From andid at cagreens.org  Wed Jul  1 09:46:02 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 09:46:02 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] =?windows-1252?q?Cynthia_McKinney=97Arrested_in?=
	=?windows-1252?q?_Israel=3F=3F?=
Message-ID: <F356CFF4-60B1-487B-912B-14DA2297332F@cagreens.org>

> Action Alert from Jewish Voice for Peace:
>
> We have just learned that a few hours ago, Israel illegally, in  
> international waters, seized the 'Spirit of Humanity,' a boat  
> carrying a cargo of humanitarian aid.  The boat is being forcibly  
> towed to an Israeli port.
>
> Also seized with the boat are 21 human rights workers from 11  
> countries, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire


> and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.


> The boat holds medicine, toys, and other much needed humanitarian  
> relief for the Palestinians living in Gaza under siege. Its cargo  
> was searched and it received a security clearance by Cypriot Port  
> Authorities before departure.
>
> Call your Congressperson and your Senators today. Ask them to call  
> the Israeli Embassy and to call the U.S. State Department demanding  
> that the boat and its occupants be released, together with their  
> humanitarian cargo, and that they be allowed to dock in Gaza.
>
> Ask them what crime is being committed by giving the people in Gaza  
> medicines, toys, and pencils?
>
>
>
> Action Alert from The Free Gaza Movement:
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
> ISRAEL ATTACKS JUSTICE BOAT; KIDNAPS HUMAN RIGHTS WORKERS;  
> CONFISCATES MEDICINE, TOYS AND OLIVE TREES
>
> 30 June 2009
>


From andid at cagreens.org  Wed Jul  1 09:51:27 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 09:51:27 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Thanks, Wes, for questioning "growth,"
In-Reply-To: <000001c9fa0a$62926cb0$6e01a8c0@INTERBIKE06>
References: <000001c9fa0a$62926cb0$6e01a8c0@INTERBIKE06>
Message-ID: <DEE9ECEC-B6BF-409B-919F-D1800E747A54@cagreens.org>

Do we have a good, powerful position paper on this issue for  
distribution at tabling events?
And by powerful I mean using the terrific points (or similar framing)  
made by our members throughout this thread!
Andrea

On Jun 30, 2009, at 10:11 PM, Rob Means wrote:

> Reading David Korten's new book "Agenda for a New Economy - from  
> Phantom
> Wealth to Real Wealth, why Wall Street can't be fixed and how to  
> replace
> it" (a book I highly recommend) I see these quotes:
>
> "Because of how our financial system is designed, the economy has to
> grow or collapse.  ...  Because the bookkeeping entry a bank makes  
> when
> it issues a loan creates only the principal, the economy must grow  
> fast
> enough to generate sufficient demand for loans in order to create the
> money required to make the interest payments.  Otherwise debts go into
> default and the financial system and the economy collapse."
>
> "For millennia, our adolescent excesses were little more than an
> irritant to our Earth Mother, and we got away with behaving as if her
> patience and abundance were limitless.  That time has passed.  We  
> can no
> longer live by the rules of an open frontier.  We must adapt our  
> ways of
> being and relating to spaceship rules."
>
> Rob Means, Electro Ride Bikes and Scooters
> 408-262-8975   rob.means at electric-bikes.com
> 1421 Yellowstone Ave., Milpitas, CA 95035-6913
> Discover cycling that's Easy, Safe, Fast - and FUN!
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> --
> ---
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:26:46 -0700
> From: Fred Duperrault <fredd at freeshell.org>
> Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss]  My last column... for a while... need a
> 	break.
> To: Green Discuss <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
> Message-ID: <4A49B026.6030504 at freeshell.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Thanks, Wes, for questioning "growth,"  the ambiguous theory of the
> capitalism system.  My perception is that one's economic growth beyond
> a certain accumulation of capital is another's diminution, in a
> cannibalistic system.
>
> Fred D.
>
>
> http://www.morganhilltimes.com/opinion/257297-what-is-growth-good-for
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss
>



From andid at cagreens.org  Wed Jul  1 14:18:58 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:18:58 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] GP GENERAL MEETING TONIGHT!
Message-ID: <45FC34A5-24C7-46D5-AC27-354F33934EAC@cagreens.org>

San Jose Peace Center
7:00 PM
(More info from Jim D or?)
Hope to see you there,
Andrea


From andid at cagreens.org  Wed Jul  1 14:22:13 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:22:13 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] BRING STUFF FOR YARD SALE TONIGHT?!!!!
Message-ID: <266768D3-EA50-44B7-9D09-D37FF3A78B0D@cagreens.org>

Yard sale is July 25th - Saturday
1683 Nightingale Ave
Sunnyvale
(More info to come from Andrea or Jim Doyle?)

WE NEED STUFF NOW!!
I HAVE NOTHING DONATED FROM ANYONE!!!
HELP!!
We can have it picked up by a few local people?  (Need volunteers to  
do that!)
Andrea


From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Wed Jul  1 15:12:26 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:12:26 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] request for sugestions
Message-ID: <4A4BDF4A.3020303@sbcglobal.net>

GREEN PARTY COUNTY CONTACTS MESSAGE

This is an announcement from the GPCA Contact List.  For more information,
or questions related to the topic of the posting, please do not hit reply. 
Follow the contact directions stated in the email.

       PLEASE DISTRIBUTE AS APPROPRIATE

Dear Greens,

At last month's General Assembly in Venice, a committee was
approved to examine variations of an at-large election system for
electing members to the Coordinating Committee of the GPCA. The
charge was to come back with a proposal to be considered at the
next General Assembly in October in Sonoma county.

The committee will start with Bylaws Restructuring proposals # 1 and
# 2 (submitted by Alameda/Los Angeles, and by Larry Mullen), in the
Venice plenary agenda packet, but other implementation scenarios are
being solicited. This is your opportunity to contribute to this
project. If anyone in your county has comments on the existing
proposals, or has suggestions for other variations, they can contact
the committee at:

              Restructure09 at cagreens.org <mailto:Restructure09 at cagreens.org>

For reference, the agenda packet can be downloaded at
http://cagreens.org/plenary/archives/.

The committee will be meeting in the near future to consider all
input, and it must produce a proposal by early August for the
October state meeting. Therefore, we ask that all comments be
submitted as soon as possible, preferably no later than July 9.

Thank You... The 2009 CC Restructuring Committee:

Larry Mullens        Greg Jan
Barry Hermanson      Ross Frankle
Bill Meyers          Conor Dixon
Jim Stauffer         Matt Leslie
Adrienne Prince




From tnharter at aceweb.com  Wed Jul  1 18:12:21 2009
From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter)
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:12:21 +0000
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] My "only" speech
Message-ID: <4A4C0975.4060402@aceweb.com>

Monday June 29th, I gave this speech to the open mike crowd at Red Rock 
coffee house in downtown Mountain View. They enjoyed it, so I thought 
I'd share it with you to. If you want to see the illustrated version,
that is online at:

http://tian.greens.org/MountainView/My/OnlySpeech.html

When Steve introduced me he said I was going to "share a political 
message with us." Then I took the stage, put down my bag, and started 
talking...

Good evening Red Rock! I'd like to thank you for this opportunity to
talk to you. I heard on the radio that last year on the campaign trail,
President Obama put a lot of effort into sharing two words with us,
"hope" and "change". Being less than a block from Hope Street, I thought
it would be a good thing to talk to you about change. Back in the '80s
the only constant was change. Every year another series of American
coins came out, and every year the quarters had eagles on the back.
Since then there has been a lot of change in the change.

Sometime in the mid '90s Congress realized that one of our problems is
that too many Americans don't know much about American history. Their
solution to the problem was to legislate the State Quarters Program.
The idea was that every State in the USA would pick the art for their
quarter using a democratic process, and then that would be their
character on the national stage. The first quarters came out in '99,
and they have been coming out at five a year ever since. (At this point
I pulled out my 50 quarter collection to show them.) Now that series is
finished.

One of the things I've learned from this program is more about the word
"only". Only keeps its bite because of the fact that when you are
busted, and the police give you one phone call, telling whomever it
is "you are my only hope" compels them to action. When Princess Leah
sends her droid to tell Obi-Wan-Kenobe "you are my only hope", it's the
same thing writ large. Corporate America likes only, because being
the only product with some feature is an advantage in the marketplace.

In politics only doesn't work quite that way. Let me illustrate with
some examples from the State Quarters. The only quarter with a guitar
on it is Tennessee. There are lots of quarters that mention food, but
the only one that features somebody farming an indigenous crop in what
could be a sustainable manner is Vermont, which shows somebody in a
coonskin cap tapping a maple tree. The only year of the program when
all five quarters came from adjacent states was 2007, when Montana,
Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah quarters came out.

For years I was telling people the only quarter that featured an
environmentalist was California, which features John Muir, the patron
saint of the Sierra Club, looking out over Yosemite Valley.  Yosemite
was the first State Park, and that project was where the idea of State
Parks came from.  I had to stop saying "only" in connection with that
one when the Hawaii quarter came out, featuring King Kamehameha and his
quote "the beauty of the land is preserved in righteousness." The
slogan is on the quarter in the original Hawaiian, which I can't
pronounce for you. It's still the only circulating quarter with a non
European language quote on it, but that will change later this year.

In politics even when it's over it's not over. While the State Quarters
were coming out all of the territories and possessions were saying "we
want quarters to", and this year it's happening. So far this year, the
DC and Puerto Rico quarters have come out. We can still look forward to
seeing quarters from Guam, American Samoa, the US Virgin Islands, and
the Northern Mariana Islands. Then it will really be over.

This is change we can believe in. I picked my favorite quarters based
on their slogans. Those are the New Jersey quarter, which claims to be
"crossroads of the revolution", and the DC quarter, which proclaims
"JUSTICE FOR ALL". I'd like to invite you to look at the change in your
pocket and find other interesting lessons about American History.
Maybe you'll find something that you like a lot. Thank you.


During Q&A Steve asked what other states had food mentioned on them.
I told him "Wisconsin has a cow, a wheel of cheese, and an ear of corn.
Alaska and Washington have salmon on them." More recently I've figured
out that there is also rice on the Arkansas quarter, wheat on the South
Dakota quarter, duck on the Arkansas and Minnesota quarters, buffalo on
the North Dakota and Kansas quarters, sunflowers on the Kansas quarter,
a peach on the Georgia quarter, and a pheasant on the South Dakota
quarter. I still could have missed something else on another one.

-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
Latest change: Added press conference about Jeppesen pictures.
A soldier wants 3 hots and a cot. A singer needs 3 chords and the truth.


From gerrygras at earthlink.net  Thu Jul  2 06:00:54 2009
From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras)
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:00:54 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: [GazaFriends] Statement from Cynthia
	McKinney inside prison at Ramle]
Message-ID: <4A4CAF86.6050703@earthlink.net>



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [GazaFriends] Statement from Cynthia McKinney inside prison at
Ramle
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:35:43 +0300
From: Irish <iristulip at gmail.com>
To: gazafriends <gazafriends at lists.riseup.net>
CC: fg-medialist <FG-MediaList at googlegroups.com>, John Judge
<johnjudge at starpower.net>



One of Cynthia?s friend received a phone call from Ramle prison. The
incarcerated prisoners are calling themselves "Free Gaza 21" even though
Huwaida and Lubna have been released. Below is Cynthia?s statement;

We were in international waters on a boat delivering humanitarian aid to
people in Gaza when the Israeli Navy ships surrounded us and illegally
threatened us, dismantled our navigation equipment, boarded and
confiscated the ship.

All of us on board were then taken off the ship and into custody, and
brought into Israel and imprisoned. Immigration officials in Israel said
they did not want to keep us, but we remain imprisoned. State Department
and White House officials have not effected our release or taken a
strong public stance to condemn the illegal actions of the Israeli Navy
of enforcing a blockade of humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians
of Gaza, a blockade that has been condemned by President Obama.


-- 
Greta Berlin
Free Gaza Movement
357 99 284 102
www.freegaza.org <http://www.freegaza.org>
www.flickr.com/photos/29205195 at N02/
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/29205195 at N02/>




From alexcathy at aol.com  Thu Jul  2 07:13:57 2009
From: alexcathy at aol.com (alexcathy at aol.com)
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:13:57 -0400
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] My "only" speech
In-Reply-To: <4A4C0975.4060402@aceweb.com>
References: <4A4C0975.4060402@aceweb.com>
Message-ID: <8CBC93679411D5E-10C-397F@MBLK-M30.sysops.aol.com>


 Good work, Tian!? 


 


 



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From andid at cagreens.org  Thu Jul  2 09:48:03 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:48:03 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] =?windows-1252?q?Fwd=3A__Cynthia_McKinney=97Arr?=
 =?windows-1252?q?ested_in_Israel=3F=3F_PROPOSAL?=
References: <9F262398-3F23-4740-8AA5-C503D04756A7@cagreens.org>
Message-ID: <5E5090D5-2913-4086-84E6-C020861DF323@cagreens.org>

AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO SCC GREENS! (see below)

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Andrea Dorey <andid at cagreens.org>
> Date: July 2, 2009 9:41:37 AM PDT
> To: Green South Bay Discussion <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
> Cc: dana at greens.org, Tian Harter <tnharter at aceweb.com>, Jim Doyle  
> <j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net>, Caroline Yacoub  
> <carolineyacoub at att.net>, Wes Rolley <wrolley at charter.net>, Carol  
> Brouillet <cbrouillet at igc.org>, Jim Stauffer <jims at greens.org>
> Subject: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] Cynthia McKinney?Arrested in  
> Israel?? PROPOSAL
>
> To my clever GP colleagues (including the county council):  Think  
> on this....
>
> I would LOVE to see the CA GP and national Green Party file a  
> FORMAL protest against Israeli kidnappers of our 2008 PRESIDENTIAL  
> CANDIDATE Cynthia McKinney, and formally condemn those kidnappers  
> as INTERNATIONAL TERRORISTS!!!
>
> How can we do this?
> Who do we complain to:  the UN, the World Court, President Obama,  
> our state senators, etc., etc., etc.???
>
> We now have legs in this Palestinian problem?let's use them!!!  We  
> have been injured via our endangered presidential candidate and  
> Green Party member, her capture aboard a small boat in  
> International Waters, and her continued detainment?without legal  
> counsel?by an alien government!
>
> Andrea Dorey
> SCC County Council member
>
> On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Andrea Dorey wrote:
>
>>> Action Alert from Jewish Voice for Peace:
>>>
>>> We have just learned that a few hours ago, Israel illegally, in
>>> international waters, seized the 'Spirit of Humanity,' a boat
>>> carrying a cargo of humanitarian aid.  The boat is being forcibly
>>> towed to an Israeli port.
>>>
>>> Also seized with the boat are 21 human rights workers from 11
>>> countries, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire
>>
>>
>>> and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.
>>
>>
>>> The boat holds medicine, toys, and other much needed humanitarian
>>> relief for the Palestinians living in Gaza under siege. Its cargo
>>> was searched and it received a security clearance by Cypriot Port
>>> Authorities before departure.
>>>
>>> Call your Congressperson and your Senators today. Ask them to call
>>> the Israeli Embassy and to call the U.S. State Department demanding
>>> that the boat and its occupants be released, together with their
>>> humanitarian cargo, and that they be allowed to dock in Gaza.
>>>
>>> Ask them what crime is being committed by giving the people in Gaza
>>> medicines, toys, and pencils?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Action Alert from The Free Gaza Movement:
>>>
>>> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>>>
>>> ISRAEL ATTACKS JUSTICE BOAT; KIDNAPS HUMAN RIGHTS WORKERS;
>>> CONFISCATES MEDICINE, TOYS AND OLIVE TREES
>>>
>>> 30 June 2009
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> sosfbay-discuss mailing list
>> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
>> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss
>>
>

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From andid at cagreens.org  Thu Jul  2 12:11:18 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:11:18 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: [usgp-dx] Contact your US Rep.;
	American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Ctte. condemns seizure of Free
	Gaza boat (fwd)
References: <b64fc4190907021045n1814bfbdkdd7f2e9d82f0506a@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ACF71753-7FBC-4099-8597-DA085716704D@cagreens.org>

FYI. (see Sanda's email below) I also received these remarks from Sanda:

<snip>
It was good to receive the action alert from Jewish Voices for Peace  
with its links for finding numbers to call for our legislators,  
something to do.  I also forwarded to you the action alert from the  
Arab Anti-Defamation league which has an easy way to send an email to  
your legislators and the White House, and I hope you will forward  
that to your lists.  I have written my fellow members on the GPUS  
Steering Committee asking how we can get such actions on our own  
Action Alert web page.  There has been lots of conversation on the  
national lists about what actions to take.
<snip>

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Sanda Everette <sanda at greens.org>
> Date: July 2, 2009 10:45:40 AM PDT
> To: Andrea Dorey <andid at cagreens.org>
> Subject: Fwd: [usgp-dx] Contact your US Rep.; American-Arab  Anti- 
> Discrimination Ctte. condemns seizure of Free Gaza boat (fwd)
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sanda Everette <sanda at greens.org>
> Date: Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:39 AM
> Subject: Fwd: [usgp-dx] Contact your US Rep.; American-Arab Anti- 
> Discrimination Ctte. condemns seizure of Free Gaza boat (fwd)
> To: GPSMC-D <gpsmc-d at cagreens.org>
>
>
> For the email activists who have not made calls yet while waiting  
> for an easy way to contact congress and the White House.   It is  
> not yet on a GP action alert page, but this is a good one.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Scott McLarty <scottmclarty at hotmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:31 AM
> Subject: [usgp-dx] Contact your US Rep.; American-Arab Anti- 
> Discrimination Ctte. condemns seizure of Free Gaza boat (fwd)
> To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org
>
> Forwarded Message: URGENT: Contact You Representatives | ADC  
> Condemns Israel's Seizure of HumanitarianAid Ship on Route to Gaza
>
>
>
> ADC Condemns Israel's Seizure of Humanitarian Aid Ship on Route to  
> Gaza
>
>
>
> Action Alert : Click Below to Contact Represenatives
>
>
>
> Washington, DC | June 30, 2009 | http://www.adc.org | The American- 
> Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) condemns the Israeli naval  
> commandeering of a ship carrying humanitarian supplies to the  
> besieged territory of Gaza. The ship, which left from the Cypirot  
> port of Larnaca, was approximately 20 miles off the coast of Gaza  
> when it was board by Israeli Navy personnel and redirected to the  
> city of Ashdod.
>
>
>
> The ship was flying a Greek flag and traveled through international  
> waters but was stopped during their approach to the occupied Gaza  
> Strip. The "Spirit of Humanity" is crewed by a number of  
> humanitarian activists from across the globe including former  
> Congresswoman Cynthia Mckinney and Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire.  
> Reports indicate that all of the ship's 21 crew members have been  
> taken into custody by Israel.
>
>
>
> The siege of the Gaza Strip has continued unabated for over two  
> years and badly needed reconstruction aid has been prevented from  
> entering the Strip after the 22-day war on Gaza this past winter.  
> Recently, President Obama called for humanitarian supplies to be  
> permitted to enter the Gaza Strip and a number of members of  
> Congress have traveled to the Strip and remarked on the dire  
> circumstances facing the impoverished civilian population.
>
>
>
> ADC echoes the calls of President Obama and others who have called  
> for an end to the inhumane siege of the Gaza Strip, the immediate  
> release of the human rights activists who were aboard the ship, and  
> stern repercussions for the flagrant and continuing Israeli  
> violations of international law.
>
>
>
> You can take a moment to send a note to your member of Congress and  
> President Obama demanding the release of the crew members of the  
> "Spirit of Humanity" and an end to the siege by clicking here: Tell  
> Your Representatives to End the Siege of Gaza Now!
>
>
>
> CLICK HERE (http://capwiz.com/adc/utr/1/MZIVKUCKUC/ICXZKUCLKC/ 
> 3575152871) TO SEND A MESSAGE TO YOUR REPRESENATIVES DEMANDING AN  
> END TO THE SIEGE AND RELEASE OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS HELD BY  
> ISRAEL
>
>
>
> Nabil Mohamad I Organizing Director I American-Arab Anti- 
> Discrimination Committee (ADC)
>
> 1732 Wisconsin Ave., NW.I Washington, DC 20007 I organizing at adc.org  
> I http://www.adc.org
>
>
>
>
>
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From alexcathy at aol.com  Thu Jul  2 13:04:58 2009
From: alexcathy at aol.com (alexcathy at aol.com)
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:04:58 -0400
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Thanks, Wes, for questioning "growth,"
In-Reply-To: <DEE9ECEC-B6BF-409B-919F-D1800E747A54@cagreens.org>
References: <000001c9fa0a$62926cb0$6e01a8c0@INTERBIKE06>
	<DEE9ECEC-B6BF-409B-919F-D1800E747A54@cagreens.org>
Message-ID: <8CBC967825E4327-D64-4E21@webmail-dx18.sysops.aol.com>

Dear Green Friends, 

I read Wes Rolley's excellent commentary the founder of California Greening is nothing if not a thought-provoking writer. 

I've been thinking about this, and also the comments by my Milpitas friends, Andi and Rob.? 

There is, however, one important metaphor that I'm surprised Wes Rolley overlooked, the oft-quoted line by John F. Kennedy:

"A rising tide lifts all boats." 

The idea is that a "rising tide" (a growing economy) will raise both the rich man's yacht and the poor man's canoe. This is the promise that has saved capitalism through every crisis for more than a hundred years.? Old Europe threw off "the wretched refuse of your teeming shore" and preventing the spread of revolutionary socialism. I read someplace that something like 10% of the whole population of Ireland immigrated to escape the horrors of the Great Famine.? 

immigrants came to the United States, endured horrible conditions in places like the Lower East Side, "Hells Kitchen," Little Italy, Coney Island, and the Bronx for a couple of generations.? But then their kids got good education, many acquired highly-paid skills, some went to college, and thus, in the period between the Great Depression and World War II down to our own time, there was a tremendous explosion in the so-called middle-class enjoying "the good life."? Indeed, the historic working-class city of Milpitas, Calfornia was founded by just such "salt of the earth" people in the mid-1950s.? 

Today, the great Golden State of California is sort of on a collision course with itself.? People still come here from all over the United States (like me) and from all over the world (like Arnold Schwarzenegger) in search of "the good like."? Middle class Greens, such as ourselves, should take care not to open ourselves to the charge of being "liberal elitists" by trampling on people's dreams.? My neighbor across the street came to this country from El Salvador more than twenty years ago (his family insisted that he leave after he was drafted into the army -- to fight in a terrible war promoted by U.S. imperalist bastards). He worked very hard, raised a family, has a son that just started college at San Francisco State last fall and now my friend is facing foreclosure.? He's not going to be moved by a rap that sounds like *HE* is to blame for this mess by wanting "More! More! More!" for his family.? Furthermore, the fastest "growing" country in the world today is China and the "People's Republic of China" to not going to pay much attention to sermons by Americans that refuses to even acknowledge the contradictions of capitalism. ?? 

