers, but we couldn't pass them out as we hadn't selected a venue in time for him to include it. He has put the flyer with the correct information on-line so we can print some up for distribution. He will have more printed up professionally on Monday.
 
Tabling literature: Caroline will bring the rest of the pink pages to the May meeting so we will have them for Mother's Day. Carol is going to provide literature to go with the seeds, bookmarks, and information on HR 875. If you haven't already urged your Representative to vote "No" on this, please do.
 
Tabling Events: We have people who will coordinate some of these events, and workers for some, but, if you see something you would like to be involved in, please contact the coordinator, or, if there isn't one, Jim Doyle or Caroline. If you need more literature or buttons, or would like to make up a tabling kit, please contact Caroline. Let us know about any events we missed.
 
April 15--Wednesday Tax Due Date--Rally or Delegation from Peace and Justice
April 18--Sunnyvale Farmer's Market--Caroline and Tian
April 20-21--Sunnyval Library--Caroline
April 22-Wednesday, Earth Day, SJSU--Roy, Tian, Carol
April 24-26--Junior State--Drew and others
April 29--Santa Clara University Earth Day--Caroline
May 5--Cinco de Mayo--we don't seem to be doing anything for this
May 9--Berryessa Art and Wine Festival--Warner, Roy, Caroline
May 10Sunday--Mother's Day
May 16-17--Plenary in Venice--Drew, Warner, Tian, Andrea
May ? Bike to Work Day--It's in here somewhere, but I've lost the date--Tian
May 19--Special Statewide Election re Budget
May 23-25--Sat-Mon--Memorial Day Weekend
 
GPCA County Polling on Ballot Measures: We reached consensus "No" on measures 1A-1E. On 1F, we voted 2 "Yes", 5 "No", no abstentions, and 3 "No Position." Our delegates to the Plenary in Venice will be Andrea, Warner, Tian, and Drew.
 
Coalition for Downtown Hospital, Use of Website, and Santa Clara County voter database were not discussed, as Jim and Cameron were not present. BUT, if you want to use the database, you need to see Cameron.
 
Long Term Project: Jim was not present to talk about solar panels on schools, but we were so excited by Carol's seeds, Drew's seedlings, and Warner's volunteering to grow the extra seeds we got from Seeds of Change that we decided gardening should be a long term project, too. Roy had an idea to fight the ordinance that says you can't plant vegetables in the parking strips.Tian says he is growing vegetables although he isn't supposed to--sort of organic cilvil disobedience, and Fred said he thought there was some gardenable land in his complex, too. Warner volunteered his yard for a garden. We discussed having another yard sale and actually working on the garden during the sale.
 
We got a lot done. It was fun. There were brownies and veggies. We have a lot to do in May. If you weren't at the April meeting, please come to the one on May 6 at the Peace and Justice Center. Y'all come now, hear?
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.cagreens.org/pipermail/sosfbay-discuss_lists.cagreens.org/attachments/20090405/4525c101/attachment.html>