From cbrouillet at igc.org Fri May 1 08:04:48 2009 From: cbrouillet at igc.org (Carol Brouillet) Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 08:04:48 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Stephen Zarlenga Monetary Seminars Message-ID: Dear activists, I want to alert you of Stephen Zarlenga's upcoming events, including one in Palo Alto this Saturday, as well as a new film on Money that friends of mine made entitled Life on the Edge of a Bubble (http://www.lifeontheedgeofabubble.com/). World Centric has been hosting a series of films on Money and the financial crisis. Tonight (at 7:30 pm) they will be showing another one, and Zarlenga's colleague, Steven Walsh, who is writing a book on colonial scrips at the time of the American Revolution will be leading the discussion that follows. Dennis Kucinich, who met his wife, Elizabeth, when she was lobbying for monetary reform for AMI, has introduced the best legislature, so far to address the financial problem at the root level, he has been attending the annual Monetary Reform Conferences that Zarlenga has been organizing annually. My major issue in the 90's was Money/Global Economics, and I finally read Zarlenga's book last Christmas (having been sidetracked by the 9/11 issue for many years) and it covers vital history that I was unaware of. I have great respect for him and his work. I hope you can attend one of these events, as I think this issue is incredibly timely. I'm sorry the local event conflicts with the Spaghetti dinner... All the best! Carol Brouillet http://www.communitycurrency.org Stephen Zarlenga will be arriving Saturday and giving three monetary seminars- Meet Stephen Zarlenga, author of The Lost Science of Money, & founder of the American Monetary Institute. Saturday, May 2, 2009, 7:30 pm World Centric Community Space 2121 Staunton Court, Palo Alto Sunday, May 3, 2009, 2:00 p.m. The Red Victorian 1665 Haight Street, San Francisco [(415) 864-1978] Monday, May 4, 2009, 6:30 p.m. Fairfax Regional Marin Library 2097 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Fairfax [(415) 453-8151] How did the Banks Break our Money System Again? Why doesn't it work for America? Learn more about money in 3 hours than most economists learn (or will tell) in a lifetime! The Seminar will Discuss: * America's Monetary Power has been usurped and privatized, leading to collapse and ultimately unemployment and warfare! * How and why the money power must be restored to society where it can be used to promote the general welfare, instead of corrupt private agendas. * How the money power became privatized, and is kept in place by false theory. * A three step program that restores it to society. * Why we should nationalize the Money System (the Federal reserve) NOT the banking system. (banking isn't a proper function of government, but the money supply is a government prerogative) * Why inflation need not be a problem. * How the facts demonstrate that counter to prevailing prejudice, governmental control of money has a far superior record than private control. * Why it is crucial that the power to create any part of our money supply be completely removed from banks, for any reform to work. This is a hands on do-able reality based program, not a theory, with many U.S. historical precedents, and more going as far back as Classical Greece and Rome. The Money system acts like a fourth branch of government, generally affecting our daily lives more than the Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches combined. Yet it has been privatized and is largely outside the control of our democratic system of checks and balances where it has unfairly concentrated wealth to obscene levels among other injustices. The American Monetary Institute is America's leading think tank focusing on monetary history, theory and reform. Each September we hold a 3 day monetary reform conference at Roosevelt University, where cutting edge experts speak on those subjects. Each quarter the Institute offers this free introductory seminar. This seminar is designed for people who'd like a good background on how our money system works, why its not working well, how to fix it, and what benefits would follow in terms of infrastructure and health care and education; and how our society has the power to begin creating a superior future world, instead of getting mired in stupidity and warfare. About Stephen Zarlenga- Stephen Zarlenga draws on 35 years of experience in the world of finance, securities, insurance, mutual funds, real estate, and futures trading. He has published 20 books on money, banking, politics and philosophy (including The Anglo American Establishment, by Prof. Carrol Quigley). While in his mid 20s he incorporated the Athenian branch of an English life insurance company, earlier opening several European markets for the parent firm, IOS. A few years later he built the U.S. distribution network of the then leading American mutual fund concentrating in gold shares. As a member of the New York Futures Exchange (a subsidiary of the New York Stock Exchange) he specialized in trading the complex CRB futures index for several years. Thus the author is more than familiar with both the practical and theoretical sides of our market economy. Yet he calls into question and challenges the basis, and Achilles' heel, of American Capitalism: the private control and resulting misdirection of the nation's monetary system. Stephen Zarlenga holds a degree in Psychology from the University of Chicago (and has done postgraduate work at NYU), where he was in the final graduating class under the revered Hutchins' curriculum which focused on critical reading and thought. This training, combined with his work experience, and years of research, enabled him to re-formulate the Lost Science of Money. The author began focused research on the money problem in 1991, eventually drawing on over 800 monetary source books and materials to formulate this thesis. In 1996, he helped establish the American Monetary Institute to further the research. In 1999, Conzett Verlag of Zurich, Switzerland translated and published the work in German. This expanded English version released in 2002, establishes the author as a leading voice in the field of monetary history, theory and reform. Tonight's film at World Centric in Palo Alto- May 1st: I.O.U.S.A. I.O.U.S.A. the movie boldly examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States and its citizens. With surgical precision, Creadon interweaves archival footage and economic data to paint a vivid and alarming profile of America's current economic situation. 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Please forward to any Stanford community people you know to sign. > > Please sign Stanford Says No to War's petition to hold Condoleezza Rice and > other high government officials accountable for serious violations of the law. > > Link: http://www.stanford.edu/group/antiwar/crpetition.html > > Petition text: > "We the undersigned students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other concerned > members of the Stanford community, believe that high officials of the U.S. > Government, including our former Provost, current Political Science Professor, > and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, Condoleezza Rice, should be held > accountable for any serious violations of the Law (including ratified treaties, > statutes, and/or the U.S. Constitution) through investigation and, if the facts > warrant, prosecution, by appropriate legal authorities." > > More info: http://antiwar.stanford.edu > > Peace and justice, > Todd Davies > _______________________________________________ > > _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail?. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd1_052009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wrolley at refpub.com Sat May 2 09:04:51 2009 From: wrolley at refpub.com (Wes Rolley) Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 09:04:51 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Santa Clara Valley Water District Board Hearing on Wednesday. Message-ID: <49FC6F23.4030002@refpub.com> The Santa Clara Valley Water District held a special meeting on Tuesday, April 28th. The purpose was to review the Annual Report on Protection and Augmentation of Water Supplies for 2009 and Recommended Groundwater Production Charges for Fiscal Year 2009 - 2010. Copies of the report at http://tinyurl.com/c52q73 The assumptions on which the water district report is based are seriously flawed. They cite a snowpack number of 90% and the actual reading last week was ~60%. There are other problems, but that is the most obvious. Then, a circuit court judge in Santa Clara County has declared that the Water District's entire process of charging the owners of wells for pumping water out of the aquifer is unconstitutional. I have not reviewed this decision in it's entirety, but it is of interest for Morgan Hill, which acquires it's water from wells, pumping from the aquifer that is recharged from water district maintained percolation ponds. The process of water governance is broken in California, maybe more so than the physical infrastructure (e.g. delta levees that have not been repaired in 50 years). The Water District will hold another review in Morgan Hill at the Community Center on Wednesday Evening. I would like to see a good turnout. This is not just a Morgan Hill issue... so come on down. More than that, I believe we need to have more Greens become actively involved with the Water issues. As we look at elections in 2010, it would be great to have Greens running for one of the seats on the board that are up for re-election. Given the seriousness of the issue, we also need to make sure that this becomes an issue for those Supervisors who are up for re-election or replacement (Don Gage is term limited out... Pat Dando rumored to be interested in running.) The Board of Supervisors appoints 2 members of the 7 member board and that is a determining factor in maintaining the status quo. Currently, the appointees are old politicians like Sig Sanchez who need to be reclining in their rocking chairs at home rather than sleeping through presentations at board meetings (as has been described to me.) From snug.bug at hotmail.com Sat May 2 23:43:14 2009 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 23:43:14 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] FW: [Reunion] Fw: [ppjc] Special Action Alert - Condi Rice Torture Protest @ Stanford, Sunday In-Reply-To: <4FDFDC4041834D61ACED7D4BDCE957BF@PaulDellPC> References: <4FDFDC4041834D61ACED7D4BDCE957BF@PaulDellPC> Message-ID: From: paul at peaceandjustice.org To: Reunion at lists.A3M2009.org Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 12:48:15 -0700 Subject: [Reunion] Fw: [ppjc] Special Action Alert - Condi Rice Torture Protest @ Stanford, Sunday Dear A3M Folks - At Lenny Siegel's request, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center is pleased to add our help to your Condi Rice petition-nailing efforts tomorrow. Press releases have gone out to over 100 media outlets and individual reporters via our fax and email blast lists. We've also alerted our 2000+ members. Hope it all goes well tomorrow and thanks for doing this. peace, Paul George Director, PPJC <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Peninsula Peace and Justice Center 625 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301 (650) 326-8837 http://www.PeaceandJustice.org "Peninsula Peace and Justice Center has been one of the most effective of the activist organizations." ~ Noam Chomsky <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ----- Original Message ----- From: Peninsula Peace and Justice Center To: ppjc at peaceandjustice.org Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 12:34 PM Subject: [ppjc] Special Action Alert - Condi Rice Torture Protest @ Stanford, Sunday Peninsula Peace and Justice Center Urgent Action Alert Special Action Alert JOIN STANFORD ALUMNI AND STUDENTS IN NAILING "CONDI" WAR CRIMES PETITION TO THE DOOR OF STANFORD PRESIDENTS OFFICE SUNDAY, MAY 3, 12:00 NOON STANFORD UNIVERSITY INNER QUAD PRESIDENT'S OFFICE - BUILDING 10 Help spread the word. Please forward to your own email lists! This Sunday, May 3 at noon Stanford Alumni returning to the campus for a reunion marking the 40th anniversary of the anti-war April Third Movement will join current students in nailing a petition to the door of the University President's Office (Building 10) in Stanford's Inner Quad. The petition asks that Condoleezza Rice and other high government officials be held accountable for serious violations of law. The petition, being circulated by Stanford Says No to War, states: "We the undersigned students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other concerned members of the Stanford community, believe that high officials of the U.S. Government, including our former Provost, current Political Science Professor, and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, Condoleezza Rice, should be held accountable for any serious violations of the Law (including ratified treaties, statutes, and/or the U.S. Constitution) through investigation and, if the facts warrant, prosecution, by appropriate legal authorities." Marjorie Cohn, a leader of the April Third Movement and now President of the National Lawyers' Guild, explained, "By nailing this petition to the door of the President's office, we are telling Stanford that the university should not have war criminals on its faculty. There is prima facie evidence that Rice approved torture and misled the country into the Iraq War. Stanford has an obligation to investigate those charges." Forty years ago last October, many reunion participants nailed a document on the Stanford Trustees' Inner Quad office door demanding that Stanford "halt all military and economic projects and operations concerned with Southeast Asia," launching a campaign that led to the formation of April Third Movement in Spring, 1969. The A3M's nine-day sit-in at the Applied Electronics Laboratory brought an end to secret military research on campus. For more information about the petition, see http://antiwar.stanford.edu For information about the reunion, see http://www.a3m2009.org Peninsula Peace and Justice Center 625 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301 www.PeaceandJustice.org || (650) 326-8837 Donate to PPJC. Thank you. You are subscribed to this list as ppjc at peaceandjustice.org. Click here to unsubscribe, or send email to unsubscribe.353662.274815273.8765598207536530475-ppjc_peaceandjustice.org at en.groundspring.org. Our postal address is 625 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto, California 94301 United States _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live?: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_BR_life_in_synch_052009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT00000 URL: From eameece at sfo.com Sat May 2 13:13:36 2009 From: eameece at sfo.com (Eric A. Meece) Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 13:13:36 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Santa Clara Valley Water District Board Hearingon Wednesday. In-Reply-To: <49FC6F23.4030002@refpub.com> References: <49FC6F23.4030002@refpub.com> Message-ID: Good points. I think another basic problem with the district is the way they charge us for water. It matters very little how much you use, in relation to how much they charge. With the great need for water conservation, you'd think they would charge on that basis like other utilities do. I guess they claim special needs and priviledges, but I don't buy it. Eric the Green/Eric A. Meece former Treasurer, GPSCC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wes Rolley" To: "Green Discuss" Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 9:04 AM Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Santa Clara Valley Water District Board Hearingon Wednesday. > The Santa Clara Valley Water District held a special meeting on Tuesday, > April 28th. The purpose was to review the Annual Report on Protection > and Augmentation of Water Supplies for 2009 and Recommended Groundwater > Production Charges for Fiscal Year 2009 - 2010. Copies of the report at > http://tinyurl.com/c52q73 > > The assumptions on which the water district report is based are > seriously flawed. They cite a snowpack number of 90% and the actual > reading last week was ~60%. There are other problems, but that is the > most obvious. > > Then, a circuit court judge in Santa Clara County has declared that the > Water District's entire process of charging the owners of wells for > pumping water out of the aquifer is unconstitutional. I have not > reviewed this decision in it's entirety, but it is of interest for > Morgan Hill, which acquires it's water from wells, pumping from the > aquifer that is recharged from water district maintained percolation > ponds. > > The process of water governance is broken in California, maybe more so > than the physical infrastructure (e.g. delta levees that have not been > repaired in 50 years). > > The Water District will hold another review in Morgan Hill at the > Community Center on Wednesday Evening. I would like to see a good > turnout. This is not just a Morgan Hill issue... so come on down. > > More than that, I believe we need to have more Greens become actively > involved with the Water issues. As we look at elections in 2010, it > would be great to have Greens running for one of the seats on the board > that are up for re-election. Given the seriousness of the issue, we > also need to make sure that this becomes an issue for those Supervisors > who are up for re-election or replacement (Don Gage is term limited > out... Pat Dando rumored to be interested in running.) The Board of > Supervisors appoints 2 members of the 7 member board and that is a > determining factor in maintaining the status quo. Currently, the > appointees are old politicians like Sig Sanchez who need to be reclining > in their rocking chairs at home rather than sleeping through > presentations at board meetings (as has been described to me.) > > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss From carolineyacoub at att.net Sun May 3 15:27:31 2009 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 15:27:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Santa Clara Valley Water District Board Hearingon Wednesday. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <711375.67069.qm@web81205.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I agree. We really need to get somebody on the Water Board. We need to find someone who is interested, and they need to start going to meetings. Caroline --- On Sat, 5/2/09, Eric A. Meece wrote: From: Eric A. Meece Subject: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] Santa Clara Valley Water District Board Hearingon Wednesday. To: "Green Discuss" Date: Saturday, May 2, 2009, 1:13 PM Good points. I think another basic problem with the district is the way they charge us for water. It matters very little how much you use, in relation to how much they charge. With the great need for water conservation, you'd think they would charge on that basis like other utilities do. I guess they claim special needs and priviledges, but I don't buy it. Eric the Green/Eric A. Meece former Treasurer, GPSCC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wes Rolley" To: "Green Discuss" Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 9:04 AM Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Santa Clara Valley Water District Board Hearingon Wednesday. > The Santa Clara Valley Water District held a special meeting on Tuesday, > April 28th. The purpose was to review the Annual Report on Protection > and Augmentation of Water Supplies for 2009 and Recommended Groundwater > Production Charges for Fiscal Year 2009 - 2010. Copies of the report at > http://tinyurl.com/c52q73 > > The assumptions on which the water district report is based are > seriously flawed. They cite a snowpack number of 90% and the actual > reading last week was ~60%. There are other problems, but that is the > most obvious. > > Then, a circuit court judge in Santa Clara County has declared that the > Water District's entire process of charging the owners of wells for > pumping water out of the aquifer is unconstitutional. I have not > reviewed this decision in it's entirety, but it is of interest for > Morgan Hill, which acquires it's water from wells, pumping from the > aquifer that is recharged from water district maintained percolation > ponds. > > The process of water governance is broken in California, maybe more so > than the physical infrastructure (e.g. delta levees that have not been > repaired in 50 years). > > The Water District will hold another review in Morgan Hill at the > Community Center on Wednesday Evening. I would like to see a good > turnout. This is not just a Morgan Hill issue... so come on down. > > More than that, I believe we need to have more Greens become actively > involved with the Water issues. As we look at elections in 2010, it > would be great to have Greens running for one of the seats on the board > that are up for re-election. Given the seriousness of the issue, we > also need to make sure that this becomes an issue for those Supervisors > who are up for re-election or replacement (Don Gage is term limited > out... Pat Dando rumored to be interested in running.) The Board of > Supervisors appoints 2 members of the 7 member board and that is a > determining factor in maintaining the status quo. Currently, the > appointees are old politicians like Sig Sanchez who need to be reclining > in their rocking chairs at home rather than sleeping through > presentations at board meetings (as has been described to me.) > > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tnharter at aceweb.com Sun May 3 22:00:51 2009 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 22:00:51 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Agenda Items Request for next Wednesday's GP meeting! Message-ID: <49FE7683.8070505@aceweb.com> So far I have: Introductions and brief announcements. Pick facilitator, timekeeper, note taker, vibes watcher, Treasurers report Tabling report Spaghetti feed report Andrea (something) 10 minutes Caroline: 15 minutes brainstorm for new button ideas. -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: Pictures from Santa Clara University's Earth Day event. From snug.bug at hotmail.com Sun May 3 23:52:06 2009 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 23:52:06 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Challenge to Condi Message-ID: I try to avoid careless rhetoric about retribution, which was one of the ugliest excesses of the 60's movement. Even so, I'd suggest that it might be appropriate that Ms. Rice prove her claim that waterboarding is not torture by undergoing it herself. I will offer $500 if Ms. Rice can undergo 30 minutes of waterboarding without renouncing her claim that waterboarding is not torture. 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Warner Guest Speaker on Bringing IRV to Santa Clara County (20) State Party Business: Finalize delegates and alternates to the next Plenary in Venice, CA May 16th-17th -- Provisionally designated at last meeting: Delegates -- Warner; Drew; Tian; Alternates -- Roy and Andrea. More gender balance needed. County Council member needs to report final list. (10) Presentations and discussions regarding Plenary agenda items. (Warner and Jim Stauffer) (30) Tabling report Need report from SJSU and SCU Earthdays tabling. Finalize arrangements for Berryessa AWF this Saturday (5/9) Plans for Juneteenty? Spaghetti feed report **************2009 3 Free CREDIT SCORES: See Your 3 Credit Scores from All 3 Bureaus FREE! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221797372x1201397989/aol?redir=https:%2F%2Fwww.freescore.com%2FOffers%2FStart%2FFreeCreditRepor tAndScore.aspx%3FID%3D91831F371F138345B53A153F49D4D872%26siteid%3De927580bf7 ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From WB4D23 at aol.com Mon May 4 10:35:27 2009 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 13:35:27 EDT Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] IRV Speaker Intro Message-ID: Below is the email I received and forwarded to Jim Doyle and Jim Stauffer about Wednesday's guest speaker at our meeting. Warner ****************************************************** Hi Warner, Thanks for taking the time to talk with me. I'd like 15 minutes to give the Greens an update about a lot of momentum towards IRV at your May 6 meeting. I have met with a number of San Jose city council members, League of Women Voters chapters, and the Santa Clara County Democratic Party central committee, among other interested individuals and organizations, and there is much to report. I believe the Greens have a vital role to play in bringing IRV to San Jose and Santa Clara County. I look forward to meeting you and the Greens. Here's a link to a blog posting about some recent IRV activity http://www.newamerica.net/blog/political-reform/2009/good-week-political-ref orm-10964 cheers, Blair Blair Bobier Deputy Director, Political Reform Program New America Foundation office: 415.682.4819 mobile: 415.601.7052 web: www.newamerica.net email: bobier at newamerica.net **************2009 3 Free CREDIT SCORES: See Your 3 Credit Scores from All 3 Bureaus FREE! 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We need > to find someone who is interested, and they need to start going to > meetings. > Caroline > > --- On Sat, 5/2/09, Eric A. Meece wrote: > From: Eric A. Meece > Subject: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] Santa Clara Valley Water District > Board Hearingon Wednesday. > To: "Green Discuss" > Date: Saturday, May 2, 2009, 1:13 PM > > Good points. I think another basic problem with the district is the > way they > charge us for water. It matters very little how much you use, in > relation to > how much they charge. With the great need for water conservation, > you'd > think they would charge on that basis like other utilities do. I > guess they > claim special needs and priviledges, but I don't buy it. > Eric the Green/Eric A. Meece > former Treasurer, GPSCC > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wes Rolley" > To: "Green Discuss" > Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 9:04 AM > Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Santa Clara Valley Water District Board > Hearingon > Wednesday. > > > > The Santa Clara Valley Water District held a special meeting on > Tuesday, > > April 28th. The purpose was to review the Annual Report on > Protection > > and Augmentation of Water Supplies for 2009 and Recommended > Groundwater > > Production Charges for Fiscal Year 2009 - 2010. Copies of the > report at > > http://tinyurl.com/c52q73 > > > > The assumptions on which the water district report is based are > > seriously flawed. They cite a snowpack number of 90% and the actual > > reading last week was ~60%. There are other problems, but that > is the > > most obvious. > > > > Then, a circuit court judge in Santa Clara County has declared > that the > > Water District's entire process of charging the owners of wells for > > pumping water out of the aquifer is unconstitutional. I have not > > reviewed this decision in it's entirety, but it is of interest for > > Morgan Hill, which acquires it's water from wells, pumping from the > > aquifer that is recharged from water district maintained > percolation > > ponds. > > > > The process of water governance is broken in California, maybe > more so > > than the physical infrastructure (e.g. delta levees that have not > been > > repaired in 50 years). > > > > The Water District will hold another review in Morgan Hill at the > > Community Center on Wednesday Evening. I would like to see a good > > turnout. This is not just a Morgan Hill issue... so come on down. > > > > More than that, I believe we need to have more Greens become > actively > > involved with the Water issues. As we look at elections in 2010, it > > would be great to have Greens running for one of the seats on the > board > > that are up for re-election. Given the seriousness of the issue, we > > also need to make sure that this becomes an issue for those > Supervisors > > who are up for re-election or replacement (Don Gage is term limited > > out... Pat Dando rumored to be interested in running.) The Board of > > Supervisors appoints 2 members of the 7 member board and that is a > > determining factor in maintaining the status quo. 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Pick facilitator, timekeeper, note taker, vibes watcher, Treasurers report Tabling report Spaghetti feed report Andrea (something) 10 minutes Caroline: 15 minutes brainstorm for new button ideas. -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: Pictures from Santa Clara University's Earth Day event. _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss From snug.bug at hotmail.com Mon May 4 14:50:17 2009 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 14:50:17 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Agenda Items Request for next Wednesday's GP meeting! In-Reply-To: <49FF5D5B.30000@freeshell.org> References: <49FF5D5B.30000@freeshell.org> Message-ID: Please add: Madeleine Albright in San Jose June 4 > Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 14:25:47 -0700 > From: fredd at freeshell.org > To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Agenda Items Request for next Wednesday's GP meeting! > > Please add "Establishment of a U.N. Parliamentary Assembly." > (Think - and act - locally. Think - and act - globally, TOO.) > > Thanks, > > Fred > > So far I have: > > Introductions and brief announcements. > > Pick facilitator, timekeeper, note taker, vibes watcher, > > Treasurers report > > Tabling report > > Spaghetti feed report > > Andrea (something) 10 minutes > > Caroline: 15 minutes brainstorm for new button ideas. > -- > Tian > http://tian.greens.org > Latest change: Pictures from Santa Clara University's Earth Day event. > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail?. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd1_052009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please add: Madeleine Albright in San Jose June 4 > Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 14:25:47 -0700 > From: fredd at freeshell.org > To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Agenda Items Request for next Wednesday's GP meeting! > > Please add "Establishment of a U.N. Parliamentary Assembly." > (Think - and act - locally. Think - and act - globally, TOO.) > > Thanks, > > Fred > > So far I have: > > Introductions and brief announcements. > > Pick facilitator, timekeeper, note taker, vibes watcher, > > Treasurers report > > Tabling report > > Spaghetti feed report > > Andrea (something) 10 minutes > > Caroline: 15 minutes brainstorm for new button ideas. > -- > Tian > http://tian.greens.org > Latest change: Pictures from Santa Clara University's Earth Day event. > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail?. 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"ALL are welcome to share ideas" Fred From snug.bug at hotmail.com Mon May 4 19:04:16 2009 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 19:04:16 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Agenda Items Request for next Wednesday's GP meeting! In-Reply-To: References: <49FF5D5B.30000@freeshell.org> Message-ID: Also, I'd like to discuss my efforts to show the film "The Loss of Liberty" on the Public Access cable TV station in Palo Alto. B > To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Agenda Items Request for next Wednesday's GP meeting! > > Please add "Establishment of a U.N. Parliamentary Assembly." > (Think - and act - locally. Think - and act - globally, TOO.) > > Thanks, > > Fred > > So far I have: > > Introductions and brief announcements. > > Pick facilitator, timekeeper, note taker, vibes watcher, > > Treasurers report > > Tabling report > > Spaghetti feed report > > Andrea (something) 10 minutes > > Caroline: 15 minutes brainstorm for new button ideas. > -- > Tian > http://tian.greens.org > Latest change: Pictures from Santa Clara University's Earth Day event. > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail?. See how. Hotmail? has a new way to see what's up with your friends. 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To find out more click here: http://tian.greens.org/SantaClaraCounty/GreenParty/Spaghetti/May09.html If there is something I'm supposed to add to or change in the commentary please let me know. -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: Pictures from Santa Clara University's Earth Day event. From fredd at freeshell.org Thu May 7 09:59:30 2009 From: fredd at freeshell.org (Fred Duperrault) Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 09:59:30 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Single Payer Health Care Message-ID: <4A031372.1020809@freeshell.org> The senior White House news correspondent, Helen Thomas has called for Pres. Obama and Congress to adopt Single Payer Health Care. Her blog is on SFGate.com. We Greens should continue urging our Reps and Senators to support H.R. 676, submitted by John Conyers; and S. 2031, submitted by Bernie Sanders. Fred D. From wrolley at charter.net Thu May 7 10:57:29 2009 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 10:57:29 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Latest Green Talk Column - should run Friday. Message-ID: <4A032109.1080005@charter.net> I had a lot of good intentions this week but as some say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. It may fit my subject today to note that this saying is often mis-attributed to Samuel Johnson. Following the machinations of the Santa Clara Valley Water District means that I have to pay attention to what is on their agenda. That is easy, subscribe from the water district's web site (www.valleywater.org) and you get announcements of every meeting of the Board of Directors. That is where I learned of Wednesday night's session at the Morgan Hill Community Center at which the Water District presented their Annual Report on the Protection and Augmentation of Water Supplies ? 2009 and to explain their Recommended Groundwater Production Charges for Fiscal Year 2009-2010. It is a challenging subject but at least I was able to download the Report and their Recommendations and read them before the meeting. The problem was that I was not able to attend the public hearing and that, in itself has consequences beyond the fact that I may have missed important updates to the document they provided. Surely, the presenters must have commented on the fact that a San Jose judge has ruled that the current method of computing and collecting groundwater charges is not constitutional in California. It violates the provisions of Proposition 218. Just as importantly, the number of people who show up at a hearing is one indication of whether or not people care, and I did not do my part. I hope that the rest of you did. I know that two of the hearings on whether or not to apply term limits to Water District Directors had zero and two attendees respectively. That does not demonstrate a high level of civic participation. Underlying this is another thought, one concerning the role of the media, especially in the coverage of our government and local issues. I digress a bit here, but will come back to the subject. It may be that one of my cultural losses was to not have been hooked on watching The Wire (HBO). I really began paying attention after listening to the show's producer, David Simon talk about it with Bill Moyers. Simon, for two decades a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, is quite articulate about the importance of good reporting, good editing in local journalism. On Wednesday (May 6) he testified on this subject at a US Senate Hearing regarding The Future of Journalism. Simon rather blamed much of the problems of newspapers in America from the fact that they started cutting staff long before the competition from the internet took away much of the advertising revenue stream that funded good journalism. According to Simon, ?When locally-based, family owned newspapers like The Sun were consolidated into publicly-owned newspaper chains, an essential dynamic, an essential trust between the journalism and the communities served by that journalism, was betrayed.? How do these subjects tie together? Well, I would be the first to admit that I don't have the institutional knowledge that Simon feels was lost. I don't think that many local journalists do, with the possible exception of the Mercury News's Paul Rodgers and he is now covering a broader list of topics just to be as indispensable as possible. Locally, Rober Cerrutti does, but has no regular journalistic outlet. The result is that our community, no matter how broadly we define that term is not well served. We see many stories about the fact that farmers are not going to get any water this year and many of these stories contain the framing of jobs vs. fish. Nothing could be further from the truth. To begin with, many of the farmers in the Central Valley are not going to be affected at all. Holders of senior water rights in the Sacramento River Valley will get 100% of their allocation. Those in the Friant block will get 80%. It is only those in the Westland's Water District that are so severely restricted. This is where farmers have been encouraged to replace row crops which could be fallowed for a bad water year with orchards that can not. It was a bad business decision and not one that should determine California Water Policy. Television shows us pictures of Latino works demonstrating for their jobs and never mention the fact that the United Farm Workers is not involved and has distanced themselves from the big agriculture promoted demonstrations. Without the institutional knowledge that Simon values, we are not learning enough to make informed decisions should any of this come to a vote. Were the question of term limits brought to the voters here, I am not sure what I would do. In a certain sense, the Directors need to acquire that same institutional knowledge, of course with an informed media that can hold their feet to the fire. I can say that I would not support the re-election of any of the current directors; those who have allowed an unconstitutional method of charging out costs to continue un-questioned for years, those who have failed to provide adequate long term, ecologically sound planning for meeting our true water needs. -- "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 jims at greens.org Thu May 7 16:26:07 2009 From: jims at greens.org (Jim Stauffer) Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 16:26:07 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Action Needed Today To Support Key Electoral Reform Legislation in CA Assembly Message-ID: <4A036E0F.2060808@greens.org> At the monthly meeting last night we had a brief presentation on implementing IRV from Blair Bobier of the New America Foundation. In addition to updating us on the status of Santa Clara's nascent IRV exploration, he encouraged us all to write to the Assembly regarding AB 1121. Here's the action alert from Californians for Electoral Reform with all the details. Jim ======================================================================= ACTION NEEDED TODAY TO SUPPORT KEY ELECTORAL REFORM LEGISLATION IN CA ASSEMBLY TAKE ACTION TODAY: SUPPORT KEY ELECTORAL REFORM LEGISLATION IN CALIFORNIA AB 1121 -- Davis -- Local Option for Ranked Voting PLEASE CONTACT MEMBERS OF THE CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE TO URGE SUPPORT FOR AB 1121 Your help is needed now to move key electoral reform legislation in the California Assembly. In February, Assembly Member Mike Davis introduced AB 1121, legislation to give a limited number of local governments (i.e. cities and counties) the option to use instant runoff voting (IRV) and choice voting to elect their representatives. Choice voting is a ranked system similar to instant runoff voting, only designed to work when electing multiple winners, such as for a city council. Charter jurisdictions already have the opportunity to use these improved electoral systems, but three-fourths of all California cities and counties are "general law" jurisdictions and are not able to use these systems. AB 1121 would begin to address this by allowing up to a maximum of 10 general law cities or counties to use ranked voting. This bill would not affect charter jurisdictons. PLEASE CONTACT MEMBERS OF THE CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE TO URGE SUPPORT FOR AB 1121 We need your help to move this legislation in the Assembly. We need you to contact the members of the Assembly Appropriations, and urge their support AB 1121 when the bill is heard in committee on May 13th. You can call, fax, email, or send a postal letter. Written comments, especially handwritten letters, have the greatest impact, but do whatever works for you. But do it soon, as the hearing is on May 13th. For more information, see Background or Talking Points or Supporters below. CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE Assembly Member Kevin de Leon (D-45) Chair, Assembly Appropriations Committee Postal: California State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0045 Email: Assemblymember.deLeon at assembly.ca.gov Phone: (916) 319-2045 Fax: (916) 319-2145 Assembly Member Jim Nielsen (R-02) Vice Chair, Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee Postal: California State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0002 Email: Assemblymember.Nielsen at assembly.ca.gov Phone: (916) 319-2002 Fax: (916) 319-2102 Assembly Member Tom Ammiano (D-13) Postal: California State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0013 Email: Assemblymember.Ammiano at assembly.ca.gov Phone: (916) 319-2013 Fax: (916) 319-2113 Assembly Member Charles Calderon (D-58) Postal: California State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0058 Email: Assemblymember.Calderon at assembly.ca.gov Phone: (916) 319-2058 Fax: (916) 319-2158 Assembly Member Mike Davis (D-48) ? Author of AB 1121 ? No need to contact, except for "thank you" contacts Postal: California State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0048 Email: Assemblymember.Davis at assembly.ca.gov Phone: (916) 319-2048 Fax: (916) 319-2148 Assembly Member Michael Duvall (R-72) Postal: California State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0072 Email: Assemblymember.Duvall at assembly.ca.gov Phone: (916) 319-2072 Fax: (916) 319-2172 Assembly Member Felipe Fuentes (D-39) Postal: California State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0039 Email: Assemblymember.Fuentes at assembly.ca.gov Phone: (916) 319-2039 Fax: (916) 319-2139 Assembly Member Isadore Hall III (D-52) Postal: California State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0052 Email: Assemblymember.Hall at assembly.ca.gov Phone: (916) 319-2052 Fax: (916) 319-2152 Assembly Member Diane Harkey (R-73) Postal: California State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0073 Email: Assemblymember.Harkey at assembly.ca.gov Phone: (916) 319-2073 Fax: (916) 319-2173 Assembly Member Dave Jones (D-09) Postal: California State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0009 Email: Assemblymember.Jones at assembly.ca.gov Phone: (916) 319-2009 Fax: (916) 319-2109 Assembly Member Jeff Miller (R-71) Postal: California State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0076 Email: Assemblymember.Miller at assembly.ca.gov Phone: (916) 319-2071 Fax: (916) 319-2171 Assembly Member John P?rez (D-46) Postal: California State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0046 Email: Assemblymember.John.Perez at assembly.ca.gov Phone: (916) 319-2046 Fax: (916) 319-2146 Assembly Member Curren D. Price Jr. (D-51) Postal: California State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0051 Email: Assemblymember.Price at assembly.ca.gov Phone: (916) 319-2051 Fax: (916) 319-2151 Assembly Member Nancy Skinner (D-14) Postal: California State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0014 Email: Assemblymember.Skinner at assembly.ca.gov Phone: (916) 319-2014 Fax: (916) 319-2114 Assembly Member Jose Solorio (D-69) Postal: California State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0069 Email: Assemblymember.Solorio at assembly.ca.gov Phone: (916) 319-2069 Fax: (916) 319-2169 Assembly Member Audra Strickland (R-37) Postal: California State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0037 Email: Assemblymember.Strickland at assembly.ca.gov Phone: (916) 319-2037 Fax: (916) 319-2137 Assembly Member Tom Torlakson (D-11) Postal: California State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0011 Email: Assemblymember.Torlakson at assembly.ca.gov Phone: (916) 319-2011 Fax: (916) 319-2111 If you can only write one letter, please write to Assembly Member Kevin De Leon, the Chair of Assembly Appropriations. Better still, contact all 17 members of the committee. If any member of the committee is your own local Assembly Member, please make it a top priority to contact that member. BACKGROUND AB 1121, introduced by Assembly Member Davis (D-48), would allow a small number of general law cities and counties to use ranked voting systems to elect their representatives. The bill would allow these jurisdictions to use instant runoff voting for single-winner elections or choice voting (a ranked voting system similar to IRV) for multiple-winner elections. It would also add to the state Elections Code the guidelines and procedures that registrars and equipment vendors need to count and report ranked voting elections. This bill is important in that most local jurisdictions are not able to use ranked voting systems under current law, regardless of the wishes of the governing body of those jurisdictions or the wishes of a majority of voters in those jurisdictions. Today only charter counties or charter cities can use IRV, but over three-fourths of cities and counties are general law jurisdictions and don't have these options. Over half of Californians live in a general law city, a general law county, or both. AB 1121 would allow up to a maximum of 10 general law cities or counties to use these systems, subject to voter approval. . Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) ensures that the winner of a single-winner election has the support of the majority of voters in a single election. By eliminating the need for a costly runoff election it saves local governments a lot of money -- about $1.6M per election in San Francisco alone. IRV also eliminates vote-splitting and spoiler effects, both of which undermine the public's confidence in the political process. Finally, IRV helps promote positive, issue-based campaigns with less negative campaigning because candidates will seek 2nd and 3rd choice votes in addition to 1st choice votes. San Francisco has used Instant Runoff Voting extremely successfully for five consecutive elections, and all academic and survey research shows that the results have been excellent. San Francisco voters understood IRV extremely well, used it effectively, and overwhelmingly prefer it to the old two-round runoff system that they had used for decades. Similar positive results have been seen in other cities, such as Cary (NC), Hendersonville (NC), Burlington (VT), Takoma Park (MD). Given the momentum for ranked voting building around the country ? including Berkeley, Oakland, San Leandro, Santa Clara County, Davis, Burlington (VT), Memphis (TN), Telluride (CO), Santa Fe (NM), Sarasota (FL), Aspen (CO), Minneapolis (MN), Pierce County (WA), Ferndale (MI), and Vancouver (WA) ? this bill comes at an excellent time. TALKING POINTS FOR AB 1121: 1) IRV has an extremely successful track record where it has been used Surveys of voters performed in Cary (NC), Hendersonville (NC), Burlington (VT), San Francisco (CA), and Takoma Park (MD) all showed that voters overwhelmingly understood ranked voting, with responses of good understanding being 95%, 86%, 89%, 87%, and 88%. In those same cities, voters also expressed a strong preference for using ranked voting over their old systems, with 72%, 71%, 78%, 82%, and 89%, respectively, preferring instant runoff voting over their old system. All of the available research and surveys of the usage of IRV in San Francisco support the fact that every single demographic in the city -- defined by where they live and their race, age, gender, party and political philosophy -- preferred IRV to the old runoff system. Additionally, voters two-to-one perceived the instant runoff voting system as more fair than the prior two-round runoff system. So from the standpoint of voter acceptance, ranked voting has proven exceptional in the cities that are using it. And in addition to this usage in the U.S., over 25 million people worldwide use IRV and have done so for many decades, showing that this is not something on the bleeding edge, but rather a proven system gaining acceptance in California and across the nation. And while we do think these systems are preferable in many ways to the systems in place in most jurisdictions, the bill does not seek to implement them in all jurisdictions. We are simply arguing that these systems have shown themselves to be worthy of at least being an option for general law jurisdictions, just like they are for charter jurisdictions. This bill only allows 10 cities or counties to use ranked voting as a means of gaining more experience to better inform future policy choices. 2) IRV can lead to dramatic improvements in voter participation There is a potential for dramatic improvement in voter turnout as a result of using ranked voting, especially among minority communities. San Francisco saw an estimated effective tripling of voter participation overall as a result of using ranked voting (and being able to combine two elections into a single election), and as much as a quadrupling of turnout among minority and low-income neighborhoods. Significant improvements seem likely in other jurisdictions as well, and also for local elections which coincide with the statewide primary and general elections. For an analysis of how IRV led to significant improvements in voter turnout in San Francisco, see: http://www.sfrcv.org/reports/turnout.pdf 3) IRV can save local governments considerable money There is a significant potential for cost savings by eliminating the need for expensive runoff elections, often elections with single-digit voter turnout. San Francisco alone saves around $1.6 million per election, which is real money when we are talking about local government budgets. In Los Angeles, they had a series of local runoff elections that cost $5 million dollars and only had 6% voter turnout. 4) Cities and counties deserve the opportunity to use the electoral systems that best address their unique needs . Currently, only charter cities have this opportunity, and it should be extended to all local governments. Giving general law jurisdictions the right to improve their election procedures would open up valuable new opportunities for them to achieve more representative democracy and better government. Allowing local jurisdictions to demonstrate improvements to their electoral processes allows the whole state to benefit and see what works best. 5) Our current voting systems suffer from a variety of deficits, including vote splitting and spoiler effects, and unequal representation. Spoiler and vote splitting effects can allow a candidate to be elected where the majority of people would prefer a different candidate. Our winner-take-all electoral systems ensure that a significant percentage of the population is denied representation, and this ultimately undermines the political system. In particular, minority communities suffer the most, and the Choice Voting system allowed by this legislation provides for much greater opportunities for representation than are afforded under our current at-large winner-take-all systems. 6) The lack of uniform election code support for these improved electoral systems is a significant obstacle to cities and counties and other jurisdictions that want to use these systems, and AB 1121 addresses this need. In addition, City and County officials and/or local Registrars are not put in the difficult positions of having to make up such procedures themselves. 7) Ranked voting is broadly supported See the partial list below of organizations and individuals that supported AB 1294, a prior bill on this subject that would have given the option to use ranked voting to all cities and counties in CA. SUPPORTERS OF AB 1121: Support letters for AB 112 are just beginning to be submitted to the CA legislature. We hope to see AB 1121 include similar support as that listed below for AB 1294. The current list of supporters for AB 1121 includes: - Californians for Electoral Reform (sponsor) - Secretary of State Debra Bowen - California Common Cause - FairVote ? the Center for Voting and Democracy - New America Foundation - Warren Slocum, Chief Elections Officer & Assessor-Clerk-Recorder, San Mateo County - California League of Women Voters - California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG) - League of California Cities - Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality - Marin Ranked Voting - City of Menlo Park SUPPORTERS OF AB 1294 (a similar bill from the last session) INCLUDED: - Californians for Electoral Reform (sponsor) - Secretary of State Debra Bowen - Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality - Asian Pacific American Legal Center - California Common Cause - California League of Women Voters - California Peace and Freedom Party - California Public Interest Research Group - City Clerks Association of California - City of Davis, CA - City of Fort Bragg, CA - Community Development Institute of East Palo Alto - Davis Choice Voting - Democracy for America - FairVote ? the Center for Voting and Democracy - Greenlining Institute - Kevin McKeown, Councilmember, City of Santa Monica - Latino Voters League - Latinos for America - League of California Cities - Los Angeles Voters for Instant Runoff Elections - Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) - New America Foundation - Southwest Voter Registration Education Project (SVREP) - Warren Slocum, Chief Elections Officer & Assessor-Clerk-Recorder, San Mateo County - William C. Velasquez Institute (WCVI). - Yolo County Registrar of Voters Freddie Oakley From snug.bug at hotmail.com Fri May 8 13:57:28 2009 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 13:57:28 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] FW: SF911Truth: Rep. Baldwin Calls for Executive Branch Accountability to Reverse Illegal Actions and Prevent Further Abuses In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 12:54:36 -0700 To: sf911truth at googlegroups.com From: cbrouillet at igc.org Subject: SF911Truth: Rep. Baldwin Calls for Executive Branch Accountability to Reverse Illegal Actions and Prevent Further Abuses http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/baldwin2009 (I assume this covers the crimes of 9/11...) Rep. Baldwin Calls for Executive Branch Accountability to Reverse Illegal Actions and Prevent Further AbusesCongresswoman Tammy Baldwin has introduced the Executive Branch Accountability Act of 2009 (H.Res. 417), calling on President Obama to reverse the damaging and illegal actions taken by the Bush/Cheney Administration and to collaborate with Congress to proactively prevent any further abuses of executive branch power. ?Over the past several years, serious questions have been raised about the conduct of high ranking Bush/Cheney Administration officials in relation to some of the most basic elements of our democracy: respect for the rule of law, the principle of checks and balances, and the fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights,? said Baldwin. ?We must restore Americans? faith that in a democracy, we follow the rule of law and that nobody ? even the President and Vice President of the United States ? is above the law,? Baldwin said. ?President Obama has already begun the work of reaffirming American values of justice and freedom. I commend him for his orders to close the detention facility at Guantanamo and prohibit illegal and immoral interrogation techniques. President Obama?s efforts to renew America must also include restoring executive branch accountability. We had an administration that spied on Americans, outed a covert intelligence agent, suspended habeas corpus, held people without charges and without access to counsel, and used torture and rendition. This measure lists steps President Obama can take to proactively prevent any further abuses of executive branch power and restore the public?s faith in our government,? Baldwin said. The Executive Branch Accountability Act of 2009 calls on President Obama to: * Affirm our nation?s commitment to uphold the Constitution; * Fully investigate Bush/Cheney administration officials? alleged crimes and hold them accountable for any illegal acts; * Hold accountable Bush/Cheney Administration officials who showed or show contempt for the legal duty to comply with Congressional subpoenas; disclosed the identity of any covert intelligence agent; pursued politically-motivated prosecutions; * Ensure that any Bush/Cheney administration official guilty of a war crime is prosecuted under the War Crimes Act and the Anti-Torture Act; * Affirm that it is the sole legal right of Congress to declare war; * Criminalize lying to Congress and the American public about the reasons for going to war; * Restore the writ of habeas corpus as an essential principle of our democracy; * Ensure that torture and rendition are uniformly prohibited under United States law; * Responsibly close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp; * Ensure that Americans can bring claims against their government; * Immediately take affirmative steps to protect all Bush/Cheney Administration documents; * Publicly review potential abuses of the presidential pardon process; and * Further reform the use of presidential signing statements. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sf911truth" group. 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URL: From andid at cagreens.org Sat May 9 15:34:20 2009 From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey) Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 15:34:20 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] =?windows-1252?q?Single_Payer_Alert_-_Contact_S?= =?windows-1252?q?enator_Baucus=97POSSIBLE_STREET_ACTION=3F=3F=3F?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <78EBE836-3372-45FC-817F-30777DBCAE7C@cagreens.org> Don, I saw the YouTube footage of the Mad Max Baucus response to the attempt to educate the committee. Horrifying demonstration of our weakened US Democracy. Could we take to the streets in large cities and in places where peace activists carry signs to protest with placards that say: Mad Max's Health Care hearing denies Single Payer Advocates any seats at the May 11th hearing! Call 800-578-4171 ?option 1?and DEMAND that Single Payer Advocates TESTIFY AT THE MAY 11TH HEARING!!! (Honk if you agree!) Could we organize this fast? Would it help? Do you have other and better ideas than just call his office (and be ignored)? Andrea (Medical Writer and single payer advocate for over 25 years) 408-306-1900 On May 9, 2009, at 8:56 AM, wrote: > Contact U.S. Senator Max Baucus > Put Single Payer Healthcare on the Table for Discussion > > Dear Single Payer Activist, > > The extent to which the Senate Finance Committee and the White > House are going to ban discussion of the Single Payer Healthcare is > ridiculous. > > Please contact Senator Baucus and demand that the Single Payer > Healthcare option be put on the table for discussion. > > Senate Financial Committee hearings are now being held to determine > the fate of America?s healthcare. The chair of the committee, > Senator Max Baucus from Montana, has said that all options are on > the table except for the single payer option. The majority of > doctors favor single payer and numerous polls have shown American > people want single payer healthcare. We are forwarding the alert > sent from the Physicians for a National Health Plan below. It > gives details of the latest hearing and how to contact Senator > Baucus. Eight single payer advocates were arrested at last > Tuesday?s hearing. The next hearing is on Tuesday, May 11. > > The banning of the single payer option reflects the decision of the > White House to ban single payer discussion at the April 6 Regional > White House Healthcare Summit in Los Angeles. Despite the fact > that the California Legislature has twice voted for Senate Bill > 810, and despite the fact that 600 people were outside the summit > asking for single payer to be discusses, a discussion of health > policy was forbidden. The ploy used was to limit discussion to > wellness. While taking care of ourselves is important, a wellness > discussion should not be used as a way to ban Californians from > expressing their support for single payer healthcare. > > We encourage you to forward this alert. > > Please let me know if you have contacted Senator Baucus. > > ___ I have contacted Senator Baucus. > ___ I have forwarded this alert. > > Thank you. > Don Bechler > Chair ? Single Payer Now > 415-695-7891 > www.singlepayernow.net > > Dear PNHP Colleagues, > > As you may be aware, three PNHP physicians, along with five other > single-payer advocates, were arrested Tuesday after speaking up in > a dignified way for single payer at the beginning of a Senate > Finance Committee "public roundtable discussion" on health reform. > > Drs. Margaret Flowers, Carol Paris, Pat Salomon and the others took > this extraordinary and courageous step after it became clear that > Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Committee, was > determined to disregard the tens of thousands of requests - via > letters, e-mails, phone calls, faxes and personal visits - urging > him to invite a supporter of single-payer health reform to the > discussion, i.e. to put single payer "on the table." > > Dr. Flowers' statement about why she and the others took this > action, which carries a potential six-month jail sentence, appears > below. Her subsequent appearance on MSNBC television's Ed Show with > host Ed Schultz is remarkable. We urge you to watch it here. Our > news release about the event also appears below. > > The group's action has resulted in an outpouring of support for > them from all over the country and an increase in media interest in > single-payer national health insurance, with articles appearing in > the online Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, the > Associated Press, Politico, the Congressional Quarterly, and the > Kaiser network, among other places. It also resulted in a surge in > radio and television talk show appearances. > > This Tuesday, May 12, the Senate Finance Committee is holding its > third and last roundtable on health reform. PNHP has formally > submitted the names of two outstanding physicians, Drs. Marcia > Angell and Steffie Woolhandler, to testify as expert > witnesses. As of this hour (Friday afternoon), however, no single- > payer supporters have been invited. (You can call Sen. Baucus' > office in Washington and urge him to extend the invitations at > 202-224-2651, or e-mail him here.) > > Around the same time that the hearing is taking place inside, a > demonstration of physicians, nurses and other supporters of single > payer will take place outside the Dirksen Senate Office > Building in Washington at 9:30 a.m. The group will gather outside > the main entrance of the building at 1st Street and Constitution > Avenue NE. If you live in the vicinity and can attend, please do. > If you're a physician, wear your white coat. (All participants are > encouraged to wear black in remembrance of those who have died > because they lacked health insurance.) > > If you prefer to seek a place inside the hearing, we recommend > arriving at the hearing room (106 Dirksen) by 7:30 a.m. The hearing > will begin at 10 a.m. > > For more information, contact Dr. Margaret Flowers via e-mail at > nose1 at aol.com or call her at 410-591-0892. > > Secondly, on Wednesday, May 13, a "Single-Payer Solidarity Rally" > will take place in Washington as part of National Nurses Week. The > activity will begin at 11:45 a.m., when participants gather at the > Washington Court Hotel. They will then march to a rally at Upper > Senate Park (near the Union Station Metro Stop), which will take > place from noon until 2 p.m. > > Leading the charge is the California Nurses Association which > expects 500 nurses to lobby and rally for single payer in the > nation's capital. Joined by the Leadership Conference for > Guaranteed Health Care, of which PNHP is a part, we want to use > this opportunity to make the single-payer message loud and strong > for our legislators to hear. Wear your white coat! > > Speakers will include Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT); Rep. John Conyers > Jr. (MI-14); Rep. Eric Massa (NY-29); Rose Ann DeMoro, CNA/NNOC > executive director; Mike Farrell, actor (http://www.1payer.net/ > videos/24-medicare-for-all/218-everybody-in-nobody-out.html); Dr > Margaret Flowers, PNHP; and John Sweeney, president AFL-CIO. > > If your schedule permits, please participate in one or both of > these actions in Washington next week. > > Cordially, > > > > Quentin D. Young > National Coordinator > Mark Almberg > Communications Director > Why we risked arrest for single-payer health care > By Margaret Flowers, M.D. > > On May 5, eight health care advocates, including myself and two > other physicians, stood up to Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and the > Senate Finance Committee during a "public roundtable discussion" > with a simple question: Will you allow an advocate for a single- > payer national health plan to have a seat at the table? > > The answer was a loud, "Get more police!" And we were arrested and > hauled off to jail. > > The fact that a national health insurance program is supported by > the majority of the public, doctors and nurses apparently means > nothing to Sen. Baucus. The fact that thousands of people in > America are dying every year because they can't get health care > means nothing. The fact that over 1 million Americans go into > bankruptcy every year due to medical debt - even though most of > them had insurance when they got sick - means nothing. > > And so, as the May 5 meeting approached, we prepared for another > one of the highly scripted, well-protected events that are supposed > to make up the "health care debate" using standard tools of > advocacy. We organized call-in days and faxes to the members of the > committee requesting the presence of one single-payer advocate at > the table of 15. Despite thousands of calls and faxes, the only > reply - received on the day before the event - was, "Sorry, but no > more invitations will be issued." > > We knew that this couldn't be correct. We had heard Sen. Baucus say > on that very same day that "all options were on the table." And so, > the next day, we donned our suits and traveled to Washington. We > had many knowledgeable single-payer advocates in our group. And as > the meeting started, one of us, Mr. Russell Mokhiber, stood up to > say that we were here and we were ready to take a seat. And he was > promptly removed from the room. > > In that moment, it all became so clear. We could write letters, > phone staffers, and fax until the machines fell apart, but we would > never get our seat at the table. > > The senators understand that most people want a national health > system and that an improved Medicare for All would include > everybody and provide better health care at a lower cost. These > facts mean nothing to most of them because they respond to only one > standard tool of advocacy: money, and lots of it. > > The people seated at the table represented the corporate interests: > private health insurers and big business and those who support > their agenda. The people whose voices were heard all represented > organizations which pay huge sums of money to political campaigns. > These interests profit greatly from the current health care > industry and do not want changes that will hurt their large, > personal pocketbooks. > > And so, we have entered a new phase in the movement for health care > as a human right: acts of civil disobedience. It is time to > directly challenge corporate interests. History has shown that in > order to gain human rights, we must be willing to speak out and > risk arrest. We must engage in actions that expose corporate fraud > and corruption. We must make our presence known. > > And that is why the eight of us, knowledgeable health care > advocates and providers, most of us parents, some of us > grandparents, spoke out one-by-one at the Senate Finance Committee. > And it is why we will continue to speak out and encourage others to > do the same. Our voices must be strong enough to drown out the > influence of corporate dollars. > > Health care must become the civil rights movement of this decade. > The opportunity is here. And we can create a single-payer national > health care system. > > Yes, we can. > > ***** > > Dr. Margaret Flowers is a pediatrician in Baltimore and co-chair of > the Maryland chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program > (PNHP). Her statement was co-signed by Mark Dudzic, Labor Campaign > for Single Payer; Russell Mokhiber, Single Payer Action; Carol > Paris, M.D., PNHP; Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW!; Pat Salomon, > M.D., PNHP; Adam Schneider, B'more Housing for All; and Kevin > Zeese, ProsperityAgenda.us. > > For Immediate Release > Contact: > May 5, 2009 > Russell Mokhiber > > Katie Robbins > > Margaret Flowers, M.D., Physicians for a National > Health Program - Maryland chapter > > Kevin Zeese, ProsperityAgenda.us > > Mark Almberg, PNHP, (312) 782-6006, mark at pnhp.org > Doctors arrested protesting exclusion of single-payer at Senate > Finance Committee > VIDEO footage: > Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) reacts to protesters, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKP05AyfRsI > > Russell Mokhiber, Single Payer Action, speaks at hearing > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5vhTtxad30 > > Margaret Flowers, MD & Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zOShsL4UJo > > Carol Paris, MD, PNHP > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdIUcrVxGwA > > Mark Dudzic, Labor Campaign for Single-Payer Healthcare > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1nl32aAh7M > > Adam > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I26EkvnjZuQ > > Pat Salomon, MD & Kevin Zeese > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDHJH7W-ZEo > > WASHINGTON - Doctors and other advocates of a national single-payer > health system - also known as an improved Medicare for All - > directly confronted senators at a Senate Finance Committee > "roundtable" on health reform today. > > One-by-one, eight single-payer advocates in the audience stood up > during the opening comments of the hearing and asked why single- > payer experts were being excluded from the proceedings. They each > spoke out in turn until they were removed from the committee > hearing room and arrested, one-by-one, by U.S. Capitol police. > > The doctors and others said that a publicly funded, privately > delivered single-payer system is the only solution to the crisis > plaguing our nation's non-system of health care, noting that single- > payer national health insurance would guarantee coverage for > everyone and contains costs. > > Despite polling that shows a clear majority of public and physician > support for a single-payer system, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chair > of the Senate