This is exactly where the *brilliance* of the 10 Key Values of the Green Party comes into play.? By standing foresquare behind things like social justice, respect for diversity, and grassroots democracy *Along With* ecological wisdom and sustainability, Greens offer a practical alternative to the obsolete "growth" ideologies of Democrats and Republicans. That's why, as I always say, Greens are not just "liberal Democrats in a hurry."? There really is a qualitative difference between us and a standard Democratic Party 'liberal" hack like Diane Feinstein or even Gavin Newsom.? 


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From vdf at juno.com  Thu Jul  2 15:53:25 2009
From: vdf at juno.com (Valerie D. Face)
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:53:25 GMT
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Amount of time available for speaker at next
	month's meeting?
Message-ID: <20090702.155325.7796.3@webmail03.vgs.untd.com>

Hi folks,

At last night's meeting I was tasked with getting a speaker from the Courage Campaign to attend our next meeting (Wednesday, August 5) to tell us about what their organization does.  How much time should I tell them they will have to address us?

Thanks,
Valerie Face


Please sponsor me in AIDS Walk San Francisco on July 19!
http://aidswalksanfran2009.kintera.org/vdf

____________________________________________________________
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From tnharter at aceweb.com  Thu Jul  2 16:01:19 2009
From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter)
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:01:19 +0000
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Amount of time available for speaker at
 nextmonth's meeting?
In-Reply-To: <20090702.155325.7796.3@webmail03.vgs.untd.com>
References: <20090702.155325.7796.3@webmail03.vgs.untd.com>
Message-ID: <4A4D3C3F.9030209@aceweb.com>

How about ten minutes plus Q&A as appropriate? That would be my 
suggestion...

Valerie D. Face wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> At last night's meeting I was tasked with getting a speaker from the Courage Campaign to attend our next meeting (Wednesday, August 5) to tell us about what their organization does.  How much time should I tell them they will have to address us?
> 
> Thanks,
> Valerie Face
> 
> 
> Please sponsor me in AIDS Walk San Francisco on July 19!
> http://aidswalksanfran2009.kintera.org/vdf
> 
> ____________________________________________________________
> Let the sun shine in! Click now for a beautiful new sunroom!
> http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTGQlo0tvARK1oBt8zNkr0ph5QH48DxGMc69du1ir7hi4W8NpIC9va/
> _______________________________________________
> sosfbay-discuss mailing list
> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss
> 

-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
Latest change: Added a discussion of change and how only works in it.
Soldiers want 3 hots and a cot. Singers need 3 chords and the truth.


From andid at cagreens.org  Thu Jul  2 09:41:37 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:41:37 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss]
 =?windows-1252?q?Cynthia_McKinney=97Arrested_in?=
 =?windows-1252?q?_Israel=3F=3F_PROPOSAL?=
In-Reply-To: <F356CFF4-60B1-487B-912B-14DA2297332F@cagreens.org>
References: <F356CFF4-60B1-487B-912B-14DA2297332F@cagreens.org>
Message-ID: <9F262398-3F23-4740-8AA5-C503D04756A7@cagreens.org>

To my clever GP colleagues (including the county council):  Think on  
this....

I would LOVE to see the CA GP and national Green Party file a FORMAL  
protest against Israeli kidnappers of our 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE  
Cynthia McKinney, and formally condemn those kidnappers as  
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISTS!!!

How can we do this?
Who do we complain to:  the UN, the World Court, President Obama, our  
state senators, etc., etc., etc.???

We now have legs in this Palestinian problem?let's use them!!!  We  
have been injured via our endangered presidential candidate and Green  
Party member, her capture aboard a small boat in International  
Waters, and her continued detainment?without legal counsel?by an  
alien government!

Andrea Dorey
SCC County Council member

On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Andrea Dorey wrote:

>> Action Alert from Jewish Voice for Peace:
>>
>> We have just learned that a few hours ago, Israel illegally, in
>> international waters, seized the 'Spirit of Humanity,' a boat
>> carrying a cargo of humanitarian aid.  The boat is being forcibly
>> towed to an Israeli port.
>>
>> Also seized with the boat are 21 human rights workers from 11
>> countries, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire
>
>
>> and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.
>
>
>> The boat holds medicine, toys, and other much needed humanitarian
>> relief for the Palestinians living in Gaza under siege. Its cargo
>> was searched and it received a security clearance by Cypriot Port
>> Authorities before departure.
>>
>> Call your Congressperson and your Senators today. Ask them to call
>> the Israeli Embassy and to call the U.S. State Department demanding
>> that the boat and its occupants be released, together with their
>> humanitarian cargo, and that they be allowed to dock in Gaza.
>>
>> Ask them what crime is being committed by giving the people in Gaza
>> medicines, toys, and pencils?
>>
>>
>>
>> Action Alert from The Free Gaza Movement:
>>
>> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>>
>> ISRAEL ATTACKS JUSTICE BOAT; KIDNAPS HUMAN RIGHTS WORKERS;
>> CONFISCATES MEDICINE, TOYS AND OLIVE TREES
>>
>> 30 June 2009
>>
> _______________________________________________
> sosfbay-discuss mailing list
> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss
>



From rob.means at electric-bikes.com  Thu Jul  2 10:58:49 2009
From: rob.means at electric-bikes.com (Rob Means)
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:58:49 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Letter to the Editor
Message-ID: <000701c9fb3e$c299c010$6e01a8c0@INTERBIKE06>

Letter to the Editor


The Wall Street corporate interests are at it again.  This time the
target is health care.  Of course, one could say the target is disease
care because that is where they make their money.  They don't make money
advertising how people can maintain and enhance their health (with the
obvious exception of Kaiser Permanente, bless them).  And they don't
make money actually paying when people get sick, so they use a laundry
list of ways to avoid paying.  These activities have led to several
multi-$100 million judgments against their fraudulent practices.  

These crooks are telling our elected representatives how to reform
health care in this country.  At a time when we spend about twice as
much per capita on "health care" as other developed nations, our results
are crappy!  We are 27th in terms of real measures of health such as
infant mortality, childhood obesity and alcoholism.  They want more of
the same because it is so profitable.  Can you imagine the health of
this nation getting worse?  What will that do to our society and
economy?

The first step health care corporate lobbyists accomplished was pushing
aside any discussion of the single-payer plan proposed and supported by
so many.  Like France and our own Medicare system, a government agency
would pay all the bills.  If operated as efficiently as Social Security,
overhear would run about 3% - rather than upwards of 20% for some of the
biggest corporate insurance companies.  Reputable doctors would be
promptly reimbursed instead of the hassle they have now with corporate
bureaucrats who are rewarded for not paying claims.  Single-payer also
avoids the complications involved in owning/operating a socialized
medical care system like in England and our own Veterans Administration.

Now, Wall Street interests are pushing Congress to eliminate the public
option.  They know that such an option would be so attractive to
Americans that private health insurance would fade away over time.
Given the results they have produced, that sounds like a good thing to
me.  But they gave over $500 million to Congress folks over the past ten
years, so they will likely get their way.

Congressman Mike Honda, however, supports the single-payer plan known as
H. R. 676.  And Barbara Boxer is a true Democrat that can be counted on
to do right by the people of California and the nation.  Unfortunately,
Diane Feinstein is a member of the rich class that the Republican Party
represents.  She is not in favor of a public option and has stated that
public pressure will not change her mind.  Maybe, however, we can change
her vote if enough of us tell her we want Universal Single-Payer Health
Care for all!  After all, elected officials are supposed to be our
representatives and do our bidding, not the bidding of corporate
interests that are literally killing us.

Rob Means
1421 Yellowstone Avenue
Milpitas, CA  95035-6913
408-262-0420    rob.means at electric-bikes.com
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From andid at cagreens.org  Thu Jul  2 22:44:32 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:44:32 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Amount of time available for speaker at next
	month's meeting?
In-Reply-To: <20090702.155325.7796.3@webmail03.vgs.untd.com>
References: <20090702.155325.7796.3@webmail03.vgs.untd.com>
Message-ID: <6BCDB181-5D22-4F11-AB73-C0C3F6E3416F@cagreens.org>

I would think that 30 minutes would be about right, unless there  
needs to be more time for questions. IMHO.
Andrea

On Jul 2, 2009, at 10:53 PM, Valerie D. Face wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> At last night's meeting I was tasked with getting a speaker from  
> the Courage Campaign to attend our next meeting (Wednesday, August  
> 5) to tell us about what their organization does.  How much time  
> should I tell them they will have to address us?
>
> Thanks,
> Valerie Face
>
>
> Please sponsor me in AIDS Walk San Francisco on July 19!
> http://aidswalksanfran2009.kintera.org/vdf
>
> ____________________________________________________________
> Let the sun shine in! Click now for a beautiful new sunroom!
> http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/ 
> BLSrjpTGQlo0tvARK1oBt8zNkr0ph5QH48DxGMc69du1ir7hi4W8NpIC9va/
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> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss
>



From tnharter at aceweb.com  Thu Jul  2 23:53:26 2009
From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter)
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:53:26 +0000
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Amount of time available for speaker at
 nextmonth's meeting?
In-Reply-To: <6BCDB181-5D22-4F11-AB73-C0C3F6E3416F@cagreens.org>
References: <20090702.155325.7796.3@webmail03.vgs.untd.com>
	<6BCDB181-5D22-4F11-AB73-C0C3F6E3416F@cagreens.org>
Message-ID: <4A4DAAE6.4040700@aceweb.com>

I'd say ask how much time they want. If they think "less is more" at 
thirty minuted I'm euphoric. We can get a general idea what they want
plus Q&A in thirty minutes.

Andrea Dorey wrote:
> I would think that 30 minutes would be about right, unless there  
> needs to be more time for questions. IMHO.
> Andrea
> 
> On Jul 2, 2009, at 10:53 PM, Valerie D. Face wrote:
> 
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> At last night's meeting I was tasked with getting a speaker from  
>> the Courage Campaign to attend our next meeting (Wednesday, August  
>> 5) to tell us about what their organization does.  How much time  
>> should I tell them they will have to address us?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Valerie Face
>>
>>
>> Please sponsor me in AIDS Walk San Francisco on July 19!
>> http://aidswalksanfran2009.kintera.org/vdf
>>
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> Let the sun shine in! Click now for a beautiful new sunroom!
>> http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/ 
>> BLSrjpTGQlo0tvARK1oBt8zNkr0ph5QH48DxGMc69du1ir7hi4W8NpIC9va/
>> _______________________________________________
>> sosfbay-discuss mailing list
>> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
>> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss
>>
> 
> _______________________________________________
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> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss
> 

-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
Latest change: Added a discussion of change and how only works in it.
Soldiers want 3 hots and a cot. Singers need 3 chords and the truth.


From carolineyacoub at att.net  Fri Jul  3 11:16:13 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:16:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] New Green
Message-ID: <767966.80825.qm@web81206.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hey folks,
I just had a long chat with a guy from National Wildlife who was trying to squeeze another donation out of me, and, at the end, he said he would change his registration to Green!? I'm glad I had the patience to stay positive. He said he had other Green friends in Los Altos, and I told him about our picnic in August, and he said he would pass the word along.
Caroline
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From WB4D23 at aol.com  Fri Jul  3 17:16:53 2009
From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com)
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 20:16:53 EDT
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Publicizing the Yard Sale and Picnic;
	Local telephoning outreach opportunity
Message-ID: <bea.4235b783.377ff975@aol.com>

In discussions about the yard sale and picnic at Wednesday's  GPSCC monthly 
general meeting:
 
1.  Jim Doyle said he would update the GPSCC webpage to  put these events 
frunt and center
 
2.  Someone was going to post forwardable announcements  about each event 
with accurate information.  Whoever does this needs to  remember there is a 
separate broadcast only "announcments" email list that  also needs to be sent 
those message.  (_sosfbay-news at cagreens.org_ 
(mailto:sosfbay-news at cagreens.org) ?)
 
3.  Boh of these events are in Sunnyvale.  We know  anecdotally that the 
biggest complaint from unconnected GPCA members is that  they "don't hear" 
from the party organization.  This is an opportunity to  use the voter 
registration database to do telephoning to GP members in Sunnyvale  (also Santa 
Clara and Mountain View?).  We need to recruit more people to  get involved with 
all the stuff we do (and so we can do more).  Inviting  people to help or 
attend with a yard sale, or attend a picnic, is a low key  entry opportunity 
for anyone who wants to make the people connection that might  lead to more 
organizational involvement.
 
Warner
 
**************Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the 
grill. (http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood00000005)
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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Fri Jul  3 19:06:53 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:06:53 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] note re KPFA from Aki
Message-ID: <4A4EB93D.4000008@sbcglobal.net>

This is a follow up notice from Aki who spoke to us at our
meeting this past Wednesday.
The attachment will be sent separately.

Dear Jim, Andy, Dana, Caroline, Tian, Drew
 
Thanks so much for letting me come and talk about situation at KPFA.
When Greens pull together we can make a difference.
We almost got Matt Gonzalez in SF, and we got Gail McLaughlin in Richmond.
KPFA board election is another election where we can make a difference 
if all the Greens pull together and vote.
Lets try to get as many subscribers as we can by July 15 and get all the 
Green subscribers to mail in their ballots.
 
Aki
 
P.S. The numbers of paid staff is around 40, and the number of unpaid 
staff is around 200.
        I am also attacing a slightly modified flyer that I first sent 
to Jim on June 22.
 
 


From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Fri Jul  3 19:21:17 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:21:17 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] KPFA Attachment
Message-ID: <4A4EBC9D.8010106@sbcglobal.net>

To all the Greens who care about KPFA,

The KPFA Local Station Board Election is coming up in August.  Because 
this is
an important election for Greens we are sending this message to you.  
You have
the opportunity to nominate and elect candidates that will represent the 
interests
of the Green listener/subscriber.

KPFA is one of the most important media resources for activists in Northern
California, so as Greens, we need to have people on the Board who will work
with the staff to strengthen and grow the KPFA community and encourage
KPFA to give the Green Party (and other third parties) the chance to be 
heard.

Nomination period for candidates (including self nominations) ends on 
July 15.
The balloting  is from August 29 to October 14.

To vote, you must be a member between July 16, 2008 and July 15, 2009, so
subscribe by July 15. (Do it by June 30 if you can.)
You can become a member by subscribing starting at $25 minimum. Please
encourage your family and friends to join you in becoming subscribers 
and voting!
1. Just go to www.kpfa.org <http://www.kpfa.org>
2. At the menu at the top of the page, select:  SUPPORT US! > Pledge Online
3. Subscribe starting at $25 minimum.
4. Pay with your credit card and save or print the confirmation page.

***********************




From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Sat Jul  4 19:02:54 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:02:54 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] web site announcements
Message-ID: <4A5009CE.4080403@sbcglobal.net>

Announcements re the upcoming yard sale and picnic
have been posted to the web site as has a statement
describing the arrest of Cynthia McKinney.



From andid at cagreens.org  Sun Jul  5 08:13:19 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 08:13:19 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] McCloskey on Channel 9 @ 6 PM TODAY!!
Message-ID: <52175BBA-23A8-48BD-839B-F9DDA0836E3C@cagreens.org>

This is a reminder following another Green's  earlier announcement  
last month.
Be sure to watch TONIGHT?I see no repeats later on Monday morning.
Andrea

From carolineyacoub at att.net  Sun Jul  5 10:00:10 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:00:10 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: Re: Fw: Food Safety First - Send Bill Marler
	Packin' to DC!
Message-ID: <288276.19740.qm@web81208.mail.mud.yahoo.com>



--- On Sun, 7/5/09, Rosie Yacoub <rayacoub at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Rosie Yacoub <rayacoub at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: Food Safety First - Send Bill Marler Packin' to DC!
To: "Caroline Yacoub" <carolineyacoub at att.net>
Date: Sunday, July 5, 2009, 7:00 AM






See
http://www.marlerblog.com/2008/12/articles/lawyer-oped/marlers-ten-top-food-safety-challenges-for-2009/

His #2 item for improving food safety is to increase regulation of local food chains (CSA, farmers markets).? We haven't had any major, widespread outbreaks of food related illness because of these food chains precisely because they are localized and inherently traceable.? Seems kinda odd to me.? His #1 item is globalization, which given the melamine (sp?) from China problems seems to make sense--but the juxtoposition of the two top priorities tells me that he doesn't necessarily have the best grasp of what the overarching issues are.

Finally, he sites the government's lag time in 21st century communication (like Twitter and Facebook) as a problem in working on outbreak issues.? In California, after the E. coli spinach thing; industry took on the role of creating the communication and documentation tools necessary to track field to fork, and agreed to share the information with CDFA when safety issues came up, or inspections yielded concerns.? It will be interesting to see how this works--but if it works well then why shouldn't this be the way to go instead of adding tracking and IT tasks to agencies that are already overburdened with inspection duties (and inspections are definitely important, and should be the agencies' priority)?

I am not going to sign a letter to Obama supporting this guy.

--- On Fri, 7/3/09, Caroline Yacoub <carolineyacoub at att.net> wrote:


From: Caroline Yacoub <carolineyacoub at att.net>
Subject: Fw: Food Safety First - Send Bill Marler Packin' to DC!
To: rayacoub at yahoo.com
Date: Friday, July 3, 2009, 11:24 AM







What's your take on this?
Mom

--- On Wed, 7/1/09, Food Democracy Now! <Food_Democracy_Now at mail.vresp.com> wrote:


From: Food Democracy Now! <Food_Democracy_Now at mail.vresp.com>
Subject: Food Safety First - Send Bill Marler Packin' to DC!
To: carolineyacoub at att.net
Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 9:12 AM



It?s time to get serious about food safety. 

The USDA has yet to appoint the Under Secretary for Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) ? and it?s time that we had a real reformer at the USDA.

Every year in the U.S. an estimated 76 million people get sick with food borne illnesses and 5,000 die. One person who knows this fact better than anybody else in the country is food safety lawyer Bill Marler. 

You may remember him as the generous patron who offered to pay for author Michael Pollan?s visit to Washington State University after his best-selling book, The Omnivore?s Dilemma, had been removed from the freshman reading program. But Marler?s been known as a leading advocate for food safety for nearly two decades.

In 1993, Marler served as the lead attorney in the famous Jack in the Box E.coli outbreak. Since then, he?s led the charge in protecting the rights of consumers against unsafe practices by major corporations. 

As someone who?s been on the front lines of America?s food safety crisis for nearly 20 years, he has seen first hand the devastation that can be left in the wake of poor food safety practices.? We believe that Marler understands the problems that create food safety outbreaks and knows the solutions. He believes that inspection is an important process that not only protects consumers but could save farmers, hospitals and businesses money as well.? He understands the importance of regionalizing our food system to build more processing plants that will create a safer food supply and real jobs for rural America.

Known as a fair and fierce opponent, Marler is the perfect candidate to help reform America?s bankrupt food safety system from the ground up. As unprecedented food safety legislation winds its way through Congress that will redefine the Food and Drug Administration?s role in keeping America?s food safe, it?s important that the USDA has an individual with a strong commitment to food safety and consumer health. Bill Marler is that candidate.

Write to President Obama and Secretary Vilsack today and ask them to appoint Bill Marler as the next Under Secretary for food safety at the USDA. 

It?s time that America leads the way in having the safest food possible. Bill Marler can make that happen.

Click here to send Bill Marler to the USDA and make our nation?s food supply more safe. http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/?p=428

Sustainably yours,

Food Democracy Now!

If you'd like to see Food Democracy Now!'s grassroots work continue, please consider donating as little as $10 or $25. We appreciate your support! http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/?page_id=9? 

Please write President Obama and Secretary Vilsack today!

You can cut and paste the below letter and send it to President Obama at the link below
and email Secretary Vilsack at the email below.

SAMPLE LETTER:

Send Comments to the White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
or
Email Secretary Vilsack: AgSec at usda.gov

Sample Letter:

Dear President Obama and Secretary Vilsack

In an age of record food safety outbreaks, it?s important that America has a reformer on the frontlines in the effort to rebuild our nation?s broken food safety system. In just the past few weeks, U.S. consumers have had to contend with E.coli O157:H7 found in Nestle Toll House cookie dough and a massive new E.coli outbreak in over 421,000 pounds of beef.

On June 24 the USDA?s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a Class 1 recall for primal cuts of beef from the JBS Swift Beef Company in Greeley, Colorado. According to the FSIS website, this recall has a high health risk to American consumers and at a time when they should be relaxing and enjoying the festivities of our nation?s Independence Day, mothers and cooks will have to worry if their children or loved ones could get sick from eating tainted meat on the 4th of July.

It?s time to put this to an end.

I believe it?s important that America leads the way in food safety for the 21st century and support our nation?s leading food safety attorney, Bill Marler, being selected to lead the way as the next Under Secretary of the FSIS.

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From carolineyacoub at att.net  Sun Jul  5 17:22:33 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 17:22:33 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] July 1, 2009 Meeting
Message-ID: <745233.45077.qm@web81205.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

?Those present included: Warner, Jim Doyle, Valerie Face, Dana,? Fred, Aki Tanaka, Andrea, Brian, Caroline, Tian, and Merriam.
?
Facilitator--Jim Doyle
Note Taker--Caroline
Time Keeper--Dana
Vibes Watcher--Fred
?
Intros--
Drew is going to Durham.
Warner--anyone interested in internet teleconference on July 14 should contact him
Fred--just elected to international Green group. He is also going to meeting in Durham. He brought up the abduction of Cynthia McKinney. He says the news media are ignoring it.
Valerie Face--she is working with Marriage Equality.
Tian--organized Juneteenth. Made flyers for our upcoming activities.
Dana--CC and voting delegate to GPUS.
Aki Tanaka--CC of Alameda Green Party. He came to talk to us about KPFA.
?
KPFA--There has been turnoil at KPFA between the paid staff and the unpaid staff. 2/3 of the people who produce the shows are unpaid staff, and they are worried about their programs. This year the national board is pushing for a more democratic process, and the will be policing the election.
???? Aki is running for the Program Council. He would like as many Greens as possible ro become members (for $25) by July 15. If we do, we will be sent a ballot. We can vote between August 31-October 15. 
???? Dana asked Aki to send us an e-mail dilieating the problems, describing the candidates, and saying how the situation needs to be changed.
?
Old Business--
???? Water District--
Andea and Merriam are interested. They will go to meetings. Warner says anyone interested in being a candidate should spend at least a year getting ready. Jim Doyle found the amount spent by water district candidates in the past ranged from zero to $20,000. Elections are held in even numbered years. Two of the seven memberrs are appointed, five are elected by districts that correspond to supervisorial districts. 
?
???? Juneteenth--
$34 was collected and several people expressed interest in the Green Party.
?
???? Gay Pride--
There was a lot of positive reaction to our being in the Gay Pride Parade.
?
???? Yes magazine--
Merriam's Campbell library will subscribe. Caroline's Sunnyvale library hasn't responded. We don't know whether the Green Party can be acknowledged as the donor.
?
???? Courage Campaign--
Valerie will get a speaker from them for the next meeting.
?
???? Gathering--
Some of us don't think we can do this by January. We will approach people at the next plenary to see if there is interest in our having a gathering next spring or fall.
?
New Business
???? Yard Sale--
Andrea is doing it. It will be from 10-6 on July 25. She needs hangers, a rack, plants, schwag, bling, clothes, books. Lower quality stuff we will give away free. There will be a raffle. We will advertize in the Sunnyvale Sun. Jim will put it on the website. Tian will produce flyers.
?
???? Picnic--
There will be a meeting tomorrow to organize this.
?
???? Labor Day--
This will be a three day affair in downtown San Jose. We need LOTS of volunteers. So far we have? Valerie, Brian, Drew, Merriam, Caroline, and Warne
?
???? Community Fest--September 19 from 10-5. We need the canopy and tablers for this.
?
???? Green Fair--
October 12 (Indigenous People's Day, otherwise known as Columbe Day. First Christian Church on 5th St. from 2-6. We will sell tabling space to green businesses.
?
???? Regional Rep--
Warner says the structure of the state coordinating committee will change. We should table this subject until after the October meeting.
?
???? Fundraising--
Jim thinks we should start hitting people up for donations. We can get lists from organizations, see if any donors are Green, and contact them.? We should save up programs from things we go to and hit up the big donors.
?
???? Financial aid for going to Durham--
Fred proposed that we give anyone who needs help $100 to help with expenses.
?
???? Single Payer Rally
There will be a rally for single payer health care at noon on Sunday. at Winchester and Stevens Creek.?We need people to go there, identify themselves as Green and for single???? payer.
?
???? Cynthia McKinney
Merriam reports that the Free Gaza movement wants the Green Party to do something because of the abduction of? Cynthis McKinney. In his speech in Cairo, Obama said Israel must lift the blockade and let humanitarian aid get through. All press releases from Cyprus, where the ship carrying McKinney and the relief supplies was from, are quoting this and asking what Obama is going to do.
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From jims at greens.org  Sun Jul  5 18:20:33 2009
From: jims at greens.org (Jim Stauffer)
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:20:33 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: Nobel Prize Peace Activist, Mairead Maguire,
 Not Allowed her Medications in Israeli Jail]
Message-ID: <4A515161.9050303@greens.org>

FYI on the Free Gaza Movement...

