[Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: Report from DeAnza & JSA (Reprise)

[Andrea Dorey]

I received a suggestion from a friend that this should be shared by  
all on sosfbay—so here it is!
Know that we all had a great time doing this and feel proud of the  
outreach we did with the students we met.
It's a fun experience to do this stuff.
A special shout out to our leader, Tom!
Andrea

> From: Andrea Dorey <andi at wrytor.com>
> To: Carol Brouillet <cbrouillet at igc.org>; Jim Doyle  
> <j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net>; Tian Harter <tnharter at aceweb.com>; Dana  
> St George <dana at greens.org>; Wes Rolley <wrolley at charter.net>;  
> Caroline Yacoub <carolineyacoub at att.net>
> Sent: Sun, November 22, 2009 10:13:58 AM
> Subject: Report from DeAnza & JSA
>
> County Council Colleagues & Advisors,
>
> I am delighted to report on the successes we achieved at the latest  
> events that our SCC Green Party attended.
>
>
> DeAnza College event netted $35.00 from the financially struggling  
> but intellectually engaged students.  Caroline, Tian, and I set up  
> and took down our little display of literature, buttons, bumpers  
> stickers, tee shirts, and "Schwag by Caroline," which attracted  
> interest and the donations.  We sold one of Caroline's sunflower  
> pens for $2 and a tee shirt for $10.
>
> Gave away a lot of literature, especially the Donkey/Elephant flyer  
> and, wonders of wonders,—due to many students being in a government  
> class—the IRV pamphlets (varied) along with the Pizza & IRV  
> pamphlet, and the Counting pamphlet.  We told them about SF and SCC  
> passing IRV, but that IRV has NOT been implemented by SCC.  So we  
> have some students of sufficient age who are going to watch for the  
> 2010 initiative to implement!
>
> Tian spoke at the mike and, later I was asked to speak as well, and  
> both of us enjoyed a rapt audience regarding the Green Party  
> ideals.  I told them that the GP is the only INTERNATIONAL  
> political party [did I speak the truth, Warner?] and that because  
> of IRV and Proportional Representation, the GP parties in some  
> countries share power at the highest levels.
>
>
> JSA was, as ever, a very powerful connection to bright and eager  
> minds, and most of the students had money to donate to the Green  
> Party.  We picked up a total of $54 for buttons and muffins. {Yes,  
> I brought along the mini-muffins again!]  The literature flew off  
> the table, again, interest was generated by IRV and Proportional  
> Representation, at least at my end of the table.  Tom, the leader  
> of this event, Caroline, and Brian had most of our stuff out by the  
> time I arrived, and our table turned out to be a very popular place  
> to stop, browse, and chat. The sweet-sour candy and the mini- 
> muffins were a part of that draw.  One little addition I made to my  
> muffin shtick was to offer large, home-made from scratch, organic  
> apple chunk muffins as a bonus to anyone who spent $2 or more.   
> Sold 5 of them and extra buttons as a result!
>
> Caroline picked up two more "Green Party" petals on our/her  
> international language Sunflower banner—one in Persian(!) and  
> another in (??)!  Many wanted to contribute, but either found their  
> language there or didn't know how to spell Green Party in their own  
> dialect!
>
> By far, Tom was the champion of the event as he made more of the  
> "Marijuana as Medicine" buttons while buyers lined up, waiting for  
> them!  We stopped selling those buttons only when Tom ran out of  
> the graphic.  [We are going to have to stock a lot more of these in  
> future, even when we go to perceived conservative groups!]
>
> We chatted with lots of students and received questions that were  
> thoughtful and challenging.  Altogether, the interaction was added  
> value to our gaining donations to the Green Party.  Oh, and  
> Caroline signed up a bunch of people interested in the January Food  
> for Thought event.  We got emails!!!!
>
> Best,
> Andrea
>
>

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