Finance Committee, has stated on multiple occasions > that single payer is "off the table" of health reform. > > Today's round table, the second of three, consisted of 15 witnesses > with no single-payer advocates among them. By contrast, several > witnesses have direct ties to the for-profit, private health > insurance industry. > > The doctors and activists were dressed in black, which they said > was in memory of the 22,000 people who die every year due to lack > of health insurance. They represented a coalition of single-payer > advocacy organizations including Physicians for a National Health > Program (PNHP), Healthcare-NOW, Single Payer Action, Private Health > Insurance Must Go, the Campaign for Fresh Air and Clean Politics, > Prosperity Agenda, and Health Care for the Homeless. > > "Health insurance administrators are practicing medicine without a > medical license," said Dr. Margaret Flowers, co-chair of Maryland > chapter of PNHP. "The result is the suffering and death of > thousands of patients for the sake of private profit. The private > health insurance industry has a solid grip on patients, providers > and legislators. It is time to stand up and declare that health > care is a human right." > > Much to the frustration of Baucus, the multiple disruptions > demanding single-payer be on the table set the tone for the second > of three roundtables on Health Reform by the Senate Finance Committee. > > Katie Robbins, assistant national coordinator of Healthcare-NOW, > said: "The current discussion on health reform is political theater > at its best. Our elected officials are hosting these events to go > through the motions of what developing effective national health > policy should look like. There is a big difference between getting > health policy experts in the room and the witnesses here today who > would profit the most from reform. That difference means our hard- > earned dollars will go to further insurance industry profits, not > to guarantee health care to the American people." > > "It's a pretty spectacular display of raw political power," said > Russell Mokhiber of Single Payer Action. "The health insurance > industry demands that not one of the 15 people who testified today > shall be a single-payer advocate. And the industry gets what it > wants. It's time for the American people to storm the gates and > demand - put single payer on the table." > > Single payer is successfully implemented in the United States' own > Medicare system providing comprehensive care to the elderly, as > well as in many of the best health care systems in the world. A > single-payer system, as embodied in legislation H.R. 676 and S. > 703, would provide guaranteed, quality care to all Americans with > no increase in U.S. health spending. > > The single-payer advocates said they will continue to use direct > actions and nonviolent civil disobedience to urge the inclusion of > a publicly funded, privately delivered system. > > Other methods of communication with elected officials have failed > in delivering the demand for single-payer national health care as > evidenced by the exclusion of single-payer advocates from > official hearings on health reform. > > ### > > Healthcare-NOW! is a national grassroots advocacy organization in > support of single-payer national health care with a network of > activists in 42 states. More information can be found at > www.healthcare-now.org > > Single Payer Action is a nonprofit activist fueled organization. > Find out more at www.singlepayeraction.org > > Maryland Chapter Physicians for a National Health Program is a > chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program (www.pnhp.org), > a nonprofit research and education organization of 16,000 > physicians, medical students and health professionals who support > single-payer national health insurance. More information can be > found at www.md.pnhp.org > > Prosperity Agenda includes single payer national health care as one > of the policy changes needed to create an economy that benefits all > Americans, not just the wealthiest. www.prosperityagenda.us. > Prosperity Agenda is an economic justice project associated with > The Campaign for Fresh Air & Clean Politics > (www.FreshAirCleanPolitics.net). > > > Physicians for a National Health Program > 29 E Madison Suite 602, Chicago, IL 60602 > Phone (312) 782-6006 | Fax: (312) 782-6007 > www.pnhp.org | info at pnhp.org > ? PNHP 2009 > > If you no longer wish to receive alerts from PNHP, please email us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Baucus sneered at them and told them they would get more > police. That gave all of Baucus' fellow insurance flunkies (and > all the other clowns in the hearing room) a big laugh. Then Baucus > hypocritically told the audience how much he respected single > payer, as the police were arresting eight people who just wanted to > present a point of view. I am angry about this arrogant abuse of > power. If you are angry, now is your chance to tell Baucus. Call > 800-578-4171, choose option 1, and connect to his office. if no > one answers, it probably is because Baucus is too chicken to even > listen to the angry messages. > Alternatively, call each one of his offices in Montana. Here are > the phone numbers: Billings > (406) 657-6790; Bozeman (406) 586-6104; Butte (406) 782-8700; > Great Falls (406) 761-1574, (406) 452-1117 (TDD); Helena (406) > 449-5480; Kalispell (406) 756-1150;Missoula (406) 329-3123; > Washington D.C. (202) 224-2651(Office),(202) 224-9412 (Fax) > Contact Information > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > www.1payer.net > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Forward email > > This email was sent to maryayers at comcast.net by > kkoldewyn at cnewhall.com. > Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with > SafeUnsubscribe? | Privacy Policy. > Email Marketing by > > HealthJustice | 57 W. 200 South, Suite 101 | Salt Lake City | UT | > 84101 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From the_alliance47 at yahoo.com Sat May 9 18:55:35 2009 From: the_alliance47 at yahoo.com (Edward) Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 18:55:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Berkeley Torture Mastermind Could Face Disbarment Message-ID: <383228.21705.qm@web54302.mail.re2.yahoo.com> The following article may be of interest.-Edward Professor John Yoo Could Face DisbarmentBy Katie Meyer for The Daily CalifornianFriday, May 8, 2009 Lawyers who advised the Bush administration on interrogation techniques-including UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo-will likely not undergo criminal investigation, according to an internal U.S. Department of Justice inquiry that was released Wednesday. The report by the department's Office of Professional Responsibility instead recommends the former Office of Legal Counsel lawyers have their legal licenses revoked. Yoo, who authored memos supporting the legality of techniques such as waterboarding and sleep deprivation, may be disbarred if the State Bar of Pennsylvania acts on the report, said Stephen Rosenbaum, lecturer at Boalt Hall School of Law. The report, which will be published this summer, may affect his Boalt tenure, according to Boalt spokesperson Susan Gluss. Yoo is currently on leave as a visiting professor at Chapman University School of Law in Orange, California. "One can argue about the appropriateness of someone teaching in a law school who has expressed those interpretations of the law," Rosenbaum said. In the memos, Yoo argued that interrogation techniques should match the suspected crimes of detainees. "One may not use deadly force in response to a threat that does not rise to death or serious bodily harm," Yoo wrote to the Defense Department in March 2003. "If such harm may result, however, deadly force is appropriate." Campus and UC officials will ultimately decide whether Yoo will stay on campus if he is disbarred, according to Christopher Kutz, a law professor and vice chair of the campus's Academic Senate. Boalt Hall Dean Christopher Edley has consistently defended Yoo's tenure, citing First Amendment rights. "The dean is always mindful of the interplay between academic freedom, which is the right to express an opinion no matter how vile or odious, and the need for law professors to abide by the highest ethical and professional standards," Gluss said. She said Edley will review the report before deciding if Yoo should lose his position at Boalt. Boalt faculty do not have to be members of the bar, but being disbarred may cast doubt on Yoo's ability to teach law, said Kutz. "I do not believe that the memos are professionally adequate statements about the law, nor did the Justice Department-they repudiated all the memos written by John Yoo," he said. Stephanie Tang, an organizer for the anti-war group World Can't Wait, said Yoo's tenure is unethical. "We think that the dean is wrong, that academic freedom does not protect the construction of the legal green light for the Bush administration to carry out torture," she said. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbrouillet at igc.org Sun May 10 11:37:42 2009 From: cbrouillet at igc.org (Carol Brouillet) Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 11:37:42 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] The Capitol Steps in Palo Alto Message-ID: The Capitol Steps come to Palo Alto While schools across the state of California hold their breath as they wait to find out what politicians will do with their funding next year, the students of the Gunn High School Robotics Team have taken the offensive. They are hiring the comedy troupe Capitol Steps to lampoon the politicians. And Silicon Valley spectators will love the robotics display during intermission. A staple on public radio, the Capitol Steps is the only group in America that attempts to be funnier than the Congress. This troupe of former Congressional staffers is sure to upset those right, left and center. Putting the "mock" in democracy, the Steps leave no issue untouched with their own special brand of satirical humor and scathing parody. This is a benefit for the Gunn Robotics Team and the cost of the ticket over $20 is a tax deductible donation. { Sunday, May 17th, two shows, at 4pm & 7pm { Capitol Steps Political Satire { Spangenberg Theater, Gunn High School , 780 Arastradero Rd , Palo Alto { Tickets: www.ticketweb.com or at the Gunn Student Activities Office { $35, $45 and $50. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From WB4D23 at aol.com Sun May 10 20:42:52 2009 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 23:42:52 EDT Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Berryessa Arts and Wine Festival Tabling Report Message-ID: Saturday was a warm, but not overly hot day in the Berryessa area... It looked to me that the vendors area was full and bustling compared to the last few years when there was empty space in that field. On the other hand, there seemed to be a lot fewer people in the bandstand/nonprofits area in the field just uphill from the community center... And the bandstand seemed to have holes in its afternoon program (e.g., the folk duo and rock band usually performing in the afternoon were absent this year). Caroline and Warner did set up; Cameron came by after noon; Jim Stauffer came by in midafternoon and did take-down with Warner and deposited the tabling equipment and supplies at Warner's house. Caroline came by and retrieved those items (except plants) today (Sunday afternoon). We received donations for one box of seeds, a painted rock and buttons (probably less than $20 total -- which is low for this event; usually we "sell" lots of buttons). Caroline or Tian mentioned that someone has bumper stickers, but those were not evident in the tabling supplies received. Both the plants and painted rocks drew attention to our tabling. We distributed literature over the day; again, probably a much smaller amount than usual for this event. Jim and I ran into a complaint from one of the event organizers when we had almost completed our take-down at about 4:30 pm. We were told that the GPSCC had signed a "contract" that we were supposed to stay up until 5 pm. His point also was the event organizers did not want traffic adjacent to the area to be seeing take-downs or an empty field before 5 pm so observers would not think the event had finished before 5 pm. (We ran into this complaint last year also when I closed down with Caroline's help around 4 pm -- at that time, I didn't care because of suffering from heat exhaustion from much hotter temperatures). Jim and I hung around an extra twenty minutes (after 10 minutes of vociferous conversation) until 5 pm with everything set next to the canopy and the canopy half down. I would like to see the document. If that is the agreement for participating in the event, whoever signs off on it needs to provide those instructions to tablers. This was the second year in a row that I did the whole day. I think this event is worth doing... particularly next year when (hopefully) we will have statewide candidates for Governor, etc. (BTW: Anyone going to run for the AD23 seat including Berryessa?) But... I am not sure I am going to be willing to do the whole day again; we need more volunteers for tabling at all events!!! So... I have the starter plants; a reasonable variety. I think our next tabling event is Juneteenth in downtown San Jose. If folks are going to do other tabling before then and want plants, contact me to arrange a pick-up day and time. Warner **************The Average US Credit Score is 692. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222376999x1201454299/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&bcd=M ay51009AvgfooterNO62) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Mon May 11 08:13:17 2009 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 08:13:17 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Juneteenth Message-ID: <18496.48788.qm@web81205.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Our next tabling opportunity is Juneteenth, I think. I don't know much about this, but I do know I have all the stuff, and I will be in North Carolina for Juneteenth. SO, anybody who wants to have the stuff should either come and get it or tell me you want it, and I'll bring it to the June meeting. "Stuff" includes canopy, banner, rocks, button machine, buttons, literature, seeds, and some seed literature. Warner and Drew (and maybe Carol) have plants. Caroline -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tnharter at aceweb.com Mon May 11 13:24:41 2009 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 13:24:41 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Carpool to the Statewide meeting? Message-ID: <4A088989.9050906@aceweb.com> I was talking to Andrea last evening, and we are looking into renting a car that will hold a carpool for the trip to Venice. The plan is to be out of the bay area by rush hour on Friday, and come back Sunday night or Monday. Anybody else interested in being part of this? Many carpool buddies make light bills and interesting conversations on I-5... -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: added clippings giving Bush Admin. accomplices bad press. From carolineyacoub at att.net Mon May 11 14:35:55 2009 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:35:55 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] FW: Silicon Valley Branch 1st Birthday Celebration & Green Building Expo - Tuesday, 5/12/09 Message-ID: <509338.80930.qm@web81201.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Anybody want to go? --- On Mon, 5/11/09, Randy Potter wrote: From: Randy Potter Subject: FW: Silicon Valley Branch 1st Birthday Celebration & Green Building Expo - Tuesday, 5/12/09 To: "Randy Potter" Date: Monday, May 11, 2009, 10:03 AM Dear Vox Greenline Subscriber, ? For those of you who are Bay Area residents, there is a great Green Building Event Tomorrow evening (Tues. 5/12) from 5:30-8:30 pm in Santa Clara, the Silicon Valley Chapter of the US Green Building Council will host a birthday celebration and green building expo at Santa Clara University.? Vox Design Group and Reliance Management Group will have a booth at the Green Building Expo, there will also be the opportunity to tour the Santa Clara University Solar Decathlon house Project; ? Silicon Valley Branch 1st Birthday Celebration & Green Building Expo - May 12, 2009 USGBC-NCC Silicon Valley Branch celebrates its one year anniversary next Tuesday, May 12th, with an exhibition to showcase some of our local Green Resources. Chapter Executive Director Dan Geiger will be on hand for the cake-cutting ceremony and a special climate change delgation from the Australian State of Victoria will be attending to share information about green building best practices and opportunities in Australia. 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I mean . . . should he have been impeached or did President Ford do the right thing?" Jonathan Turley says Reid "refuses to acknowledge the overwhelming evidence and admissions of torture as sufficient evidence to submit the matter to a prosecutor instead of a Senate committee. Reid attempts to portray the various reports and investigations as a 'rush to judgment' and insists that we lack the facts." http://jonathanturley.org/2009/05/10/reid-torture-might-have-been-illegal-but-still-right-thing-to-do/#more-10790 In other Accountability News, WaPo reveals that staffers of the Senate intelligence committee are reviewing emails and interviewing interrogators, a "top secret" 2004 CIA inspector general's report is set for release that concludes that many interrogation techniques violated the UN Convention against Torture, and that they can't be sure that interrogations have aided the foiling of specific attacks. It was apparently this report that inspired the CIA to ask in May 2005 that Steven Bradbury write new memos providing legal justification (after the earlier Yoo/Bybee memos had been rescinded by Jack Goldsmith). http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/09/AR2009050902489.html?hpid=moreheadlines Finally, Elizabeth de la Vega reassures us that we need not fear time running out on the statute of limitations for the torture crimes because the conspiracy to commit torture was still ongoing as of January 20, 2009. http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/21729 And Condi admitted to participation in that conspiracy in the Reyna Garcia tape when she said she passed on orders from Bush to do the enhanced interrogations. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijEED_iviTA _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail?. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd1_052009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This may be one time (dare I say it?) when a cross-endorsement by the Green Party may be worth consideration. http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_12347013 >From Contra Costa Times http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/election/marcy-winograd-to-challenge-ja/ >From LA Weekly http://www.counterpunch.org/solomon05122009.html >From Counterpunch Alex Walker -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From the_alliance47 at yahoo.com Tue May 12 10:37:56 2009 From: the_alliance47 at yahoo.com (Edward) Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 10:37:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Single-Payer Alert Message-ID: <223958.57171.qm@web54306.mail.re2.yahoo.com> I noticed that in late March, Senator Sanders (VT-I) introduced a bill in Senate (S.703), which advocates for single-payer. The text of the legislation was not immediately available, but when it came out, I was surprised at what he was proposing. Along with Rep. McDermott's (WA-D) HR 1200, there is now competing legislation with the Conyers bill HR 676 in Senate. (Note: Honda co-sponsored this bill in the 110th Congress, but has not signed on again; Eshoo and Lofgren are still MIA). The main difference between HR 676 and S703/HR1200? HR 676 would have one national single-payer system while the other bills would have 50 state single-payer systems. Physicians for a National Health Programme have put together this PDF summarising the differences between the two: http://www.md.pnhp.org/docs/Comparison-HR676-and-S703.pdf Where does the GPUS and GPCA stand on individual state plans? It sounds sketchy to me, but what do you all think about it? -Edward -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I'd suggest that insofar as it's legal that in general pursuing alliances with Democratic primary challengers would be a good strategy in races where Greens are running unopposed by other Greens. We'd work with the challenger in the primary, and their people would work for the Green in the General. As Democrats become increasingly disaffected with their own party and increasingly drawn to the Greens, we could find Dem challengers' campaigns a rich recruiting ground for organizers, candidates, and donors. To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org; gplac-forum at lists.cagreens.org; gpca-mediawg at lists.cagreens.org Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 11:08:04 -0400 From: alexcathy at aol.com Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] F.Y.I. - Marcy Winograd of PDA Challenging Jane Harman in DEM Primary F.Y.I. Marcy Winograd, prominent national leader of the Progressive Democrats of America formally announced a challenge to Democratic Congresswoman Jane Harman yesterday. See links below. Of course, just by being a big shot Democrat, Winograd automatically gets more media coverage than any Green (sigh). More turmoil among Los Angeles Democrats. It will be interesting to see how the L.A. Democratic Party Machine "liberals" will handle a challenge to the really awful Jane Harman -- one of the worst Bush enablers this side of Joe Lieberman. This may be one time (dare I say it?) when a cross-endorsement by the Green Party may be worth consideration. http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_12347013 >From Contra Costa Times http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/election/marcy-winograd-to-challenge-ja/ >From LA Weekly http://www.counterpunch.org/solomon05122009.html >From Counterpunch Alex Walker A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. 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TODAY at 4:45 PM outside Wilbur East Side Dining Hall: Condoleezza Rice will be moderating a discussion with George Shultz at Wilbur dining. Stanford Says No to War will hold a quiet & peaceful protest outside Wilbur East Side Dining Hall. We will have banners, flyers, and poster board for people to write their own messages on. We will be making signs at 4:45 in the afternoon and continuing in protest until the end of the dinner at 7 pm. Our goal is to spread awareness about the actions of both Condoleezza Rice and George Shultz as former high government officials. All are welcome to join us. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail? has a new way to see what's up with your friends. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/WhatsNew?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_WhatsNew1_052009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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SANTA CLARA STREET SAN JOS?, CA 95113 City Hall Wing - Room W242 See you there, Blair Bobier Deputy Director, Political Reform Program New America Foundation office: 415.682.4819 mobile: 415.601.7052 web: www.newamerica.net email: bobier at newamerica.net **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221322936x1201367173/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=115&bcd =Mayfooter51209NO115) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Tue May 12 17:59:06 2009 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 17:59:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Single-Payer Alert In-Reply-To: <223958.57171.qm@web54306.