Jim
-----------------------------------------------------------



     Hi All,
     Had thought to incorporate later all the updates from prison.
But this is urgent, and as I am on the way to Jerusalem to pick up a
Palestinian undergoing chemotherapy and to bring him home, I will be
away from the computer till evening.  Please write not only to the
Israeli authorities but also to your own governments--local and
national.  If you know people in the media, make sure that they
receive this!  Not allowing a person in need of medication to
retrieve it from her personal belongings or not supplying it to her
in other means might at the worst be life-threatening (I hope not),
at the least is inhumane.

     Dorothy



     ----- Original Message -----
     From: Irish
     To: gazafriends ; fg-medialist
     Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 11:23 AM
     Subject: [GazaFriends] Message from Mairead

     The Israeli prison guards are denying the right for Mairead to
access her medicine. Continue to email and call Mark Regev and
Shlomo Dror and express your outrage over the treatment of the
FreeGaza21 while they are imprisoned. The women have no access to
their luggage or their clothing.

     Mairead is fasting, not just for her friends incarcerated along
with her, but for the 11,000 Palestinians also thrown into jail,
many without benefit of trial.

     Hear her eloquent interview with Al Jazeera.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v558kjFaYGQ&feature=player_profilepage

     --
     Greta Berlin
     Free Gaza Movement
     357 99 284 102
     www.freegaza.org
     www.flickr.com/photos/29205195 at N02/


Thanks Margaret. That indeed is precisely the kind of threat that
needs to be made! bds will eventually scare the government, because
it has the non-violent power of the people! Would it be ok to
circulate your letter--and if you prefer, without your name.
Dorothy


----- Original Message ----- From: "Maureen" <oflaherty at cruzio.com>
To: <mark.regev at it.pmo.gov.il>
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 9:18 AM
Subject: Piracy with Impunity


     Dear Mr. Regev,

     As an American citizen I am outraged by the current behavior of
Israel in kidnapping and jailing members of an important
humanitarian aid group. We American taxpayers have given Israel more
tax dollars than any other country in the world. Yet Israel thumbs
its nose at us and commits crimes against us and other good citizens
from around the world. Israel, at this time is a rogue nation, not a
civilized state. You are so much like the Nazis who preceded you in
your criminal behaviors.
     Nazi crimes against humanity do not justify Zionist crimes
against humanity in Gaza, the West Bank or on the high seas.

     Until such time as Israel behaves in a civilized manner,
including ending the siege of Gaza, stopping the kidnapping of
people and supplies meant to alleviate the suffering in Gaza, and
removing the settlements that make a two state solution impossible,
I will due all I can to oppose funding to Israel and promote
sanctions against Israel. I'll start in my neighborhood and among my
contacts. I am not alone.

     Return the humanitarians, their supplies and their boat. Shame
on Israel!

     Sincerely,

     Margaret M Smith



From alexcathy at aol.com  Sun Jul  5 20:58:23 2009
From: alexcathy at aol.com (alexcathy at aol.com)
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:58:23 -0400
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] NYT Magazine on California is S-o-o-o Bad
Message-ID: <8CBCC052458AA68-9F8-64B5@mblk-d23.sysops.aol.com>

Dear Green Friends, 

The Sunday New York Times is a bad habit I can't break.? Today's cover story -- the cover story -- in the prestigious NYT Sunday Magazine was so awful, I had to write a blog post on The Daily Kos, just to make sure my rant was seen by as many eyeballs as possible. 




 

NYT Magazine on California is S-o-o-o Bad









THE NEW YORK TIMES has been called the "best newspaper in America." Alas, today's 8,365 word magazine cover story, "Who Can Possibly Govern California?"
is so-o-o bad. It's worst than celebrity fluff in People Magazine.
Newsom's note-taking? Schwarzenegger's cigars? Brown's love for
arugula? Whitman NOT owning a horse?  My elementary school grandchildren could write a deeper analysis!








A few days ago, I read a blog post by Rita Hao titled "That Horrendous NYT Magazine Article About Our Governor's Race"
in which Ms. Hao promised to: "read and summarize that
ridiculous-looking article about the California gubernatorial race in
the NY Times Magazine with the ludicrous picture of Gavin 'I made a
mess on my couch' Newsom on it, so you don't have to."








Published in The New York Times, Sunday, July 5, 2009



Who Can Possibly Govern California?



 
By Mark Leibovich



 



I should have taken Rita Hao's offer, but my wife, Cathy Deppe, and
I used to live in New York and reading the Sunday New York Times is a
bad habit I have not been able to break. My God! Today's 8,365 word
Sunday Magazine cover story by Mark Leibovich is s-o-o-o bad. Just goes
to show our broken politics is not just about some bad Republican and
Democratic politicians, but also how those politicians are depicted in
today's celebrity tabloid media. And unfortunately, our national
tabloid media evidently learned nothing from the rise and fall of
George W. Bush. 



Here are the highlights of Ms. Hao's summary: 






Posted on SF Appeal Online Newspaper, July 2, 2009

That Horrendous NYT Magazine Article About Our Governor's Race
 
by Rita Hao







Gavin Newsom has a weird method of reading books.

Gavin is using the word "audacity" to sound like Barack Obama.

Schwarzenegger says "even me as a celebrity governor -- even with that, I can't penetrate through certain things."

Meg Whitman was photographed with a rental horse for the cover of Fortune.

Schwarzenegger has installed a tent so he can smoke his cigars.

Jerry Brown loves arugula.

Brown mixes up "Finding Nemo" and "Where's Waldo."

Newsom talks up his Twitter feed and shows off his annotated Bible.










What is even more important and alarming is the fact that there is
virtually no analysis of how California got into this mess. What is
downright shocking are serious factual errors.? .? . ?




 
 


Read More and Leave a Comment at The Daily Kos:
 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/5/750310/-NYT-Magazine-on-California-is-S-o-o-o-Bad






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From tnharter at aceweb.com  Mon Jul  6 13:09:59 2009
From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter)
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:09:59 +0000
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: [G-C-F] 7/21 Green Party Party]
Message-ID: <4A525A17.2030704@aceweb.com>



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[G-C-F] 7/21 Green Party Party
Date: 	Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:52:02 -0700
From: 	Marnie Glickman <marnie at greenchange.com>
To: 	cal-forum at cagreens.org



***PLEASE FORWARD***

Rev. Billy Talen, the Green Party candidate for Mayor of NYC, is coming
to town on 7/21.  http://www.voterevbilly.org

We're throwing a fantastic fundraising benefit for his campaign.  Our
growing host committee includes Matt Gonzalez, Ross Mirkarimi, Eliana
Lopez, Nick Morgan, Ann Leonard, Medea Benjamin, Kevin Danaher, Chicken
John, Alix Rosenthal, Andy Blue, Marnie Glickman, Gary Ruskin, Mark
Barnes, Ken Masters, Sunny Angulo, Julian Davis and Aimee Allison.

Please join us.

Tuesday, July 21
7pm - 10pm
DNA Lounge, 375 Eleventh St.
Sliding scale admission with a suggested contribution of $20

Reserve your ticket online at:  http://www.tinyurl.com/revbillyca

Invite your friends with Facebook:
  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=81883909132

Who is Rev. Billy Talen?  Bill Talen, also known as Reverend Billy, is
the Green Party candidate for Mayor of New York City. Talen lived and
worked as a performance artist in the Bay area for twenty years. Moving
to NYC in the early 90s, he started up the Life After Shopping Church,
with a 40 voice choir.  Casting himself as the anti-consumerist
televangelists, his comic "retail interventions" got him outlawed from
all the Starbucks in California. In NYC, the church membership grew
after 9/11, as citizens looked for a kind of fellowship independent from
organized religion.  Now Talen?s mayoral campaign is leading the rise of
the 500 neighborhoods.   <http://www.voterevbilly.org/>

Questions?  Want to help spread the word?  Contact Marnie Glickman,
marnie at greenchange.org <mailto:marnie at greenchange.org>, 503-313-7919.




-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
Latest change: Added a discussion of change and how only works in it.
Soldiers want 3 hots and a cot. Singers need 3 chords and the truth.
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From andi at wrytor.com  Mon Jul  6 14:10:08 2009
From: andi at wrytor.com (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 14:10:08 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] One Person's View from the Front (JULY 5TH)
Message-ID: <6870EE44-DCDF-4910-8ACB-71EC5E5284A8@wrytor.com>

 From the demonstration in the streets ? July 5th for Health Care:

We had a great turnout beginning at 12 noon and got an amazing  
response (waving, honking) from the public which was decidedly *for*  
SINGLE PAYER.

Fred D and his beautiful sidekick and Caroline Y, and others from the  
Greens were there.  Also present were the wonderful Raging Grannies  
singing up a storm.  The local savvy leader of Healthcare-NOW! Lynn H  
was there with her very effective group holding signs.

The media showed up, and the police?some mounted?arrived to get  
people out of the street and driveways: most of the offenders were  
the Tea Party mob.  What a disgrace to the memory of the Boston Tea  
Party that bunch is!  They used tactics such as surrounding our side  
and talking loudly to one another and trying to engage as many of us  
as possible in "answering questions" or arguing with their opposing  
statements.  One used abuse and belittling to create anger; I just  
walked away saying that he was not worth bothering with.  In some  
cases I changed my place and remarked to others that these guys are  
not our audience?it's the sidewalk people and the drivers!

In any case, in response to the loud talking, I started to get louder  
in my remarks to the drivers as they went by and make points like:
Medicine is NOT a business
Don't let the 400 billion a year go to the CEOs
Get the pigs out of the trough
Let's have the real health care they have around the globe
We can save 400 billion a year with SINGLE PAYER health care

At one point I suspected that I was being crowded and my sign covered  
by anti-signs and, once, actually felt someone behind  me pushing me  
toward the curb!  These guys are dangerous with their physical and  
verbal tactics, so we need to beware and watch each other.

Andrea
Always a Nader radical, but Green in every way





From alexcathy at aol.com  Mon Jul  6 17:17:11 2009
From: alexcathy at aol.com (alexcathy at aol.com)
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:17:11 -0400
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] My Last Rant - "Why We Need 'Media Matters' for
	California"
Message-ID: <8CBCCAF67F45F6C-10E4-2531@WEBMAIL-MY26.sysops.aol.com>

Dear Green Friends, 

Follow this link to California Greening for my commentary on recent junk in the MSM about California. 

http://cagreening.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-we-need-media-matters-for.html 

This will be my last rant for awhile.? I can be a frustrated computer programmer.? I can be a frustrated political scientist.? I can be a frustrated "pundit."? But I cannot be all three.? When I read that crazy New York Times Magazine story about the California governors race, I was so enraged that I wasted hours over the holiday weekend composing a critique with appropriate hyperlinks.? 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/5/750310/-NYT-Magazine-on-California-is-S-o-o-o-Bad 

Mark Leibovich can write in The New York Times that Gavin Newsom, Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman, and Steve Poizner -- a bunch of rich, privileged aristocrats? -- represent: 

"...a diverse and, to some degree, radically discordant group of candidates striving to win over one of the country?s most disruptive places."

George F. Will can write in the Washington Post:

"California is exporting talent while importing Mexico's poverty"

Wingnut editors can write this lead editorial in The Wall Street Journal:

"President Obama has bet the economy on his program to grow the government and finance it with a more progressive tax system. It's hard to miss the irony that he's pitching this change in Washington even as the same governance model is imploding in three of the largest American states where it has been dominant for years -- Ca
lifornia, New Jersey and New York.
. . .
These states have been models of 'progressive' policies that are supposed to create wealth: high tax rates on the rich, lots of government 'investments,' heavy unionization and a large government role in health care..."

Why not? 

They know perfectly well that *NOBODY* is going to call them on it.? And our own California "liberals" are too busy worrying about East Jerusalem and the West Bank of the Jordan to give a damn about what's happening in East L.A. and the West Bank of the Sacramento River. I am supposed to drop everything and fret about what Obama is going to say in Ghana and forget 900,000 poor children (80% of them children of color), losing their health care in California 

So, I'm gonna shut up and focus on putting my ideas into practice in the upcoming 2010 California elections and let this other stuff go. Let the voters do the talking in November 2010. 


Alex Walker 
Los Angeles Greens ? 

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From tnharter at aceweb.com  Mon Jul  6 22:43:36 2009
From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter)
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:43:36 +0000
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: [G-C-F] 7/21 Green Party Party]
In-Reply-To: <624691.43951.qm@web81201.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <624691.43951.qm@web81201.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <4A52E088.7080007@aceweb.com>

San Francisco. Sorry about not making that clear. I'm going to this,
even if I have to go up on the train by myself.

Tian

Caroline Yacoub wrote:
> What town?
> Caroline
> 
> --- On *Mon, 7/6/09, Tian Harter /<tnharter at aceweb.com>/* wrote:
> 
> 
>     From: Tian Harter <tnharter at aceweb.com>
>     Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: [G-C-F] 7/21 Green Party Party]
>     To: "Post South SF Bay discus" <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
>     Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 1:09 PM
> 
> 
> 
>     -------- Original Message --------
>     Subject:     [G-C-F] 7/21 Green Party Party
>     Date:     Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:52:02 -0700
>     From:     Marnie Glickman <marnie at greenchange.com
>     <http://us.mc812.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=marnie at greenchange.com>>
>     To:     cal-forum at cagreens.org
>     <http://us.mc812.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=cal-forum at cagreens.org>
> 
> 
> 
>     ***PLEASE FORWARD***
> 
>     Rev. Billy Talen, the Green Party candidate for Mayor of NYC, is coming
>     to town on 7/21.  http://www.voterevbilly.org
>     <http://www.voterevbilly.org/>
> 
>     We're throwing a fantastic fundraising benefit for his campaign.  Our
>     growing host committee includes Matt Gonzalez, Ross Mirkarimi, Eliana
>     Lopez, Nick Morgan, Ann Leonard, Medea Benjamin, Kevin Danaher, Chicken
>     John, Alix Rosenthal, Andy Blue, Marnie Glickman, Gary Ruskin, Mark
>     Barnes, Ken Masters, Sunny Angulo, Julian Davis and Aimee Allison.
> 
>     Please join us.
> 
>     Tuesday, July 21
>     7pm - 10pm
>     DNA Lounge, 375 Eleventh St.
>     Sliding scale admission with a suggested contribution of $20
> 
>     Reserve your ticket online at:  http://www.tinyurl.com/revbillyca
> 
>     Invite your friends with Facebook:
>     http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=81883909132
> 
>     Who is Rev. Billy Talen?  Bill Talen, also known as Reverend Billy, is
>     the Green Party candidate for Mayor of New York City. Talen lived and
>     worked as a performance artist in the Bay area for twenty years. Moving
>     to NYC in the early 90s, he started up the Life After Shopping Church,
>     with a 40 voice choir.  Casting himself as the anti-consumerist
>     televangelists, his comic "retail interventions" got him outlawed from
>     all the Starbucks in California. In NYC, the church membership grew
>     after 9/11, as citizens looked for a kind of fellowship independent from
>     organized religion.  Now Talen?s mayoral campaign is leading the rise of
>     the 500 neighborhoods.   <http://www.voterevbilly.org/>
> 
>     Questions?  Want to help spread the word?  Contact Marnie Glickman,
>     marnie at greenchange.org
>     <http://us.mc812.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=marnie at greenchange.org>
>     <mailto:marnie at greenchange.org
>     <http://us.mc812.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=marnie at greenchange.org>>,
>     503-313-7919.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     -- Tian
>     http://tian.greens.org <http://tian.greens.org/>
>     Latest change: Added a discussion of change and how only works in it.
>     Soldiers want 3 hots and a cot. Singers need 3 chords and the truth.
> 
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-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
Latest change: Added a discussion of change and how only works in it.
Soldiers want 3 hots and a cot. Singers need 3 chords and the truth.


From eameece at sfo.com  Tue Jul  7 12:32:45 2009
From: eameece at sfo.com (Eric Meece)
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:32:45 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] End US support for military coups in Latin America
Message-ID: <1489016569.1246995165583.JavaMail.tomcat@cluster4.salsalabs.com>

Hi,
I just sent a letter to President Obama and my members of Congress asking them to close down the U.S. Army School of the Americas. 

The U.S. should not train soldiers to terrorize their people and overthrow democratically elected governments in Latin America. Tell Obama and Congress to close the SOA: 

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From andid at cagreens.org  Wed Jul  8 07:05:30 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 07:05:30 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Cynthia McKinney Interview 94/1 FM at 9 AM Today!
Message-ID: <CBEAE7FB-6968-47AA-83B5-933F7A3E48D3@cagreens.org>

McKinney was interviewed by Amy Goodman at 6 AM; interview will be  
replayed at 9 AM on KPFA 94.1 FM.


From wrolley at refpub.com  Fri Jul 10 08:50:54 2009
From: wrolley at refpub.com (Wes Rolley)
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:50:54 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: We need help with taking action on Simitian
 this weekend! 5 bills released last night]
Message-ID: <4A57635E.3060908@refpub.com>

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From andid at cagreens.org  Fri Jul 10 10:03:56 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:03:56 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: We need help with taking action on
	Simitian this weekend! 5 bills released last night]
In-Reply-To: <4A57635E.3060908@refpub.com>
References: <4A57635E.3060908@refpub.com>
Message-ID: <BDC9FA5B-F4E3-4CF9-AEE7-DA72B9C66757@cagreens.org>

Wes,
I might be able to fit in Menlo Park?I'm at the mansion in Stanford.   
What do we need to bring?  Wear GP shirt?
Andrea

On Jul 10, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Wes Rolley wrote:

> We need some help this weekend in Redwood City and Menlo Park.    
> Can some one pass this one to San Mateo County Greens that you  
> know?  Or Sierra Club Members?  These Farmer's markets are great  
> points of Green Interaction with the public anyway.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:	We need help with taking action on Simitian this weekend!  
> 5 bills released last night
> Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:47:42 -0700
> From:	Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla <barbara at restorethedelta.org>
> To:	 "'Wes Rolley'"
>
>
> We do not want to run this out as a message alert ? but Simitian  
> will be in his District this weekend at the Farmer?s market holding  
> sidewalk office hours: Meet Joe at ...
>
> Sidewalk Office Hours
>
> Saturday, July 11
>
> 10 - 11:30 AM Redwood City Kiwanis Farmers? Market
>
> details ...
>
>
>
> Sidewalk Office Hours
>
> Sunday, July 12
>
> 10 ? 11:30 AM
> Menlo Park Farmers? Market
>
> details ...
>
>
>
> We need people out there reminding him that the food grown is from  
> Northern California and that the PC will ship water to corporate  
> agribusiness in the Southern part of the state.
>
>
>
> I am contacting my members who live in his District --  what kind  
> of response/members can you turn out?
>
>
>
> Word is that the committees will not include Wolk, or that she will  
> be so outnumbered that she will capitulate. Word is that the Delta  
> is SOL in Sacramento.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla
>
> Campaign Director
>
> Restore the Delta
>
> PO Box 691088
>
> Stockton, CA 95260
>
> 209.479.2053
>
> Barbara at restorethedelta.org
>
> www.restorethedelta.org
>
>
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From wrolley at charter.net  Fri Jul 10 11:42:23 2009
From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley)
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:42:23 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Water Restrictions
Message-ID: <4A578B8F.7080909@charter.net>

The City of Morgan Hill has instituted some water restrictions.  These 
include not watering between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM on any day and not 
watering on Monday's and Thursday's at all.

I find it interesting that one of my neighbors, people who jobs (he is a 
police detective and she is a school teacher) would seem to indicate 
more than a passing interest in setting a good example to the community, 
have so far totally ignored this even though it has been communicated 
several times (newspaper, flier/ report mailed to all citizens, 
inclusion with water bill).

Such is live in California.

-- 
"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente

Wes Rolley
17211 Quail Court, Morgan Hill, CA 95037
http://www.refpub.com/ -- Tel: 408.778.3024


From tnharter at aceweb.com  Fri Jul 10 20:00:52 2009
From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter)
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:00:52 +0000
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Further proof the Bush Administration was worse
	than we thought...
Message-ID: <4A580064.7040601@aceweb.com>

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090710/ap_on_go_co/us_domestic_surveillance


Report: Bush surveillance program was massive

By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer Pamela Hess, Associated Press 
Writer ? 2 hrs 59 mins ago

WASHINGTON ? The Bush administration built an unprecedented surveillance 
operation to pull in mountains of information far beyond the warrantless 
wiretapping previously acknowledged, a team of federal inspectors 
general reported Friday, questioning the legal basis for the effort but 
shielding almost all details on grounds they're still too secret to reveal.

The report, compiled by five inspectors general, refers to 
"unprecedented collection activities" by U.S. intelligence agencies 
under an executive order signed by President George W. Bush after the 
Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Just what those activities involved remains classified, but the IGs 
pointedly say that any continued use of the secret programs must be 
"carefully monitored."

