[Sosfbay-discuss] Agenda for 2/4/09 meeting

[Paul & Mary Engstrom]

IMy reaction to Drew's negatism in reaction against Ledesma reminds me  
of the petty competiveness so frequent in the Left and progressive  
groups

Go ahead with promoting a coalition against recruiting without the  
spitefulness which reflects badly on the Green Party

For democracy and peace foe all    Paul


On Feb 3, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Drew Johnson wrote:

> As part of our ongoing reform of the General Meeting to make it
> interesting, fun and worth going to I've been lobbying for months  
> now to
> make it a regular feature of the meeting to
>
> 1) have an 20 minutes set aside for inspiring talk/presentation by  
> one or
> more folks (could be a panel) near the front of the meeting -- this  
> month
> I nominate Roy for the slot and request we put it in after approval of
> last month's notes (which I'll post sometime today or tomorrow along  
> with
> the previous month's) and the Treasurer's Report and before the other
> Recurring Business
>
> and
>
> 2) have specific time set aside for breakout meetings of committee,
> working group, etc.  If people get into the habit of arriving at  
> 6:30 as
> we advertise this time for breakout meetings time could even be  
> before the
> 7:30 main meeting time.
>
> 3) Note also that as I previously announced on this e-mail list that  
> David
> Ledesma specifically declared at the last SRK Santa Clara Coalition
> meeting that his March 7th event was no longer going to be  
> considered a
> Green Party event (let alone a GP fundraising event as was originally
> planned) and that he no longer wanted to be a part of a Green Party
> committee or coalition addressing fraudulent military recruiting  
> tactics.
> So I would question giving David time on the agenda at all for his
> non-Green Party, non-coalition event.  He seems to have the details  
> of his
> event well in hand and I'm sure it will come off very successfully  
> but it
> doesn't seem that he needs General Meeting time to address his non- 
> Green
> Party, noncoalitional event.
>
> 4) I will ask for 10 minutes to report on the formation of the  
> (renamed
> from SRK-SC to) Santa Clara Truth in Recruiting Coalition. We  
> already have
> an e-mail list going and we've already started discussion with  
> members of
> Veterans for Peace, Chapter 101.  The coalition will be moving forward
> with an alliance with Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against War  
> and
> and others similarly concerned about truthfulness in recruiting and  
> in not
> recruiting children fraudulently.
>
>
> Green is Go!
>
> Drew
>
>
> On Tue, February 3, 2009 10:24, Peter Myers wrote:
>> Based on what I've heard so far, here is the agenda for tomorrow's
>> meeting. Please look over it before the meeting. If you have anything
>> you'd like to add or change, please e-mail me those thoughts as soon
>> as possible. Please don't wait until tomorrow evening to suggest
>> changes, because it will take longer to finalize the agenda.
>>
>> Green Party of Santa Clara County
>> Meeting Agenda, February 4, 2009
>>
>> Beginning Business
>> Choose facilitator, time-keeper, note-taker, vibes-watcher - 5 min
>> Introductions - 5 min
>> Finalize agenda - 5 min
>> Recurring Business
>> Treasurer’s report - 5 min
>> Stop Recruiting Our Kids (David) - 10 min
>> CiviCRM (Cameron) - 5 min
>> 2010 Candidates, including Wes’s suggestion for Water Board (Peter) -
>> 10 min
>> Accountability (Brian) - 5 min
>> Tabling kits (Caroline) - 5 min
>>
>> New Business
>> Oscar Grant (Drew) - 5 min
>> Oscar Grant (Carol) - 5 min
>> Upcoming tabling events - 10 min
>> Roy Nordblum - 10 min
>> Whistleblower support (Brian) - 10 min
>> Long-term project ideas (Jim) - 10 min
>> Earth Day event (possibly in south of county?) - 10 min
>> Palo Alto and Sunnyvale’s greening projects (Dana and Drew) - 10
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