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <779900.87004.qm@web81202.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Well Edward, considering how often people move, how terribly one state can be devastated by a natural disaster, and the huge difference between what states pay for education, I'd say having 50 plans would not be a great idea. On the other hand, if it passed, I would quickly move to the state with the best plan. Caroline --- On Tue, 5/12/09, Edward wrote: From: Edward Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Single-Payer Alert To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 10:37 AM I noticed that in late March, Senator Sanders (VT-I) introduced a bill in Senate (S.703), which advocates for single-payer. The text of the legislation was not immediately available, but when it came out, I was surprised at what he was proposing. Along with Rep. McDermott's (WA-D) HR 1200, there is now competing legislation with the Conyers bill HR 676 in Senate. (Note: Honda co-sponsored this bill in the 110th Congress, but has not signed on again; Eshoo and Lofgren are still MIA). The main difference between HR 676 and S703/HR1200? HR 676 would have one national single-payer system while the other bills would have 50 state single-payer systems. Physicians for a National Health Programme have put together this PDF summarising the differences between the two: http://www.md.pnhp.org/docs/Comparison-HR676-and-S703.pdf Where does the GPUS and GPCA stand on individual state plans? It sounds sketchy to me, but what do you all think about it? -Edward _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net Wed May 13 11:50:20 2009 From: j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net (Jim Doyle) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 11:50:20 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] green pesentation Message-ID: <4A0B166C.9080004@sbcglobal.net> *3. **California** Interfaith Power & Light "Grow Green" presentation: Transportation *Thursday, May 14, 7-9pm Congregation Etz Chayim 4161 Alma St., Palo Alto Join us for these monthly presentations and opportunities to network. From JamBoi at Greens.org Thu May 14 12:53:57 2009 From: JamBoi at Greens.org (Drew Johnson) Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 12:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Tonight, Palo Alto: green presentation on transportaion In-Reply-To: <4A0B166C.9080004@sbcglobal.net> References: <4A0B166C.9080004@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: <55994.76.126.236.53.1242330837.squirrel@www.greens.org> On Wed, May 13, 2009 11:50, Jim Doyle wrote: > *3. **California** Interfaith Power & Light "Grow Green" > presentation: Transportation > > *Thursday, May 14, 7-9pm > Congregation Etz Chayim > 4161 Alma St., Palo Alto > Join us for these monthly presentations and opportunities to network. > > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss > From tnharter at aceweb.com Thu May 14 23:24:49 2009 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 06:24:49 +0000 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Living in a Bubble: The Rise of Omnitopia Message-ID: <4A0D0AB1.5010006@aceweb.com> > > > *Andrew Wood* > > > *Living in a Bubble: The Rise of Omnitopia* > > > > Andrew Wood, an associate professor in the Communication Studies > department at San Jose State University and author of the recently > published book ?City Ubiquitous: Place, Communication and the Rise of > Omnitopia? (Hampton Press), defines omnitopia as follows: > > ?When you can flow from place to place, experiencing it all as one > vast interior, cocooned in your own bubble, interacting with other > people and natural parts of the world only as a series of objects, > you're in omnitopia.? > > As an experiment in 2004, Andrew flew to New York intending to drive > the 3000 miles back to San Jose without saying more than 10 words a > day to the people he encountered. As it turned out, he spoke only five > words during the cross country trip through airports, motels, > restaurants and gas stations. > > Andrew will describe his research on the rise of omnitopia and its > enabling technologies (ATMs, cell phones, laptops, credit-card > readers, ticket kiosks, iPods, online shopping), and discuss the > implications of the increasing availability of technologies that > remove the need for personal interaction. > Wood began by telling us that he grew up in a small town in Georgia. Now living in about the most ethnically homogeneous enclave around here, Scotts Valley, it is hard for him not to be aware of that. He started his research into Omnitopia when he realized that more and more of our interaction with the world is intermediated by stuff. Wood was somewhat tweaked by the way so many of his students were cocooned in their own little worlds. He thought he had made up the term "Omnitopia" (from the Latin for "all" and the Greek for "place") until he found references to the term in other peoples work. Since getting that inspiration he has made it his field of study. Omnitopia began in the 19th Century, maybe in Parisian arcades or the Worlds fair in London. I really got going at the 1939 Worlds Fair in New York, where people rode conveyor belts past visions of the future that included such high tech wonders as freeways and TV sets, which were still new ideas nobody had seen in real life at the time. Many people walked away from the experience with buttons that said "I have seen the future", and in fact much of it did happen. Wood guesses the peak of omnitopia today is the Las Vegas strip, where you have New York, NY on one side of the street and the Eiffel Tower on the other, with many other things jangled into the experience. Wood has identified five practices that he feels are key to omnitopia: dislocation, conflation, fragmentation, mobility, and mutuality. He took each of the five and showed a few slides and talked about the way the term works in terms of the modern American landscape. Dislocation - was definrd as the separation of a miniaturized version of "the world" from the real world outside. He spoke to the general uprootedness of the suburban culture that seems to never make anybody that comfortable. Conflation - the image was of the Las Vegas Strip, a jangle of different influences in a scientifically designed space where commerce could be isolated from the dangers of an unscripted urban experience. Fragmentation - the way in which monolithic structures are depicted to have varied facades, each suggesting a sense of unique experience that nonetheless affirm the same structure. The image here was a strange modern building, where every side was curved and reflected light in unexpected ways. Mobility - the image here was the interstate highway system, where "you can see the whole USA and not feel like you've seen any of it" or the airport, which is designed to be a place you ignore while going through it. Mutability - the image here was a Lexus ad in which places and people conform to our technologically-aided editing, as we enjoy a comfortable cocoon with the controls at our fingertips. Wood recommends "reverence" as an alternative to omnitopia, showing us images of personal memorials to individuals and some of the quirky Americana along Route 66. He explained that caring about place is part of disengaging from a scripted mainstream experience created by people that just want your money. He finished by saying we could find out more at cityubiquitous.com, woodlandshoppersparadise.com, or on twitter at omnitopia. There was a lot of Q&A. The USA's most famous media bubble is the one around the President. Omnitopia is all around us, it's not in either Burning Man or Mall of America or both. Books Wood recommended include The Art of the Motor by Paul Verillio and translated by Julie Rose and/or A Small Place by Jamaica Kincad. -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: added clippings giving Bush Admin. accomplices bad press. From fredd at freeshell.org Fri May 15 19:02:51 2009 From: fredd at freeshell.org (Fred Duperrault) Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 19:02:51 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Living in a Bubble: The Rise of Omnitopia Message-ID: <4A0E1ECB.8040005@freeshell.org> >Tian, Thanks for a great summary. Sorry I missed Andrew Wood. Fred > > *Andrew Wood* > > > *Living in a Bubble: The Rise of Omnitopia* > > > > Andrew Wood, an associate professor in the Communication Studies > department at San Jose State University and author of the recently > published book ?City Ubiquitous: Place, Communication and the Rise of > Omnitopia? (Hampton Press), defines omnitopia as follows: > > ?When you can flow from place to place, experiencing it all as one > vast interior, cocooned in your own bubble, interacting with other > people and natural parts of the world only as a series of objects, > you're in omnitopia.? > > As an experiment in 2004, Andrew flew to New York intending to drive > the 3000 miles back to San Jose without saying more than 10 words a > day to the people he encountered. As it turned out, he spoke only five > words during the cross country trip through airports, motels, > restaurants and gas stations. > > Andrew will describe his research on the rise of omnitopia and its > enabling technologies (ATMs, cell phones, laptops, credit-card > readers, ticket kiosks, iPods, online shopping), and discuss the > implications of the increasing availability of technologies that > remove the need for personal interaction. > Wood began by telling us that he grew up in a small town in Georgia. Now living in about the most ethnically homogeneous enclave around here, Scotts Valley, it is hard for him not to be aware of that. He started his research into Omnitopia when he realized that more and more of our interaction with the world is intermediated by stuff. Wood was somewhat tweaked by the way so many of his students were cocooned in their own little worlds. He thought he had made up the term "Omnitopia" (from the Latin for "all" and the Greek for "place") until he found references to the term in other peoples work. Since getting that inspiration he has made it his field of study. Omnitopia began in the 19th Century, maybe in Parisian arcades or the Worlds fair in London. I really got going at the 1939 Worlds Fair in New York, where people rode conveyor belts past visions of the future that included such high tech wonders as freeways and TV sets, which were still new ideas nobody had seen in real life at the time. Many people walked away from the experience with buttons that said "I have seen the future", and in fact much of it did happen. Wood guesses the peak of omnitopia today is the Las Vegas strip, where you have New York, NY on one side of the street and the Eiffel Tower on the other, with many other things jangled into the experience. Wood has identified five practices that he feels are key to omnitopia: dislocation, conflation, fragmentation, mobility, and mutuality. He took each of the five and showed a few slides and talked about the way the term works in terms of the modern American landscape. Dislocation - was definrd as the separation of a miniaturized version of "the world" from the real world outside. He spoke to the general uprootedness of the suburban culture that seems to never make anybody that comfortable. Conflation - the image was of the Las Vegas Strip, a jangle of different influences in a scientifically designed space where commerce could be isolated from the dangers of an unscripted urban experience. Fragmentation - the way in which monolithic structures are depicted to have varied facades, each suggesting a sense of unique experience that nonetheless affirm the same structure. The image here was a strange modern building, where every side was curved and reflected light in unexpected ways. Mobility - the image here was the interstate highway system, where "you can see the whole USA and not feel like you've seen any of it" or the airport, which is designed to be a place you ignore while going through it. Mutability - the image here was a Lexus ad in which places and people conform to our technologically-aided editing, as we enjoy a comfortable cocoon with the controls at our fingertips. Wood recommends "reverence" as an alternative to omnitopia, showing us images of personal memorials to individuals and some of the quirky Americana along Route 66. He explained that caring about place is part of disengaging from a scripted mainstream experience created by people that just want your money. He finished by saying we could find out more at cityubiquitous.com, woodlandshoppersparadise.com, or on twitter at omnitopia. There was a lot of Q&A. The USA's most famous media bubble is the one around the President. Omnitopia is all around us, it's not in either Burning Man or Mall of America or both. Books Wood recommended include The Art of the Motor by Paul Verillio and translated by Julie Rose and/or A Small Place by Jamaica Kincad. -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: added clippings giving Bush Admin. accomplices bad press. _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss From alexcathy at aol.com Sat May 16 08:32:02 2009 From: alexcathy at aol.com (alexcathy at aol.com) Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 11:32:02 -0400 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] My California Greening Post on Desperate Arnold Message-ID: <8CBA45298667716-A10-17A2@webmail-mh24.sysops.aol.com> Desperate Arnold/DEMS Make 'Terroristic' Threats The nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California found that Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's approval rating down around 34%. More than half of all Republicans, Democrats and independents disapprove of the job the "Governator" is doing. The same found that 80% of the voters disapprove of the Democratic Party-controlled California state legislature. Now, on the eve of a vote on the "bipartisan" budget package, comes the "Governator" making threats about layoffs and cutbacks if Californians do not bend to his will Are folks finally ready to admit that Peter Camejo, our Green Party candidate for governor, was right when he said at the first recall election debate in 2003: "Look at this debate today. Do you really want to go back to when there's only two people allowed in them, where you hear the same points of view over and over again? We have a two-hundred year, dysfunctional, money-dominated, winner-take-all system." The Green Party of California released a statement Friday blasting Arnold's latest move. Read More on California Greening at: http://cagreening.blogspot.com/2009/05/desperate-arnolddems-make-terroristic.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Clara Greens who might want more info, or maybe to get involved with the local Green group... .... i did manage to register one woman [from Los Gatos] the other day who seemed genuinely interested in at least getting more info about the Green Party (GPUS/GPCA), and the local Green organization, as well as hearing of upcoming projects and events, if any (?)... She has 3 young teenaged sons [12 - 15 range]and spoke of wanting to expose them to (progressive) politics as well... --------- So we have a couple of tasks: contact the person, (and simultaneously provide a "hook") provide a doable task (table in Los Gatos or Saratoga?) "introduce teenagers to politics" (hand out flyers, door to door, connect with teachers, ..., campaign for student body office - making use of our campaign training videos) Jim Doyle From alexcathy at aol.com Wed May 20 14:56:51 2009 From: alexcathy at aol.com (alexcathy at aol.com) Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 17:56:51 -0400 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] How Do You Find Vote Tally By Units Smaller Than Cities or Counties? Message-ID: <8CBA7AD040D8138-1278-179F@webmail-db17.sysops.aol.com> I've asked this question before.? How do you find election results in Los Angeles by district?? I want to know yesterday's vote in Los Angelers at least by legislative or city council districts.? Big citywide or countywide aggregate numbers won't help me. Alex Walker -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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(3) Maybe I'm dreaming, but I'm hoping that Condi's claim that Bush gave the orders, and Hughes's and Zelikow's claims that they dissented are calculated indications by these folks (the youngest of the Bush insiders, by the way) that they are willing to rat Bush and Cheney out. 1. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104350361 2. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/main/6429833.html 3. _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail?. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd1_052009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Two days after the special election, the lead editorial in The Los Angeles Times calls for a state constitutional convention: = = = = = = = = = = = Los Angeles Times Editorial: California Needs a State Constitutional Convention Rebooting Sacramento by rewriting the state's Constitution seems to be the only way to move beyond financially broke and politically broken. May 21, 2009 California is stuck. Schools are about to lay off teachers. Prisons are about to release inmates. Historic assets are on the block. Initiatives confuse. Revolts fail. No amount of electing and reelecting people who promise to fix things seems able to move us forward. It's time to reboot. There have been calls for months now to convene a state constitutional convention and, in essence, start over. It's a good idea. The state Constitution runs to two fat volumes in print and is padded each year by new voter initiatives or legislative propositions. In the end, it's just a document. It's not the enemy. But retooling is one necessary step to make the state function better. Of course, all kinds of things can go wrong. How would delegates be picked? Would unions control a convention, or union-busters, or Proposition 8 advocates or opponents? A poorly structured convention or one populated by self-interested fringe delegates could do more harm than good. Every care must be given to the details, and it is essential to include in the initiative that authorizes a convention -- alas, there must be a ballot measure -- restrictions on what it would be allowed to address. One benefit: A convention could push the Legislature to accept deeper, more far-reaching reforms than it might otherwise. One provocative notion being floated by the reform group California Forward would devolve decision-making on taxing and spending back to counties and cities, realigning the relationship between state and local government. In another year, lawmakers might scoff at the prospect. Fear of a convention may encourage ingenuity. The Bay Area Council, which is leading the charge for a convention, has put "proportional representation" in the Legislature at the top of its wish list. Interesting choice. We're curious to see whether voters already angry at Tuesday's barely comprehensible ballot measures will embrace something quite so cutting-edge. No convention -- in fact, no statewide fix -- will work if it consists simply of one interest group's shopping list. The Times has made no secret of its position against the two-thirds legislative threshold for tax increases and budgets, and we will keep pushing to overturn it. But the point is to get more ideas on the table. Prepare for the season of reform and reinvention. A tax reform commission is to release its report in July. Political parties and candidates will focus on next year's gubernatorial election. It's not time to back away from government; it's time to engage it, and change it. Over the coming weeks and months, this page will not be shy about asking questions and offering suggestions. Bring on the ideas. Bring on the convention. Read the Original Editorial at: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-convention21-2009may21,0,4920003.story Also Leave a Comment on my blog at: http://cagreening.blogspot.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From snug.bug at hotmail.com Thu May 21 18:38:09 2009 From: snug.bug at hotmail.com (Brian Good) Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 18:38:09 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Eshoo Voted for the $90B plus Funding for Afgham & Iraq Wars In-Reply-To: <4A15C15B.8080703@freeshell.org> References: <4A15C15B.8080703@freeshell.org> Message-ID: SUPPORT OUR OOPS! > Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 14:02:19 -0700 > From: fredd at freeshell.org > To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Eshoo Voted for the $90B plus Funding for Afgham & Iraq Wars > > Santa Clara House Reps., Lofgren & Honda voted against the war funding > bill while Eshoo voted for it. > > fd > _______________________________________________ > sosfbay-discuss mailing list > sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org > http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail? goes with you. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Mobile1_052009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Caroline --- On Thu, 5/21/09, Fred Duperrault wrote: From: Fred Duperrault Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Eshoo Voted for the $90B plus Funding for Afgham & Iraq Wars To: "South SF Bay Discuss at CA Greens" Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 2:02 PM Santa Clara House Reps., Lofgren & Honda voted against the war funding bill while Eshoo voted for it. fd _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss From carolineyacoub at att.net Fri May 22 21:29:35 2009 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 21:29:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: Energy and Commerce Committee Passes American Clean Energy and Security Act Message-ID: <689795.92914.qm@web81203.