The report says too few relevant officials knew of the size and depth of 
the program, let alone signed off on it. They particularly criticize 
John Yoo, a deputy assistant attorney general who wrote legal memos 
undergirding the policy. His boss, Attorney General John Ashcroft, was 
not aware until March 2004 of the exact nature of the intelligence 
operations beyond wiretapping that he had been approving for the 
previous two and a half years, the report says.

Most of the intelligence leads generated under what was known as the 
"President's Surveillance Program" did not have any connection to 
terrorism, the report said. But FBI agents told the authors that the 
"mere possibility of the leads producing useful information made 
investigating the leads worthwhile."

The inspectors general interviewed more than 200 people inside and 
outside the government, but five former Bush administration officials 
refused to be questioned. They were Ashcroft, Yoo, former CIA Director 
George Tenet, former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and David 
Addington, an aide to former Vice President Dick Cheney.

According to the report, Addington could personally decide who in the 
administration was "read into" ? allowed access to ? the classified program.

The only piece of the intelligence-gathering operation acknowledged by 
the Bush White House was the wiretapping-without-warrants effort. The 
administration admitted in 2005 that it had allowed the National 
Security Agency to intercept international communications that passed 
through U.S. cables without seeking court orders.

Although the report documents Bush administration policies, its fallout 
could be a problem for the Obama administration if it inherited any or 
all of the still-classified operations.

Bush started the warrantless wiretapping program under the authority of 
a secret court in 2006, and Congress authorized most of the intercepts 
in a 2008 electronic surveillance law. The fate of the remaining and 
still classified aspects of the wider surveillance program is not clear 
from the report.

The report's revelations came the same day that House Democrats said 
that CIA Director Leon Panetta had ordered one eight-year-old classified 
program shut down after learning lawmakers had never been apprised of 
its existence.

The IG report said that President Bush signed off on both the 
warrantless wiretapping and other top-secret operations shortly after 
Sept. 11 in a single presidential authorization. All the programs were 
periodically reauthorized, but except for the acknowledged wiretapping, 
they "remain highly classified."

The report says it's unclear how much valuable intelligence the program 
has yielded.

The report, mandated by Congress last year, was delivered to lawmakers 
Friday.

Rep. Jane Harman, D-Ca., told The Associated Press she was shocked to 
learn of the existence of other classified programs beyond the 
warrantless wiretapping.

Former Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales made a terse reference to 
other classified programs during an August 2007 letter to Congress. But 
Harman said that when she had asked Gonzales two years earlier if the 
government was conducting any other undisclosed intelligence activities, 
he denied it.

"He looked me in the eye and said 'no,'" she said Friday.

Robert Bork Jr., Gonzales' spokesman, said, "It has clearly been 
determined that he did not intend to mislead anyone."

In the wake of the new report, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. 
Patrick Leahy, D-Vt, renewed his call Friday for a formal nonpartisan 
inquiry into the government's information-gathering programs.

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden ? the primary architect of the 
program_ told the report's authors that the surveillance was "extremely 
valuable" in preventing further al-Qaida attacks. Hayden said the 
operations amounted to an "early warning system" allowing top officials 
to make critical judgments and carefully allocate national security 
resources to counter threats.

Information gathered by the secret program played a limited role in the 
FBI's overall counterterrorism efforts, according to the report. Very 
few CIA analysts even knew about the program and therefore were unable 
to fully exploit it in their counterrorism work, the report said.

The report questioned the legal advice used by Bush to set up the 
program, pinpointing omissions and questionable legal memos written by 
Yoo, in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. The Justice 
Department withdrew the memos years ago.

The report says Yoo's analysis approving the program ignored a law 
designed to restrict the government's authority to conduct electronic 
surveillance during wartime, and did so without fully notifying 
Congress. And it said flaws in Yoo's memos later presented "a serious 
impediment" to recertifying the program.

Yoo insisted that the president's wiretapping program had only to comply 
with Fourth Amendment protections against search and seizure ? but the 
report said Yoo ignored the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act, which 
had previously overseen federal national security surveillance.

"The notion that basically one person at the Justice Department, John 
Yoo, and Hayden and the vice president's office were running a program 
around the laws that Congress passed, including a reinterpretation of 
the Fourth Amendment, is mind boggling," Harman said.

House Democrats are pressing for legislation that would expand 
congressional access to secret intelligence briefings, but the White 
House has threatened to veto it.
-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
According to The World on NPR the Australian town of Bandanoon in NSW
just became the first political  power structure to ban bottled water.
The guy from Do Something said that all of the towns businesses have
committed to just selling bottles and letting people fill them outside.


From andid at cagreens.org  Sat Jul 11 12:16:07 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:16:07 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Water Realities and Other Drought Effects
In-Reply-To: <498BAD9E.9090607@charter.net>
References: <498BAD9E.9090607@charter.net>
Message-ID: <B4FC22B6-58D6-42B7-81A7-405F500C45F1@cagreens.org>

Wes,
By now you probably realize that Santa Clara County has declared  
California a year-round fire hazard.  The county weed abatement czars  
are down everyone's throats regarding any weeds, green or dry, over a  
certain height and will fine hi/r if they find out, whether by a  
casual drive by with a camera or a complaint registered by a gleeful  
neighborhood busybody.

A few weeks back, I appeared at the council meeting in the chambers  
on Hedding Street to bring up the importance of the riparian areas  
and the cooler micro-environment that should be taken into  
consideration before demanding that hillside dwellers?living at about  
2000 feet?must cut grasses/"weeds" to the schedule set for sea-level  
Milpitas homeowners.  I cited the presence of Tarantula migrations in  
October on their way to Mount Hamilton, the gatherings of Monarch  
Butterflies in the pastures with native and wild grasses, and the  
floods of balloon spiders floating on their silvery parachutes, all  
of which happened in years past, but beginning to fade away as  
draconian stripping and discing of pastures are enforced early and  
often, now to be year-round.

Don Cortese was present at that meeting and, after all the people had  
spoken, he requested that Mr Gregg (the UberMeister of this "weed"  
program) seriously research the issue of riparian areas?a direct  
response to my plea.  (I was the only one that brought up that  
issue.)  I was surprised and pleased to see that Cortese "got it."   
Gregg showed little interest but was forced to agree to the request  
as Cortese deliberately repeated it several times.  I'm going to  
watch for this process with the hope that it doesn't fall through  
bureaucratic cracks.

In the two minutes I was allotted to address the council, I didn't  
mention this:  Just this year we had the very first invasion of  
locusts (talk about biblical totems!):  I have never seen these in  
the hillside area before, let alone the heavy flood of these flying  
insects that darkened the air for perhaps an hour.  Also, we have  
large numbers of squirrels and noisy jays that suddenly showed up in  
the last couple of years.  We used to have lots of mud swallows and  
small birds and song birds, but these are more and more absent,  
driven out by the more aggressive invaders.  Hummingbirds, bumble  
bees, and ladybugs are beginning to thin out as well.

I'm also seeing a lot of pecking damage to fruit that is nowhere near  
ripened yet (such as apples); another new phenomenon.

Do you think this might be a good letter to write to the "Murky"  
News, Wes?  Is it worth pursuing?  Or will I come off as another  
crazy tree hugging, organic family farmer?

Have you seen anything like this going on in your area?
Andrea

On Feb 5, 2009, at 7:25 PM, Wes Rolley wrote:

> I wrote this last week, before Energy Secretary Chu talked of the
> scenario under which California loses it Agricultural Industry and the
> viability of our major cities comes under question.  However, it  
> went up
> this afternoon at the Morgan Hill Times and was picked up by  
> Aquafornia
> Blog <http://aquafornia.com/archives/6804>.
>
> *Now is the time to start making changes*
> 1:25 PM
>  By Wes Rolley <mailto:editor at morganhilltimes.com>
>
> As it is becoming increasingly clear that this is going to be the  
> third
> year in row with below normal rainfall, I have spent a lot of time
> reviewing the manner in which the media around the state is covering
> this story. The story varies somewhat from paper to paper if they  
> cover
> it at all. But, in general, most follow this logic. This is the third
> year of a drought. The effects are going to be felt most heavily on
> agriculture. Consumers will feel it in higher prices at the grocery
> store. Government ought to do something.
>
> This logic makes the assumption that what we are seeing is the low  
> side
> of a cycle of drought and plenty and we would be OK if we only save  
> more
> from times of plenty to use later. Even major news service, like
> Bloomberg, get the economic point. It will cost California Agriculture
> more than $1 billion and the California Farm Bureau Association
> estimates that it will cost 40,000 jobs.
>
> I have two problems with this scenario. First, it leaves out a major
> part of the story, climate change. Then it leaves us with the  
> impression
> that we can continue doing things in the same manner that we have done
> them in the past. That might be true if it were not for problem  
> number one.
>
> There is a high probability that what we are experiencing this year  
> will
> not be viewed as an extraordinary event in the coming year. In  
> fact, it
> may be the new normal in a warming climate. The impact of that on
> California Agriculture will be huge if nothing is done. Some  
> farmers are
> beginning to plan.
>
> Most newspapers do not cover the story in this manner, especially not
> the major papers in the coastal population centers. The Merced Sun  
> Star
> emphasized the idea that current conditions may stay around for a long
> time. In discussing the impact of climate change on water resources,
> they write that "local land use, development and their impacts on  
> water
> planning comprise another issue. Today, a collection of interests
> compete over the same sources of water. The success or failure of  
> local
> preparations for the impending water crisis will make all the  
> difference."
>
> It seems that most papers can write about water, or global warming,  
> but
> have not yet grasped that watersheds and the climate are very dynamic,
> interconnected systems and we can no longer afford to treat them as
> little boxed problems to solve.
>
> In September, 2008, the Pacific Institute, a Bay Area think tank,
> published a report that made the case that we can solve our water
> problems with better management of existing water, especially for
> agriculture; "More with Less: Agricultural Water Conservation and
> Efficiency in California - A Special Focus on the Delta."
>
> As the title suggests, it is all about conservation. They got their
> hands dirty on farms, in irrigation ditches, all over this state  
> before
> they came to the conclusion that it was possible.
>
> We need, however, to start considering that some farmers may need to
> grow different crops. At a very simple level, even I have been doing
> that. We are replacing an olive tree with a jujube for the specific
> reason that it does well in dry conditions. U.C. Davis is working on a
> plan for some counties to switch their major crops as the climate
> changes, adjusting their agriculture to different temperature and  
> water
> realities.
>
> A public works officials once told me that they did not want to  
> mention
> water conservation in a good year because then they would not have  
> that
> tool to fall back on when a drought hits. This type of thinking is the
> epitome of bureaucratic thinking rather than ecological thinking.
>
> Just like the farmers, we are all going to have to make changes, maybe
> even lifestyle changes, to ensure that we have the water we need. The
> days are over when we can assume that our water district will supply
> whatever water we want whenever we want it.
>
> At least, the Santa Clara Valley Water District has good programs for
> water efficiency even though they do not promote them enough. Earlier
> this year, I wrote about taking out lawn and replacing it with a
> combination of pavers and bark. The project is completed and I have my
> rebate check safely in the bank. The only complaint that I had was the
> fact that it took too long to process the check after I submitted my
> paperwork and had the final inspection. Otherwise, the only pain  
> was in
> my arms from carrying all of those pavers.
>
> Finally, I would have to say that Congressman Jerry McNerney 'gets  
> it."
> He introduced The Healthy Communities Water Supply Act, H.R. 700.
>
> According to his press release, this act "will authorize $250  
> million -
> double the 2007 proposed authorization - in funding for projects that
> increase the usable water supply by encouraging innovation in water
> conservation, recharge, recycling, reuse, and reclamation."
>
> One by one, we are all going to have to make changes and now is the  
> time
> to start.
>
> -- 
> "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you  
> don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente
>
> Wes Rolley
> 17211 Quail Court, Morgan Hill, CA 95037
> http://www.refpub.com/ -- Tel: 408.778.3024
>
> _______________________________________________
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> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss
>



From andid at cagreens.org  Sat Jul 11 15:40:44 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:40:44 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: Re: An Idea
In-Reply-To: <351826.76608.qm@web81203.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <351826.76608.qm@web81203.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <67991A53-FC72-4CE0-BAF6-0782D353BDC9@cagreens.org>

Caroline/Fred
I LOVE Fred's idea!  A place for everyone who wants to plant a small  
garden!   YES, YES, YES!!!

AND how much better would it be to have all these corners and fronts  
to businesses now given over to lawns to be gardened by suburban  
farmers!!  Do you think businesses that only greenwash might feel  
they have to do this for good publicity?
Andrea

On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Caroline Yacoub wrote:

>
>
> --- On Thu, 4/2/09, Caroline Yacoub <carolineyacoub at att.net> wrote:
> From: Caroline Yacoub <carolineyacoub at att.net>
> Subject: Re: An Idea
> To: "Fred Duperrault" <fredd at freeshell.org>
> Cc: "Caroline Yacoub" <carolineyacoub at att.net>
> Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 10:45 AM
>
> My neighbor across the street gave me a book to read called "Food  
> Not Lawns". I haven't had time to read it yet, but since its  
> subtitle is "How to turn your yard into a garden and your  
> neighborhood into a community", I think one of us should. Would you  
> like to borrow it?
> Caroline
>
> --- On Thu, 4/2/09, Fred Duperrault <fredd at freeshell.org> wrote:
> From: Fred Duperrault <fredd at freeshell.org>
> Subject: An Idea
> To: "Caroline Yacoub" <carolineyacoub at att.net>
> Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 12:27 AM
>
> hello Caroline,
>
> Here is what I think I suggested for a possible GPSCC project:
>
> First, research what and how much space some local cities and the  
> county  have
> already designated for public gardens.  If it seems that there is a  
> definite
> need for more gardens in any of these communities, the GPSCC could  
> publicly urge
> (lobby) the particular city councils to provide more gardens for their
> constituencies.  (The party would have to state a good case for  
> doing so,
> however.)
>
> The citizen gardeners, the environment and the community would be the
> beneficiaries of  "A Garden for Everyone Movement."
>
> Also, it would be great if individual home owners and condo  
> complexes would
> convert some of their water sucking lawns into  productive gardens  
> that would
> probably use less water and would be just as - or more - beautiful.
>
> Yipes, it's after Midnight.
>
> Nighty night,
>
> Fred
> _______________________________________________
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From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com)
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:43:56 EDT
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Items to pick up before I leave town early Friday
	morning
Message-ID: <c91.439af8e8.378aa7ec@aol.com>

I have the GPSCC banner, the button making machines and  supplies, and four 
pepper plants I transpanted into small containers  today.  I am leaving on 
my travels early Friday morning.  If any of  these items are useful for the 
yard sale, someone needs to come and get  them.  Warner
 
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From tnharter at aceweb.com  Sat Jul 11 20:06:29 2009
From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter)
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:06:29 +0000
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: Re: An Idea
In-Reply-To: <67991A53-FC72-4CE0-BAF6-0782D353BDC9@cagreens.org>
References: <351826.76608.qm@web81203.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<67991A53-FC72-4CE0-BAF6-0782D353BDC9@cagreens.org>
Message-ID: <4A595335.5050309@aceweb.com>

I don't want the book, but I do want to report that the first tomato
to turn red on my vine is almost ready to pick. After its gone down my 
throat I'll be inviting the neighbors to drop by and pick one sometime.
The pot gardening on the porch I do is easy, and just about anybody can
do it!

The grassroots energizing that comes from picking and eating something
yourself is the real thing! Today I had a couple of delicious plums from
the rust colored trees at tenth and San Carlos in San Jose. Delicious!

Tian

Andrea Dorey wrote:
> Caroline/Fred
> I LOVE Fred's idea!  A place for everyone who wants to plant a small 
> garden!   YES, YES, YES!!!   
> 
> AND how much better would it be to have all these corners and fronts to 
> businesses now given over to lawns to be gardened by suburban farmers!! 
>  Do you think businesses that only greenwash might feel they have to do 
> this for good publicity?
> Andrea
> 
> On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Caroline Yacoub wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> --- On *Thu, 4/2/09, Caroline Yacoub /<carolineyacoub at att.net 
>> <mailto:carolineyacoub at att.net>>/* wrote:
>>
>>     From: Caroline Yacoub <carolineyacoub at att.net
>>     <mailto:carolineyacoub at att.net>>
>>     Subject: Re: An Idea
>>     To: "Fred Duperrault" <fredd at freeshell.org
>>     <mailto:fredd at freeshell.org>>
>>     Cc: "Caroline Yacoub" <carolineyacoub at att.net
>>     <mailto:carolineyacoub at att.net>>
>>     Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 10:45 AM
>>
>>     My neighbor across the street gave me a book to read called "Food
>>     Not Lawns". I haven't had time to read it yet, but since its
>>     subtitle is "How to turn your yard into a garden and your
>>     neighborhood into a community", I think one of us should. Would
>>     you like to borrow it?
>>     Caroline
>>
>>     --- On *Thu, 4/2/09, Fred Duperrault /<fredd at freeshell.org
>>     <mailto:fredd at freeshell.org>>/* wrote:
>>
>>         From: Fred Duperrault <fredd at freeshell.org
>>         <mailto:fredd at freeshell.org>>
>>         Subject: An Idea
>>         To: "Caroline Yacoub" <carolineyacoub at att.net
>>         <mailto:carolineyacoub at att.net>>
>>         Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 12:27 AM
>>
>>         hello Caroline,
>>
>>         Here is what I think I suggested for a possible GPSCC project:
>>
>>         First, research what and how much space some local cities and the county  have
>>         already designated for public gardens.  If it seems that there is a definite
>>         need for more gardens in any of these communities, the GPSCC could publicly urge
>>         (lobby) the particular city councils to provide more gardens for their
>>         constituencies.  (The party would have to state a good case for doing so,
>>         however.)
>>
>>         The citizen gardeners, the environment and the community would be the
>>         beneficiaries of  "A Garden for Everyone Movement."
>>
>>         Also, it would be great if individual home owners and condo complexes would
>>         convert some of their water sucking lawns into  productive gardens that would
>>         probably use less water and would be just as - or more - beautiful.
>>
>>         Yipes, it's after Midnight.
>>
>>         Nighty night,
>>
>>         Fred
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> sosfbay-discuss mailing list
>> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org <mailto:sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
>> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss
> 
> 
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> 
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-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
According to The World on NPR the Australian town of Bandanoon in NSW
just became the first political  power structure to ban bottled water.
The guy from Do Something said that all of the towns businesses have
committed to just selling bottles and letting people fill them outside.


From alexcathy at aol.com  Sun Jul 12 07:51:49 2009
From: alexcathy at aol.com (alexcathy at aol.com)
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:51:49 -0400
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Rev. Eric P. Lee of SCLC Attacked for Anti-Prop 8
	Stand
Message-ID: <8CBD1176B62EE71-FE0-3CD4@webmail-mh06.sysops.aol.com>

Dear Friends, 

Rev. Eric P. Lee, president of the Los Angeles chapter of SCLC,? a civil rights group founded by Martin Luther King, is under fire for his outspoken advocacy of marriage equality and against Proposition 8. It's an obvious power play by mega-church preachers. It'll be interesting to see if California's weak so-called "progressives" (including our chorus of Black Nationalist "radicals") has the guts to defy a bunch of conservative preachers to defend Eric Lee. 

Alex Walker 
?
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Published in The Los Angeles Times, Saturday, July 11, 2009



Civil Rights Group Threatens to Fire Local Leader for Gay Marriage Endorsement
 

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a civil rights group partly founded by Martin Luther King Jr., has threatened to fire the president of its Los Angeles chapter because he supports same-sex marriage.

The Rev. Eric P. Lee, president of the local SCLC chapter for two years, became an outspoken advocate of same-sex marriage during the recent campaign against Proposition 8, an amendment to the state Constitution that banned such unions.
The SCLC national board notified Lee on May 27 that he would have to attend a hearing at its Atlanta headquarters on June 4 to explain his stance on same-sex marriage. If he did not show up, they said, they would suspend and fire him.

Lee did not attend the hearing. He told the board he could not afford the last-minute trip but could participate via conference call. He said he never heard back from the board.

When Lee failed to appear for the hearing, he received an e-mail warning him to set a date to appear or face removal.
The national group's lawyer, Dexter M. Wimbish, and other leaders did not return phone calls seeking comment.

Lee maintained a high profile in the Proposition 8 fight. He wrote articles in favor of same-sex marriage and self-published a book, "Marriage Equality: Proposition 8 The California Divide." He also appeared at public demonstrations...

READ MORE AT: 
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sclc11-2009jul11,0,1372647.story 



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From carolineyacoub at att.net  Sun Jul 12 09:56:31 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:56:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: [BASC Chat] Bill Moyers Journal . Watch &
	Listen | PBS
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--- On Sat, 7/11/09, Bonnie Klett <bonnieklett at sbcglobal.net> wrote:


From: Bonnie Klett <bonnieklett at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [BASC Chat] Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS
To: "Bracken Jeffrey" <jbracken44 at gmail.com>, "Ginny Bloecker" <bloeck at bellsouth.net>, "Carol Berning" <n2flyn at yahoo.com>, "Terry Judie Bennett" <trbjlb at gmail.com>, "Bob Thall" <bobthall1 at gmail.com>, "David Ehrke" <dehrke at sbcglobal.net>, "De Voe Michael" <devoeml at yahoo.com>, "Schmidt Esther" <estherschmidt408 at gmail.com>, "Ellis Sandy" <sandy.ellis at comcast.net>, "Mary Lou Smith" <emelles at sbcglobal.net>, "Ev Eaton" <eeaton at cloudworks.com>, "Frank Jensen" <fjensen at garlic.com>, "Joyce Gavino" <joycegavin at aol.com>, "Janice Heide" <janiceheide at yahoo.com>, "Jo Ryalls" <joryalls at earthlink.net>, "Phil Kleinheinz" <kleinheinz at aol.com>, "Linda Piera" <pixie at baymoon.com>, "Lori Klett Roberto" <lorikr at surewest.net>, "Scardigli Maggie" <maggie.scardigli at sbcglobal.net>, "Norm and Else Madsen" <normadsn at hotmail.com>, "Parish Carol" <caparish at frontiernet.net>, "roberto rolando" <rroberto at surewest.net>, "Ron & Barb Wohlwend" <wohlwends at yahoo.com>, "Sharon Hood"
 <js2u at frontiernet.net>, "BASC Chat" <bascchat at yahoogroups.com>
Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 11:47 AM








Hi all,

In the next couple of months you will be hearing all kinds of 
propaganda regarding proposed health care. Scare tactics, 
misinformation, and health industry ads against any changes will 
abound. Our congressional representatives will rally for and against 
new changes. And yet polls say this healthcare reform is a #1 
priority with the American public.

For those of you who want to know how we are being manipulated, take 
the time to watch this interview with Wendell Potter, a former Cigna 
V.P. who after 20 years in the insurance industry where trying to 
deny coverage to increase corporate and stock market profits, finally 
saw the light and wanted to expose and educate for the sake of the 
country, what the insurance industry is doing to discredit any 
attempt to change the status quo.