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Gee, sounds good to me. --- On Fri, 5/22/09, Anna Eshoo wrote: From: Anna Eshoo Subject: Energy and Commerce Committee Passes American Clean Energy and Security Act To: carolineyacoub at att.net Date: Friday, May 22, 2009, 1:57 PM Having trouble viewing this email? Click here http://campaign.constantcontact.com/render?v=001aqj1QInodGSEsn89VOUfxknHsphwoxOk8sF8F1YoDtlLoflAD3GXvzDc0i8FzRAnw94Houo7qoDdnwO0lTMcIO2xKeRQzXfici23T2GjbCplgACpnkqS2tMKmKcx4-MD7lRpOwmxrEKP_7u1CMAjdpjwbl3ZkO46nk-ePFSBBQBs2o8bGNeA30TCatuM6ySLoVRXtnpA1emUP8apQRurqzrX-tF_9VEcwMX3T1hzvvEZEvq9YawDRSL-BFxnmgzf May 22, 2009 During this entire week as a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, we debated, wrote, and passed the American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act.? This is an historic effort to shape a new energy future for our country, to move the United States to a leadership position to address global climate change, and finally break our addiction to fossil fuels and advance alternative sources of energy here at home.? I believe it's the most important legislation in a generation. The legislation is comprehensive and will protect consumers, promote research and development, and deploy clean energy technologies in the U.S.? It focuses on creating green jobs and addresses the transitions that workers will have to make so that our economy will be globally competitive, and it moves us closer to a sustainable and secure energy future. The American Clean Energy and Security Act will create millions of new clean energy jobs, save consumers hundreds of billions of dollars in energy costs, enhance America's energy independence, and cut global warming pollution.? To meet these goals, the legislation has four titles: ???? A clean energy title that promotes renewable sources of energy, carbon capture and sequestration technologies, clean electric vehicles, and the smart grid and electricity transmission. ???? An energy efficiency title that increases energy efficiency across all sectors of the economy, including buildings, appliances, transportation, and industry. ???? A global warming title that places limits on emissions of heat-trapping pollutants.? This legislation would cut global warming pollution by 17% compared to 2005 levels in 2020, by 42% in 2030, and by 83% in 2050.? These are science-based targets and within the range agreed to by USCAP. ???? A transition title that protects U.S. consumers and industry and promotes green jobs during the transition to a clean energy economy. The legislation has received wide support from electric utilities; energy companies; manufacturing, industry, and corporate companies; labor unions; and community and environmental organizations.? Click here to see a comprehensive list of companies, organizations and unions that support the legislation. I'm extremely very proud that the American Clean Energy and Security Act includes several provisions I wrote which will help achieve these goals: ???? My bill, H.R. 1742, the Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Act is included in the American Clean Energy and Security Act.? This language authorizes the Secretary of Energy to provide financial assistance for regional deployment and integration of grid-connected vehicles. Funds may be used for offsetting the incremental cost of purchasing new plug-in electric drive vehicles, deployment of electric charging stations or battery exchange locations, or facilitating the integration of smart grid equipment with plug-in electric drive vehicles. Makes data and results from the regional deployments publicly available. ???? A provision I wrote to double the eligible size of distributed generation renewable energy projects, which includes solar energy projects, was also adopted into the legislation.? This will incentivize larger scale solar projects which will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and help bring down the price of these valuable solar technologies over the long term.? The greatest challenge the U.S. solar market faces is scaling up production and distribution of solar energy technology to drive the price down to be on par with traditional fossil fuel sources. My provision in the bill will help expand and drive the solar market. ???? The ACES Act includes my amendment to create a National Clean Technology Business Competition to help accelerate the growth of clean technology companies which will create green jobs in America by providing early stage start-up companies with targeted training, mentoring, and incentives and by making the investment community an active partner in the competition.? ???? The American Clean Energy and Security Act also includes my amendment to drive the adoption of energy efficient information and communications technologies in the federal government.? The U.S. government is world's largest user and customer of information technology (IT) and energy.? Chief Information Officers, who are responsible for the federal government's IT systems, should be accountable for the energy costs of these systems and rewarded for savings brought about through increased efficiencies.???A coordinated effort to reduce energy use and speed the adoption of new technologies in the federal government will save taxpayer dollars and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We come to this task in the midst of the worst economic crisis in generations.? We now have the opportunity to set a new direction for the American economy ? to create new jobs, clean jobs, sustainable jobs ? to enlist the great American work ethic in the uniquely American task of reinventing ourselves again.? There are many more steps ahead with the American Clean Energy and Security Act and I will keep you updated on its progress and implementation. As always, I rely on and value your thoughts and ideas on issues you care about, so please let me hear from you.? Sincerely, Sincerely, Anna G. Eshoo Member of Congress Forward email http://ui.constantcontact.com/sa/fwtf.jsp?m=1101115513627&ea=carolineyacoub%40att.net&a=1102589145899 This email was sent to carolineyacoub at att.net by eshoo.newsletter at mail.house.gov. Update Profile/Email Address http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?p=oo&v=001NI6EII-P7iQliNDx1Q1ym0g4IqfAR1MDuTSKbn1jktwoUMUrEY4pZ3FwITvXUZSwyGx2Yjqog9wNWmiAzv7VFA%3D%3D Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe(TM) http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?p=un&v=001NI6EII-P7iQliNDx1Q1ym0g4IqfAR1MDuTSKbn1jktwoUMUrEY4pZ3FwITvXUZSwyGx2Yjqog9wNWmiAzv7VFA%3D%3D Privacy Policy: http://ui.constantcontact.com/roving/CCPrivacyPolicy.jsp Email Marketing by Constant Contact(R) www.constantcontact.com Rep. Anna Eshoo | 698 Emerson Street | Palo Alto | CA | 94301 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Face) Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 00:54:34 GMT Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Prop 8 Day of Decision events this Tuesday, May 26 Message-ID: <20090523.175434.19228.2@webmail05.vgs.untd.com> FYI, some basic info on three Santa Clara County events. See www.dayofdecision.com for more cities and events. When the CA Supreme Court announces their decision on Proposition 8, we must act! We are calling you to join us for a rally in celebration or protest on the day of the decision. Protests will occur nationwide and our voices will be heard! We hope that we will come together in celebration, but must know that even in celebration we have many more battles to win and need to unite on the day of decision in one loud voice. San Jose: March from Plaza de Cesar Chavez to San Jose City Hall, meeting at 6:00 PM with step off at 6:30 PM. Contact: Gloria Nieto at glorianieto at comcast.net Palo Alto, 2 events: Rally: 11:00 AM at corner of El Camino Real and Embarcadero (across from Stanford University entrance at Galvez/El Camino). Contact: info at raginggrannies.com Candle Light Vigil: 6:00 to 8:00 PM. The Peninsula Marriage Equality Coalition will be hosting a candle light vigil and/or celebration at the corner of Embarcadero and El Camino the evening of the decision. Contact: larry.lanoue at gmail.com ____________________________________________________________ Get the best Criminal Lawyer. Click Here http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTOVoL1dKWQDwlyLSeLSw32GHFM1Hsg6g4ZesF3hqCzLpxrXQ3SuuE/ From tnharter at aceweb.com Sun May 24 21:21:15 2009 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 04:21:15 +0000 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: Approaching 5,000] Message-ID: <4A1A1CBB.1060600@aceweb.com> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Approaching 5,000 Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 13:06:12 -0700 From: david ledesma As of today, May 21, 2009, U.S. Troop deaths: Iraq = 4,299 Afghanistan = 686 TOTAL = 4,985 Iraqi's: 1,200,000+ ** * The Saturday and Sunday AFTER the 5,000th death is reported, join _One Voice!_ at the corner of Stevens Creek & Winchester for an End The Occupations Of Iraq And Afghanistan NOW protest. Three years ago corporate media polls showed 62% of Americans wanted all U.S. troops out of Iraq within one year. That was THREE years ago! Today it is estimated over 160,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq (including 210,000 private military contractors). President Obama is keeping his promise of escalating Afghanistan by 30,000 more U.S. troops. And as promised during a campaign debate, President Obama has extended the violence of the occupations into Pakistan. We must take this message to our community: STOP THE KILLING! All U.S. troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan NOW! Reparations to the Iraqi and Afghan people! Full medical benefits for all U.S. combat troops! Stop Militarizing Our Youth! Free Palestine! David Ledesma, One Voice! Please Distribute Widely! * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hotmail? goes with you. Get it on your BlackBerry or iPhone. -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: pictures and words about the GPCA meeting in Ventura. From the_alliance47 at yahoo.com Sun May 24 21:28:00 2009 From: the_alliance47 at yahoo.com (Edward) Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 21:28:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Approaching! Message-ID: <72614.92728.qm@web54301.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Are we planning on doing anything in San Jose or up in SF to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre on June 4, 2009? The Communist Party of China continues its unrestrained use of the death penalty, censorship of press and speech, outlawing freedom of religion, and arcane one-child policy (often leading to the intentional infanticide of female babies). Furthermore, it insists on denying the sovereignty of the 23 million people residing in the Republic of China (Taiwan), which has blossomed into one of the most free societies on Earth in the past 20 years. The authoritarian regime of Mainland China also continues working with other human rights abusers such as the military junta in Burma, remaining silent on the continued detention of Burmese Prime Minister-elect Aung San Suu Kyi. For more information on the current status of the People's Republic, check out Amnesty International and Freedom House reports. -Edward -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cls at truffula.sj.ca.us Mon May 25 09:46:04 2009 From: cls at truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer) Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 09:46:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Approaching! Message-ID: <20090525164604.135E66A924@truffula.sj.ca.us> Can you find a local protest we can show up at? -Cameron >Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 21:28:00 -0700 (PDT) >From: Edward >To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org >Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Approaching! >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1568372547-1243225680=:92728" >--0-1568372547-1243225680=:92728 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Are we planning on doing anything in San Jose or up in SF to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre on June 4, 2009? >The Communist Party of China continues its unrestrained use of the death penalty, censorship of press and speech, outlawing freedom of religion, and arcane one-child policy (often leading to the intentional infanticide of female babies). Furthermore, it insists on denying the sovereignty of the 23 million people residing in the Republic of China (Taiwan), which has blossomed into one of the most free societies on Earth in the past 20 years. >The authoritarian regime of Mainland China also continues working with other human rights abusers such as the military junta in Burma, remaining silent on the continued detention of Burmese Prime Minister-elect Aung San Suu Kyi. >For more information on the current status of the People's Republic, check out Amnesty International and Freedom House reports. >-Edward From carolineyacoub at att.net Tue May 26 00:12:09 2009 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 00:12:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] FW: Picket Max Baucus - Tues 6pm May 26 in SF TOMORROW!! Message-ID: <132496.28253.qm@web81205.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --- On Mon, 5/25/09, Lynn Huidekoper wrote: From: Lynn Huidekoper Subject: FW: Picket Max Baucus - Tues 6pm May 26 in SF TOMORROW!! To: "Lynn Huidekoper" Date: Monday, May 25, 2009, 11:05 PM #yiv699941766 .hmmessage P { margin:0px;padding:0px;} #yiv699941766 { font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;} #yiv699941766 .ExternalClass .EC_hmmessage P {padding:0px;} #yiv699941766 .ExternalClass body.EC_hmmessage {font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;} Picket Senator Max Baucus 6pm Tues. May 26 in SF He has been banning discussion of Single Payer in DC 2436 Jackson St ? San Francisco between Steiner and Fillmore in Pacific Heights ? Dear Healthcare Activist, ? We just found out that Senator Max Baucus of Montana is the featured speaker at a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee meeting on Tuesday evening. He has banned discussion of single payer legislation in his Finance Committee hearings.? So far, he has had 13 doctors and nurses arrested for trying to bring up a discussion of single payer. ? Can you picket with us on Tuesday from 6pm to 7pm at 2436 Jackson St? Can you forward this alert? Can you help call our phone tree? ? Please bring a sign. Suggested signs ? Why is Senator Baucus Banning Discussion of Single Payer? We Demand a Discussion of All Healthcare Options Put Single Payer on the Table Healthcare Yes! Insurance Companies No! Support HR 676 ? ___ I plan to attend the picket ___ I have forwarded this alert ___ I can call our phone tree ? Thank you. Don Bechler Chair - Single Payer Now 415-695-7891 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From JamBoi at Greens.org Tue May 26 05:05:09 2009 From: JamBoi at Greens.org (Drew Johnson) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 05:05:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] FW: [SFGP] TONIGHT: GREEN VICTORY PARTY w/ Mirkarimi, Snyder and Benfield!] Message-ID: <50236.76.126.236.53.1243339509.squirrel@greens.org> ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [SFGP] TONIGHT: GREEN VICTORY PARTY w/ Mirkarimi, Snyder and Benfield! From: "Announcement list for SF Green Party, updated weekly" Date: Tue, May 26, 2009 00:05 To: "SFGP Newsletter" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Tonight (TUESDAY) AT MADRONE FROM 5-9PM...* *Come celebrate the 2 most recent victories of the SF Green Party, Ross Mirkarimi's appointment to the CA Coastal Commission, and Dave Snyder's appointment to the Golden Gate Bridge Commission!* Two important bodies which have the power to influence important environmental decisions in our region. *Garrin Benfield and others performing live!!!* http://www.garrin.com *Live music, djs, specialty infused cocktails, a full bar with a great happy hour from 5-8pm, and a few inspirational words from some of our city's most dedicated political leaders!* * Help us buid the buzz by confirming at:* http://sanfrancisco.going.com/event-609123;Green_Victory_Party_at_Madrone_Lounge AND http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=97742743131 Then share it with your friends! Join us for a night of fun and celebration at Madrone, an art lounge featuring exhibits of emerging and established artists of all types including painting, photography, mixed media, sculpture, video, film, design, fashion, spoken word, and dance. Currently showing new art by: Dennis Mcnulty ?So the city crawled out from its? hiding place? - A large scale wall art piece. AND Alphonzo Solorzano ?Dont Go Behind The Clouds? -A series of recent mixed media works & installation. So come on out for the fun and give these Greens a round of applause for their recent appointments! *Madrone Lounge is at 500 Divisadero St on the corner of Fell.* *NO COVER! * ========= *Also this week, no movie night, just the party and the GM...* * Wednesday, May 27 7-9 pm - General Membership Meeting Agenda: intro/accreditation - 5 min discuss recent GG Park privatization efforts, such as proposed $5 fee to go in arboretum (JMC, 15 min) discuss current status of Restore Hetch Hetchy (Max Szabo, 20 min) strategic planning - what do we want to accomplish over the next year? (1 hr) announcements (10 min) 1028A Howard Street (between 6th and 7th streets) http://www.sfgreenparty.org/ _______________________________________________ San Francisco Green Party Announcement List To unsubscribe, go here: http://list.sfgreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/announce -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From JamBoi at Greens.org Tue May 26 05:06:31 2009 From: JamBoi at Greens.org (Drew Johnson) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 05:06:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] FW: [G-C-F] A Greener Germany Message-ID: <50242.76.126.236.53.1243339591.squirrel@greens.org> ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [G-C-F] A Greener Germany From: "garden beekeeper" Date: Fri, May 22, 2009 08:22 To: cal-forum at marla.cagreens.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The BBC has an article today on Greens in Freiburg (Baden-Wurttemburg), the largest city in Germany where the Green Party is in power: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markmardell/ Here is the Wiki on Freiburg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiburg Scroll down to the modern history and note that the Oberburgermeister, Dieter Salomon is a Green. Greens earn up to 25% of the vote citywide and reached over 40% in some neighborhoods in the 2002 national elections. Peace, Will Yeager _______________________________________________ cal-forum mailing list cal-forum at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/cal-forum -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From WB4D23 at aol.com Tue May 26 21:03:45 2009 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 00:03:45 EDT Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] GPSCC General Meeting Wednesday June 3rd Agenda Topics Message-ID: To Whomever Is Putting Together The Agenda For Our Next Monthly Meeting: What is status of Juneteenth tabling plans? What is the status of plans to join in the Gay Pride march? Do we want to have brief reports from the Venice Plenary? Is San Mateo County going to be sponsoring a picnic this summer? Congrats to the County Council for its individualized support of KKUP during the Bob Dylan Birthday marathon last Sunday that included on air mention of the Green Party of Santa Clara County. Warner **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222377034x1201454326/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&bcd= MaystepsfooterNO62) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tnharter at aceweb.com Wed May 27 10:39:18 2009 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 17:39:18 +0000 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Request for Agenda Items for June 3re Message-ID: <4A1D7AC6.4000500@aceweb.com> Agenda for the Green Party of Santa Clara County meeting on June 3rd, 2009 This is what I have so far: Introductions and brief announcements from all present. Pick facilitator, timekeeper, note taker, vibes watcher. (5 min) State Party Business: Report back on Venice Plenary. (10) Treasurers report Tabling report Juneteenth Regional picnic Please submit more agenda items by Tuesday night late. -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: pictures and words about the GPCA meeting in Venice. From alexcathy at aol.com Wed May 27 13:29:33 2009 From: alexcathy at aol.com (alexcathy at aol.com) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:29:33 -0400 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Will "Intellectual Property" Help or Hurt "Green" Technology? Message-ID: <8CBAD20FAECD668-14C0-A2@webmail-dg05.sysops.aol.com> Posted on California Greening, May 27, 2009. Will "Intellectual Property" Help or Hurt "Green" Technology? by Alex Walker Does patent law, trade marks, trade secrets, and such hinder technical innovation? More particularly, will "Intellectual Property" hurt or help "Green" technology? The provocative article below was published by the Independent Institute. When I saw it posted on Dick and Sharon's LA Progressive web site, I remembered the interest of Wes, Cameron, and some of my other "Silicon Valley" Green Party friends in these questions. I am not familiar with the Independent Institute, but the arguments sound "libertarian." I would suggest that Greens throw away the naive libertarian's faith in the capitalist marketplace and keep what information and insight is useful. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Posted on LA Progressive, Tuesday, May 26, 2009. Intellectual Monopoly is an Unnecessary Evil by Art Carden "In a rush to stimulate the economy, the Obama administration is touting various "visionary" plans to make the American economy more progressive, more innovative, and more forward-looking by subsidizing politically-motivated projects like "green" technology. These hands-on policies will be ineffective. Recent research suggests that a much more effective way to accomplish the same goals would be to eliminate intellectual monopoly and to reduce the regulatory burdens on innovators..." Read More and comment at: http://cagreening.blogspot.com/2009/05/will-intellectual-property-hurt-or-help.html? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carolineyacoub at att.net Wed May 27 18:48:31 2009 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 18:48:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: Bill Moyers to Re-Air This Sat at 6 PM A fantastic program that you don't want to miss! Message-ID: <215964.8452.qm@web81202.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In case you missed it, a GREAT discussion on Single Payer health care. --- On Tue, 5/26/09, Lynn Huidekoper wrote: From: Lynn Huidekoper Subject: Bill Moyers to Re-Air This Sat at 6 PM A fantastic program that you don't want to miss! To: "Lynn Huidekoper" Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 7:24 PM #yiv1590691782 .hmmessage P { margin:0px;padding:0px;} #yiv1590691782 { font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;} #yiv1590691782 .ExternalClass .EC_hmmessage P {padding:0px;} #yiv1590691782 .ExternalClass body.EC_hmmessage {font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;} Carol received an email and I received a voicemail message from KQED today about their computer problems they have had for several weeks. She also told me that you can see the program this Sat. at 6P. You can also see it online and look at the Blog about it which had many postings.:?http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05222009/watch2.html From: ymple at msn.com To: ymple at msn.com Subject: Bill Moyers to Re-Air This Sat at 6 PM Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 13:00:28 -0700 #yiv1590691782 .ExternalClass .EC_hmmessage P {padding:0px;} #yiv1590691782 .ExternalClass body.EC_hmmessage {font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;} I received the following e-mail from?Bill Moyers Journal. ***************************************************************** ? > Subject: RE: webform: Bill Moyers Journal > Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 15:17:34 -0400 > From: moyersonpbs at thirteen.org > To: ymple at msn.com > > Hi there- > > It appears that your station experienced some technical difficulties > that affected the broadcast of this past week's edition of the JOURNAL. > We have been told that that episode of the JOURNAL will be rebroadcast > this Saturday at 6PM if you want to see it on television. Alternately, > you can access free video and transcripts at the JOURNAL's website. > > Best, > BMJ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ymple at msn.com [mailto:ymple at msn.com] > Posted At: Saturday, May 23, 2009 2:22 PM > Posted To: moyersonpbs > Conversation: webform: Bill Moyers Journal > Subject: webform: Bill Moyers Journal > > > Carol Dalrymple > > > > > > Thank you so much for the May 22nd Journal on Single Payer. The program > was unfortunately interrupted for extended periods by 'technical > difficulties' in northern California (KQED). Please arrange for a > rebroadcast to the KQED audience. Thank you. > > [submit] = Send > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andid at cagreens.org Wed May 27 18:56:55 2009 From: andid at cagreens.org (Andrea Dorey) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 18:56:55 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] =?windows-1252?q?May_6_Minutes_=97_San_Jose_Pea?= =?windows-1252?q?ce_Center?