I hope you will find time to watch this webcast, which is a long but 
informative 36 minutes, and become aware of what is one of the most 
important issues of our lifetime: Our healthcare. Even if you have 
wonderful insurance for you and your family, realize we still are 
vulnerable. Others close to us may someday lose coverage and 
healthcare costs has been the #1 reason for personal bancruptcy, 
which in the long run is one of the primary reasons our premiums and 
deductibles are going up......and why fewer companies refuse to 
provide health coverage.

If you can't watch now please save this for a moment when you have 
the time to see an important program.

In the meantime, stay healthy, be informed, and be 
proactive... ......this is our country!

http://www.pbs. org/moyers/ journal/07102009 /watch2.html

Bonnie Klett
bonnieklett@ sbcglobal. net

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From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Sun Jul 12 14:38:03 2009
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:38:03 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] KPFA Program Council and Local Station Board
	Elections
Message-ID: <BAY140-W274C33F7C55F6C8C9A18C69E250@phx.gbl>



   Akio Tanaka, a member of the CC of Alameda County, spoke at the monthly meeting
about his candidacy in the upcoming KPFA elections for a position on the Program
Council.   

   To vote, you must join KPFA by July 15th.  A $25 subscription will make you a
member.  http://www.kpfa.org/ 

    There are a couple of other reasons to join.  Earlier this year I had the pleasure of 
working with two fine Stanford activists in the accountability movement, Adam Hudson 
and Shara Esbenshade, both of whom are running for the Local Station Board.

    Adam will be a senior next year.  He's from Pittsburg, California.  He's majoring in 
international relations, studying Arabic, and plans to be a muckraking lawyer.  He is 
highly skilled in dealing with the bullshit of action group dynamics.

   Shara will be a sophomore next year.  She became involved in independent media in 
Champaign, Illinois while still in high school and has been active in labor rights and the 
anti-war movement.  With experience in radio, online newspapers, and online film 
distribution, Shara wants to facilitate interactive online programming at KPFA.

   I think both of these candidates share the green values.  I don't think they've had 
much exposure to the Green party.  Yet.


   From Adam's statement:  

   "The people on these boards represent listeners, staff and
volunteers in reviewing the station budget, choosing a station manager,
selecting Pacifica National Board members and making sure Pacifica
sticks to its mission of providing a media voice to the community it
represents....I
believe in the effectiveness of independent media outlets, such as
KPFA, of raising awareness about issues and perspectives that rarely
get heard in corporate media outlets and would like to see the station
do more in reaching out to young people and minority communities."

  From Shara's statement:  

    "Independent media ... strengthens grassroots collective action both through the practice of creating such media and through the information and culture that....  reflects and nurtures grassroots activism.... I want to serve as a listener delegate on the local KPFA board to help make systemic changes to ensure a truly democratic and sustainable way of decision-making within the local radio station because the democratic process is not only as important as the output on the air, but it informs that output....  I will spread awareness about the importance of independent radio, involve youth in its process, and will create discussion to bring the ideas and feedback of youth to the local board."


   
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From carolineyacoub at att.net  Sun Jul 12 15:07:21 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:07:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] KPFA Program Council and Local Station Board
	Elections
Message-ID: <638611.42547.qm@web81205.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

So Brian, how many people do we get to vote for on the board? What do you know about the other people who are running?
Caroline

--- On Sun, 7/12/09, Brian Good <snug.bug at hotmail.com> wrote:


From: Brian Good <snug.bug at hotmail.com>
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] KPFA Program Council and Local Station Board Elections
To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009, 2:38 PM




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?? Akio Tanaka, a member of the CC of Alameda County, spoke at the monthly meeting
about his candidacy in the upcoming KPFA elections for a position on the Program
Council. ? 

?? To vote, you must join KPFA by July 15th.? A $25 subscription will make you a
member.? 


http://www.kpfa.org/ 

??? There are a couple of other reasons to join.? Earlier this year I had the pleasure of 
working with two fine Stanford activists in the accountability movement, Adam Hudson 
and Shara Esbenshade, both of whom are running for the Local Station Board.

??? Adam will be a senior next year.? He's from Pittsburg, California.? He's majoring in 
international relations, studying Arabic, and plans to be a muckraking lawyer.? He is 
highly skilled in dealing with the bullshit of action group dynamics.

?? Shara will be a sophomore next year.? She became involved in independent media in 
Champaign, Illinois while still in high school and has been active in labor rights and the 
anti-war movement.? With experience in radio, online newspapers, and online film 
distribution, Shara wants to facilitate interactive online programming at KPFA.

?? I think both of these candidates share the green values.? I don't think they've had 
much exposure to the Green party.? Yet.


?? From Adam's statement:? 

?? "The people on these boards represent listeners, staff and volunteers in reviewing the station budget, choosing a station manager, selecting Pacifica National Board members and making sure Pacifica sticks to its mission of providing a media voice to the community it represents....I believe in the effectiveness of independent media outlets, such as KPFA, of raising awareness about issues and perspectives that rarely get heard in corporate media outlets and would like to see the station do more in reaching out to young people and minority communities." 

? From Shara's statement:

? 

??? "Independent media ... strengthens grassroots collective action both through the practice of creating such media and through the information and culture that.... reflects and nurtures grassroots activism.... I want to serve as a listener delegate on the local KPFA board to help make systemic changes to ensure a truly democratic and sustainable way of decision-making within the local radio station because the democratic process is not only as important as the output on the air, but it informs that output.... I will spread awareness about the importance of independent radio, involve youth in its process, and will create discussion to bring the ideas and feedback of youth to the local board."

??? Brian







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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Sun Jul 12 18:09:24 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:09:24 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Akio Tanaka follow up
Message-ID: <4A5A8944.8010303@sbcglobal.net>

Here is Akio's response to our follow up question(s.)

Hi Jim
 
Thanks again for the time and attention that the Santa Clara Greens gave 
to my presentation.
I am currently on the KPFA Local Station Board and my term ends 
this December.
I have not made the decision to run again, but I will decide in few days.
 
I came down to San Jose because I think that Greens can and should make 
a difference.
Greens have great values but we have hard time affecting elections.
Gail McLaughlin in Richmond is one inspiring win.

The problem with the current majority on the KPFA Local Station Board is 
that it is aligned
too closely with the Democratic Party.

With President Obama turning out to be another corporatized Democrat, it 
is crucial that we have a strong independent media.

I think that if the Greens really pull together we can elect a 
progressive majority on the Local Station Board.
This is important because the Local Station Board elects four directors 
to the Pacifica National Board which sets policy for the entire Pacifica 
network, and currently the progressives that support the democratic 
governance of the network has a slight majority.
 
Following are the action items:
1. Get as many people to subscribe before July 15. Go to www.kpfa.org 
<http://www.kpfa.org/> and subscribe starting at $25.
2. Get the message out during the campaign period:  July 16- August 30. 
(I will forward more information.)
3. Get people to mail in the ballot between August 31- October 15.  
Thanks again,
 
Aki




From andid at cagreens.org  Sun Jul 12 18:43:24 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:43:24 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Akio Tanaka follow up
In-Reply-To: <4A5A8944.8010303@sbcglobal.net>
References: <4A5A8944.8010303@sbcglobal.net>
Message-ID: <A05112D5-816B-4FAD-B1F6-F1BA1ECDFF0B@cagreens.org>

Can we get some GP members to run for the KPFA board?  The meetings  
are local if Berkeley and SF are local to anyone....
Andrea

On Jul 12, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Jim Doyle wrote:

> Here is Akio's response to our follow up question(s.)
>
> Hi Jim
>
> Thanks again for the time and attention that the Santa Clara Greens  
> gave
> to my presentation.
> I am currently on the KPFA Local Station Board and my term ends
> this December.
> I have not made the decision to run again, but I will decide in few  
> days.
>
> I came down to San Jose because I think that Greens can and should  
> make
> a difference.
> Greens have great values but we have hard time affecting elections.
> Gail McLaughlin in Richmond is one inspiring win.
>
> The problem with the current majority on the KPFA Local Station  
> Board is
> that it is aligned
> too closely with the Democratic Party.
>
> With President Obama turning out to be another corporatized  
> Democrat, it
> is crucial that we have a strong independent media.
>
> I think that if the Greens really pull together we can elect a
> progressive majority on the Local Station Board.
> This is important because the Local Station Board elects four  
> directors
> to the Pacifica National Board which sets policy for the entire  
> Pacifica
> network, and currently the progressives that support the democratic
> governance of the network has a slight majority.
>
> Following are the action items:
> 1. Get as many people to subscribe before July 15. Go to www.kpfa.org
> <http://www.kpfa.org/> and subscribe starting at $25.
> 2. Get the message out during the campaign period:  July 16- August  
> 30.
> (I will forward more information.)
> 3. Get people to mail in the ballot between August 31- October 15.
> Thanks again,
>
> Aki
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss
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From alexcathy at aol.com  Sun Jul 12 18:56:42 2009
From: alexcathy at aol.com (alexcathy at aol.com)
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:56:42 -0400
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] July 1979 - Jimmy Carter's 'Crisis of Confidence'
	Speech
Message-ID: <8CBD1744DA57F23-1180-522D@WEBMAIL-MY08.sysops.aol.com>





July 1979 -- Jimmy Carter's 'Crisis of Confidence' Speech

 







SUMMER 1979: The Islamic Revolution in Iran creates an "oil shock" in
the United States with long lines at gasoline stations. Democratic
President Jimmy Carter is scheduled to address the nation, but cancels
at the last minute. 10 days, Carter reemerges with a speech. 



Carter addresses the energy crisis, unemployment, inflation and our "Crisis of Confidence."







The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of
confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and
spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing
doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of
purpose for our nation.







Ronald Reagan and the Republicans eventually triumph by, among other
things, ridiculing Carter for his "malaise speech" and blasting him for
"weakness" in Iran and Afghanistan. Thirty long years later the
Republican so-called conservative clique, despite presiding over the
worst administration in U.S. history and the election of a popular
young Democratic president, still dominates the political debate in
California and the nation while the weak, divided, pitiful, U.S. "left"
struggles to find its voice. 






READ MORE AND COMMENT AT:

http://cagreening.blogspot.com/2009/07/july-1979-jimmy-carters-crisis-of.html

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From carolineyacoub at att.net  Sun Jul 12 21:31:19 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:31:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: So Bay Labor Council Follow-up Meeting on
	Single Payer Tues. July 14 6P
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From: Lynn Huidekoper <lynn_huidekoper at hotmail.com>
Subject: So Bay Labor Council Follow-up Meeting on Single Payer Tues. July 14 6P
To: "Lynn Huidekoper" <lynn_huidekoper at hotmail.com>
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From carolineyacoub at att.net  Sun Jul 12 21:37:56 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:37:56 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: Reminder, Thursday,
	July 16- Santa Clara County Single Payer HC Coaliiton
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--- On Sun, 7/12/09, Lynn Huidekoper <lynn_huidekoper at hotmail.com> wrote:


From: Lynn Huidekoper <lynn_huidekoper at hotmail.com>
Subject: Reminder,Thursday, July 16- Santa Clara County Single Payer HC Coaliiton
To: "Lynn Huidekoper" <lynn_huidekoper at hotmail.com>
Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009, 7:11 PM




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Single Payer Activists,







You are invited to our monthly 
Santa Clara County Single Payer Coalition meeting
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agenda below and attached.? Invite your friends and neighbors.? Despite huge business power's attempts to stifle single-payer heatlhcare, the people are fighting back.? Come, be part of the movement for single-payer healthcare, everbody in, nobody out.? 



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4:30 to 6:30 PM, Thursday, July 16, 2009

525 W. Alma Ave., San Jose, CA 95125
http://www.google.com/search?q=525+w.+Alma+Ave.%2C+San+Jose%2C+CA+95125&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Agenda
As always, your contribution to the healthy-snack table will be greatly appreciated.

?

???????? Welcome


Introductions
???????????? Report on June 24th Single Payer Labor Forum----Greg, Sandy, reps of Labor Party, and coordinators ??Evaluation, What are the next steps?? How can we help?
?
???????? Report on June 28th event which was sponsored by the SCCSPHCC and the First Unitarian Church?s Social Justice Council ? Sandy, Barbara, Martha Joan, Katherine - Goals, evaluation, work to do, future plans. Thanks to all who helped and who came!
?
???????? Report on July 7th demonstration.??150 of us attended! - Evaluation, attendees, media reporting 
?
???????? Discussion ?progress of Single-Payer and progress of Obama?s HC reform.
?
???????? Update on national single-payer actions planned for July and August ? for instance, July 30 in Washington
?
Website for HR676 and July 30 Rally: 
http://www.healthcare-now.org
?
???????? Update on CA Senate Bill 810- One Care Campaign- Lynn


Link to One Care website http://www.californiaonecare.org
?
Other items?? Announcements?



Katherine Bock
The Low-Income Self-Help Center
525 W. Alma
San Jos?, CA 95125
(408) 363-1368 cell
phone (408) 977-1275 / fax (408) 977-1650

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From fredd at freeshell.org  Tue Jul 14 11:48:33 2009
From: fredd at freeshell.org (Fred Duperrault)
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:48:33 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: [Activists] Happy 5th Birthday to PDA]
Message-ID: <4A5CD301.4010101@freeshell.org>

Take a look at David Swanson's remarks (below) about the credibility of 
the "Progressive Democrats of America."

I think his remarks imply that the Green Party is ineffective and would 
be more effective if it dismantled and joined the the PDA.

Food for discussion,

Fred D.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[Activists] Happy 5th Birthday to PDA
Date: 	Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:18:00 -0400
From: 	David Swanson <david at davidswanson.org>
Reply-To: 	david at davidswanson.org
To: 	activists at lists.mayfirst.org <activists at lists.mayfirst.org>



*/Happy 5th Birthday to PDA!/*
By David Swanson

The most useful tool progressive political activists have in the United 
States, at the local, state, and national levels, was created from 
scratch five years ago, and has been developed and sharpened while 
proving itself time and again in each and every week since.  Progressive 
Democrats of America has stood strongly behind truly progressive, 
majority positions more consistently than any other activist group with 
national weight that I'm aware of.  And at the same time, PDA has 
maintained good working relationships with more members of Congress than 
probably anyone outside of corporate lobbyists.  How can this be and 
what should it teach us?

PDA puts progressive first and Democrat (with a capital D for the 
political party) a distant second.  Groups that do the reverse are a 
dime a dozen.  Organizations like MoveOn.org, True Majority, Democracy 
for America, Campaign for America's Future, Center for American 
Progress, and others can be counted on at least 75 percent of the time 
to compromise progressive positions in order to follow the wishes of the 
Democratic Party's national leadership.  This approach leads to cynicism 
among grassroots activists, and further compromise and defeat of 
progressive goals.  PDA opposes wars, not when they are Republican wars, 
but when they are illegal and aggressive wars.  PDA supports 
single-payer healthcare, not when Rahm Emanuel says it's appropriate, 
but when the public wants it, the evidence supports it as the best 
solution, and its advocacy appears likely to lead to the best outcome 
even if that outcome is a compromise.  PDA favors impeachment and 
prosecution of high officials, not when an opposing party agrees, but 
when crimes and abuses have been committed. 

But standing by such positions must mean exile from the inner halls of 
power, right?  And once you're on the outside, you can't get anything 
done, right?  Wrong.  PDA is on better terms with more Congress members 
than are most organizations that sell out for access.  One reason for 
this is the degree to which PDA's positions actually are supported by 
many members of Congress, even though opposed by both parties.   
Single-payer healthcare has a bill to establish it that has been backed 
by a sponsor and 85 co-sponsors.  No other healthcare plan has that much 
support or comes anywhere close to deserving it.  And while many of 
those 86 Congress members who have put their names down for a real 
solution are prepared to sell out, they also know that their best hope 
of looking good to their constituents and justifying themselves to their 
donors and the corporate media, while selling out as little as possible 
or not at all, is if there exists a major public push for what people 
really want.

A great many activists and activist groups around the country take a 
different approach.  They want nothing to do with the Democratic Party, 
seek to destroy it or at least ignore it, and hope to build a new party 
independent of it.  Many of them oppose not just parties but Congress or 
government as a whole.  They seek to change the culture and organize 
massive protest and resistance, but without targeting such action at any 
particular weak link in the chain of corporatist power.  The problem 
with this is that, given the grotesque and corrupting power of the two 
parties to dominate our electoral system and our legislature, there is 
no way for independent activism to have an impact until it becomes 
absolutely immense and overwhelming.  And it's hard to build it to that 
point in the absence of any small victories along the way.  PDA works 
inside as well as outside the system, organizing rallies and protests as 
well as meetings and briefings.  I think activism independent of any 
party influence is absolutely essential.  I want more of it, not less.  
But to do without an inside strategy is to tie one hand behind our 
backs.  To run candidates only in general elections and not primaries is 
a further unnecessary handicap.  You can believe as I do that the 
influence of parties should be drastically reduced or removed.  Or you 
can believe that salvation lies through a particular third party.  Or 
you can dedicate yourself to the reform and strengthening of the 
Democratic Party.  In any of these situations, however, if you place 
progressive change at the top of your agenda, you'll find that joining 
and supporting Progressive Democrats of America is one of the smartest 
things you can do.

But here's the deal.  Being skilled at an inside-outside approach, 
standing up for the public while sitting down with the Congress is 
difficult and valuable, but it does not translate into an ability to 
please the upper echelon of power, to satisfy those at the very top, to 
ingratiate with funders and string pullers, to attract corporate backing 
or corporate media hype.  And so, while other organizations do less in 
every way, some of them bring in many times over the amount of money PDA 
raises from its grassroots supporters.  And activists have been known to 
say that they prefer PDA but will donate to a larger group because it is 
larger, just as people say they'll back their second-choice candidate in 
an election because their television told them it would be silly not 
to.  The analogy is awful though, because backing one organization 
instead of another does not eliminate, but merely reduces, that other 
group.  In choosing organizations, there is no spoiler factor.  If you 
support PDA, it cannot mean that the Free Republic gets to take over 
MoveOn.org.  On the contrary it can mean that Democratic progressive 
groups are forced to move to where the progressive Democratic groups 
are.  Please think about it.

Happy fifth birthday, PDA!  Many happy returns!

http://PDAmerica.org

-- 

David Swanson is the author of the upcoming book "Daybreak: Undoing the 
Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union" by Seven Stories 
Press.  You can pre-order it and find out when tour will be in your 
town: http://davidswanson.org/book. Arrange to review it on your blog 
and Seven Stories will get you a free copy. Contact crystal at 
sevenstories dot com.

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From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Tue Jul 14 12:42:22 2009
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:42:22 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] KPFA Program Council and Local Station Board
 Elections
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Hi Caroline,

   I have no idea how many votes we get.  Certainly the possibility that Shara and Adam 
might turn out to be spoilers had occurred to me.  I think we can worry about that
in September when we see what we're looking at.   

   I don't listen to KPFA myself, and I don't plan to become a member.  I don't even watch 
Olbermann anymore.  I've lost my patience for linear real-time data transfer.  I like 
random access--such as you get in a newspaper or magazine.  I therefore find Shara's 
suggestion that KPFA improve their internet infrastructure intriguing because it would
allow the listener to choose what stories they listen to.

   My intention in bringing up Shara and Adam's candidacies was the hope that Green
KPFA members would express some interest in them and give them warm fuzzy feelings
about the Party.

  B








Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:07:21 -0700
From: carolineyacoub at att.net
Subject: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] KPFA Program Council and Local Station Board Elections
To: snug.bug at hotmail.com
CC: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org

So Brian, how many people do we get to vote for on the board? What do you know about the other people who are running?
Caroline

--- On Sun, 7/12/09, Brian Good <snug.bug at hotmail.com> wrote:


From: Brian Good <snug.bug at hotmail.com>
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] KPFA Program Council and Local Station Board Elections
To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009, 2:38 PM





   Akio Tanaka, a member of the CC of Alameda County, spoke at the monthly meeting
about his candidacy in the upcoming KPFA elections for a position on the Program
Council.   

   To vote, you must join KPFA by July 15th.  A $25 subscription will make you a
member.  

http://www.kpfa.org/ 

    There are a couple of other reasons to join.  Earlier this year I had the pleasure of 
working with two fine Stanford activists in the accountability movement, Adam Hudson 
and Shara Esbenshade, both of whom are running for the Local Station Board.

    Adam will be a senior next year.  He's from Pittsburg, California.  He's majoring in 
international relations, studying Arabic, and plans to be a muckraking lawyer.  He is 
highly skilled in dealing with the bullshit of action group dynamics.

   Shara will be a sophomore next year.  She became involved in independent media in 
Champaign, Illinois while still in high school and has been active in labor rights and the 
anti-war movement. 
 With experience in radio, online newspapers, and online film 
distribution, Shara wants to facilitate interactive online programming at KPFA.

   I think both of these candidates share the green values.  I don't think they've had 
much exposure to the Green party.  Yet.


   From Adam's statement:  

   "The people on these boards represent listeners, staff and volunteers in reviewing the station budget, choosing a station manager, selecting Pacifica National Board members and making sure Pacifica sticks to its mission of providing a media voice to the community it represents....I believe in the effectiveness of independent media outlets, such as KPFA, of raising awareness about issues and perspectives that rarely get heard in corporate media outlets and would like to see the station do more in reaching out to young people and minority communities." 

  From Shara's statement:

  

    "Independent media ... strengthens grassroots collective action both through the practice of creating such media and through the information and culture that.... reflects and nurtures grassroots activism.... I want to serve as a listener delegate on the local KPFA board to help make systemic changes to ensure a truly democratic and sustainable way of decision-making within the local radio station because the democratic process is not only as important as the output on the air, but it informs that output.... I will spread awareness about the importance of independent radio, involve youth in its process, and will create discussion to bring the ideas and feedback of youth to the local board."

    Brian







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From MLause at cinci.rr.com  Tue Jul 14 13:07:44 2009
From: MLause at cinci.rr.com (Mark A. Lause)
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:07:44 -0400
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: [Activists] Happy 5th Birthday to PDA]
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"Effective"?  Is that what they call it?  

The PDA elected a president who promised little and ignored even that little that he did promise.  

And--given the state of the economy--when these pointless reenactors of the Clinton administration get to their first offyear election, they won't be able to convince their base to turn out in the numbers they need.  

And the PDA will have ended up contributing more Newt Gingrichs.  

Though probably even goofier ones....

ML






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From wrolley at charter.net  Tue Jul 14 17:05:49 2009
From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley)
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:05:49 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: [Activists] Happy 5th Birthday to PDA]
In-Reply-To: <4A5CD301.4010101@freeshell.org>
References: <4A5CD301.4010101@freeshell.org>
Message-ID: <4A5D1D5D.5030000@charter.net>

Fred Duperrault wrote:
> Take a look at David Swanson's remarks (below) about the credibility 
> of the "Progressive Democrats of America."
Today, I read Steve Welzer's article in Green Horizon.   (Spring 2009).  
In it, he takes both historic Socialist and Capitalist positions to task 
as failure... two sides of the same coin... an economy based on the 
exploitation of resources and the Ponzi shceme of perpetual growth.

He heads his conclusion with the phrase "Toward a Greening of our 
Civilization."

The problem with Progressive Democrats is that they ask the wrong 
questions thus come up with the wrong answers too much of the time.  
There are times when we agree, and should work as allies.  But the 
Greening of our Civilization is never to be on their agenda. 

I know that there are some who have viewed the Greens as the political 
face of the Progressive Movement.  If that were all we wanted to be, the 
by all means go join the PDA.  It is not enough for me.  I want more, 
more radical change, but change based on the solid understanding of 
human ecology.  Change the works toward a day when we no longer need 
caucuses because we understand our mutual humanness, a day when we pride 
ourselves on taking care of our neighbor, no matter who that is or how 
far away they live.

I have a sense that Yeats was at least partially right when he wrote.
> Turning and turning in the widening gyre
> The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
> Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
> Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
> The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
> The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
> The best lack all conviction, while the worst
> Are full of passionate intensity. 
He wrote of the Second Coming, a religious vision.  I would say that we 
are close to the times he describes and any approach couched in the old 
terminology: right / left, Democrat / Republican, Socialist / Capitalist 
will never stem the blood-dimmed tide.

Green to the day I die.


-- 
"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente

Wes Rolley
17211 Quail Court, Morgan Hill, CA 95037
http://www.refpub.com/ -- Tel: 408.778.3024


From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Tue Jul 14 19:24:56 2009
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:24:56 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] John Yoo to Appeal Decision Allowing Lawsuit
	Against Him
Message-ID: <BAY140-W49EEE1775410DA54E9D1F9E200@phx.gbl>




But he's on his own now; the DOJ has ceased to support Yoo's case that
he's exempt from liability in civil court for his law decisions that permitted 
abuse of Jose Padilla.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/13/BAD618NVIS.DTL&tsp=1



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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Wed Jul 15 17:24:46 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:24:46 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] KPFA votes
Message-ID: <4A5E734E.7030809@sbcglobal.net>

One gets to vote for as many candidates as there are
seats to be filled.


From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Wed Jul 15 21:16:56 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:16:56 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] tabling opportunities
Message-ID: <4A5EA9B8.602@sbcglobal.net>

Two performances of the San Francisco Mime Troupe

Wed Jul 29-th in San Jose   at the Arena Green
Wed Aug 5-th in Palo Alto   in Mitchell Park

Who wants to table there?
Let me know.

Jim Doyle

Here is the notice for the one in San Jose

/*SAVE THE DATE!*/

*San Francisco Mime Troupe Presents "Too Big to Fail"*
Wednesday, July 29 at 6:30 p.m.
Arena Green Park, W. St. John & North Autumn St., San Jose

This year's radical musical comedy is a parable about an African village 
reeling under the evil spell of credit and one man's effort to reclaim 
his future from the wicked witch of the Walled Street.

Founded in 1959, the San Francisco Mime Troupe creates and produces 
socially relevant theater; their work is political satire and anything 
but silent.

FREE event! Bring friends and family and picnic in the park.

Music begins at 6:30 -- performance starts at 7:00.

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From carolineyacoub at att.net  Wed Jul 15 22:02:56 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:02:56 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] agenda and stuff
Message-ID: <734840.29218.qm@web81203.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Looking over the minutes from the July1 meeting, I discovered that, once again, we had no volunteer to make an agenda for the next meeting. Anybody want to do this?
?
Also, Valerie and Warner are the only people who have asked me to pick up stuff for the yard sale. Are you all planning to haul your own stuff over to Andrea's Sunnyvale house, do you not have any stuff, or have you not gotten around to it yet? 
?
Caroline
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From andid at cagreens.org  Wed Jul 15 22:46:07 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:46:07 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] KPFA votes
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It used to be that you could dump all your votes on one or two  
candidates?but that may have changed in recent years.
Andi
On Jul 15, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Jim Doyle wrote:

> One gets to vote for as many candidates as there are
> seats to be filled.
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From the_alliance47 at yahoo.com  Thu Jul 16 09:49:08 2009
From: the_alliance47 at yahoo.com (Edward)
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:49:08 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Berkeley ranks in Top 10 Meanest Cities to
	Homeless
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http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/16/18608266.php


      
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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Thu Jul 16 14:38:33 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:38:33 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] yard sale
Message-ID: <4A5F9DD9.1020804@sbcglobal.net>

This is a call for help.
Attendants are needed for the Green Party yard sale
Saturday July 25-th.
Please contact Jim Doyle, Caroline, or Andrea (e.g., email to all three)
if you are willing to help  at this yard sale

Details and map at  http://www.cagreens.org/sclara/




From WB4D23 at aol.com  Thu Jul 16 15:20:39 2009
From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com)
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:20:39 EDT
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Sunnyvale Program July 31st on Constitutional
	Convention
Message-ID: <d4c.44699a10.379101b7@aol.com>

       
Silicon Valley: Re-Booting  California

Hosted in partnership with Joint Venture: Silicon Valley  Network, this 
Constitutional Convention Town Hall event will feature panel  discussion and 
learned commentary from constitutional experts, but most of  all, it will 
feature your own comments and advice for us as we move  forward. 
Friday, July 31, 2009
9:00 a.m. Registration | 9:30 a.m.  to 12:00 p.m. _Program_ 
(http://www.repaircalifornia.org/siliconvalley.php#program) 
AMD  Commons Building
991 Stewart Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Cost:  Free 

 (http://ga4.org/jointventure/events/rbc/details.tcl) 
 
(http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=ckd1ek9aeE8xY3BkSkFkMlduNTQweFE6MA..) 
Program 
9:30 a.m. Opening Remarks 
Russell  Hancock, President & CEO, Joint Venture: Silicon Valley  Network 
Jim Wunderman, President & CEO, Bay Area  Council 

9:50 a.m. The Need for  Reform: A Silicon Valley Perspective 
Liz Kniss, Santa  Clara County Board of Supervisors
Richard S. Gordon, San Mateo  County Supervisor 
Lawrence E. Stone, Santa Clara  County Assessor  

10:20 a.m. The Legal Path to a  Constitutional Convention 
Andrew Giacomini, Managing  Partner, Hanson Bridget  
10:40 a.m. Break  

10:55 a.m. The View  From Sacramento 
Mark Paul, New America Foundation  
Robert Cruickshank, Courage Campaign 
Derek Cressman,  Common Cause 

11:15 a.m. Dialogue  & Discussion  

11:55 a.m. Next Steps, Concluding  Remarks
Russell Hancock 
Jim Wunderman 

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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Thu Jul 16 21:37:47 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:37:47 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] stealing Gaza's gas
Message-ID: <4A60001B.2030308@sbcglobal.net>


      Exploitation of Gaza Part 1 - from Amnesty International

http://blogs.amnesty.org.uk/blogs_entry.asp?eid=3248

In 1999 the British Gas Group (later BG Group) discovered significant 
deposits
of natural gas under the water 10 to 15 nautical miles off the shore of 
Gaza.
The deposits, named Gaza Marine 1 and 2, are estimated to contain up to
1.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas or the energy equivalent of 150 
million barrels of oil.
They are currently valued at some 4 billion dollars.

The rest of the text, a lengthy article which includes a timeline, is at
http://freegaza.org/en/links-a-gaza-info/stealing-gazas-gas


From fredd at freeshell.org  Thu Jul 16 21:48:48 2009
From: fredd at freeshell.org (Fred Duperrault)
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:48:48 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Attention,
	Green Party History Archivists  and Collectors
Message-ID: <4A6002B0.3080007@freeshell.org>

I have a surplus of California Green Party campaign literature and 
newspaper clippings including mostly Peter Camejo for Governor and Ralph 
Nader for President.  Some Comejo bumper stickers and pins. I also have 
a few brochures of the Medea Benjamin for U.S. Senate campaign, the 
Larry Shoup for the Secretary of State campaign, David Sheidlower for 
Insurance Commissioner, Laura Wells for Controller, Jeanne-Marie 
Rosenmeir for Treasurer, and one for Donna Warren for Lieutenant Governor.

It will break my heart to recycle it away.  It's Green Party History!

Please contact me if you are interested.

Fred Duperrault of Mountain View
650-691-1215
fredd at freeshell.org




From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Thu Jul 16 21:50:29 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:50:29 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] yard sale merchandise
Message-ID: <4A600315.8000004@sbcglobal.net>

Do you have some materials you would be willing to
donate for  the yard sale?
We still need more "merchandise."
Contact Caroline for a possible pick up service.
carolineyacoub at att.net
(408) 530-0118


From andid at cagreens.org  Fri Jul 17 06:50:15 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:50:15 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] SINGLE PAYER on Democracy Now 94.1 FM 9AM TODAY!!!
Message-ID: <808F076C-570A-49B9-A6EB-7BBD7357CCDE@cagreens.org>

Listen to a democratic (little d) open discussion on SINGLE PAYER  
going on now at 6 AM and repeated at 9 AM on KPFA 94.1 FM!!!
Today, Friday, July 17th.
Andrea Dorey
SCC county council member


From andid at cagreens.org  Fri Jul 17 11:07:12 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:07:12 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Attention,
	Green Party History Archivists  and Collectors
In-Reply-To: <4A6002B0.3080007@freeshell.org>
References: <4A6002B0.3080007@freeshell.org>
Message-ID: <A88933F9-BBD8-4F97-A7DA-D841201BED1B@cagreens.org>

How about if we put a bit of it out at the yard sale for any Greens  
that show up and would like a little nostalgia?
YARD SALE July 25th 10 AM to 6 PM
STILL NEED STUFF!!!  Any plants?

On Jul 16, 2009, at 9:48 PM, Fred Duperrault wrote:

> I have a surplus of California Green Party campaign literature and
> newspaper clippings including mostly Peter Camejo for Governor and  
> Ralph
> Nader for President.  Some Comejo bumper stickers and pins. I also  
> have
> a few brochures of the Medea Benjamin for U.S. Senate campaign, the
> Larry Shoup for the Secretary of State campaign, David Sheidlower for
> Insurance Commissioner, Laura Wells for Controller, Jeanne-Marie
> Rosenmeir for Treasurer, and one for Donna Warren for Lieutenant  
> Governor.
>
> It will break my heart to recycle it away.  It's Green Party History!
>
> Please contact me if you are interested.
>
> Fred Duperrault of Mountain View
> 650-691-1215
> fredd at freeshell.org
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> sosfbay-discuss mailing list
> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss
>



From fredd at freeshell.org  Fri Jul 17 12:19:59 2009
From: fredd at freeshell.org (Fred Duperrault)
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:19:59 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Attention,
 Green Party History Archivists  and Collectors
In-Reply-To: <4A6002B0.3080007@freeshell.org>
References: <4A6002B0.3080007@freeshell.org>
Message-ID: <4A60CEDF.4070400@freeshell.org>

Caroline,

I guess it wouldn't hurt.  At least the Nader, Camejo and other Green 
candidate materials might stimulate some conversation or curiosity.

We have quite a bit of yard sale Stuff.  Lois is our plant person here. 
  Not here right now.

Fred

How about if we put a bit of it out at the yard sale for any Greens
that show up and would like a little nostalgia?
YARD SALE July 25th 10 AM to 6 PM
STILL NEED STUFF!!!  Any plants?

On Jul 16, 2009, at 9:48 PM, Fred Duperrault wrote:

> I have a surplus of California Green Party campaign literature and
> newspaper clippings including mostly Peter Camejo for Governor and  
> Ralph
> Nader for President.  Some Comejo bumper stickers and pins. I also  
> have
> a few brochures of the Medea Benjamin for U.S. Senate campaign, the
> Larry Shoup for the Secretary of State campaign, David Sheidlower for
> Insurance Commissioner, Laura Wells for Controller, Jeanne-Marie
> Rosenmeir for Treasurer, and one for Donna Warren for Lieutenant  
> Governor.
>
> It will break my heart to recycle it away.  It's Green Party History!
>
> Please contact me if you are interested.
>
> Fred Duperrault of Mountain View
> 650-691-1215
> fredd at freeshell.org
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> sosfbay-discuss mailing list
> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss
>

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sosfbay-discuss mailing list
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From MLause at cinci.rr.com  Fri Jul 17 12:33:09 2009
From: MLause at cinci.rr.com (Mark A. Lause)
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:33:09 -0400
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Attention,
	Green Party History Archivists  and Collectors
In-Reply-To: <4A60CEDF.4070400@freeshell.org>
References: <4A6002B0.3080007@freeshell.org> <4A60CEDF.4070400@freeshell.org>
Message-ID: <D18241A071FD4B5A849401C4BF781BD7@PC>

In a few years, university archives would want this.  Why not save it and 
take a tax right-off then.  It'd probably save you as much as you'd get by 
selling it.

Best,
Mark L.


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From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Fri Jul 17 15:08:10 2009
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:08:10 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Al Jazeera Reporter Detained 6 Years to Sue Bush
Message-ID: <BAY140-W103D75BB4E5AC4117004FA9E1E0@phx.gbl>



http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/17/guantanamo-bay-al-jazeera

An al-Jazeera journalist who was imprisoned in Guant?namo Bay plans to launch a joint legal action with other detainees against former US president George Bush
and other administration officials, for the illegal detention and
torture he and others suffered at the hands of US authorities.
The
case will be initiated by the Guant?namo Justice Centre, a new
organisation open to former prisoners at the US base, which will set up
its international headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, later this month.
"The
purpose of our organisation is to open a case against the Bush
administration," said co-founder Sami al-Haj, an al-Jazeera reporter
from Sudan who was illegally detained by US authorities for over six
years after being captured while he was working as a cameraman. He was
freed in May 2008....


The
legal action may be modelled on an action against General Augusto
Pinochet, who was arrested in the UK in 1998 at the request of a
Spanish prosecutor for the alleged murders of Spanish citizens in Chile
under his dictatorship...."Torture is continuing in Guant?namo," al-Haj said. "Obama needs to close Guant?namo immediately."


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From andid at cagreens.org  Sun Jul 19 09:15:19 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:15:19 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] 5 Days Left Before YARD SALE!!!
Message-ID: <2E84A3E8-5E6E-41CF-8106-E51F24068066@cagreens.org>

Need more stuff!
Especially kids toys, games, clothes, books, etc!!!  (I have some  
items from Caroline and Valerie)
Clean clothes, blankets, rugs, old furniture, etc!  (I have a  
beautiful step stool and a rug from Tian)
Also, seedlings!! Anyone out there growing seedlings for our  
project??? (I have 4 tomato plants from Warner)
Do we have a green table cloth to fit a standard picnic table?

Any raffle tickets??


ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT ?  JULY 25TH
Need people to sign up!!!  I'd like to have 2, better 3, people to  
help in the AM and PM.

9 AM set up on Saturday morning (or earlier if you can)
Caroline has volunteered for the morning only.

6 PM take down (not as critical)

And time periods in between to help with taking in money, watching  
merchandise, etc.
I have NO ONE for the afternoon.


(Will have snacks in the house for "coffee" breaks all day?you will  
be treated like the royalty you are!!)

From alexcathy at aol.com  Mon Jul 20 08:10:23 2009
From: alexcathy at aol.com (alexcathy at aol.com)
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:10:23 -0400
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: War, Violence & Religion with Jim Lawson
In-Reply-To: <BAY123-W56E1D5567811E5D9A8EE13811E0@phx.gbl>
References: <BAY123-W56E1D5567811E5D9A8EE13811E0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <8CBD76356EC19CB-584-3B8@WEBMAIL-MY17.sysops.aol.com>


 Dear Green Friends,

NONVIOLENCE is one of the 10 Key Values of the Green Party and one of the reasons why I became an active, registered Green.? To anyone who might be in Southern California, see below a rare opportunity to interact with one of the great theorists of non-violence of our time. 

*? *? * 

JAMES MORRIS LAWSON, JR. (born September 22, 1928 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania),[1] was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the American Civil Rights Movement. He continues to be active in training activists in nonviolence.

Born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Lawson grew up in Massillon, Ohio. While a freshman at Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, he joined the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), an organization founded by A.J. Muste, and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).? FOR and CORE advocated nonviolent resistance to racism and conducted sit-ins in some northern cities in the late 1940s.

Lawson declared himself a conscientious objector and refused to report for the draft in 1951. He served fourteen months in prison after refusing to take either a student or ministerial deferment.

After his release from prison, Lawson went as a Methodist missionary to Nagpur, India, where he studied satyagraha, the principles of nonviolence resistance that Mahatma Gandhi and his followers had developed. He returned to the United States in 1955, entering the Graduate School of Theology at Oberlin College in Ohio.

One of his Oberlin professors introduced him to Martin Luther King
, Jr., who had led the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama and had also embraced Gandhi's principles of nonviolent resistance. King urged Lawson to come South, telling him "Come now. We don't have anyone like you down there."

Lawson moved to Nashville, Tennessee and enrolled at the Divinity School of Vanderbilt University, where he served as the southern director for FOR and began conducting nonviolence training workshops for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. While in Nashville, Lawson met and mentored a number of young students at Vanderbilt, Fisk University, and other area schools in the tactics of nonviolent direct action.[2] Lawson trained many of the future leaders of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, among them Diane Nash, James Bevel, Marion Barry, Bernard Lafayette and John Lewis.

In 1959 and 1960 these and other Lawson-trained activists then launched the Nashville sit-ins to challenge segregation in downtown stores. Along with activists from Atlanta, Georgia and elsewhere in the South, they formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in April 1960. SNCC and Lawson's students played a leading role in the Open Theater Movement, the Freedom Rides, the 1963 March on Washington, Mississippi Freedom Summer the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, the Birmingham Children's Crusade, the Selma Voting Rights Movement, and the Chicago Open Housing Movement over the next few years. 

Lawson became pastor of Centenary Methodist Church in Memphis, Tennessee in 1962. In 1968, when black sanitation workers we
nt on strike for higher wages and union recognition after two of their co-workers were accidentally crushed to death, Reverend Lawson served as chairman of their strike committee. 

Reverend Lawson invited Dr. King to Memphis in April 1968 to dramatize their struggle, which had adopted the slogan I am a Man. Dr. King delivered his famous "Mountaintop" speech in support of the strike in Memphis on 1968-04-03, the day before his assassination.

Reverend Lawson moved to Los Angeles in 1974 to lead Holman United Methodist Church[1] where he served for 25 years before retiring in 1999. He has continued to train activists in nonviolence and to work in support of a number of causes, including immigrants' rights in the United States and the rights of Palestinians, opposition to the war in Iraq, and workers' rights to a living wage.? Conservative demagogues Sean Hannity and Kevin McCullough criticized Lawson's remarks at a September 11, 2006 panel discussion at Vanderbilt University entitled "9/11: A Time for Reflection". He had called Christianity "the most violent religion in the world" and in addition referred to the United States as the "number one enemy of peace and justice in the world.

I am posting this here because, as I said before, NONVIOLENCE is one of the 10 Key Values of the Green Party.? A lot of well-meaning frustrated progressives hung up on the failed, morally bankrupt, mid-20th Century ideologies romanticizing violent revolution have forgotten this.? It may not be "sexy" but disciplined non-viol
ent action gets things done.? I have personally participated in workshops with Jim Lawson a couple of times.? He needs people to press him not to rest on his laurels, but help us think through the application of classic theory to our current struggles. 



 

-----Original Message-----



I've been asked to spread the word on this event. 


War, Violence
& Religion 


?


The
Rev. Dr. James Lawson


Whom
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called ?the leading theorist and strategist
of non-violence in the world.?


?


Dr.
John B. Cobb, Jr.


Emeritus
Professor, Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate
 School, Co-founder,
Progressive Christians Uniting


?


Moderator: Bonnie
Boswell of the SGI-USA


?


Performing Artist:
Stephen L. Fiske with Crystal Davis



??????????????????????????????????????????????????????
??????????????????????????????


What


An important
dialogue of the times and a call to action.? Two historical figures of the
Civil Rights Movement and Theology


discuss the
explosive topic of ?War, Violence and Religion.?? Is war and
violence justified by any of our Religious/Spiritual


traditions wh
en done
in the service of combating oppression, tyranny, injustice or in self
defense?? 


ICUJP
invites you to witness and explore these and related issues with Q&A.


?



When



Monday, July 20 - 7:00 - 9:30 PM



(ICUJP
meets every Friday Morning - 7:00 - 9:00 AM - same location)



?



Where



Immanuel
Presbyterian Church (side entrance)



3300 Wilshire Blvd.
 L.A. 90010




@
Berendo St. just west of Vermont



?



FREE, Limited Early
Bird ?Parking in Rear



(Alternative Parking @ UTLA
Structure - Berendo St.
- North of Wilshire)



?



Who



ICUJP: Interfaith Communities United
for Justice & Peace



www.icujp.org ???????(213)
626-2265??? ???icujp at pacbell.net 


?


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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Mon Jul 20 12:05:15 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:05:15 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] yard sale help needed
Message-ID: <4A64BFEB.4010105@sbcglobal.net>

This is a call for help.
Attendants are needed for the Green Party yard sale
Saturday July 25-th.
Please contact Jim Doyle, Caroline, or Andrea (e.g., email to all three)
if you are willing to help  at this yard sale

Details and map at  http://www.cagreens.org/sclara/



From andid at cagreens.org  Mon Jul 20 12:27:37 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:27:37 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] 4 Days Left to Yard Sale/July 25th!!
Message-ID: <AFA420CB-FD65-4279-8BF3-FF2F6CBF5672@cagreens.org>

Hi, GP Colleagues!

We have added to our stuff for the sale:  TWO exercise machines in  
good condition are now stashed at the Nightingale location alongside  
Caroline's machine.
I will be dusting off and tightening bolts on these.  I think we may  
set up an interesting gym area in the garage, which will be shady and  
we can let interested people try them out before they haul them off.

BTW, kudos to Caroline and her hardworking SUV for picking me up in  
Palo Alto, driving to pick up the two machines, driving to Sunnyvale  
to unload them, and driving me back to the Stanford mansion, and then  
having to drive back to Sunnyvale home and the rest of her very busy  
day!!  You're a dreamgirl, Caroline!!!

One of the new machines is a Schwinn stair climber and the other I  
forgot to check on.  Caroline's is an arm and leg exerciser, but I  
haven't yet looked for identifying labels on that either.  More to- 
do's on the list!

Could someone volunteer to search the web for possible prices on  
these second-hand exercise machines???  A ballpark figure would more  
than suffice.

I now have TWO people who have volunteered to be there:
Caroline will be there for the setup and AM
Carol will be there all day and she is bringing some tables (and  
maybe some goodies) with her.

I would like to have at least one more person for the morning and two  
more people for the afternoon.
Two people should watch the front lawn area which will probably have  
the kids' books and toys and clothes
and the garage "gym."

Another should watch the backyard with seedlings, GP literature, and  
adult clothes.  We may also have some solar tea and other  
environmental demonstrations in the back.

Someone with a good sense of order and flow would be helpful with  
setting up that morning!!!  Hint, hint.

Then of course there's the cash box which should watched at ALL  
TIMES, as we did with Warner's sale.  Losing our profits would be a  
disaster!!

I need RAFFLE TICKETS!!  I think.  We could also do some surprise  
boxes priced at $5.00 with perhaps stuff for kids?  for adults?  Any  
feedback on this??
The 6-foot white rabbit will return and we could raffle this off, but  
I want at least $50 worth of tickets before we let someone win.  GPs  
are encouraged to enter as well.  Some kid is going to nuts over this  
rabbit!!!

Andrea
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From jims at greens.org  Mon Jul 20 17:09:36 2009
From: jims at greens.org (Jim Stauffer)
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:09:36 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Proportional Representation and the Town Hall
	Meeting
Message-ID: <4A650740.2010605@greens.org>

FYI for anyone who would like to go to the town hall meeting and put in 
a word for proportional representation.

Jim




                CALIFORNIANS for ELECTORAL REFORM


Dear CfER Members:

You have likely heard talk in the news about a group promoting a
Constitutional Convention for California to fix the panoply of
institutional problems plaguing the state. And you may have heard that
part of the process is to hold town hall meetings in various locations 
to gather public comments.

One such town hall meeting is being held in Sunnyvale on July 31.

Whether or not you agree with a Constitutional Convention, or the
organization behind it, this is an opportunity to make public comments
promoting proportional representation. The more people hear about
proportional representation, the concept becomes less foreign and more
acceptable. Even though some form of proportional representation is used
in most democracies around the world, it is still viewed as a foreign
concept here in the U.S.

The more people across the state bring up this issue at these meetings,
the more likely the Convention folks will consider it worth examining.

If you're interested in attending you are requested to RSVP and register
at this web site:

               http://www.repaircalifornia.org

A description of the event follows. Below that are talking points you
may use for commenting. Public comment time is usually held to a minute
or two per person, so prepare to be concise.


Jim Stauffer
Chapter Coordinator, Santa Clara County
408-432-9148

====================================================================



THE PROGRAM


Hosted in partnership with Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, this
Constitutional Convention Town Hall event will feature panel discussion
and learned commentary from constitutional experts, but most of all, it
will feature your own comments and advice for us as we move forward.

Silicon Valley Constitutional Convention Town Hall
Friday, July 31, 2009
9:00 a.m. Registration | 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Program
AMD Commons Building
991 Stewart Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Cost: Free

Map:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?city=Sunnyvale&state=CA&country=us&zoom=8&address=991+Stewart+Drive


9:30 a.m. Opening Remarks
Russell Hancock, President & CEO, Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network
Jim Wunderman, President & CEO, Bay Area Council

9:50 a.m. The Need for Reform: A Silicon Valley Perspective
Liz Kniss, Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors
Richard S. Gordon, San Mateo County Supervisor
Lawrence E. Stone, Santa Clara County Assessor

10:20 a.m. The Legal Path to a Constitutional Convention
Andrew Giacomini, Managing Partner, Hanson Bridget

10:40 a.m. Break

10:55 a.m. The View From Sacramento
Mark Paul, New America Foundation
Robert Cruickshank, Courage Campaign
Derek Cressman, Common Cause

11:15 a.m. Dialogue & Discussion

11:55 a.m. Next Steps, Concluding Remarks
Russell Hancock
Jim Wunderman

----------------------------------------------------------------


TALKING POINTS


The current system of winner-take-all elections from single-member
districts produces the following defects of democracy:

- A "winner" who may represent only a minority of voters.

- Expensive run-off elections where one group of voters selects the top
two candidates in the Primary and a different group of voters selects
the winner in the General Election.

- Perpetuation of the two-party system, which offers only two choices to
the broad diversity of voting constituencies in this state.

- Oddly gerrymandered districts to provide minority groups with
representation, or to provide "safe districts" to one of the two parties.


All of these serious problems are mitigated by a proportional
representation system using multi-member districts. In practice, this
means a "ranked-ballot" voting system that allows voters to rank all
candidates by preference, and large districts that elect multiple
representatives thereby giving representation to multiple constituencies
within the district.


Other attributes of proportional representation systems include:

+ More voter choices.

+ Broader democratic representation.

+ Not having to vote for the lesser-of-two-evils candidate.

+ No "spoiler" effect.

+ Increased voter turnout.

+ Less expensive elections.

+ Less negative campaigning.






From fredd at freeshell.org  Mon Jul 20 18:06:54 2009
From: fredd at freeshell.org (Fred Duperrault)
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:06:54 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Sosfbay-news] Proportional Representation
 and the Town Hall Meeting
In-Reply-To: <4A650740.2010605@greens.org>
References: <4A650740.2010605@greens.org>
Message-ID: <4A6514AE.3050301@freeshell.org>

Jim,

If I were to be here in the state on that day, and if I were adequately 
articulate on the subject I would take the challenge. But I don't 
qualify either way.

Thanks for your persistence and skill in promoting Proportional 
Representation.

Fred D.

Jim Stauffer wrote:
> FYI for anyone who would like to go to the town hall meeting and put in 
> a word for proportional representation.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
>                 CALIFORNIANS for ELECTORAL REFORM
>
>
> Dear CfER Members:
>
> You have likely heard talk in the news about a group promoting a
> Constitutional Convention for California to fix the panoply of
> institutional problems plaguing the state. And you may have heard that
> part of the process is to hold town hall meetings in various locations 
> to gather public comments.
>
> One such town hall meeting is being held in Sunnyvale on July 31.
>
> Whether or not you agree with a Constitutional Convention, or the
> organization behind it, this is an opportunity to make public comments
> promoting proportional representation. The more people hear about
> proportional representation, the concept becomes less foreign and more
> acceptable. Even though some form of proportional representation is used
> in most democracies around the world, it is still viewed as a foreign
> concept here in the U.S.
>
> The more people across the state bring up this issue at these meetings,
> the more likely the Convention folks will consider it worth examining.
>
> If you're interested in attending you are requested to RSVP and register
> at this web site:
>
>                http://www.repaircalifornia.org
>
> A description of the event follows. Below that are talking points you
> may use for commenting. Public comment time is usually held to a minute
> or two per person, so prepare to be concise.
>
>
> Jim Stauffer
> Chapter Coordinator, Santa Clara County
> 408-432-9148
>
> ====================================================================
>
>
>
> THE PROGRAM
>
>
> Hosted in partnership with Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, this
> Constitutional Convention Town Hall event will feature panel discussion
> and learned commentary from constitutional experts, but most of all, it
> will feature your own comments and advice for us as we move forward.
>
> Silicon Valley Constitutional Convention Town Hall
> Friday, July 31, 2009
> 9:00 a.m. Registration | 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Program
> AMD Commons Building
> 991 Stewart Drive
> Sunnyvale, CA 94085
> Cost: Free
>
> Map:
> http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?city=Sunnyvale&state=CA&country=us&zoom=8&address=991+Stewart+Drive
>
>
> 9:30 a.m. Opening Remarks
> Russell Hancock, President & CEO, Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network
> Jim Wunderman, President & CEO, Bay Area Council
>
> 9:50 a.m. The Need for Reform: A Silicon Valley Perspective
> Liz Kniss, Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors
> Richard S. Gordon, San Mateo County Supervisor
> Lawrence E. Stone, Santa Clara County Assessor
>
> 10:20 a.m. The Legal Path to a Constitutional Convention
> Andrew Giacomini, Managing Partner, Hanson Bridget
>
> 10:40 a.m. Break
>
> 10:55 a.m. The View From Sacramento
> Mark Paul, New America Foundation
> Robert Cruickshank, Courage Campaign
> Derek Cressman, Common Cause
>
> 11:15 a.m. Dialogue & Discussion
>
> 11:55 a.m. Next Steps, Concluding Remarks
> Russell Hancock
> Jim Wunderman
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> TALKING POINTS
>
>
> The current system of winner-take-all elections from single-member
> districts produces the following defects of democracy:
>
> - A "winner" who may represent only a minority of voters.
>
> - Expensive run-off elections where one group of voters selects the top
> two candidates in the Primary and a different group of voters selects
> the winner in the General Election.
>
> - Perpetuation of the two-party system, which offers only two choices to
> the broad diversity of voting constituencies in this state.
>
> - Oddly gerrymandered districts to provide minority groups with
> representation, or to provide "safe districts" to one of the two parties.
>
>
> All of these serious problems are mitigated by a proportional
> representation system using multi-member districts. In practice, this
> means a "ranked-ballot" voting system that allows voters to rank all
> candidates by preference, and large districts that elect multiple
> representatives thereby giving representation to multiple constituencies
> within the district.
>
>
> Other attributes of proportional representation systems include:
>
> + More voter choices.
>
> + Broader democratic representation.
>
> + Not having to vote for the lesser-of-two-evils candidate.
>
> + No "spoiler" effect.
>
> + Increased voter turnout.
>
> + Less expensive elections.
>
> + Less negative campaigning.
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> sosfbay-news mailing list is moderated.
> Post to sosfbay-news at cagreens.org
> Reply to sender or sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-news
>
>
>   



From andid at cagreens.org  Tue Jul 21 06:38:50 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:38:50 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] =?windows-1252?q?COUNTDOWN=97Only_4_Days_Left_t?=
 =?windows-1252?q?ill_Yard_Sale!!!_=28EOM=29?=
Message-ID: <E9345888-8F15-4C5E-8650-779D705B0F91@cagreens.org>




From tnharter at aceweb.com  Tue Jul 21 16:53:34 2009
From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:53:34 +0000
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Bike Party story from the San Jose Mercury News
Message-ID: <4A6654FE.9040908@aceweb.com>

http://www.mercurynews.com/localnewsheadlines/ci_12878270
-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
This morning I enjoyed the street closures in San Francisco. Then I saw
the SF Symphony do Beethoven's 5th and Brahms's 5th Hungarian Dance.


From carolineyacoub at att.net  Tue Jul 21 22:04:56 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:04:56 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: Biotech lobbyists cast their nets
Message-ID: <97016.7794.qm@web81202.mail.mud.yahoo.com>



--- On Tue, 7/21/09, shane que hee <squehee at ucla.edu> wrote:


From: shane que hee <squehee at ucla.edu>
Subject: Biotech lobbyists cast their nets
To: 
Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 4:53 PM



Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:27:48 -0700
From: Don McCanne <don at mccanne.org>
Subject: qotd: Biotech lobbyists cast their nets


The Boston Globe
July 21, 2009
Biotech firms lobby for say on healthcare
$66m effort to protect drug-patent exclusivity
By Lisa Wangsness

The 46 million Americans without health insurance are probably not spending much time thinking about how Congress should curb monopolies on expensive biotech drugs. But the issue, which offers a case study in the ways of Washington influence, is among dozens that have spurred a lobbying frenzy this summer as Congress debates a historic healthcare overhaul.

Pharmaceutical interests alone, including many from Massachusetts, spent more than $66 million on lobbying in just the first quarter of this year, up 25 percent from last year, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

Biotech firms produce the most expensive drugs on the market, charging $10,000 to $100,000 a year for a single patient, and generics would seriously undercut those prices. In their quest to win a 12-year exclusivity period for their drugs, free from such competition, biotech companies have launched a massive education campaign about what they say are the sky-high research and development costs involved with bringing them to market.

To help carry the message, they are paying well-connected lobbying firms, sponsoring radio ads as well as academic studies, and contributing to the campaign coffers of influential lawmakers.

?You get one crack at it,?? said Robert Coughlin, president of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, speaking of the task of drawing up a licensing system for ?biogenerics.?? ?If it isn?t done right, it could literally put the biotech industry out of business.??

The quest for influence is not always obvious.

Howard Dean, the former Democratic Party chairman, wrote an opinion piece this month in The Hill, an influential Capitol Hill newspaper, arguing that fewer than 12 years of monopoly rights for biotech companies? products ?would prematurely rob innovators of their intellectual property and . . . destroy incentives to develop new cures.??

Within hours Joe Trippi, a Democratic consultant who ran Dean?s 2004 presidential race, hyped Dean?s opinion piece in a blog post that he sent to The Huffington Post, a widely read website. ?He?s a doctor and lifelong advocate for health reform - he knows what he?s talking about,?? Trippi wrote, urging readers to contact their lawmakers.

Dean failed to note in his editorial that he is an adviser to McKenna, Long & Aldridge, a global law firm that is advising the Biotechnology Industry Organization, the influential trade group. Nor did Trippi mention that his public relations firm handles social media projects in a partnership with the Boston public relations company Brodeur Partners, which also has BIO as a client.

Dean said his editorial was part of McKenna?s rapid-fire response to an unexpected, eleventh-hour Senate health committee proposal (which biotech firms ultimately fought off).

?It was a huge scramble, all hands on deck,?? Dean said.

The legions of lobbyists, strategists, and legal consultants involved include former senior aides to key lawmakers and executives. Top biotech companies are clients of Foley Hoag, a law firm with offices in Boston and Washington, which has deployed Nick Littlefield, former staff director and chief counsel for Senator Edward M. Kennedy?s health committee, and Paul Kim, the former deputy health counsel to the Kennedy?s committee.

Biotech won a major battle last week when Kennedy?s Senate health committee gave biotech firms the 12-year protections they wanted, plus six months for pediatric versions. The committee rejected a proposal by Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, for a much shorter monopoly period. After the vote, generics companies said they wouldn?t even bother trying to make generic biologics because the 12-year protection would make the enterprise unprofitable.

?The pharmaceutical industry, especially the biotech industry has an awful lot of power in the halls of Congress,?? Brown told reporters.

State leaders from around the country, including Governor Deval Patrick, wrote letters to their delegations supporting a biotech-friendly bill. CEOs have flown to Washington to drive their points home. The Globe reported earlier this year that Amgen donated $1 million to the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate at the University of Massachusetts Boston, a project being developed by people close to the senator but not Kennedy.

In the health committee vote last week, a number of other left-leaning Democratic senators sided with the industry, including Patty Murray of Washington, Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, and Kay Hagan of North Carolina. Kennedy supported the measure by proxy.

Hagan, a freshman senator whose state is home to a biotech sector, was assigned to the health committee this winter. Few were surprised when she cosponsored the industry-friendly amendment. But biotech firms were not taking chances: In the first half of this year, they poured $16,000 into her campaign account. Hagan believes the protections are necessary to support research for new drugs.

http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2009/07/21/biotech_firms_lobby_hard_for_say_on_healthcare/ 

July 14 qotd on the 12-year data exclusivity amendment:
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/july/senate_help_amendmen.php


Comment:? The vote on the data exclusivity amendment was covered in a qotd last week, at the link above. More background information is provided by Lisa Wangsness in her Boston Globe article. Because of the implications for the reform process unfolding in Washington, we are taking a second look.

Having a twenty year patent on a biological that can command a one hundred thousand dollar price tag is not enough for the biotech firms. They also want a 12 year lead time before competitors can begin to use the data, produced in our academic medical centers, for developing new innovative drugs or even generic equivalents. This doesn't change the 20 year patent exclusivity, but it requires future competitors to wait 12 years before beginning their research that would be based on the existing data.

That slows future innovation and research. It slows the introduction of generics that can result in competitive pricing. It decreases the chance of breakthroughs that could replace a one hundred thousand dollar biologic with a two hundred dollar product that might be more effective and less toxic.

Watching the prolonged committee deliberations on the 12 year data exclusivity amendment, it was obvious that the arguments presented by the senators in support of this amendment had been written by the biotech lobbyists. It was also obvious that only a few of the senators had rejected the lobbyists' overtures.

The Boston Globe article demonstrates that this was not about policy, but about process. It shows how the most powerful lobbyists can cast their nets and pull in the best of them. 

Howard Dean was a part of the "all hands on deck" scramble to support the data exclusivity amendment. It was simply a job that he was expected to do as part of the McKenna rapid-fire response team.

It was particularly painful to watch Senator Dodd, acting chairman of the Senate HELP Committee, cast an aye vote by proxy on behalf of Sen. Ted Kennedy, even though Sen. Dodd had already cast a no vote on his own behalf. It would be unfair to speculate what may have caused Sen. Kennedy to communicate his wishes on that vote, but it is likely that Amgen feels that they paid a million dollars for that vote, fair and square.

Does anyone else agree that we need a fully transparent re-start on reform?
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From wrolley at charter.net  Thu Jul 23 08:05:28 2009
From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:05:28 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Food not Lawns
Message-ID: <4A687C38.2050204@charter.net>

The Santa Clara County Library has a single copy of /Food Not Lawns/ by 
H. C. Flores. I happen to have it checked out right now, and have not 
yet finished reading it. 

Actually, while it is an easy read, there is a lot of material that is 
better absorbed with some actual thought going on.. and so I would 
rather like to keep it around for longer than the short time I have it 
checked out.

For example:  Flores is a certified permaculture designer.  She would 
seem to have some things in common with poet Gary Snyder.  When Snyder 
was asked about what we could do concerning the latest environmental 
crisis, his Zen-link answer was "Stay put."  In reality he was saying to 
develop a sense of place, to listen to the land.  Flores offers the 
guidance to "look deeply."  Take the time to see what is really there.  
Both are going the same direction.

For example: we have thermometers in the shade at two locations outside 
our home.  One is on the south side of the house, with a stone wall 
terraced slope about 15 ft. away.  The other is on our deck on the N. 
side of the house.  On a sunny afternoon, they register as much as an 8 
deg. difference. Then, in the winter, there are areas of the property 
that get frost when most of the place does not.  Microclimates abound.  
We plant accordingly.

There is an additional interest for Greens, though, as Flores considers 
holding a seed swap to be a revolutionary action and a great chance to 
talk politics.  We don't do that, but we do, as she also suggests, share 
our excess with our neighbors and that again is an opportunity to build 
community... and talk politics.



-- 
"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente

Wes Rolley
17211 Quail Court, Morgan Hill, CA 95037
http://www.refpub.com/ -- Tel: 408.778.3024


From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Thu Jul 23 17:14:26 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:14:26 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] yard sale help needed
Message-ID: <4A68FCE2.2020504@sbcglobal.net>

This is yet another and more pressing call for help.
Attendants are needed for the Green Party yard sale
Saturday July 25-th, especially in the afternoon.
Please contact Jim Doyle (408-269-3299),
Caroline (408-530-0118), or Andrea (408-306-1900)
or, send email to them if you are willing to help  at this yard sale

Details and map at  http://www.cagreens.org/sclara/


From the_alliance47 at yahoo.com  Thu Jul 23 19:00:19 2009
From: the_alliance47 at yahoo.com (Edward)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:00:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] CA Governor 2010
Message-ID: <991985.63846.qm@web54306.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Richard William Aguirre is running for CA Governor as an independent. However, his platform sounds very green to me. Check out his website and let me know what you all think: http://aguirreforgovernor.com/

What is GPCA doing for the 2010 elections? Are we running a full slate like 2006?

-edward



      
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From tnharter at aceweb.com  Fri Jul 24 01:10:35 2009
From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:10:35 +0000
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Reverend Billy for Mayor of New York City!
Message-ID: <4A696C7B.5010607@aceweb.com>

Tuesday evening Reverend Billy put on an inspiring show at DNA
Lounge. Check out what I saw of it by clicking below:

http://tian.greens.org/SanFrancisco/ReverendBilly/DNALounge.html

-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
This evening we closed down Castro Street in Mountain View to cars.


From wrolley at charter.net  Fri Jul 24 15:04:43 2009
From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:04:43 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] County Supervisor:
Message-ID: <4A6A2FFB.8020100@charter.net>

District 1 is the South County... basically Gilroy, Morgan Hill, Los 
Gatos and a bit of South San Jose.  The current supervisor, Don Gage 
(Rep. - ex-mayor of Gilroy) will be termed out and we need to elect a 
new one in 2010.  Currently, there are 4 candidates who have set up 
exploratory committees:

Rosemary Kamei.. Currently on the Water District Board and whose 
performance as a board member there should disqualify her from ever 
running for any office ever again.  (BTW.. Gage wants to run for Kamei's 
seat on the Water District Board.)

Forrest Williams:  Ex-IBM who is older than I and that is hard to do.  
His record on the San Jose City Council seems to be very pro-business, 
pro-growth, nothing much besides.

Teresa Alvarado: Also from S. San Jose.  No experience in public office, 
but her mother, Blanca Alvarado was on the board for 2 terms from E. San 
Jose (Dist. 2).  Sounds like they want to keep the family going.

Peter Arellano:  the only one of the 4 that I could vote for.  He has 
had the most progressive record as a member of the Gilroy City Council.  
He is also my Dr. at Kaiser, Gilroy.

If this is the final cut of the cards. my choices are clear. 

Anyone else want to discuss Dist 1?


-- 
"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente

Wes Rolley
17211 Quail Court, Morgan Hill, CA 95037
http://www.refpub.com/ -- Tel: 408.778.3024


From andid at cagreens.org  Sat Jul 25 05:11:07 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:11:07 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] GREEN YARD SALE TODAY!!!
Message-ID: <E0E1E7E0-61A8-4139-874E-D98DA1F47D47@cagreens.org>

Come to see Caroline's magical CONSOLE?opens to seat 12 for a Green  
party!
Also, 3 exercise machines, electronic, toys, books, videos, mirrors,  
stained glass, etc.
Come to schmooooz and have solar tea and cookies on us!

What: Yard Sale
When:  Saturday July 25th, 10 to 6 PM
Where:  1683 Nightingale Avenue, Sunnyvale
How: walk, bike, carpool!
Why:  to show support for the Green Party!

 From 280, take Wolfe exit, left on Homestead, immediate left onto  
Nightingale.  (Follow the signs &  fun!)

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From wrolley at charter.net  Sat Jul 25 09:57:30 2009
From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley)
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:57:30 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Food not Lawns
Message-ID: <4A6B397A.1030507@charter.net>

I am returning the only Santa Clara County Library copy of Food not 
Lawns today.  I still recommend it to all.

-- 
"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente

Wes Rolley
17211 Quail Court, Morgan Hill, CA 95037
http://www.refpub.com/ -- Tel: 408.778.3024


From andi at wrytor.com  Sun Jul 26 10:04:30 2009
From: andi at wrytor.com (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:04:30 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] YARD SALE TALLEY (mini-report to SC-GP)
Message-ID: <63A10FA4-FABB-4CE0-B3BF-665918091B64@wrytor.com>

We took in $321.68 in cash.
Many, many thanks to the valiant folks who showed up to help that day!
(More to come later.)
Andrea


From andid at cagreens.org  Sun Jul 26 16:19:43 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:19:43 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Agenda for Aug (5th/12th?) General Meeting
Message-ID: <8719E66C-409E-4CFD-8508-F26D7BB28A26@cagreens.org>

First of all, should we schedule a meeting for the County Council  
before the General Meeting for detailed reports from delegates to the  
National Meeting?

Yeah or Nay from the 7 County Council members.

Now for the General Meeting....

1)  Should it be on the 12th to give delegates time to breathe and to  
attend a County Council Meeting to resolve any issues before the  
General Meeting?

2)  Do we have a Speaker for the evening?  If not, are people  
interested in viewing a Video during eating/chat time *before* the  
scheduled meeting time?  (I am building a DVD collection of topics of  
interest to activists.  Topic list available upon request.)

-----------------------------------

Agenda for the Green Party of Santa Clara County meeting on Aug 5th/ 
12th:

To Date:

Introductions and brief announcements from all present (5-10 min?).

Pick Facilitator, Timekeeper, Note Taker, Vibes Watcher (5 min).

Party Business:  Reports back from National Meeting (15-20 min?).

Treasurer's report (5 min?).

Tabling report - future dates and costs (10 min?).
			- past dates and receipts (5 min?).

Yard Sale & any lessons learned (Andrea ) - (5-10 min?).

Second Town Meeting & flyers, with suggested places to distribute the  
latter (Caroline/Merriam) -  (10-15 min?)

KKUP issue (Warner) - (5 Min?)

Other???

Please submit in a timely manner more agenda items needed and/or edit  
time needed!


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From tnharter at aceweb.com  Sun Jul 26 17:52:59 2009
From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:52:59 +0000
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] YARD SALE TALLEY (mini-report to SC-GP)
In-Reply-To: <63A10FA4-FABB-4CE0-B3BF-665918091B64@wrytor.com>
References: <63A10FA4-FABB-4CE0-B3BF-665918091B64@wrytor.com>
Message-ID: <4A6CFA6B.8030402@aceweb.com>

I'm impressed! That makes it our best fundraiser in years!

Andrea Dorey wrote:
> We took in $321.68 in cash.
> Many, many thanks to the valiant folks who showed up to help that day!
> (More to come later.)
> Andrea
> _______________________________________________
> sosfbay-discuss mailing list
> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss
> 

-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
Latest change: Added my account of a Reverend Billy fundraiser in SF.


From alexcathy at aol.com  Sun Jul 26 20:59:23 2009
From: alexcathy at aol.com (alexcathy at aol.com)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:59:23 -0400
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] California's One Party with Two Names: Our
	Grinning 'Leaders'
Message-ID: <8CBDC85C2DE3C97-498-5FF@webmail-de17.sysops.aol.com>

Dear Friends, 







One Party with Two Names: Our Grinning 'Leaders'





 





Screw the Poor, the Frail, Kids, Students, and the Environment
 







A month late and several billion dollars short, California's Republican
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Democratic Assembly Speaker Karen Bass,
Republican Assembly Leader Sam Blakeslee, and Demcratic Senate Leader
Darrell Steinberg agreed on a budget deal that screws the poor, the
frail, the young, the students, and the environment.







So why are these "leaders" grinning?


















Maybe because they are "leaders" of California's One-Party-with-Two-Names?







By the way, in case you are wondering, the pretty lady with the short Afro haircut grinning at Arnold Schwarzenegger is, indeed, Karen Bass, the nation's first African-American woman to serve as speaker of a state assembly. Ms. Bass is the elected representative from *MY* 47th Assembly District in inner-city Los Angeles.? 






Alex Walker







READ MORE AND COMMENT AT:



http://cagreening.blogspot.com/2009/07/one-party-with-two-names-our-grinning.html




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From andid at cagreens.org  Mon Jul 27 08:22:28 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:22:28 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Where do you get your bottle refund??
Message-ID: <222266D4-73CE-4F48-9D85-F62EE83E70A7@cagreens.org>

I have a stash of plastic bottles and nowhere to cash them in!
Where are the recycling stations that pay for the returns??
Andi


From andid at cagreens.org  Mon Jul 27 08:37:34 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:37:34 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] To Cat Owners - I Need the Empty Litter Jugs!
Message-ID: <5B891B47-23D2-4A0C-BCCB-D04610C852AA@cagreens.org>

Please save any of these for me?
The familiar ones are the white jug or the green jug with the blue  
cap; others are OK too.
Andi



From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Mon Jul 27 15:50:34 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:50:34 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] ccwg request
Message-ID: <4A6E2F3A.2040702@sbcglobal.net>

GREEN PARTY COUNTY CONTACTS MESSAGE
This is an announcement from the GPCA Contact List. 
For more information, or questions related to the topic of the posting,
please do not hit reply.  Follow the contact directions stated in the email.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dear County Green Party

In order to help plan for a successful Green 2009-2010 election cycle,
the GPCA Campaigns & Candidates is outreaching to counties to learn
which Greens may be running and for what offices.

1) Are there Greens that you are aware of within your county that are
planning to run for partisan office in November 2010 and if so, who and
for what office?

2) Are there Greens that you are aware of within your county that are
planning to run for non-partisan office in November 2009 and/or any time
in 2010 and if so, who and for what office?

3) Are there any Greens in your county that would be considered good
candidates but have not made a final decision or need to be approached?

Please send an initial reply to: strategy at cagreens.org 
<mailto:strategy at cagreens.org> by August 15th,
including any contact information and web sites for potential
candidates, and updates afterwards as they develop. Thank you.

Kendra Gonzales
CCWG Coordinator




From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Mon Jul 27 15:57:51 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:57:51 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] gp national committees
Message-ID: <4A6E30EF.3080201@sbcglobal.net>

GREEN PARTY COUNTY CONTACTS MESSAGE
This is an announcement from the GPCA Contact List. 
For more information, or questions related to the topic of the posting,
please do not hit reply.  Follow the contact directions stated in the email.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
GET MORE INVOLVED!! JOIN A NATIONAL COMMITTEE!!
Please forward this announcement as appropriate!

The GPUS is recruiting California Greens to participate in the
party-building work to be done at the national level. The only
requirements are that you're a California Green, willing and able to
commit to the position, and can work well with others....well, ok, and
have regular access to email and willingness to participate in
teleconferences, usually monthly.

The positions of voting members are by appointment; non-voting observers
may join committees without prior appointment, just contact the
committee chairs directly.  All appointed positions are for two-year
terms and are renewable.  Because women and historically marginalized
communities, including people of color, are underrepresented at the
national level, we are strongly encouraging members of those groups to
apply.

Most standing national committees have open seats for California Greens:
  CA list of membership in GPUS  committees can be found at
<http://www.votegreen.org/gpus-ca/about/committees>http://cagreens.org/delegates/delegate_committees.shtml 
<http://www.votegreen.org/gpus-ca/about/committees%3Ehttp://cagreens.org/delegates/delegate_committees.shtml>
with links to each of the national committees. A GPUS list of all the
committees can be found at
<http://www.gp.org/committees.shtml>http://www.gp.org/committees.shtml 
<http://www.gp.org/committees.shtml%3Ehttp://www.gp.org/committees.shtml>

RECRUITING WILL BE ONGOING.   A short 2-paragraph biography of your past
party (or related) experience and why you're interested in the position
is required for all applicants to be considered.
One or two references are appreciated, especially for newer Greens, if
we are not familiar with your work.   Local or state party experience is
desired, but not required.
Please send it to <mailto:sanda at greens.org>sanda at greens.org 
<mailto:sanda at greens.org%3Esanda at greens.org>
<mailto:sanda at greens.org>.

Committee positions may be appointed by the GPUS-CA Standing Delegation
at their next monthly teleconference or at the next plenary meeting,
whichever comes first.

For further information or questions, you can contact me, at
<mailto:sanda at greens.org>sanda at greens.org 
<mailto:sanda at greens.org%3Esanda at greens.org> <mailto:sanda at greens.org>.
Thank you for considering increasing your participation in our party!

Sanda Everette
co-chair, CA delegation



From vdf at juno.com  Mon Jul 27 22:59:20 2009
From: vdf at juno.com (Valerie D. Face)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:59:20 GMT
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Agenda for Aug (5th/12th?) General Meeting
Message-ID: <20090727.225920.609.4@webmail23.vgs.untd.com>

Hi Andrea,

My 2 cents on timing, although I'm not on the County Council:

Last I heard, the group that's working on Food 4 Thought #2 (which includes me) was planning to meet before the general meeting (i.e., August 5 at 6:30 PM), and Caroline was planning to have another Food 4 Thought meeting at her place the afternoon of Sunday, August 16, followed by the County Council meeting.

I was tasked with getting a speaker from Courage Campaign to address our meeting on the 5th, but so far I have not gotten any response from the two contacts I have for the group.  I can keep trying to get someone for the August meeting, or I could keep trying but tell them that we'd rather have a speaker for the September meeting, but I'd like to be sure of what date I'm asking them for.

If we're having any meetings on the 12th, I won't be able to attend because I have another meeting that night.  I can still try to recruit a Courage Campaign speaker for that night, but I can't be there to greet them.  If the August 5th Food 4 Thought meeting gets moved, too, I guess I can work with those folks to get back in sync as they deem appropriate -- there's always email...

Valerie


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First of all, should we schedule a meeting for the County Council  
before the General Meeting for detailed reports from delegates to the  
National Meeting?

Yeah or Nay from the 7 County Council members.

Now for the General Meeting....

1)  Should it be on the 12th to give delegates time to breathe and to  
attend a County Council Meeting to resolve any issues before the  
General Meeting?

2)  Do we have a Speaker for the evening?  If not, are people  
interested in viewing a Video during eating/chat time *before* the  
scheduled meeting time?  (I am building a DVD collection of topics of  
interest to activists.  Topic list available upon request.)

-----------------------------------

Agenda for the Green Party of Santa Clara County meeting on Aug 5th/ 
12th:

To Date:

Introductions and brief announcements from all present (5-10 min?).

Pick Facilitator, Timekeeper, Note Taker, Vibes Watcher (5 min).

Party Business:  Reports back from National Meeting (15-20 min?).

Treasurer's report (5 min?).

Tabling report - future dates and costs (10 min?).
			- past dates and receipts (5 min?).

Yard Sale & any lessons learned (Andrea ) - (5-10 min?).

Second Town Meeting & flyers, with suggested places to distribute the  
latter (Caroline/Merriam) -  (10-15 min?)

KKUP issue (Warner) - (5 Min?)

Other???

Please submit in a timely manner more agenda items needed and/or edit  
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From andid at cagreens.org  Tue Jul 28 15:17:17 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:17:17 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Agenda for SCC GP General Mtg Aug 5th
Message-ID: <D116A11B-6AD7-432A-8E69-F3315E751060@cagreens.org>


Agenda for the Green Party of Santa Clara County meeting on Aug 5th
at San Jose Peace Center

Info To Date:

6:30 PM - Meeting of the Food 4 Thought committee.

7:30 PM - General Meeting
Introductions and brief announcements from all present (5-10 min?).

Pick Facilitator, Timekeeper, Note Taker, Vibes Watcher (5 min).

Party Business:  Reports back from National Meeting (15-20 min?).

Treasurer's report (5 min?).

Tabling report - future dates and costs (10 min?).
			- past dates and receipts (5 min?).

Yard Sale: lessons learned & how did we get almost $330??!!    
(Andrea ) - (5-10 min?).

Food 4 Thought (Aug 22nd) & flyers/volunteers/etc  (Caroline/Merriam)  
-  (10-15 min?)

KKUP issue (Warner) - (5 Min?)

Other???

Please submit in a timely manner more agenda items needed and/or edit  
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From andid at cagreens.org  Tue Jul 28 16:08:33 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:08:33 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Amended - Agenda for SCC GP General Mtg Aug 5th
Message-ID: <56F884AA-E6EA-4A45-A732-BA90C6F0E4A5@cagreens.org>

Agenda for the Green Party of Santa Clara County meeting on Aug 5th
at San Jose Peace Center

Info To Date:

6:30 PM - Meeting of the Food 4 Thought committee.

7:30 PM - General Meeting
Introductions and brief announcements from all present (5-10 min?).

Pick Facilitator, Timekeeper, Note Taker, Vibes Watcher (5 min).

Party Business:  Reports back from National Meeting (15-20 min?).

Party Business:  Campaigns & Candidate WG - candidates for 2010?  
(Warner?) - (10-15 min?)

Treasurer's report (5 min?).

Tabling report - future dates and costs (10 min?).
			- past dates and receipts (5 min?).

Yard Sale: lessons learned & how did we get almost $330??!!  Carol's  
Cookies??  (Andrea ) - (5-10 min?).

Food 4 Thought (Aug 22nd) & flyers/volunteers/etc  (Caroline/Merriam)  
-  (10-15 min?).

KKUP issue (Warner) - (5 Min?).

Other???

Please submit in a timely manner more agenda items needed and/or edit  
time changes needed!





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From andid at cagreens.org  Wed Jul 29 14:02:46 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:02:46 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] =?windows-1252?q?Newly_Amended_=97Agenda_for_SC?=
 =?windows-1252?q?C_GP_Gen_Mtg_Aug_5th?=
Message-ID: <0226C947-5BC1-4BB9-B99F-80D5EEC1ADCB@cagreens.org>

Thanks to Jim D, I possibly have a better arranged agenda.
Andi

Agenda for the Green Party of Santa Clara County meeting on Aug 5th
at San Jose Peace Center

Info To Date:

6:30 PM - Meeting of the Food 4 Thought committee.

7:30 PM - General Meeting
Introductions and brief announcements from all present (5-10 min?).

Pick Facilitator, Timekeeper, Note Taker, Vibes Watcher (5 min).

Action Items:

> volunteers for picnic Aug 22nd  (10 min max)  update from committee  
> on other needs?  (Caroline/Merriam)
> volunteers for Labor Day weekend  Sept 5-6-7   (10 min max)
>


Party Business:  Campaigns & Candidate WG - candidates for 2010?  
(Warner?) - (5 min?)
Party Business:  Reports back from National Meeting (5 min for each  
of 3 delegates or 15 min total?).

Treasurer's report - Receipts and debits (5 min?).

Tabling report - future dates  (10 min?).
			   -  past dates and receipts?what sold/what didn't  (5 min?).

Yard Sale: lessons learned & how did we make the $$$?  Carol's  
Cookies?    ;- ))    (Andrea ) - (5-10 min?)

Other???

Time left for general discussion of other topics of interest?


Please submit in a timely manner more agenda items needed and/or edit  
time changes needed!


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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Wed Jul 29 18:14:42 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:14:42 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] mime show cancelled
Message-ID: <4A70F402.9010502@sbcglobal.net>


      Tonight's Mime Troupe performance has been cancelled. 


      Unfortunately, one of the principal actors is very sick and


      cannot perform. We will try to reschedule the performance


      for another date.  We apologize for the inconvenience. 



From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Wed Jul 29 18:22:51 2009
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:22:51 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] mime show second chance Wed Aug 5 Palo Alto
In-Reply-To: <4A70F402.9010502@sbcglobal.net>
References: <4A70F402.9010502@sbcglobal.net>
Message-ID: <BAY140-W1886386E94204CCF6CD97C9E130@phx.gbl>



Mitchell Park (on East Meadow, just shy of Middlefield as you drive 
toward the bay)  7:00 pm






> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:14:42 -0700
> From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net
> To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] mime show cancelled
> 
> 
>       Tonight's Mime Troupe performance has been cancelled. 
> 
> 
>       Unfortunately, one of the principal actors is very sick and
> 
> 
>       cannot perform. We will try to reschedule the performance
> 
> 
>       for another date.  We apologize for the inconvenience. 
> 
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> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
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From andid at cagreens.org  Thu Jul 30 07:58:31 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:58:31 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] mime show second chance Wed Aug 5 Palo Alto
In-Reply-To: <BAY140-W1886386E94204CCF6CD97C9E130@phx.gbl>
References: <4A70F402.9010502@sbcglobal.net>
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There's another planned for Mitchell Park on August 5th at 6:30, last  
I heard.
Andi

On Jul 29, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Brian Good wrote:

>
> Mitchell Park (on East Meadow, just shy of Middlefield as you drive
> toward the bay)  7:00 pm
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:14:42 -0700
> > From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net
> > To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> > Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] mime show cancelled
> >
> >
> > Tonight's Mime Troupe performance has been cancelled.
> >
> >
> > Unfortunately, one of the principal actors is very sick and
> >
> >
> > cannot perform. We will try to reschedule the performance
> >
> >
> > for another date. We apologize for the inconvenience.
> >
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> > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss
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From andid at cagreens.org  Thu Jul 30 08:19:18 2009
From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:19:18 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Need Empty Kitty Litter Jugs!!!
Message-ID: <AAF09CDE-1B65-46E8-8E1C-90D2A191F313@cagreens.org>

These are great for watering thirsty plants at my house!  Bring to  
general meeting or cty council meetings when convenient!  Perfect  
recycling is when they have a use!
Andi


From carolineyacoub at att.net  Thu Jul 30 09:53:49 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:53:49 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] mime show second chance Wed Aug 5 Palo Alto
Message-ID: <351087.54546.qm@web81202.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hello,
Have we noticed that August 5 is our regular meeting night? I got to Tian's before his message about the cancellation got to me. We were all dressed up in green with nowhere to go, so we went to downtown Sunnyvale, where they have music and block off the street on summer Wednesdays, and passed out flyers for the picnic.
Caroline

--- On Thu, 7/30/09, Andrea Dorey <andid at cagreens.org> wrote:


From: Andrea Dorey <andid at cagreens.org>
Subject: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] mime show second chance Wed Aug 5 Palo Alto
To: "Brian Good" <snug.bug at hotmail.com>
Cc: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009, 7:58 AM


There's another planned for Mitchell Park on August 5th at 6:30, last I heard.
Andi



On Jul 29, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Brian Good wrote:


Mitchell Park (on East Meadow, just shy of Middlefield as you drive 
toward the bay)? 7:00 pm






> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:14:42 -0700
> From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net
> To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] mime show cancelled
> 
> 
> Tonight's Mime Troupe performance has been cancelled. 
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, one of the principal actors is very sick and
> 
> 
> cannot perform. We will try to reschedule the performance
> 
> 
> for another date. We apologize for the inconvenience. 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> sosfbay-discuss mailing list
> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss



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From carolineyacoub at att.net  Thu Jul 30 10:06:11 2009
From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:06:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: Sleepless in Sacramento
Message-ID: <753086.8721.qm@web81206.mail.mud.yahoo.com>



--- On Thu, 7/30/09, Ashley, MomsRising.org <momsrising at mail.democracyinaction.org> wrote:


From: Ashley, MomsRising.org <momsrising at mail.democracyinaction.org>
Subject: Sleepless in Sacramento
To: carolineyacoub at att.net
Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009, 9:12 AM








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From WB4D23 at aol.com  Thu Jul 30 13:01:39 2009
From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:01:39 EDT
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Notes From the Recent GPUS Annual Meeting
Message-ID: <c41.61dfc079.37a35623@aol.com>

 
 
I attended the GPUS Annual National Meeting in Durham, NC July  23rd-26th.  
There were various workshops Thursday afternoon (four tracks to  choose 
from).  I attended one on how internet technology can help campaigns  and 
another about fund raising.  Friday morning I attended a workshop  critiquing the 
national party on various counts and led another workshop to that  had 
folks sitting roughly in a circle talking to/with each other about what was  
going on in their various state GPs.  Friday afternoon was a meeting of the  
Green National Committee (delegates from the state GPs) that was mostly 
reports  of various kinds.  Friday night was a showing of a documentary called 
Coal  Country about the effects of the coal industry in Appalachia (to be 
released on  tv... don't know if it will be on HBO, PBS or?).  
 
Saturday was probably the most important work of the meeting  as a whole.  
There has been a (IMO legitimate) critique that the national  party 
delegates have gotten overly preoccupied with rules and procedures  and need to 
refocus on Green messaging.  This criticism comes  from a number of delegates 
(and is not intended as a criticism of work  done by people on various 
standing GPUS committees).  The  group as a whole engaged in one of those  
what-is-your-most-important-issue-write-it-on-a-post-it-and-now-we-will-collect-them-
all-and-see-what-we-have  exercises.  The result was to create three 
working groups to work around  the following issues:  Single Payer Healthcare; 
Human Rights; and  Water/Food/Energy.  
 
I went to the WFE group where we all agreed that all of  the "three" issues 
groupings were really all interconnected if not parts of  a whole (e.g., 
food and water are basic human rights that are part of good  health; 
healthcare being another basic human right).  All of the  working groups are intended 
to connect with state and local work already  done, collect information 
papers for candidates, and create Green messages to  use at all party levels 
both to encourage activities on the ground and  outreach to media and for 
recruitment (whew!!!).  As "working  groups" the activities are volunteer driven 
and created.   The three groups reported back from their hour long initial 
meetings and  then there were break out groups to discuss how standing 
committees could also  move in the direction of either participating in better 
messaging or  use whatever the new working groups are able to develop.
 
Saturday night had a gathering at a local bar as a  joint fund raiser for 
the North Carolina GP and GPUS (there were periodic fund  raising pitches and 
a silent auction throughout the event).  
 
Sunday morning included more reports.  Friday, Saturday  and Sunday 
included brief statements from Steering Committee candidates who will  be elected 
in the next few weeks by email voting.
 
The event was held on the North Carolina Central University  campus using 
its buffet style cafeteria and a dorm for housing to keep costs  down.  Very 
friendly environment.  Got to meet in person a number of  people I have been 
reading on email and, in some cases, hearing on  teleconferences.  Attend
ance was in the 120-150 range, so workshops and  meetings had enough that I 
didn't see empty rooms where I attended.
California by my count had at least 6 delegates and two  observers.  Drew 
and I were delegates from Santa Clara County, and Fred was  an observer.
 
These are just my comments and impressions...  not  anything "offishul"
 
Warner
 


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From snug.bug at hotmail.com  Thu Jul 30 14:03:04 2009
From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:03:04 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Clowns Foil KKK Rally in Knoxville
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When the Nazis shouted ?White Power!? the clowns raised letters spelling ?White Flour" and threw flour in the air. ?White Power!? the Nazi?s shouted again and the clowns called ?White flowers?? and threw flowers in the air.

?White Power!?

?Tight Shower!? The clowns crowded under a solar shower.

?White Power!?

?WIFE POWER! WIFE POWER! WIFE POWER!?


http://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/03/clowns-kicked-kkk-asses/


Sounds like they grow some good shit in the Smokies.


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From wrolley at charter.net  Fri Jul 31 09:10:09 2009
From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:10:09 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Dist 1 Supervisor Race info update
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From gerrygras at earthlink.net  Fri Jul 31 11:29:03 2009
From: gerrygras at earthlink.net (Gerry Gras)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:29:03 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] mime show second chance Wed Aug 5 Palo Alto
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Andrea is talking about the same performance as Brian.
Music starts at 6:30, show starts at 7:00.

SFMT schedule is at:

     http://www.sfmt.org/schedule/index.php

Gerry


Andrea Dorey wrote:

> There's another planned for Mitchell Park on August 5th at 6:30, last I 
> heard.
> Andi
> 
> 
> On Jul 29, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Brian Good wrote:
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> 
>>
>> Mitchell Park (on East Meadow, just shy of Middlefield as you drive
>> toward the bay)  7:00 pm
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>> > Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:14:42 -0700
>> > From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net <mailto:j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net>
>> > To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org <mailto:sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
>> > Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] mime show cancelled
>> >
>> >
>> > Tonight's Mime Troupe performance has been cancelled.
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>> > Unfortunately, one of the principal actors is very sick and
>> >
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From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net  Fri Jul 31 15:39:42 2009
From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:39:42 -0700
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] ccwg reminder
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