= Message-ID: Here are the minutes from the last general meeting (May 6) at the SJ Peace Center. Andrea _____________________________________ Minutes of the Green Party of Santa Clara County San Jose Peace Center May 6, 2009 Tian Harter, Facilitator Drew Johnson, Time Keeper Andrea Dorey, Notetaker Fred Duperrault, Vibes Watcher Also present: Valerie Face, Brian Good, Warner Bloomberg, Jim Stauffer, Cameron Spitzer, Merriam Kathleen, and the speaker for the evening, Blair Bobier. Introductions and Brief Announcements: Fred gave out his bike buttons at the Mtn View Green Group, a new startup he will be attending regularly. Drew is recovered enough from his surgery to attend meetings; he also announced the One Step meeting on May 30th at the MLK Library in SJ. Warner told us that the statewide polling was successfully completed (achieved quorum). Merriam recommended meeting with the Viva Palestina group. Brian discussed the Condi Rice interview, and her anger at the protests at Stanford. Guest Speaker: Blair Bobier, one of the founders of the Green Party of Oregon, spoke a few words about IRV, which exists in principle in Santa Clara County, but has been actually used (e.g., SF County) or is coming soon in several other counties. (S Clara County has the same voting machines that were used in SF.) He asked that we contact the Assembly Appropriations Committee to support a new bill in Sacramento (AB 1121) that will establish an IRV ?pilot program? for up to 10 general law jurisdictions (nonchartered cities) in California. Blair also asked that we: 1) Contact our SJ City Council member and San Jose?s Mayor Chuck Reed to put a charter amendment before city voters that would replace the city?s 2-round runoff system with IRV. 2) Contact our S Clara County Supervisor to get the Board of Sups to authorize IRV elections, which were approved by the voters by means of Measure F in 1998. 3) Attend the free panel discussion on IRV at MLK Jr Library on June 11 at noon featuring many community leaders and officials and moderated by SJSU Prof Terry Christensen. 4) Write a letter to the editor in support of IRV. Arguments for IRV and vs 2-round elections are: IRV saves money IRV increases voter turnout IRV increases voter diversity IRV encourages more civil campaigns IRV discourages mudslinging Blair?s contacts are at Bobier at anewamerica.net or 415.682.4819 Treasurer?s report to date (May 6): Earth Day, $14.15 Earth Day, SCU, & co-mingled, $48 Spaghetti Feed (gross receipts), at door, $321; swag, $15; other, $90; subtotal, $426 Grand gross total, $488.15 HATS OFF TO THE WORKING CREW!!! (This comment from Tian?s Agenda.) Current balance in Treasury: $1,963.50 (including yet outstanding reimbursements) State Party Business: More delegates needed for the scheduled Plenary in Venice, CA during May 16-17. Warner said that those provisionally designated so far were Drew, Tian, and himself as Delegates; and Roy and Andrea as Alternates. As more gender balance was needed, Andrea asked to be a Delegate. Alternates were now to be Roy and Jim S. Tian, a county council member, volunteered to report our final list by the deadline (May 13). Agenda Package and Plenary issues: (discussed by Warner and Jim S). Elections of Secretary of State and Treasurer for the State GP Budget Bylaws for LA, proposals #1, #2, and #3 The leadoff proposal written & presented by Jim S. Concerns to be dealt with by the Delegates at this General Assembly are several: how we elect people to a coordinating committee, how many reps, how they are assigned (local vs at large), gender balance, etc. Jim also outlined the ragged history of the LA bylaws which have not yet been proposed, approved, and implemented in accordance/compliance with the state bylaws. Jim suggested that we demand proportional representation or vote ?no? on the LA bylaws proposal(s). Warner reminded the Delegates to get a bundle of the ?Focus?? newsletters, stickers, and buttons for tabling. Also discussed was the need of Delegates to be granted a stipend to cover some of the cost of attending the Plenary; this has been done routinely in the past for those who wanted the financial help, although Warner preferred that this be voted on after a notice sent out to the general membership first. After discussion, $75 per requesting Delegate/Alternate would be paid?total no more than $450. Tabling Report: Included Earthdays at SJSU and SCU; Berryessa AWF on May 9; Juneteenth weekend (Carol & Warner). Spaghetti Feed report: (Merriam & Tian) A great profitable success!! People came early to eat and stayed late to chat due to the enjoyable cabaret atmosphere cultivated by the clever committee who worked their butts off! Let?s do it again, but not spaghetti next time (too hard). New button ideas sought by Tian; several submitted to Tian. Brian Good announced that efforts to show the film ?The Loss of Liberty? on the public access TV station in Palo Alto (The Media Center) would succeed if we could get signatures from residents to request its showing. Suggested signatees were Dana and Carol B. Brian also suggested that interest in impeachment and accountability is lagging lately; Merriam also said that we need someone to run against Zoe Lofgren. Brian/Drew/ Mirriam commented on the Madeleine Albright protest planned in S Jose on June 4th. We need people there to make our points against the woman who thought bombing was worth the lives of the children it cost. Jim S announced that he is planning to resign sometime this year so the group needs to find someone to take over the job. Drew is still interested. There being no further urgent business that could not be left to next month, the meeting was adjourned at 9:45 PM. 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From carolineyacoub at att.net Fri May 29 09:37:58 2009 From: carolineyacoub at att.net (Caroline Yacoub) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 09:37:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Our relationships with our local politicians Message-ID: <421164.41326.qm@web81207.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Just a thought-- after perusing Tian's coverage of the Green celebration in SF, it crossed my mind that, if we want to be appointed to commissions, perhaps we should try to establish more cordial relations with local politicians. I grant you that they're not Green, but, unless they view us as intelligent, thoughtful, cooperative people who play well with others, it isn't very likely they will support our efforts to get into government. What do you think? Caroline -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Although the taxes to fund the system are not in SB810 there is a Premium Commission in it. This Commission which has 3 health policy economists, a Governor's appointee, the Legislative Analyst(who does the cost analysis),etc. would need to be funded in order to study and come up with a financial funding(premium)structure for the system. It therefore becomes a 2 year bill where it will be re-introduced in 2010 as SB840 was done several times. In the meantime we can build a movement through education in the meantime. Esp. businesses and Republicans. We will also work to get a pro-Single Payer Democrat Governor elected Nov. 2010. ? Statement from Senator Mark Leno Today, in response to California?s ongoing and unprecedented budget crisis, the Senate Appropriations Committee was forced to hold a large majority of the bills on its suspense calendar. SB 810, our bill to establish single payer universal health care in California, was not an exception. Faced with the loss of 25% of our General Fund revenues, the legislature must direct its undivided attention toward avoiding the gruesome cuts proposed by the Governor, which would fundamentally dismantle our most basic health, social, and educational infrastructures. Let me be clear in saying that SB 810 is alive and well in the Senate Appropriations Committee, and the next opportunity to move the bill will be in January, 2010. ?This does not represent a change to our overall strategy for SB 810 to be a 2-year bill, nor does it affect or prevent us from doing the important work we already are doing to advocate and educate the public about the importance of single payer in our communities and in the legislature. In fact, single payer health care is ultimately our best hope for a stable and secure health care system in the future, which would then help us avoid the same kinds of painful future cuts we are feeling today. ? Together we will continue our work to build a grassroots movement and use this time productively to finally bring single payer to California. ? __________________________________________ Sara Elizabeth Rogers Consultant, Health California State Senate State Capitol Room 2031 Sacramento, CA ?95814 (916) 651-4646 ------ End of Forwarded Message -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fredd at freeshell.org Fri May 29 09:48:21 2009 From: fredd at freeshell.org (Fred Duperrault) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 09:48:21 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Request for Agenda Items for June 3re Message-ID: <4A2011D5.6040705@freeshell.org> Please add a discussion re the "YES Magazine. fd Agenda for the Green Party of Santa Clara County meeting on June 3rd, 2009 This is what I have so far: Introductions and brief announcements from all present. Pick facilitator, timekeeper, note taker, vibes watcher. (5 min) State Party Business: Report back on Venice Plenary. (10) Treasurers report Tabling report Juneteenth Regional picnic Please submit more agenda items by Tuesday night late. -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: pictures and words about the GPCA meeting in Venice. _______________________________________________ sosfbay-discuss mailing list sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss From tnharter at aceweb.com Fri May 29 10:39:56 2009 From: tnharter at aceweb.com (Tian Harter) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 17:39:56 +0000 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: Did you catch the new greenie show in tv land last night? Message-ID: <4A201DEC.9050209@aceweb.com> The Goode Family show premiered last night on ABC. I was over at a friend's and they were yelling, "i can't believe all your greenies didn't tell you about this show Lisa!" the bumperstickers on the car in the opening look like the were modeled after Linda's , almost! we had to do a freeze frame to read them all--Tian you would love them. it's the most green, vegan, recycling, comical trips to the One Earth organic food market type show that i have ever seen on mainstream network tv. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goode_Family oh and btw, one of our LA Greens from the class of Nader 2000 had been a writer on the Family Guy for years and I just noticed he moved up to associate producer or something like that in recent credits. things like a Green Party booth appearing on the show and many of the political jokes i'm sure can be attributed to Patrick. cheers, Lisa Taylor -- Tian http://tian.greens.org Latest change: Ross Mirkarimi now on the California Coastal Commission! From alexcathy at aol.com Fri May 29 11:28:24 2009 From: alexcathy at aol.com (alexcathy at aol.com) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 14:28:24 -0400 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: From MoveOn -- Congressional Democrats In-Reply-To: <95fc6-3f88-4a201cb1@web01.moveon.org> References: <95fc6-3f88-4a201cb1@web01.moveon.org> Message-ID: <8CBAEA2633A5C40-310-945@webmail-da16.sysops.aol.com> Dear Green Friends, I have been a subscriber to moveon.org from 1998 when the original purpose was to censure President Clinton and then "move on." Since then, as you all well know, it has become a big time partisan Democratic Party power broker, mainly on account of raising huge amounts of money.? MoveOn has been called out lately for its "silence" on Obama's "backsliding" on a hawkish foreign policy.? Now, see below the text of an e-mail from moveon that showed up in my in-box this morning.? This very partisan, Green Party-hating, Democratic Party group, by their own account, are acknowledging that Democrats (surprise! surprise!) are playing games on energy policy as well.? As the little bumper-sticker says: "Don't blame me I voted for Cynthia McKinney." Alex Walker Los Angeles Greens -----Begin Original Message----- From: Adam Ruben, MoveOn.org Political Action To: Cathleen & Alex Walker Sent: Fri, 29 May 2009 10:34 am Subject: Democrats undermining Obama Dear MoveOn member, Remember when Dick Cheney let oil and coal lobbyists craft our nation's energy policy behind closed doors? Barack Obama may have thrown them out of the White House?but they've relocated to Capitol Hill, with the help of some powerful conservative Democrats in Congress. In weeks of often secret negotiations over this year's energy bill, these Democrats managed to not just weaken the legislation, but20even to slip in language that would prevent the Obama administration from cleaning up coal plants and oil refineries. We can't let a few conservative Democrats get away with undermining Obama's clean energy jobs plan. So we're fighting back with a massive campaign to fix the bill and expose members of Congress who are undermining Obama?but we need to know if we have the resources to pull it off. To meet our goal, it's going to take 3,000 of us donating today, which means we need 3 donations from people in Milpitas?can you chip in $35 to help out? https://pol.moveon.org/donate/epa1.html?id=16264-614342-RbOhLcx&t=3 Last week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee, led by progressive Democrats Henry Waxman and Edward Markey, passed a huge energy bill aimed at creating clean energy jobs. But unfortunately, a few conservatives on the committee were determined to weaken the bill?and working behind closed doors, they did some real damage. And what's worse?they didn't just work with Republicans to weaken the bill, they're also trying to tie Obama's hands so he can't take action on his own. The latest version of the legislation would take away the Environmental Protection Agency's existing authority to curb global warming pollution from power plants, oil refineries, and other industrial sources. Why does that matter? Because the Obama administration is already taking its own steps towards building a clean energy economy. The White House recently announced a bold plan to make cars use less gas?and the EPA is considering whether to propose new rules that would clean up coal plants and oil refineries.1 These steps could help move us toward cleaner, cheaper sources of energy and create millions of clean energy jobs?but not if Congress pulls the rug out from under President Obama before he can act. We're ramping up a major effort to strengthen the clean energy jobs bill and make sure it doesn't block Obama's efforts. Can you chip in with a contribution of $35? Thanks for all you do. ?Adam, Anna, Stephen, Peter and the rest of the team -----End Original Message----- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbrouillet at igc.org Fri May 29 12:28:17 2009 From: cbrouillet at igc.org (Carol Brouillet) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 12:28:17 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] George Bush and Bill Clinton Do Toronto: Message-ID: http://www.communitycurrency.org/bushandclinton.html George Bush and Bill Clinton Do Toronto: Pepsi versus Coke meets Republican versus Democrat Anthony J. Hall Professor of Globalization Studies University of Lethbridge 29 May, 2009 From Calgary to Toronto Just as fresh revelations keep oozing out about the broad extent of the international criminality perpetrated by the regime of the former US president, Canada is becoming the main site of a corporate-driven effort to re-brand George W. Bush as a legitimate political pundit. On May 29 Mr. Bush joins Bill Clinton on the stage of the Metropolitan Toronto Convention Centre in an event hosted by the TD Financial Group and several other sponsors. The hosts include the Calgary-based Bennett Jones law firm, the global accounting giant Ernst and Young, the Toronto Board of Trade as well as the Toronto-based Globe and Mail newspaper. The Clinton-Bush gig in Canada?s biggest metropolis is happening about a month after the former president ?tested the waters? as a public speaker by addressing an audience of 1,400 executives of mostly Texas-based oil conglomerates in an event hosted by Calgary?s Chamber of Commerce. Bush?s luncheon address was accompanied by the protests of several hundred demonstrators who advanced the case that there is a huge body of evidence already in the public domain that should be sufficient to prohibit Bush from entering Canada or, failing that, to necessitate his arrest on Canadian soil. In a widely published article, which I introduced in early March at an invited lecture at the University of Winnipeg, I outlined the legal and political terrain underlying Bush?s first major public foray outside the United States. That paper, which has proliferated widely on many Internet sites, is entitled ?Bush League Justice: Should George W. Bush Be Arrested in Calgary Alberta and Tried for International Crimes.? (1) My academic intervention was one part of a larger collective effort aimed at advancing the case that the international crimes of George W. Bush and many of his ministers and advisers have been so obvious and gigantic that citizens must mobilize globally to insist that the rule of international criminal law should be made to prevail over the rule of force and political expediency. (2) Many of the core legal principles awaiting enforcement are those that coalesced in the course of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. Its chief prosecutor, the renowned US jurist Robert Jackson, initiated the proceedings in 1945 by insisting that humanity?s future depended on removing ?immunity for practically everyone concerned in the really great crimes against peace and mankind.? No longer could ?so vast an area of legal irresponsibility? be ?tolerated? because ?because modern civilization puts unlimited weapons of destruction in the hands of men.? (3) In advancing the legal conception of universal jurisdiction the Canadian government, like that of many other countries, has internalized many elements of international criminal law into domestic legislation. Invoking key provisions of both the Immigration Act and Canada?s War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Act, Gail Davidson of Lawyers Against War informed Crown Ministers and law enforcement officials prior to the Calgary event that ?the former President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, is a person credibly accused of torture and other gross human rights violations, crimes against humanity and war crimes.? A number of other prominent jurists, including Ramsay Clark, former Attorney General of the United States, backed and extended Davidson?s legal intervention. (4) Clark?s friend and client, Splitting The Sky, was handed the responsibility of representing the legendary US jurist?s position in the Calgary protests. This prominent Mohawk veteran of the American Indian Movement, the Attica prison debacle of 1971 and British Columbia?s Battle of Gustafsen Lake was charged and briefly jailed in Calgary as a result of his concerted effort to conduct a citizen?s arrest. (5) As Clark?s controversial client will argue in an important trial that has been set to take place in Calgary in March of 2010, citizens have a responsibility to intervene proactively when law enforcement officials refuse to do their duty and thereby end up aiding and abetting criminality. (6) As the Nuremberg rulings make clear, law enforcement officials cannot evade their own responsibility for aiding and abetting international crimes by claiming that they are simply following orders. Only days after Bush was in Calgary the very same law laws that were overtly violated in permitting the credibly accused war criminal to enter the country were invoked in barring from entry George Galloway, a long-serving British parliamentarian, an untiring peace activist and one of the world?s most eloquent champions of Palestinian rights. This decision serves to highlight the propensity of Bush?s friend and ally, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, to replicate his role model?s zeal in placing himself as well as his Office on the wrong side of the rule of law when it comes to the pursuit of political objectives. Left versus Right as a Substitute for Law versus Criminality, Peace with Justice versus War Without End The so-called ?conversation? between former presidents comes at a time when hundreds of millions of global citizens have developed the view of George W. Bush as the very embodiment of the rampant criminality that has been spewing unchecked and without accountability from the highest echelons of political, military and financial power especially since the explosive events of September 11, 2001. Al Capone?s Chicago was a mere kindergarten of lawlessness compared to the amount of corruption and violence generated on a daily basis primarily by those states and corporations that have become chief protagonists in building up and exploiting the lethal yet lucrative terror economy. In the eyes of the huge and growing constituency who can no longer stomach the maelstroms of murder and mayhem wrought in our name, the lecture circuit is not the appropriate place for George Bush to tell his side of the story about his actions while controlling the world?s most formidable arsenals of military and psychological warfare. Along with the likes of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Condoleezza Rice, Bush should be presenting his self-justifications as the principle defendant in a properly constituted war crimes tribunal. The role of Bill Clinton in the Toronto event raises a host of significant issues that should not be evaded. While the former Democratic president enjoys a far rosier public image than that of the discredited Republican president, the reality is that Clinton too is a fugitive from the decrepit and ineffective agencies of international law enforcement. Clinton?s most serious infractions involve his leading role in 1999 in NATO?s illegal bombing of Serbian Yugoslavia, his tightening of the financial and trade embargo on Iraq resulting in the preventable deaths of over half a million children, and his genocidal decisions concerning how and when to intervene or not intervene in the bloody clashes of ethnically-based proxy armies and militias in Central Africa. Now a decade after Clinton helped sabotage the legitimacy of the United Nations by ignoring the Security Council?s jurisdiction in the US-led military dismemberment of multinational Yugoslavia, Hilary Clinton?s husband is lending the cache of his family dynasty to efforts to rehabilitate the reputation of the former Republican president who has made himself one of the most reviled individuals on the planet. There is something fundamentally perverse in presenting Bush and Clinton on the same Toronto stage as if the main options facing humanity are available within the narrow and flawed framework of the two main political parties in the United States. In trying to come to terms with the largely unbroken legacies of the war crimes and crimes against humanity that will forever remain the main hallmark especially of Bush the Younger, we find ourselves poised between a range of alternatives pointing towards either global cataclysm or eleventh-hour redemption of human civilization. The magnitude of these choices call on all of us to confront hard choices and realities of a much higher order of magnitude than the mythology of Republican versus Democrat, conservative versus liberal. The two-dimensional flatness inherent in this way of viewing a world composed of three or more dimensions results in the trivialization of democracy as a mere extension of the kind of marketing competition that pits Pepsi against Coke. (7) The managed and constrained competition in the political arena disguises the vast entitlements of a tiny minority that exercises near monopolistic control over the world?s largest concentrations of wealth as well as over the huge political power that accompanies the concentrated ownership of propertied capital. The impoverishment of genuine pluralism to feed to monopolistic dichotomies of left versus right props up a rigged system that corruptly rewards the masters of spin and deceit even as it tends to discredit those seeking to point humanity towards pathways of justice, equity and self-determination. These high roads of justice and law offer the only reliable routes in the journey towards collective security through shared adherence to a genuine rule of international law enforced uniformly even on those at the very pinnacle of political, military and financial power. The consequences of not following this high road of justice-- of allowing instead the rule of political expediency to trump the rule of law by failing to identify, arrest, try and punish those most responsible for perpetrating the highest order of international crime?is to continue our descent into an increasingly pervasive state of warfare, chaos and kleptocracy. Those currently overseeing this descent may misrepresent what is really going on with the rhetoric of hope, change and collective empowerment. But without a genuine determination to make the rule of law prevail over the rule of force we shall continue see our individual and collective rights and freedoms subjected to unbridled militarism, intimidation and gross exploitation of fear?s political economy. Nowhere does the convergence of threats with the tyranny of unregulated violence find fuller expression than in the proliferation of state-sanctioned torture. Torture, Ethics, Law and the Future of Human Civilization From the criminal justice system of Spain to the talk show circuit in the United States, the Toronto event is taking place just as the abomination of torture is emerging as an issue of central importance on many juridical and political fronts. The growing chorus of voices insisting on some sort of public reckoning with the horrors inflicted by agents of the US executive branch in the torture chambers of Bagram, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and a host of other secret dark sites has been long gathering force. As evidenced by the Geneva Conventions and the detailed UN laws devoted to the subject, the crime of torture has engendered an especially old and elaborate body of international jurisprudence as well as a significant political constituency whose members are prone to press hard for its enforcement. Those who insist on extending the instruments of legal accountability to the commanders and operatives of state-inflicted torture well understand that the descent into this hell of violated human dignity animates whole systems for the institutionalized imposition of abusive and illegitimate power. The proliferation of torture generally signals the sharp deterioration in the quality of the perpetrators? moral universe. A dereliction of law to pursue the travesty of torture must be understood for all that this consequential shift has to do with the further empowerment of the most powerful at the primary expense of the most disempowered and dispossessed. The understanding that state-inflicted torture is the persistent hallmark of the most ruthless forms of tyranny has coalesced again and again in the genesis of the international law for the prevention and punishment of torture. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, for instance, the civil harmony of France was obliterated as the likes of Henri Alleg, Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus helped report and interpret the depravity of officialdom in their resort to torture as an expedient to maintain French imperial rule in Algeria. In recent weeks the many interventions of Dick Cheney have helped to inflame the debate as the former US Vice-President has commandeered great quantities of air time in his zeal to prevent the type of probing investigations that might very well land him and his cronies in jail. Cheney?s campaign to justify state-inflicted torture as a necessary and evil expedient of the post-9/11 world constitutes a classic case of a former public official protesting too loudly and too belligerently. There is ample reason to suspect that the bravado of this former CEO of Halliburton Corporation is meant to cloak Cheney?s appreciation of his own vulnerability as the official who best epitomizes the unchecked gangersterism that thrived in the dark shadows of George Bush?s White House. The depth of Cheney?s thinly disguised desperation is suggested by his willingness to put his own daughter Liz in harm?s way. The former vice-president has effectively deputized her as his advocate in his dubious campaign to prevent the rule of law from being enforced on his own his actions and those of cronies. The lawlessness of their conduct took place over a eight-year period when Cheney and company were extended virtually unlimited latitude to act in their own self-interest in the name of the US Commander-In-Chief. The Cheney family?s efforts have probably been a factor in the decision of President Barack Obama to invoke his own executive power to slow the flood of new information coming to light about the scope and extent of US torture perpetrated in the name of the Global War on Terror. Obama?s decision to favour cover up over transparency was underlined in his recent determination to prevent the open dissemination of a number of still-unreleased photos and videos documenting the precise nature of the human rights violations that have taken place in the United States? own torture chambers and as well as in those of the failing superpower?s well armed puppet regimes. While the current US president has suggested there is nothing new or remarkable in the suppressed images, his reassurances have not put a lid on continuing allegations that the US executive branch is hiding the pictoral record of children in US custody being brutally sodomized in front of their parents. (8) The growing controversy over the law and politics surrounding the international crime of torture adds acid to the steady corrosion of the official narrative underlying the so-called Global War on Terror. This process finds especially clear expression in the revelations surrounding the case of Ibn Shaikh al-Libi. As revealed by Lawrence B. Wilkerson, former chief staff of the US State Department under Colin Powell, al-Libi was tortured in Egypt in April and May of 2002, ?well before? the Justice Department had rendered any legal opinion? on the character and content of torture. The objective of this resort to torture was not to gain information about another terrorist attack on the United States but rather to force the victim to declare a connection between the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein and those already blamed for the 9/11 attacks. (9) After being constrained in a coffin for seventeen hours and subjected to a ?mock burial,? al-Libi finally put a stop to his suffering by uttering the falsehoods that his torturers were sadistically empowered by the White House to extract. Al-Libi told them that the Iraqi government had trained al-Qaeda operatives in biological and chemical warfare. This falsehood emanating from al-Libi?s bloodied and quivering lips provided the basis for the dishonest international representations made by the Bush White House at the United Nations and elsewhere during the winter of 2003 in the run up to the Bush-led invasion of Iraq. Al-Libi has recently turned up dead in a Libyan prison. The Libyan government has made the claim, questioned by many, that the prisoner took his own life. (10) This episode puts yet another nail in the coffin of the argument that the US government?s resort to illegal torture was all about saving civilians from catastrophe. The al-Libi case demonstrates that torture was embraced by the Bush White House not to save the innocent but rather to produce the fraudulent propaganda deployed to justify military invasions abroad and police-state incursions at home. The failure to identify torture as integral aspect of the lies and crimes entailed in Iraq?s invasion adds to the complicity of the media conglomerates in reporting as truth the Bush government?s lies that the regime of Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. The role of corporate media as enablers and sugar coaters of the highest order of international crime could not be made clearer than in the sponsorship by the Globe and Mail of the Toronto encounter between Clinton and Bush. What credibility does the Globe and Mail retain after the Toronto event in its coverage of the fast breaking story of the global movement to enforce the rule of law on credibly accused war criminal George W. Bush? How likely is it that the journalists at the Globe and Mail will report fairly and objectively on the intervention of Lawyers Against War. On May 26 LAW responded to news of the Bush-Clinton event by forwarding evidence of Bush?s authorization of torture to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Justice Minister Rob Nicolson, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan and the chief officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In that letter Canada?s top law enforcement officials are informed that the failure to enforce the domestic War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Act ?violates Canada?s international law obligations.? The lawyers continue, ?Such inaction denies remedies to victims, ensures impunity for perpetrators, and encourages other instances of torture.? The zeal of those at the top echelons of power in the Bush White House to deploy the coercive crime of torture in order fabricate the story of a connection between bin Laden and Saddam Hussein finds a further possible extension in contested reports about the existence of an executive assassination squad said to have been answerable directly to Dick Cheney. These contested reports point to the possibility that one of the reasons that the Pakistani presidential candidate, Benazir Bhutto, was murdered had to do with her blunt public statement to British broadcaster Sir David Frost that Osama bin Laden has been killed by the double agent Omar Saeed Sheikh. Regardless of how and why Bhutto was assassinated, her bold and unequivocal assertion in November of 2007 that bin Laden is definitely dead would, if it had been properly reported rather than censored at the source by the BBC, have severely undermined the dark psyops which remain, with the involvement and complicity of the mainstream media, the primary stock in trade of the so-called War on Terror?s main promoters and protagonists. News of bin Laden?s death at the hands of a notorious double agent would not have served the interests of those seeking to build up the US military presence in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Accordingly, regardless of whether or not Bhutto?s elimination was engineered by Cheney?s hit squad or some other covert branch or contractor of the US government, her assassination helped ease the way for the new rounds of aggressive warfare being mounted in the Pakistan?s Swat Valley under the leadership of President Barack Obama. (11) Wollowing in an Era of Elite Gangsterism The organizers and sponsors of the talk given by George W. Bush in Calgary advertised the supposed achievements of their invited guest in a colourful pamphlet distributed to those who had paid the $400 entry fee to hear the former US president. In this document the claim is advanced that Bush built ?global coalitions to remove violent regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq that threatened America?liberating more than 50 million people from tyranny.? This characterization of history, whose sponsors include the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, the Bennet Jones law firm, Ernst and Young as well as the Frank McKenna, the Deputy Chair of the TD Bank, stands as blasphemy especially to the families of the 1.5 million killed in Bush?s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the 6,000,000 internally or externally displaced Iraqis, and the many millions more who have been maimed, tortured and forever damaged by the violence committed in the name of an implausible and specious official interpretation of what transpired in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. No amount of corporate fluff and propaganda can change the reality that both George Bush and Bill Clinton are both guilty of leading aggressive wars. Their wars were clearly not expressions of self-defense nor were they authorized by the Security Council of the United Nations, the sole agency with the capacity to sanction legal warfare. As belligerents both Clinton and Bush have wallowed in the shame and depravity of the supreme international crime. I draw the language of this accusation from the most important war crimes tribunal ever assembled. In sentencing some of the convicted Nazis the judges at Nuremberg established the principle that ?to initiate a war of aggression . is not only an international crime. It is the supreme international crime differing from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.? (12) [my emphasis] The Nuremberg rulings were refined and distilled in 1950 at the United Nations into principles that point with precision to exactly the kinds of illegal acts that have proliferated in the name of the Global War on Terror. One of the Nuremberg Principles stipulates, ?The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law acted as a Head of State or responsible government official does not relieve him from responsibility under international law.? The many international crimes that are already known to have taken place at Abu Ghraib, Bagram and Guantanamo Bay under George W. Bush?s signing authority stand at the proverbial tip of an as-yet-largely-uninvestigated iceberg. Images of the cruel lawlessness that thrived in these violent sites of attempted empire building do not conform well with the wall-to-wall spin doctoring producing the massively replicated lies, distortions and strategic omissions that constitute the mental staple of the media conglomerates at the core of the global infoentertainment industry. The lawlessness being confronted by Lawyers Against War and many hundreds of other organizations in civil society have nothing to do with the doctrinaire marketing of so-called law and order as regularly glorified in the gutter media by fear?s political merchants. The crimes being addressed, rather, are part of a global epidemic of elite gangsterism that has been allowed to go unchecked in the bombing missions, torture chambers and concentration camps whose governance often leads back to the corporate board rooms where many of the core decisions of the military-industrial complex and the national security state are made. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Footnotes (1) http://911blogger.com/node/19540 (2) http://www.peoplevbush.ca/ (3) Robert Jackson, Nuremberg Trials, Opening Arguments for the United States at http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/Resource/DOCUMENT/DocJac15.htm (4) http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/424240.html (5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62a53enMtA0 (6) http://www.splittingthesky.net/ (7) http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=1367260784754864363&ei=lEAcSrGgOIn-qAPzipS5Ag&q=Pepsi+Coke+Pilger&hl=en (8) http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2004/07/15/hersh/index.html (9) http://www.prisonplanet.com/media-ignores-real-controversy-behind-torture-photos-they-show-prison-guards-raping-children.html (10) http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22684.htm (11) Colonel Lawrence B. Wilkerson, ?The Ruth About Richard Cheney,? 13 May, 2009, The Washington Note, at http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/05/the_truth_about/ (12) Peter Finn, ?Detainee Who Gave False Iraq Data Dies in Prison in Libya,? The Washington Post, 12 May, 2009 at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/11/AR2009051103412.html (13) http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2009/05/digst-fin-and-state-terrorism-may2009.html (14) Cited in Toram Dinstein, War, Aggression, and Self-Defence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 120. The judges were quoting the British jurists Lord Wright [of Dursley], ?War Crimes Under International Law,? The Law Review Quarterly, Vol. 62, January, 1946 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wrolley at charter.net Fri May 29 16:52:57 2009 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 16:52:57 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Our relationships with our local politicians Message-ID: <4A207559.1060905@charter.net> Caroline Yacoub wrote: > Just a thought-- after perusing Tian's coverage of the Green > celebration in SF, it crossed my mind that, if we want to be appointed > to commissions, perhaps we should try to establish more cordial > relations with local politicians. I grant you that they're not Green, > but, unless /they/ view/ us/ as intelligent, thoughtful, cooperative > people who play well with others, it isn't very likely they will > support our efforts to get into government. What do you think? > Caroline > If you are not on a first name basis with at least one local politician, you are not part of politics. You can not accomplish everything just be demonstrating in the streets. In a similar manner, if you are not on a first name basis with key media members in your area, you have no media plan. e.g. I had a good (means willing to take a call from me) relationship with Lisa Vorderbrueggen of the Contra Costa Times from the 2006 Congressional Campaign. One email to her re: Jeremy Cloward and the 10 CD race got him a mention in her blog, Not as positive as I wanted... (Green have no chance).. but at least it got his name and photo out there. Here is a test. Answer this yourself with no use of the internet to look it up. Who is the opinion page editor of the SJ Mercury News? - Even if you know the answer, when was the last communication you had with her/him? -- "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 JamBoi at Greens.org Sat May 30 08:23:37 2009 From: JamBoi at Greens.org (Drew Johnson) Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 08:23:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Congrats to Merriam, new Alt Delegate to the GNC, Fred to the IC Message-ID: <61735.24.130.110.66.1243697017.squirrel@greens.org> Previously Warner and I have served and continue to serve on the Green National Committee of the GP-US, and recently Merriam Kathaleen put her name in to be an alternate. Also Fred is applying to join the International Committee of the GP-US. Anyone can follow much of the GNC and other GP-US action at the GP.org web site and if you want to know more or participate, please feel free to ask Warner, me or (soon, give her a little time to orient herself) Merriam. Green is Global! Drew From alexcathy at aol.com Sat May 30 08:24:12 2009 From: alexcathy at aol.com (alexcathy at aol.com) Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 11:24:12 -0400 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Their Damned Culture War - On the "Racist" Sonia Sotomayor Message-ID: <8CBAF51D202A852-1278-B12@mblk-d39.sysops.aol.com> I don't want to get sucked into the Republicans vs Democrats "Culture War!" They are the one corporate party with two names. But... so-called "conservative" hypocrites crying "Racism!" drives me crazy! I don't want to get sucked into the Republicans vs Democrats "Culture War!" California is in chaos, thousands of poor people will *die* on account of the refusal of California's *Ruling Class*? to pay their fair share of taxes of the regime whose primary function is to protect and serve their interests. And now the "chattering class" is delighted to have an excuse to quit taking about taxes, budgets, and the hard work of actually governing, to happily indulge in their damned "Culture War." But... so-called "conservative" hypocrites crying "Racism!" drives me crazy! I don't want to get sucked into the Republican-Democrat "Culture War!" They are the one corporate party with two names. Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's pick for the Supreme Court will surely be confirmed. Republicans don't give a damn about the average so-called "White" man; Democrats don't give a damn about working people of color. The bitching and moaning from the usual Republican "Angry White Men" is just for show. But... so-called "conservative" hypocrites crying "Racism!" drives me crazy! 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Bill Moyers Journal Talks About The Healthcare Reform No One's Talking About: Single-Payer? Washington's abuzz about healthcare, but why isn't a single-payer plan an option on the table? Bill Moyers speaks with California Nurses Association representative Donna Smith about how our broken system is hurting ordinary Americans and features coverage of our National RN Day of Action in DC with RN leaders. Real News Network Covers Our D.C. Healthcare Rally The Real News Network covers our D.C. actions in support of healthcare reform, and against Sen. Max Baucus? exclusion of single-payer from the Senate debate. Here?s the Real News Network again, responding to conservative attacks on Canadian healthcare by actually asking Canadians what they want. The Progressive Pulse Talks Healthcare With Small Business Owner Lou Meyers, a small business owner in Durham since 1986, speaks out about his vision for national health reform. Interview by Adam Searing. 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URL: From wrolley at charter.net Sat May 30 10:54:46 2009 From: wrolley at charter.net (Wes Rolley) Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 10:54:46 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Dilbert, the office and old motorcycles. Message-ID: <4A2172E6.6040504@charter.net> The Clayart email list that I read has taken a liking to the following from last week's NY Times Magazine. Entitled The Case for Working With Your Hands it really tells us just how far we get from the real world of things. I consider this an analog for the anti-science attitudes that seem to prevail. The similarity is that science is the process of trying to figure out how the physical world really works and then to explain it in terms of observations that can be made any time the conditions are the same. I made the connection in a comment (#3) to a post hyping the soon to be released book, Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future . I am sure that Tian will appreciate the NY Times piece. -- "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 WB4D23 at aol.com Sun May 31 18:49:36 2009 From: WB4D23 at aol.com (WB4D23 at aol.com) Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 21:49:36 EDT Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Request for Agenda Items for June 3rd Mtg Message-ID: In a message dated 5/29/2009 9:48:36 AM Pacific Daylight Time, fredd at freeshell.org writes: Please add a discussion re the "YES Magazine. fd Agenda for the Green Party of Santa Clara County meeting on June 3rd, 2009 This is what I have so far: Introductions and brief announcements from all present. Pick facilitator, timekeeper, note taker, vibes watcher. (5 min) State Party Business: Report back on Venice Plenary. (10) Treasurers report Tabling report Juneteenth Regional picnic Please submit more agenda items by Tuesday night late. -- Tian What is the status of GPSCC participation in the Gay Pride March? Have we sent in registration and statement to read at the bandstand? Begin discussion about new Coordinating Committee region member and alternate. Need info about ability of San Mateo County GP to engage in process. Warner **************An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221823251x1201398665/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&bcd=May ExcfooterNO62) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: